Illinois Representative Sonya Harper [D]

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ILHB5451Intro
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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2024-03-18
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 11:30 am]
To House Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee
ILHR0606Intro
25%
Declares March 12, 2024 as "Equal Pay Day". Encourages the citizens of this State to learn about the pay gap that women experience in society and to learn about these various dates that bring attention to the pay gap that specific groups experience.
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2024-03-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2557Engross
50%
Creates the Farmer Equity and Innovation Act. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but eliminates all references to "ranches", "ranchers", and "ranching".
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3557Engross
50%
Reinserts provisions of the introduced bill. Makes a technical change in the introductory clause of a provision amending the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act.
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3556Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes provisions creating the Black Farmer Restoration Program. Provides that fee title acquisition grants to private landowners, socially disadvantaged farmers, and limite...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4917Intro
25%
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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2024-03-14
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4360Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals provisions relating to the higher education supplier diversity report and race and gender wage reports and moves those provisions, with cha...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4154Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that a patient who is covered under a policy of accident and health insurance, dental plan, or vision care plan is entitled to receive medical, dental, or eye care services without being required to pay...
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2024-03-13
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance: Main Committee
ILHR0453Intro
25%
Urges 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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2024-03-13
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Immigration & Human Rights Committee; 007-004-000
ILHR0653Intro
25%
Declares March 6, 2024 as Rare Disease Day in the State of Illinois in order to raise awareness of rare diseases, support individuals and families who struggle with rare diseases, bring attention to the need for research and funding to support the di...
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2024-03-13
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1287Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that owners of income-producing properties shall file physical descriptions of their properties with the chief county assessor in the form and format determined by the chief county assessor. Effective immediatel...
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2024-03-13
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB5395Intro
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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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB4472Intro
25%
Creates the Health Care Availability and Access Board Act. Establishes the Health Care Availability and Access Board to protect State residents, State and local governments, commercial health plans, health care providers, pharmacies licensed in the S...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Health Care Availability & Accessibility Committee
ILHB4644Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person shall not distribute, or enter into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media if: (1) the person knows the media falsely represents a depicted individual; (2) the distr...
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2024-03-12
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Ethics & Elections Committee
ILHB4857Intro
25%
Creates the Distressed Farmers Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall fund and administer programs to address the needs of distressed farmers. Provides for a tax credit for distressed farmers. Amends The Illinois Income Tax Act. Provi...
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2024-03-08
To House Revenue: Income Tax Committee
ILHB4645Intro
25%
Amends the State Designations Act. Provides that the soybean is designated as the official State bean of the State of Illinois.
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILSB0064Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the definition of "sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, notice, figure painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, which i...
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2024-03-07
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Held in Executive
ILHB5417Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Establishes the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator to be housed within the Department. Provides that the Department shall create and fill the Coordinator role within 6 months after the effective d...
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2024-03-07
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB3243Intro
25%
Creates the Basic Systems Repair Program Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a Basic Systems Repair Program that provides free repairs to correct electrical, plumbing, heating, limited structural and carpentry, ...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB3450Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish a 2-year pilot program to provide medically supportive food to medical assistance recipients through one or ...
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2024-03-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4272Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a limitation upon the applicability of certain provisions in the Code concerning local school councils does not apply to specified schools. In provisions concerning the reme...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School Committee
ILHB5058Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that a duly appointed member attending a meeting of the Commission may be counted as attending for the purpose of quorum if the member is ...
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2024-03-05
To House Executive Committee
ILHB4718Intro
25%
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. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-05
To House Executive Committee
ILHR0625Intro
25%
Declares April 1 through April 6, 2024 as Black Farmers Week in the State of Illinois. Encourages the people of Illinois and their representatives in government to learn about the history of Black farming communities and the contributions made by Afr...
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2024-03-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4155Intro
25%
Creates the Agricultural Drought and Climate Resilience Office Act. Establishes the Agricultural Drought and Climate Resilience Office. Provides that the Office may provide voluntary technical assistance, nonregulatory programs, and incentives, inclu...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILHB5052Intro
25%
Amends the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Good Food Purchasing Law. Repeals provisions regarding procurement goals for local farm or food products. Provides that, no later than one year after the effe...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILHB5297Intro
25%
Creates the Resilient Illinois Revolving Loan Fund Act. Establishes the Resilient Illinois Revolving Loan Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used to provide low-interest or no-interest loans to cou...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILHB5433Intro
25%
Creates the Prairie Lawns Act. Establishes the Prairie Lawns Program, which requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide assistance for installing pollinator-friendly native plants in residential lawns to protect and support native species...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Mar 20 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILHB2381Intro
25%
Appropriates $1,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for a comprehensive study of the Kaskaskia River watershed in coordination with the United States Army Corps of Engi...
