Illinois Senator Mike Simmons [D]

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ILHB5431PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the County Department of Corrections Law, the Health Care Violence Prevention Act, and the County Jail Act to replace use of "prisoner" with "committed person"...
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2024-08-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0745
ILHB4409PassAmends the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009. Changes references from "offenders" to "justice-impacted individuals". Provides that funds shall be distributed via a grant program (rather than allotment of funds shall be based on a formula). Provide...
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2024-08-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0728
ILSB0773PassAmends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that provisions concerning infertility coverage apply only to coverage provided on or after January 1, 2024 and before July 1, 2026. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no...
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2024-08-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0751
ILSB3649PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits an employer or its agent, representative, or designee from requiring its employees to attend any training intended to foster a civil...
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2024-07-31
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0722
ILHB2347Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1. Further amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission shall study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regardi...
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2024-07-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3646PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides for the amount of time a child performer who works in a television, motion picture, or related entertainment production may be permitted to be at the place of employm...
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2024-07-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0721
ILHB5142PassReinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with changes. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that coverage for abortion care may not impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-shar...
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2024-07-29
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0720
ILHB5238PassAmends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified features in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual notice d...
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2024-07-19
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0697
ILHB5457PassAmends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. Provides that a license to practice under the Act shall not be denied an applicant because of the applicant's real or perceived immigration status. Provides that every application for an o...
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2024-07-19
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0715
ILHB5295PassProvides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026 shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormonal and non-hormonal the...
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2024-07-19
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0703
ILSB2633Intro
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Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act to include in the definition of "petitioner" an intimate partner. Amends the Protective Orders Article of the Code of Criminal Procedures of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that,...
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2024-07-10
Sponsor Removed Sen. David Koehler
ILHB5395PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes that include the following. Requires the issuer of a network plan to submit a self-audit of its provider directory and a summary to the Department of Insurance, which the Department shall ma...
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2024-07-10
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0650
ILHB2499PassAmends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that, on and after January 1, 2025, no company shall issue, deliver, amend, or renew short-term, limited-duration insurance to any natural or legal person that is a resident or domiciled in the State. Prov...
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2024-07-10
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0649
ILHB5507PassAmends the Code of Civil Procedure. Creates a process that an Illinois resident may use to seek an Illinois judicial order making findings of fact to change a birth certificate issued in another state or country so the Illinois resident may petition ...
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2024-07-08
Effective Date July 1, 2024
ILSB2933PassAmends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a consumer reporting agency: (1) to make, create, or furnish any consumer report or credit report containing, i...
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2024-07-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0648
ILHB5290PassCreates the Medical Debt Relief Act. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish by January 1, 2025, subject to appropriation, a Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program to discharge the medical debt of eligible Illinois residents...
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2024-07-02
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0647
ILSB2930PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the aggregated demographic information of the corporation's directors and officers shall be accessible on the corporation's publicly available website for at le...
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2024-07-01
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0635
ILSB3473PassReinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Provides that each school district and charter school shall post the informational materials on the school district's or charter school's website, if any. Removes the provis...
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2024-07-01
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0641
ILSB3451PassAmends the Transportation Cooperation Act of 1971, the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Bi-State Development Agency Act, and the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that a railroad passeng...
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2024-07-01
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0640
ILHB5394PassAmends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Provides that no later than 30 days after the first day of each school year, the school board of each public elementary and secondary school in the State shall provide all te...
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2024-07-01
Effective Date January 1, 2025
ILHB0681Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that any registered victim, including a person who has had a final, plenary, or non-emergency protective order g...
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2024-06-29
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0207Intro
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Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides that newsletters and printed material printed on behalf of a member of the General Assembly may include autobiographical or biographical information about a member as long as the ...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1481Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Allows the State Board of Elections to receive voter registration information provided by applicants using electronic voter registration portals (rather than the Board's website). Provides that, notwithstanding any other pro...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1893Intro
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Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a municipality must compile and maintain a list of each contract it enters into for $5,000,000 or more for public infrastructure projects. Provides that the list shall be available for public inspection or ...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0125Engross
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the Secretary of State to include in the Illinois Rules of the Road publication and in adult driver education courses information advising drivers of the laws and best practices for safely sharing the roadwa...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2371Engross
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Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, Assistant State's Attorneys, Assistant Public Defenders, and Assistant Appellate Defenders are not managerial employees for purposes...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0552Intro
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Expresses strong support for the initiative to reprogram USDA funds allocated to Puerto Rico toward purchasing locally grown items in Puerto Rico. Urges the United States Congress to endorse and implement this initiative in recognition of its potenti...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2840Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Creates the Access to Candidacy and Feasibility of Holding Public Office for Non-Wealthy Persons Task Force. Provides that the purpose of the Task Force is to analyze the financial barriers that exist for non-wealthy candida...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3226Intro
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Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Agency for grants to Community Resource Healing Centers (CHRC)for their operational expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3158Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, with the changes proposed in House Amendment No. 1 and House Amendment No. 2, and the following additional changes. Requires the vessels used for natural organic reduction to be made of stainless steel...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2608Intro
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Amends the Illinois State Police Act and the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that an applicant's credit history may not be used to prevent the appointment or employment of a law enforcement officer, including an Illinois State Police officer. ...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0771Intro
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2943Intro
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Appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for grants to community learning centers under the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. Effective immediately.
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0648Intro
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3214Intro
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Appropriates $16,358,900 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services Rehabilitation Services Bureau for grants to independent living centers. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3695Intro
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Creates the Compassionate Use and Research of Entheogens Act. Establishes the Illinois Psilocybin Advisory Board within the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for the purpose of advising and making recommendations to the Department r...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3630Intro
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. 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 Childr...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3680Intro
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Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Repeals provisions prohibiting ordinances penalizing tenants who contact the police or other emergency services. Adds provisions prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting a program, o...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2864Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an arm...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3737Intro
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Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Internet-based system for determining the validity of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include a written notice, in both English and Spanish, of a firearm owner's obligat...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3713Engross
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Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board shall require all school districts to supply all active classroom instructors, all school staff and administration, and district leadership with an educatio...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4781Engross
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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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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB0793Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Further amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to eliminate on December 31, 2029 (rather than July 1, 2027) the use of activ...
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2024-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0001PassCreates 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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2024-06-25
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0594
ILSB1996PassAmends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides for increases in the rate of the annual Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission Operations Fund Surcharge. Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides for increases in the rate of the Illinois Workers...
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2024-06-05
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0590
ILSB0333Engross
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Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2277Engross
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the interest penalty for the delinquent payment of taxes shall be waived if the county treasurer determines that: (i) the delinquency occurred because the subject tax bill was mailed to an incorrect address...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2665Engross
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Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
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