Illinois Representative Sue Scherer [D]

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ILHB4623Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-04-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
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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2024-04-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2995Engross
50%
Amends the Foster Parent Law. Provides that foster parents have a right to receive an initial payment of $480 per child to be made within 24 hours of a permanent placement. Provides that if the final monthly payment for a child amounts to $480 or mor...
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2024-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5057Engross
50%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall make available a content area test for applicants seeking a State license to teach in any of grades one through 6. Provides that the test shall...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5655Engross
50%
Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy to allow a student who is a member of the National Guard of any state, the District of Columbia, a commonwea...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5256Engross
50%
Amends the Personnel Code. Provides, in provisions concerning a trainee program for persons with a disability, that "disability" includes a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder by a medical professional. Effective immediately.
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB5313Engross
50%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Provides that a network plan shall, at least annually, audit (instead of audit periodically) at least 25% of its provider directories for accuracy, make any corrections necessary, and retain documenta...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILHB3446Engross
50%
Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the school report card, provides that a school district's expenditure of Base Funding Minimum and Evidence-Based Funding received from the State in the level of specificity...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4934Engross
50%
Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Defines "veteran" and "veterans' organization". Provides that if a veterans' organization has identified human remains of a veteran that are more than 100 years old and wishes to have a marker placed to designate t...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
ILHB5640Engross
50%
Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed ...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
ILHB5294Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the State of Illinois is considered an employer under the provisions of the Family Neonatal Intensive Care Leave Act. Provides that an employee of an employer w...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4417Engross
50%
Amends the Course of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that all public high schools, including charter schools, shall designate and annually observe a week known as "Workplace Readiness Week". Provides that students shall be provided informa...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
ILHB4460Engross
50%
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the State Employees Group Insurance Program (for Illinois State Police officers), a county (for members of the sheriff's office)...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB4175Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that school personnel of any school district, charter school, or nonpublic elementary or secondary school may not engage in corporal punishment of a student, inflict corporal punishment upon a student, or cause corpor...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 1:30 pm]
To Senate Education Committee
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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB4586Engross
50%
Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each school district shall: (1) notify the parents or guardians of each student enrolled in the school district about any mental health services available in the school in which the student is ...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4562Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Defines terms. Provides that a group policy of accident and health insurance that provides coverage for hospital or medical treatment or services for illness on an expense-incurred basis and that is amended, delive...
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2024-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4757Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Provides that the Department of Veterans Affairs shall create, and the Department of Labor shall make available, at no cost, a veterans and service members' benefits, services, and protections poster. R...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
ILHB5276Engross
50%
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning transition services, provides that the student's transition plan shall include consideration of the student's assistive technology needs, such as assistive tec...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5282Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following change. Changes the effective date to January 1, 2026 (instead of January 1, 2025).
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILSB0773Engross
50%
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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB3538Engross
50%
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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB3908Engross
50%
Creates the Firefighter Paid Family Leave Act. Provides that a firefighter shall receive 6 weeks of paid family leave that may be used: (1) for the birth of a child in order to care for the child; (2) to care for a newly adopted child under 18 years ...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2161Engross
50%
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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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-22
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3907Intro
25%
Amends the School Boards and Chicago School District Articles of the School Code. Provides that school boards shall allow all educators to have daily continuous uninterrupted individual classroom planning time. Provides that the planning period shall...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4955Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 2 with the following changes. Provides that on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the State Board of Education may not mandate or require the use of funding for any ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4622Engross
50%
Creates the School District Mandate Task Force Act. Provides that the School District Mandate Task Force is created for the purpose of conducting a Statewide study to determine the information and data sets needed to establish a system that provides ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4910Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the month of October of each year is designated as Domestic Violence Awareness Month to be observed throughout the State as a month set apart to promote awareness of domestic violence and to sup...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4672Intro
25%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning educator testing, provides that an applicant for a Professional Educator License with a school support personnel endorsement for non-teaching speech-language pathologi...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4652Intro
25%
Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes provisions specifying notification deadlines. Provides that, subject to available appropriations, the Board shall disburse to each educator preparation program funds to...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4903Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, compile resources for elementary and secondary schools relating to indoor air quality in schools, including best practices...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5380Intro
25%
Creates the Parental Digital Choice Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as Sammy's Law. Provides that, before August 1, 2025, or within 30 days after a service becomes a large social media platform after August 1, 2025, a large social media...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1745Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB0562Intro
25%
Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title of the Act.
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4171Engross
50%
Creates the United States Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Memorial Highway Act. Designates the portion of Interstate 80 that is located in the State of Illinois as the United States Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Memorial Highway.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5211Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. With respect to persons who, on or after January 1, 2011, become participants or members under the Downstate Police, Downstate Firefighter, Chicago Police, Chicago Firefighter, Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMR...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5142Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with changes. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that coverage for abortion care may not impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-shar...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3861Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires insurance policies to be written in language easily readable and understandable by a person of average intelligence and education. Provides the factors the Director of Insurance shall consider in making th...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3519Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a security employee of the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice under the Tier 2 provisions is entitled to an annuity calculated under the alternative retirement formula, in l...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1996Engross
50%
Amends the Child Labor Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-19
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]

Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB4911Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that every contract for physical fitness services shall provide that notice of cancellation be made in writing and delivered by certified or registered mail (rather ...
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2024-04-19
Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 30, 2024
ILHB4253Intro
25%
Creates the Higher Education Violation Reporting Act. Provides that each public and private institution of higher education shall maintain a report publicly reporting actual findings of violations by any student organization, athletic team, or living...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0628Intro
25%
Declares June 9, 2024 as Race Amity Day. Invites communities across the United States of America to join in introspection and reflection on the beauty and richness of the diverse peoples of this great nation while reaching out with a spirit of amity ...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB4596Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that an employee covered by federal regulations concerning airline flight crew employees shall be deemed to work 40 hours in each work week for the purpose of the ac...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4762Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Provides that the Act applies to agreements entered into after the effective date of the Act. Defines terms. Makes other changes. Effective immediate...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4504Intro
25%
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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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4112Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits may be issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in this State on o...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4895Engross
50%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, every public school shall provide instruction on climate change, which shall include, but not be limited to, identifying the environmenta...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
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