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ILSB3471Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue a new set of license plates to an owner of a vehicle whose plates were stolen. Provides that the new set of plates shall be issued without a fee. Requires the Secretary to assig...
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2024-06-18
Sent to the Governor
ILSB3479Enroll
75%
Amends provisions of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act concerning deceptive practices targeting veterans and military members. Changes the definition of "veteran or military benefits services" to any services offered or provided...
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2024-06-18
Sent to the Governor
ILSB2872Enroll
75%
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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2024-06-14
Sent to the Governor
ILSB3091Enroll
75%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to convey the described parcel in Will County to the Forest Preserve District of Will County. Effective immediately.
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2024-06-14
Sent to the Governor
ILSB3175Enroll
75%
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, on or before July 1, 2025, the Department of Transportation may, subject to appropriation, create and implement a Type II Noise Suppression Progr...
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2024-06-14
Sent to the Governor
ILSB3138Enroll
75%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In a provision providing that post-secondary education scholarships and fee waivers awarded to eligible students by the Department of Children and Family Services shall be available to students for at leas...
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2024-06-14
Sent to the Governor
ILSB2803Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Sets forth procedures for the Secretary of State to issue a standard Illinois Identification Card to a person committed to the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a Federal Burea...
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2024-06-13
Sent to the Governor
ILSB2211Intro
25%
Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Provides that, beginning 18 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, (1) no store or food service business shall provide or sell a single-use plastic carryout bag to a customer and (2) no gr...
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2024-06-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0773Enroll
75%
Amends 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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2024-06-12
Sent to the Governor
ILSB2930Enroll
75%
Reinserts 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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2024-06-10
Sent to the Governor
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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2024-06-07
Sent to the Governor
ILSB2573Enroll
75%
Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual plan of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Ac...
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2024-06-07
Sent to the Governor
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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2024-06-07
Sent to the Governor
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
ILSB2651Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a county board may also maintain, restore, rehabilitate, beautify, or adaptively reuse land along scenic byways (in addition to places of architectural signific...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2911Engross
50%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Provides that the tax incentivized development must be established by an intergovernmental agreement to which the taxing district is a party. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0457Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, including funding for any administrative costs reasonably incurred by the State Board of Education, upon the execution of one or more required statewide master contracts entered by the ...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2665Engross
50%
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
ILSB3157Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish an electronic payment processing program to supplement and enhance secure electronic payment options otherwise available to not...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2878Engross
50%
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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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2234Engross
50%
Creates the Small Business Financing Transparency Act. Sets forth provisions concerning registration requirements for persons providing commercial financing; additional registration information; registration expiration; functions, power, and duties; ...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0867Engross
50%
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. Adds legal descriptions for Shabbona Lak...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSR0590PassUrges support for the Family Roots Genealogy Pilot Program as it provides African American descendants of enslaved individuals the opportunity to trace their roots back to their ancestral homelands, to reconnect with their ancestral heritage, and to ...
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
ILSR0733PassUrges the Illinois Supreme Court and relevant authorities to require, as a consistent part of continuing education, LGBTQ+ and HIV cultural competency education for all attorneys, judges, and courtroom staff in the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-26
Resolution Adopted
ILSB2442Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILSB3948Intro
25%
Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Removes a provision allowing a law enforcement agency to attempt to obtain a DNA sample from the missing person or a DNA reference sample created from family members' DNA samples for submission before 30...
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2024-05-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1960Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that a municipality or park district may authorize and regulate the operation of low-speed electric scooters within the unit of local government on any or all highwa...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILSB1652Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. In provisions concerning petitions for nomination and submission of public questions, provides that by signing an objector's petition, the objector certifies that the petition is not being presented for any improper purpose,...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB2360Intro
25%
Creates the Judicial Campaign Reform Act and amends the Election Code, the State Finance Act, the Illinois Income Tax Act, and the Clerks of Courts Act. Creates a voluntary program of public financing of election campaigns for the offices of judges o...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB0085Intro
25%
Creates the State Beverage Container Recycling Refunds Act. Establishes the Distributor and Importer Responsibility Organization to implement a beverage container recycling redemption refund program to issue redemption refunds to consumers for bevera...
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILSB2750Intro
25%
Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides that the Legislative Printing Unit shall offer no less than 20 different ink colors for the printing of newsletters or other materials intended for distribution to constituents. P...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Government Operations Committee
ILSR0770PassDeclares June 9, 2024 as Race Amity Day.
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2024-05-25
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0632PassUrges the creation of a coordinating council under the Illinois Lieutenant Governor's office to bring together a relevant staff of agencies and non-governmental organizations to develop a strategy for implementation of the 30 by 30 concept.
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2024-05-25
Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Tabled Pursuant to Rule 5-4(a)
ILSB2632Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources may lease land on property of which the Department has jurisdiction for the purpose of creating, operating, or maintaining a commercial solar energy sys...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3591Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a covered platform shall annually compensate digital journalism providers for accessing the websites of the digital journalism providers, with the compensation ...
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILSB3695Intro
25%
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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2024-05-25
To Senate Executive Committee
ILSB2729Intro
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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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Committee/3rd Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILSB3231Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Creates a special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of the Lyme Disease Innovation Program, which helps to further education and awareness of Lyme disease in Illinois. Provides that the game shall commence on J...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Gaming, Wagering, and Racing Committee
ILSR0957PassDeclares July 2024 as Parks and Recreation Month.
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2024-05-25
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner
ILSB2633Intro
25%
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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2024-05-25
To Senate Firearms Committee
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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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
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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2024-05-25
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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2024-05-25
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB0125Engross
50%
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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2024-05-24
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 2 - May 24, 2024
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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2024-05-24
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Referred to Assignments
ILSB0381Enroll
75%
Amends the State Property Control Act. Requires the Director of Central Management Services, as Administrator, to assess surplus real property held by the State and determine whether such property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. Prov...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Tom Bennett
ILSB2628Enroll
75%
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program requirements. Requires all State agencies to obtain a special flood hazard area dev...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3592Enroll
75%
Creates the Strengthening Community Media Act. Provides that a local news organization shall not be sold to a company without giving written notice 120 days before the sales occurs to specified individuals and organizations. Amends the Higher Educati...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
ILSB3646Enroll
75%
Reinserts 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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2024-05-24
Added as Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Lakesia Collins
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