Illinois Representative Elizabeth Hernandez [D]

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ILHB5451Intro
25%
Creates the Department of Early Childhood Act. Creates the Department of Early Childhood to begin operation on July 1, 2024 and transfers to it certain rights, powers, duties, and functions currently exercised by various agencies of State Government....
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 11:30 am]
To House Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee
ILHB5060Intro
25%
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHR0606Intro
25%
Declares March 12, 2024 as "Equal Pay Day". Encourages the citizens of this State to learn about the pay gap that women experience in society and to learn about these various dates that bring attention to the pay gap that specific groups experience.
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5782Intro
25%
Makes various appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services, the Department of Early Childhood, and the Illinois State Board of Education for early childhood and related purposes. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4677Intro
25%
Creates the Illinois Caregiver Assistance and Resource Portal Act. Requires the Department on Aging, in consultation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to b...
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2024-03-15
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5371Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of its employees by the employer's nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer be...
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2024-03-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Theresa Mah
ILHB2557Engross
50%
Creates the Farmer Equity and Innovation Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but eliminates all references to "ranches", "ranchers", and "ranching".
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5418Intro
25%
Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning school maintenance project grants, provides that the State Board of Education is authorized to make grants to school districts, regional offices of education, intermediate service centers, ...
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2024-03-14
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILHB5295Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in this State shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormone...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5256Intro
25%
Amends the Personnel Code. Provides, in provisions concerning a trainee program for persons with a disability, that "disability" includes a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder by a medical professional. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-14
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
ILHB4426Intro
25%
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Provides that the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984 is repealed on January 1, 2030 (rather than January 1, 2025). Amends the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. Provides that all appl...
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2024-03-14
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Brad Stephens
ILHB5543Intro
25%
Amends the Township Code. When the electors in a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more authorize the township board to contract with one or more municipalities in the township or with the county within which the township is loca...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5518Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that "State-regulated health plan" means any health insurance plan issued by an insurer regulated by the State or health insurance plan operated and administered by the State, including, but not limited to...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5563Intro
25%
Creates the Child Labor Law of 2024. Reinserts provisions of the Child Labor Law. Sets forth additional provisions concerning definitions; exemptions; employer requirements; restrictions on employment of minors; employment certificates; civil penalti...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB5357Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that when issuing or marketing a homeowner's insurance policy, an insurer shall disclose whether the homeowner's insurance policy covers damage from a sewer backup or overflow from a sump pump. Provides th...
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2024-03-13
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5064Intro
25%
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Provides an exception for vendors to receive payment by non-electronic means. Provides that outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from appropriations which have otherwise expired and interest penalties payab...
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2024-03-13
To House Executive Committee
ILHB4123Intro
25%
Amends the Disaster Relief Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may provide State supplemental grants to meet disaster-related necessary expenses or serious needs of individuals and households ad...
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee
ILHB5139Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that an annual property tax adjustment shall be paid by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to each qualified facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care A...
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2024-03-12
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5395Intro
25%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Provides that the minimum ratio for each provider type shall be no less than any such ratio established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law o...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB4472Intro
25%
Creates the Health Care Availability and Access Board Act. Establishes the Health Care Availability and Access Board to protect State residents, State and local governments, commercial health plans, health care providers, pharmacies licensed in the S...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Health Care Availability & Accessibility Committee
ILHB4418Intro
25%
Creates the Government Contract Retainage Act. Defines terms, including that "retainage" means a portion of money withheld from the payment of a contract for a specified period of time to ensure that a contractor or subcontractor finishes a construct...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILHB5766Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Prohibits, until February 1, 2027, the Chicago Board of Education from closing any attendance center within the school district that has selective admission requirements that are approved...
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2024-03-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3812Intro
25%
Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amend...
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2024-03-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3054Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for taxable years 2024 and thereafter, the maximum income limitation for the Low-Income Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption is $85,000 for all qualified property. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-11
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB5617Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board shall prohibit a school from using a native name, logo, or mascot; defines "native name, logo, or mascot". However, provides that a school may continue to use uniforms or other materials bearing a ...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School Committee
ILHB5463Intro
25%
Amends the State Parks Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources, in consultation with representatives of federally recognized indigenous tribes, shall create land acknowledgments for each of the State parks. Provides that these land ack...
