Illinois Senator Ram Villivalam [D]

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ILSB2930Intro
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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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2024-03-18
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB3389Intro
25%
Amends the Regional Planning Act. Removes provisions relating to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's Wastewater Committee. Provides that approval of four-fifths of the Board of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning members in office...
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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 5:00 pm]
To Senate Transportation Committee
ILSB3436Intro
25%
Amends the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the General Assembly finds it necessary to take measures to increase the amount of cash assistance provided to qualifying Illinoisans under the Aid t...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
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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2024-03-18
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB1431Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish a Certified Nursing Assistant Workforce Pipeline Program to recruit, support, and train individuals to work ...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 5:00 pm]

Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
ILSB2023Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. For specified applications, change of address forms, or recertifications of a driver's license or State identification card, provides that the application, form, or recertification shall serve as a dual-purpose application w...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB2404Intro
25%
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Provides that, in determining whether an individual is an Illinois resident, if the individual enrolls or attains credits at a public or private...
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2024-03-15
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
ILSB1796Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the child care assistance program, provides that beginning in State Fiscal Year 2024, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 250% of the then-current federal poverty level f...
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2024-03-15
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
ILSB2421Intro
25%
Creates the Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Protections Act. Defines terms. Provides that (i) title to pore space belongs to and is vested in the surface owner of the overlying surface estate, (ii) a conveyance of title to a surface estate conve...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1578Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that owners and operators of CCR surface impoundments at electric generating plants that are within 4,000 feet of Lake Michigan shall close the CCR surface impoundment by removal and off-site disposal...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0172Intro
25%
Creates the Endow Illinois Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who provide an endowment gift to a permanent endowment fund during the taxable year and receive a certificate of receipt fo...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2702Intro
25%
Amends the Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act. Provides that "fire sprinkler inspector" means an individual who is qualified to perform routine inspection or testing of fire sprinkler systems and who is exclusively employed by a single fire spri...
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2024-03-15
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Licensed Activities Committee
ILSB2800Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider shall receive a per-claim add-on ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3358Intro
25%
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Creates the distillery shipper's license. Provides that a distillery shipper's license shall allow a person with an Illinois distiller license, a craft distiller license, a class 1 craft distiller license, or cl...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3386Intro
25%
Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Provides that rules adopted by the Department of Public Health under the Act must include unique design criteria and general standards for above-ground pools.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3465Intro
25%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility that has received a notice of violation for a violation of minimum staffing requirements is not required to display a notice concerning the violation if staffing was at 90% of the minimum sta...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3556Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Provides that the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security may make grants to small businesses for eligible security improvements that assist the small business in preve...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3772Intro
25%
Creates the Progressive Design-Build Pilot Program Act. Provides that the Capital Development Board may elect to use the progressive design-build delivery method. Provides that "progressive design-build delivery method" means a project delivery proce...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3620Intro
25%
Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Deletes the definition of "transportation agency". Modifies the definition of "proposer". Provides that a responsible public entity may not receive unsolicited proposals for a project. De...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Procurement 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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2024-03-15
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
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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2024-03-15
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3329Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child tax credit in an amount equal to the product of a specified credit amount multiplied by the number of qualifying children of the taxpayer. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2925Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person who is qualified to register to vote, who currently holds an authentic Illinois driver's license or State identification card issued by the Secretary of State, and who is not making any application for...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3093Intro
25%
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that, if any licensee authorized to sell alcoholic liquor at retail has had the renewal of his or her certificate of registration denied by the Department of Revenu...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3092Intro
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Amends the School Code. Makes stylistic changes in provisions concerning institutes or inservice training workshops. In provisions concerning inservice training programs, removes the requirement that the training regarding health conditions of studen...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2893Intro
25%
Creates the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to establish the Wholesale Prescription Drug Importation Program. Provides that the Department shall implement the program by: (1) contracting w...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3468Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Defines "adverse action" to have the same meaning as "adverse employment action" in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Defines "retaliation" to mean the protected activity proximately caused any adverse action by any employer...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3462Intro
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Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Illinois Guaranteed Income Law. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Establishes the Guaranteed Income Implementation Board within the Department of Human Services to: (i) evaluate th...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3383Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of election commissioners may use public school buildings as polling places only if a school board or a local school council approves the use of that school. Provides that, if the coun...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3466Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning payments to nursing facilities to increase compensation for certified nursing assistants (CNA), removes language requiring the Department of Healthcare a...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3387Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Expands the categories of families and individuals eligible for child care assistance to include: early childhood assistants or aides, qualified assistants, early childhood teachers, and school-age workers who wor...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services 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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2024-03-15
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
ILSB2877Intro
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Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Specifies that the notice in contested case hearings must include an enclosure that notifies the recipient of the ability to request interpretive assistance for the hearing and to receive language ass...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3735Intro
25%
Amends the Personnel Record Review Act. Provides that every employee has a legal right to inspect, copy, and receive copies of specified documents. Provides that an employer shall not include the imputed costs of time spent duplicating the informatio...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3712Intro
25%
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that proposals or bids submitted by engineering consultants in response to requests for proposal or other competitive bidding requests by the Department of Transportation or the Illinois Toll Highway Au...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3774Intro
25%
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold a closed session to consider the minutes (instead of discussion of minutes) of meetings lawfully closed under the Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or s...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Government Operations Committee
ILSB3715Intro
25%
Amends the Condominium Property Act. Prohibits directors from voting by proxy or by secret ballot at board meetings with the exception that secret ballots may be used in the election of officers. Prohibits voting by proxy or by secret ballot at any m...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3798Intro
25%
Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Provides that each year, at least 30 days prior to the beginning of the responsible public entity's fiscal year, the responsible public entity shall submit to the General Assembly a descr...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3736Intro
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Amends the Election Code. For specified applications, change of address forms, or recertifications of a driver's license or State identification card, provides that the application, form, or recertification shall serve as a dual-purpose application w...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Elections 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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2024-03-15
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB2836Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Sets forth provisions concerning short-term, limited-duration insurance. Provides that on and after January 1, 2025, no company shall issue, deliver, amend, or renew short-term, limited-duration insurance to any na...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2653Intro
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Creates the Operating Room Patient Safety Act. Provides that each surgical technologist hired or contracted by a health care facility on or after January 1, 2026 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Licensed Activities Committee
ILSB3332Intro
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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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2024-03-15
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3777Intro
25%
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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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3538Intro
25%
Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, if a municipality or county, including a home rule municipality or county, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance...
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2024-03-15
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
ILSB3467Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning the educational requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathology assistant. Effective January 1, 2025.
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB3558Intro
25%
Amends the Transportation Benefits Program Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to any covered employee working in the construction industry who is covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement. Defines "construction industry".
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB2819Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989. Removes the 5-year cap an applicant has to successfully complete all examinations required by rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
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2024-03-14
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Porfirio
ILSB2658Intro
25%
Amends the Newborn Metabolic Screening Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to provide all newborns with screening tests for the presence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Requires the testing to begin within 6 months following the occurrence ...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB0001Intro
25%
Creates the Early Childhood Education Act. Contains only a short title provision.
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2024-03-14
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Napoleon Harris, III
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