Illinois Senator Rachel Ventura [D]

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ILSB3501Enroll
75%
Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act. Includes legislative findings. Defines terms. Provides that all new, renovated, or retrofitted luminaires purchased with State funds after the effective date of the Act or installed after the effe...
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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3764Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the r...
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2024-05-23
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3762Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-23
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Carol Ammons
ILSB3235Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-23
Passed Both Houses
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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2024-05-23
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
ILSB2781Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Kimberly Du Buclet
ILSB3237Enroll
75%
Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning grant award amounts and required local matches, provides that the required local match and grant award amount are calculated by multiplying the required local match percentage and the grant...
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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2690Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-22
Passed Both Houses
ILSB2764Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB2743Enroll
75%
Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act. Establishes the State Water Plan Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be chaired by the Director of the Office of Water Resources of the Department of Natural Resources and composed of the directors, o...
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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
ILSB3203Enroll
75%
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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2024-05-22
Added Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton
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
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
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
ILSB3559Intro
25%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility shall not take any retaliatory action against a resident of the facility because the resident (1) complains, discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor, a public body, or any other p...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3247Intro
25%
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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2024-05-21
To Senate Appropriations Education 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
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
ILHB4475Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivered, issued, or r...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4652Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that "salary" includes stipends paid to an eligible cooperating teacher und...
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2024-05-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
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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2024-05-20
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB3483Intro
25%
Creates the Local Government Zero Emissions Transition Grant Program Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish and administer a Local Government Zero Emissions Transition Grant Program. Delineates the program into two Phases. Pro...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5564Engross
50%
Amends the Homelessness Prevention Act. Provides that on an annual basis, a grantee's administrative costs and case management expenses shall not exceed 20% (rather than 15%) of the grant amount it receives under the Department of Human Services' hom...
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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
ILHB5164Engross
50%
Amends the Clerks of the Court Act. Provides that filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25, and the court may waive this fee for good cause shown. Amends Name Change Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes the requirement...
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2024-05-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1375Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that pupils in the public schools in grades 9 through 12 shall be taught and be required to study courses which include instruction in the area of financial literacy and consumer education in alignment with the Illino...
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2024-05-16
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Filed Non-Concur Rep. Curtis J. Tarver, II
ILSB3233Intro
25%
Creates the Build Illinois Homes Tax Credit Act. Provides that owners of qualified low-income housing developments are eligible for credits against the taxes imposed by the Illinois Income Tax Act or taxes, penalties, fees, charges, and payments impo...
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2024-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3214Intro
25%
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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2024-05-16
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB2783Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Deletes a provision that it is an aggravating factor in sentencing that the sentence is necessary to deter others from committing the same crime.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2566Intro
25%
Appropriates $578,000 to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for costs associated with the Creating Healing of Inside Community Educators program at Pinckneyville and Menard Correctional Centers. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-05-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3399Intro
25%
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
ILSB3804Intro
25%
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
ILSB3183Intro
25%
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Changes all references in the General Provisions Article and the Abused, Neglected or Dependent Minors Article of the Act from "reasonable efforts" to "active efforts" in cases that involve reunification by the ...
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2024-05-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2984Intro
25%
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-14
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3814Intro
25%
Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for costs associated with the Crop Insurance Rebate Initiative to provide incentives for at least 500,000 acres of eligible land. Effective July 1, 2024.
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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
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
ILSB3704Intro
25%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to execute and deliver a quit claim deed to Shabbonna Lake State Park in DeKalb County to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Effective immediately.
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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
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
ILSB3739Intro
25%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Provides that the minimum ratio for each provider type shall be no less than any such ratio established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law o...
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2024-05-13
To Senate Assignments 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
ILSB2606Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act. Provides that, beginning no later than the 2026-2027 academic year, the governing body of each public college or university shall adopt a student wellness day policy for each academic term that doe...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0896PassDeclares May 10, 2024 as Provider Appreciation Day in the State of Illinois. Encourages all residents of Illinois to recognize child care providers, the importance of their work, and the immeasurable value they bring to communities.
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2024-05-09
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston
ILSR0882PassDeclares May 17, 2024 as Take Break from Social Media Day in the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-09
Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Willie Preston
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
ILSB1437Intro
25%
Creates the Universal Broadband Act. Creates the Office of Broadband Access within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Provides that the Office of Broadband Access shall oversee the construction, development, and operation of a State...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1767Intro
25%
Creates the Cargo Transportation Tax Act. Provides that a tax is imposed upon each retailer that transports by common carrier tangible personal property into the State from a point outside of the State. Provides that the tax is imposed at the rate of...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2349Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish a grant program to support cultural and language immersion programs, gifted and talented programs, and advanced placement progr...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
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