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2024-02-29
To House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee
ILHB2161Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is the public policy of the State to prevent discrimination based on family responsibilities in employment. Defines "family responsibilities" as an employee's actual or perceived provision of car...
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2024-02-29
[Hearing: Mar 21 @ 8:30 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILHB3373Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that notwithstanding to the contrary, any provision of the Code, the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, or the Habeas Corpus Article or the relief from judgments...
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2024-02-22
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4104Intro
25%
Creates the Let the People Lift the Ban Act. Includes legislative findings and purpose. Defines terms. Excludes specified types of residences and occupancies from the Act. Includes provisions relating to rental agreements, tenant and landlord rights ...
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2024-02-20
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4295Intro
25%
Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Defines "Ebony Alert" as a notification system designed to issue and coordinate alerts with respect to Black youth, including young women and girls, who are reported missing under unexplained or suspicio...
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2024-02-14
[Hearing: Mar 22 @ 10:30 am]
To House Police & Fire Committee
ILHJR0046Intro
25%
Urges all agencies in the State of Illinois, in particular those concerned with the economic opportunity, education, health care, housing, justice, nutrition, protection, and recreation of children, to ensure their policies and programs comply with t...
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2024-02-08
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sonya M. Harper
ILHB5067Intro
25%
Creates the Lawns to Legumes Act. Establishes the Lawns to Legumes Program, which requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide assistance for installing pollinator-friendly native plants in residential lawns to protect and support native s...
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2024-02-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3375Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the provision of the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code that a prisoner shows cause by identifying an objective factor that impeded his or her ability to raise a specific claim dur...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4856Intro
25%
Amends the Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act. Provides that if a consistent DNA profile has been identified by comparing the submitted sexual assault evidence with a known standard from a suspect or with DNA profiles in the CODIS database, the I...
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2024-02-07
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4748Intro
25%
Creates the Grant Agreements for Shelter Services Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any grant agreement entered into, renewed, or extended on and after the effective date of this Act, between a State agenc...
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2024-02-06
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4189Intro
25%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
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2024-01-31
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB1015Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that a petition for a certificate of innocence shall state facts in sufficient detail to permit the court to find that the petitioner is likely to succeed at trial in proving that the petitioner is innocen...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4465Intro
25%
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. In a provision concerning the rate of tax, provides that the definition "prescription and nonprescription medicine and drugs" includes cannabis or cannabis-infused products purchased from a dispensing organiz...
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2024-01-16
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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2023-11-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB0676Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. In the provision that the county board of any county may, by ordinance, regulate or prohibit within unincorporated areas the discharge of firearms in any residential area where such discharge is likely to subject residents o...
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2023-10-27
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0395PassRecognizes and celebrates the birthdate of the late Gene "Coach Ping" Pingatore on October 25, 2023. Remembers the legacy he created and the many lives he touched during his lifetime.
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2023-10-25
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
ILHB4197Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to annually review and update the underlying data for, and use of, indicators used to determine whether a community is designated as an environmental justice commun...
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2023-10-25
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0364PassRecognizes Rev. Ricky D. Dixon on his installation as pastor of Beautiful Zion Missionary Baptist Church (BZMBC) of Chicago.
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2023-10-24
Resolution Adopted
ILHR0385PassCongratulates Reverend Leslie Sanders Sr. on his 50 years of ministry and for his service as senior pastor to the Hope Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
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2023-10-24
Resolution Adopted
ILHR0450PassCongratulates Richard Guebert Jr. on his retirement as president of Illinois Farm Bureau. Thanks him for his dedication and commitment to improving the economic well-being of agriculture and enriching the quality of farm family life.
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2023-10-24
Resolution Adopted
ILHB4131Intro
25%
Creates the Electrical Vehicle Infrastructure Act. Provides that a unit of local government shall not restrict which types of electric vehicles may access an electric vehicle charging station approved for passenger vehicles that both is publicly acce...
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2023-10-18
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2222PassAmends the Illinois Antitrust Act. Provides that documentary material, transcripts of oral testimony, or answers to interrogatories obtained in an investigation of a violation of the Act may be used by the Attorney General in any administrative or ju...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0526
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