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2024-03-11
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILHB1288Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, taxpayers of income-producing property shall submit income and expense data annually to the chief county assessment officer on or before July 1 of each year....
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2024-03-08
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB1241Intro
25%
Creates the Endow Illinois Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who provide an endowment gift to a permanent endowment fund during the taxable year and receive a certificate of receipt fo...
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2024-03-08
To House Tax Credit and Incentives Committee
ILHB5350Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the maximum income limitation under the Low-Income Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption shall be adjusted each year by the annual cost of living increase, if any, in Social Security and Sup...
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2024-03-08
To House Property Tax Committee
ILSB0064Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the definition of "sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, notice, figure painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, which i...
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2024-03-07
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Held in Executive
ILHB5417Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Establishes the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator to be housed within the Department. Provides that the Department shall create and fill the Coordinator role within 6 months after the effective d...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB3338Intro
25%
Creates the Safe Patient Limits Act. Provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered nurse in specified situations. Provides that nothing shall preclude a facility from assigning fewer patients to a registered nurse than ...
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2024-03-07
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB5358Intro
25%
Appropriates $6,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for distribution to Area Agencies on Aging to provide services as allowed under the Family Caregiver Act and pursuant to Title III E of the Older Americans Act. Effectiv...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5347Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Pathways for Community Integration Network program is established in the Department of Human Services. Provides that the program shall create a network of community integration providers ...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB5356Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a homeowner's insurance policy that is amended, issued, delivered, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall provide coverage for damage caused by a sewer backup or overflo...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5345Intro
25%
Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Provides that, on and after January 1, 2025, an employer shall not be entitled to an allowance for gratuities and shall pay each employee no less than the applicable minimum wage rate, including any minimum wage rate high...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHB4718Intro
25%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to execute and deliver a quitclaim deed to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for specified real property located in DeKalb County, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-05
To House Executive Committee
ILHB2822Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall implement and administer a program to make New Arrival Student Grants available to school districts to support the needs of students who are newly arriving immigrant students, r...
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2024-03-05
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILHB4920Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that it shall be the policy of the State to encourage foreign-born drivers to apply and work as school bus drivers in the State. No State law or action shall prohibit, directly or indirectly, the application...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee
ILHB5172Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Specifies that the notice in contested case hearings must include an enclosure that notifies the recipient of the ability to request interpretive assistance for the hearing and to receive language ass...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB5606Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Creates the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment. Provides that the Office shall assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Economic Opportunity & Equity Committee
ILHB0793Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in partnership with other specified State agencies, to eliminate on July 1, 2027 the use of active or pending 14(c) certificates authorized under the federal Fair...
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2024-03-04
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4800Intro
25%
Amends the Safe Schools Law of the School Code. In provisions concerning funding, provides that in any fiscal year in which the State funding allocation is at or above $22,730,000, each alternative school program shall receive $100,000 for that fisca...
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2024-02-28
To House Executive Committee
ILSB0508Engross
50%
Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Provides that unless otherwise required by State or federal law, an employer shall not voluntarily enroll in the E-Verify program or a similar Electronic Employment Verification System. Provides that ...
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2024-02-09
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Natalie Toro
ILHB3093Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Amends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that the provisions of the amendatory Act shall apply to any public toilet facility that is available without preference to any s...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3052Engross
50%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that for all schools operating a school breakfast program, the State Board of Education shall collect information about whether the school is operating a breakfast after the bell program and, if so, wh...
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2023-12-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0584PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides that, upon request by an owners licensee and upon a showing of good cause by the owners licensee, the Illinois Gaming Board shall ex...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0574
ILSB0765PassAmends the Farm Mutual Insurance Company Act of 1986. Provides that, until the date that is 5 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, a farm mutual insurance company insuring against the perils of wind or hail must have and maintain ade...
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2023-11-17
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0566
ILHB3641PassAmends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Modifies provision relating to coverage for injectable medicines to improve glucose or weight loss. Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Modifies provisions relating to applications for ...
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2023-11-17
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0564
ILHB3643VetoAmends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation and additional requirements, each school board shall provide religious dietary food options as part of the school lunch program. Provides further requirements concerning the provision of...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands - No Positive Action Taken
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