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ILHB3158Engross
50%
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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2024-05-10
To Senate End of Life Issues Committee
ILSB2608Intro
25%
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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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2626Enroll
75%
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that, in anticipation of the successful completion of a diversion program, a petitioner may file a petition for expungement at least 61 days before the anticipated dismissal of the case. Provides that,...
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2024-05-10
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-05-10
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024
ILSB2662Engross
50%
Amends the Preventing Youth Vaping Act. Restricts a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer from advertising, marketing, or promoting an electronic cigarette in a manner that is likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher, or other adult to mist...
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2024-05-10
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
ILSB0727Intro
25%
Amends the Comprehensive Lead Education, Reduction, and Window Replacement Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-10
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024
ILHB5602Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Designates the twenty-first day of February of each year as John Lewis Day, to be observed throughout the State as a day to remember the accomplishments of the civil rights icon and to honor his legacy and de...
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Executive 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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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-05-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0001Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-10
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB3762Engross
50%
Creates the Language Equity and Access Act. Requires the Governor's Office of New Americans, in partnership with the Department of Human Services, to: prepare a Language Needs Assessment Report that identifies the languages spoken throughout the Stat...
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2024-05-10
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
ILSB3680Intro
25%
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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2024-05-10
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024
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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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]

Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB5395Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with changes that include the following. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Protection Act. In the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act, p...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILHB3713Engross
50%
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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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2442Engross
50%
Amends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Provides that a hospital may not bill an uninsured patient that requires health care services if it determines, through its financial assistance screening process, that the patient has a household income that qual...
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2024-05-09
Chief House Sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan
ILSB0086Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Moves specified provisions regarding cosigner release, cosigner rights, what happens in the event of the bankruptcy or death of a cosigner, the total and permanent disability...
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2024-05-09
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2764Engross
50%
Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that sells or offers to sell any products or services to a consumer pursuant to a contract that includes a free gift or a trial period...
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2024-05-09
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB4875Engross
50%
Amends the Right of Publicity Act. Grants additional enforcement rights and remedies to recording artists. Provides for the liability of any person who materially contributes to, induces, or otherwise facilitates a violation of a specified provision ...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Seth Lewis
ILHB4206Engross
50%
Amends the Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that if a landlord uses a third-party payment portal to collect rental payments from tenants and if a transaction fee or other charge is imposed through the portal on rental payments made by e-check or oth...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
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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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3235Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. Requires the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to conduct studies to: (1) identify and delineate geographies in Illinois exhibiting significant disparities by protected classes as identified by the Hum...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4891Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Provides that a dentist, employee of a dentist, or agent of a dentist may not arrange for, broker, or establish financing extended by a third party for a patient. Provides that a dentist, employee of a dentist...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
ILSB2968Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that reports issued under the provisions shall be issued by October 31 of each year (rather than September 30 of each year). Provides that the Department of Human Se...
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2024-05-09
Chief House Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
ILHB5431Engross
50%
Reinserts 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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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
ILSB2371Engross
50%
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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2024-05-08
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Labor & Commerce Committee; 017-007-000
ILHB3046Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, by January 1, 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency shall propose and, within one year after receipt of the Agency's proposal, the Board shall adopt (1) amendments to the Board's primary dri...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 8, 2024
ILSB3784Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Illinois Sexually Transmitted Infection Control Act. Changes references to "sexually transmissible diseases" to "sexually transmitted infections...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3274Intro
25%
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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2024-05-08
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3652Engross
50%
Creates the Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act. Requires the Department of Human Rights to create a summary form advising tenants who have suffered domestic violence or sexual violence of the rights that they have under Illinois law that provide p...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2876Engross
50%
Reinsert the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Excludes from the definition of "event facility" school stadiums and hotels (rather than only school stadiums). Makes technical and other changes.
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2024-05-08
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
ILSB3137Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendments numbers 1 and 2 with the following change, in the amendatory changes to the Substance Use Disorder Act, provides that the notice shall be provided for persons whose death occurred ...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3451Engross
50%
Amends 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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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2781Engross
50%
Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and we...
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2024-05-08
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
ILSB2872Engross
50%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school district shall provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least once a week, relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3136Engross
50%
Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force Act. Provides that it is the General Assembly's intent to require a coordinated, public health, and service-integrated response by various agencies within the State's health and child welfar...
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2024-05-08
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
ILSB3203Engross
50%
Amends 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 before December 31, 2025 that provides coverage for prescription drugs m...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3420Engross
50%
Creates the Prohibition of Unfair Service Agreements Act. Provides for the characteristics of unfair service agreements and sets forth exceptions to the Act. Provides that if a service agreement is unfair under the Act, it is unenforceable and shall ...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3473Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education, in coordination with the Department of Public Health, shall develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for parents and guardians of students. Provides that the informational mat...
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2024-05-08
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee; 008-004-000
ILHB5097Engross
50%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that every youth in care must have a Haircare Plan included in their case plan unless the youth explicitly indicates to the youth's caseworker that a Haircare Plan is not needed due to the youth's...
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2024-05-08
Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Recommend Do Adopt Health and Human Services; 009-005-000
ILSB3649Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that an employer shall be assessed a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation of the Act. Provides that, upon a reasonable belief that an employer covered by the A...
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2024-05-08
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3527Intro
25%
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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2024-05-08
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3737Intro
25%
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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2024-05-08
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB2933Engross
50%
Amends 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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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2690Engross
50%
Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that each public institution of higher education shall pay on behalf of a refugee or reimburse a refugee for payment of any transcript evaluation fees that are required by the public institution of hig...
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2024-05-07
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILSB2943Intro
25%
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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2024-05-07
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB3297Engross
50%
Amends the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program Act. Provides that an individual is eligible to receive a Housing is Recovery bridge rental subsidy for purposes of stabilizing his or her mental illness or substance use disorder if: (1) the individual is...
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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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
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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2024-05-07
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
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