Illinois Senator Laura Ellman [D]

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ILSB2878Engross
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the senior citizens homestead exemption, permanently removes the requirement to reapply for the exemption in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants (currently, that requirement was eliminate...
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2024-04-15
To House Revenue & Finance Committee
ILSB3527Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock box or container in a manner that ...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3669Intro
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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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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3499Intro
25%
Creates the End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients Act. Authorizes a qualified patient with a terminal disease to request that a physician prescribe aid-in-dying medication that will allow the patient to end the patient's life in a peaceful ...
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2024-04-12
To Senate End of Life Issues Committee
ILSB3552Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, as modified by Senate Amendment No. 2, with the following changes in the Illinois Police Training Act. In provisions requiring specified training to be completed before a full-time or part-time law enf...
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2024-04-12
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Robert F. Martwick
ILSB3645Intro
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Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning radon testing, provides that every school building of a school district that is occupied or will be occupied shall be tested by January 1, 2028 and shall be tested every 5 years thereafter for radon (i...
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2024-04-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3247Intro
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Appropriates $209,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for costs associated with the Healthy School Meals for All Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB3274Intro
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Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB1800Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a Fleet Electrification Incentive Program to promote the use of electric trucks by fleet owners by offering a voucher of $200,000 per electric Class 6 ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB2040Intro
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Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarship program. Provides that any money appropriated to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for scholarship awards for a particular acade...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB3667Intro
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Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall provide free date rape drug testing kits to students. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of highe...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB3369Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Creates the State-funded Watershed Grant Program. Allows a person who has applied for a grant that is financed under a specified provision of the federal Water Pollution Control Act to obtain financial assista...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB3561Intro
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Expands the categories of families eligible for child care assistance to include families with a parent or guardian who is employed as a mental health care worker, teacher, or health care provider and has income b...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3588Intro
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Amends the Electric Vehicle Rebate Act. Provides that the term "electric vehicle" means a vehicle that is exclusively powered by and refueled by electricity, is plugged in to charge, and is legally permitted to drive on all public roadways, including...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB1391Intro
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Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Modifies factors used by a municipality to determine if an area is a blighted area or a conservation area to be included in the area of a redevelopment project area...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3360Intro
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Amends the PFAS Reduction Act. Authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to participate in a safe chemical clearinghouse and to cooperate with the clearinghouse to take specified actions. Directs manufacturers of PFAS or products or product comp...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2810Intro
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Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall develop and post on its Internet website a document that provides information to students and residents of a school district on how to pe...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3644Intro
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Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall include instruction on climate change and the impacts and causes of climate change in grades 9 through 12 ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3562Intro
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Creates the Including Families in Mental Health Recovery Act. Provides that no later than one year after the effective date of the Act, the Department of Human Services shall adopt rules clarifying the circumstances under which, consistent with the s...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3668Intro
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Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides for the re-designation of trauma centers to include Level III Trauma Centers and for designation of Acute Injury Stabilization Centers. Sets forth minimum standard requirements for tra...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3502Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3503Intro
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3504Intro
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Amends the Electric Vehicle Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3505Intro
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the warrant of arrest or summons shall command that the person against whom the complaint was made to be arrested and brought before the court issuing the warrant at a certain day, time, an...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2924Intro
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Creates the Family Home Ownership Act. Imposes a tax on certain partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, or real estate investment trusts that purchase single-family residences. Provides that the amount of the tax is equal to 100% of ...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0710Intro
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Declares January 2024 as Radon Action Month.
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2024-01-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2763Intro
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Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act. Restricts State money from being used to install or replace permanent outdoor lighting units unless certain conditions are met. Provides that specified lighting units that were installed prior to ...
