Illinois Senator Javier Cervantes [D]

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ILHB0056Engross
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Creates the Farmer Restoration Program Act. Creates the Farmer Restoration Program Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used for the purposes of the program. Sets forth the responsibilities of the Department of Agriculture, including the a...
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2024-05-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3556Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes provisions creating the Black Farmer Restoration Program. Provides that fee title acquisition grants to private landowners, socially disadvantaged farmers, and limite...
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2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3509Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-05-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2940Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-05-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Omar Aquino
ILSB0378Engross
50%
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to the parent or guardian of a child at the center of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Children and Family Services ...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Amy L. Grant
ILSB2129Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in specified provisions of law, a person serving a term of imprisonment, including terms of natural life, in a Department of Corrections institution or fac...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3241Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Makes changes concerning the powers and duties of the Illinois State Museum. Repeals a provision which specifies that the Board of the Illinois State Museum is the governing board for the State Museum. ...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2637Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2027, a person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale a food product for human consumption that contains brominated vege...
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2024-05-21
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3323Engross
50%
Creates the Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Station Act. Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure that charging stations in the State are sufficiently accessible to allow independent use by drivers with disabilities, including people ...
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2024-05-21
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3522Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning on January 1, 2025, rates for psychiatric evaluations performed by community mental health centers and substance use disorder treatment providers and pract...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3436Intro
25%
Amends the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the General Assembly finds it necessary to take measures to increase the amount of cash assistance provided to qualifying Illinoisans under the Aid t...
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2024-05-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0078Intro
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Amends the Substance Use Disorder Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to (i) establish a new intervention license category entitled "OPS Harm Reduction Services", (ii) establish standards for entities to become licensed under the OPS Harm ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2791Intro
25%
Creates the Small Business Economic Incentive Act. Provides that at least 50% of the dollar value of all economic incentives awarded to businesses by the State or by any State agency on or after January 1, 2025 shall be awarded to businesses with 50 ...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2209Intro
25%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools,...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3470Intro
25%
Creates the Pretrial Success Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services has grant making, operational, and procurement authority to distribute funds to local government health and human services agencies, community-based organizations, and o...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5537Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Removes an exception for skilled and intermediate long-term care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from providing a Safety Net Impact Statement as part of its general review criter...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3665Intro
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers shall cover all services for pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn care that are rendered by perinatal doulas or licensed certified professional midwives, including home births, home visits, and...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3301PassAmends the Unemployment Insurance Act. In provisions concerning the directory of new hires, provides that the definition of "newly hired employee" includes an individual under an independent contractor arrangement. Effective January 1, 2024.
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2024-05-15
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
ILSB3804Intro
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Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Expands the list of mandated reporters under the Act to include broker-dealers and officers and employees of financial institutions. Provides that financial exploitation of an adult with disabilities or a per...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3399Intro
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and servic...
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2035Intro
25%
Creates the Ensuring Essential Services Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to ensure the State meets its obligation to provide certain essential services for individuals with developmental disabilities at consistent quality levels in accord...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2687Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that, in addition to other elements of the offense, a person commits a hate crime when the person displays or causes to be displayed, on public or private property, a burning cross, a Nazi swastika, a noose,...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3511Intro
25%
Creates the Let America Read Act. Provides that an entity or an entity's staff with oversight over the books, instructional materials, or curriculum used in a public school may not refuse to approve or prohibit the use of books, instructional materia...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3711Intro
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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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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2290Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish a Uniform Statewide Crime Statistics Task Force within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. ...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3332Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to require an annual audit from all personal assistant and home care aide vendors contracting with the Department, provides that the annual audit shall assure that...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3727Intro
25%
Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may deny, restrict, prohibit, condition, or otherwise interfere with, either directly or indirectly, the acquisiti...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1863Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that if the defendant committed the offense in or on the grounds of a hospital, ambulatory surgical treatment center, physician's office, or other medical facility that treats patients and the offense ...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3913Intro
25%
Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center for the purpose of constructing a new building on the Chicago Children’s Advocacy ...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0172Intro
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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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3669Intro
25%
Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Act to restore protections for wetlands and small streams that were formerly protected from pollution and destruction by the Clean Water Act. Provides provisions concerning: exemptions; wetlands delin...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5396Engross
50%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Prisoner Review Board shall place no additional restrictions, limitations, or requirements than that provided by the statute creating the procedure for medical release. Provides that upon a de...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2384Intro
25%
Creates the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program Act. Creates the Care for Retired Police Dogs Program within the Illinois State Police to provide a stable funding source for the veterinary care for retired police dogs. Provides that the Illinois Sta...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2075Intro
25%
Amends Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a legacy tax credit for businesses that are headquartered in the State. Creates an employee tax credit and a collective bargaining employee tax credit. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2006Intro
25%
Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that the Minimum Funding Level is equal to $550,000,000 (instead of $350,000,000). Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1796Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the child care assistance program, provides that beginning in State Fiscal Year 2024, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 250% of the then-current federal poverty level f...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2629Intro
25%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2692Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school district shall (instead of may) install a door security locking means on an entrance or classroom door (instead of a door) of a school building. Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that during a...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3694Engross
50%
Amends the Elevator Safety and Regulation Act. Defines "temporary certificate of operation" as a temporary certificate of operation issued by the Administrator or the Local Administrator that permits the temporary use of a conveyance by the general p...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3135Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics Act. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall provide grants to certified community behavioral health clinics that have been selected to participate in the ...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3578Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision listing the categories of families and individuals eligible for child care assistance, expands the list to include families whose children are enrolled in a Head Start program. Provides that any fam...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2222Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, all internships for school social workers must be paid internships. Provides that subject to appropriation, the State Board of Ed...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2656Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a credit for certain small businesses in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 10% of the property taxes paid by the qualified small business during the taxable year for eligible real property or (ii) $1,500...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3308Intro
25%
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act. Provides that the KIND Act creates the statutory vision and authority for the Department of Children and Family Services to execute a kin-first approach to servi...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2639Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, for a group policy of accident and health insurance that provides pregnancy related benefits (rather than providing coverage for more than 25 employees that pr...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3265Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall conduct an access to nutritious food program to establish and operate projects and strategies within food deserts...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2535Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Creates the Youth Nonviolent Crimes Resource Program. Provides that the Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide resources to people under the age of 18 who have committed a nonviolent...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3387Intro
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Expands the categories of families and individuals eligible for child care assistance to include: early childhood assistants or aides, qualified assistants, early childhood teachers, and school-age workers who wor...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5011Engross
50%
Amends the Governmental Account Audit Act. Modifies the audit procedures for governmental units under the Act for the governmental units fiscal years 2026 and after, including: (1) modifying the definitions of "audit report" and "report"; (2) requiri...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3787Intro
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Amends the Public Community College Act. Allows the board of trustees of a community college district to establish and offer a baccalaureate degree program and confer a bachelor's degree if the board of trustees and the program meet specified conditi...
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2024-05-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
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