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2024-01-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1559PassAmends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2027, the Department of Agriculture shall not make the application available for transporting organization licenses. Provides that entities awarded a tr...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0578
ILHB2394PassAmends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, if the Secretary of Professional Regulation finds that there is a significant operational need to do so or that it is necessary to do so...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0568
ILHB2473PassAmends the Public Utilities Act. Makes changes concerning the circumstances under which construction may commence on nuclear power plants and nuclear power reactors. Removes the definition of "high-level nuclear waste". Amends the Nuclear Safety Law ...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0569
ILSB0076VetoAmends the Public Utilities Act. Deletes language that provides that no construction shall commence on any new nuclear power plant to be located within the State, and no certificate of public convenience and necessity or other authorization shall be ...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands
ILSB0250VetoAmends Public Act 102-698 by changing, adding, and repealing various FY 2023 appropriations. Makes FY 2024 appropriations and reappropriations for specified purposes. Some provisions are effective immediately; some provisions are effective July 1, 20...
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2023-11-08
Item/Reduction Veto Stands 103-0006
ILSB0075Intro
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Creates the Second Chance Public Health and Safety Act and amends the Freedom of Information Act, the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and the Unified Code of Corrections. Contains declarations and findings. Creates the Department of Returning ...
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2023-10-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2086PassAmends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. In provisions allowing the filling or refilling of personal containers with bulk food, refers to restaurants and retailers (rather than just retailers). Allows restaurants and retailers to fill or refi...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0524
ILHB0218PassAmends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for any firearm industry member, through the sale, manufacturing, importing, or marketing of a firearm-related prod...
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2023-08-14
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0559
ILSB1352PassReinserts the contents of the engrossed bill but specifies that the amendatory provisions apply to the termination of service by a teacher (instead of the termination of contractual continued service by a teacher).
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0549
ILSB1782PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Further amends the Child Labor Law. Changes references from "minor child" to "minor". Makes conforming changes in provisions concerning exempt occupations. Removes a rulemakin...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0556
ILHB1378PassReinserts the contents of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Changes references from "iGROW scholarship" to "iGROW tech scholarship". Makes changes concerning definitions, the scholarship amount awarded, the signed agreement, repayment, a...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0519
ILHB2471PassAmends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act. In provisions concerning reimbursement of sponsors, provides that the State Board of Education shall reimburse not less than $0.15 or the actual cost, whichever is less, to non-profit welfare centers...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0532
ILHB2443PassAmends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Act must provide coverage ...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0530
ILHB2147PassAmends the Illinois Pension Code. In the Downstate Teacher Article: provides that through June 30, 2026 (instead of June 30, 2023), an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is n...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0525
ILHB3648PassCreates the Higher Education in Prison Act. Provides that on or before September 1 of the year following the effective date of the Act and each subsequent September 1, the Department of Corrections shall release a report, to be published on the Depar...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0541
ILSB1772PassCreates the Pesticide Application at Schools Act. Sets forth legislative findings and definitions. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2024, a school serving students grades kindergarten through 8th grade is prohibited from scheduling pesticide applicat...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0496
ILSB0090PassAmends the School Code. Reinserts the contents of Senate Amendment No. 2 with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the data collection requirements required by the amendatory provisions of the School Code. Makes changes to certain referenc...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0472
ILHB3563PassReinserts the provisions of Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following change. Adds the Attorney General or his or her designee to the Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Task Force.
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0451
ILSB0285PassAmends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Eliminates the provision that the dispenser of a Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substance must transmit to the central repository the date the controlled substance is dispensed. Provides that a di...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0477
ILHB2039PassReinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Provides that each disclosing State department or agency (rather than only department) shall execute a single master data use agreement that include...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0423
ILHB3413PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes and additions. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Grants the Department of Natural Resources emergency rulemaking authority concerning discovery of human remains...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0446
ILSB2123PassAmends the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act. Provides that at least 2 months before the next election of members of the General Assembly, following the passage of a proposed amendment, the Secretary of State shall publish the amendment in a spec...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0467
ILSB1072PassAmends the Flag Display Act. Designates the Honor and Remember Flag as the symbol of the State's concern for and commitment to honoring and remembering the lives of all members of the United States armed forces who have lost their lives while serving...
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2023-07-31
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0409
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