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ILHB1226Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the renewal of a driver's license who is 79 years or older to renew in person. Requires every applicant for the renewal of a driver's license who is 87 years of age or or who is 75 years ...
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2025-05-13
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Javier L. Cervantes
ILHB1437Engross
50%
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish and administer a non-profit investment pool and an electronic payment processing program to supplement and enhance investment opportunities and secure electronic payment ...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB1700Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that State and public funds that have been deposited may not be withdrawn from a financial institution prior to the date of maturity solely on the basis of a less th...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB2517Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Defines "maternal health care services", "postnatal care", and "prenatal care". Provides that, on and after January 1, 2026, health care professionals ...
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2025-05-13
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILHB2772Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act. Modifies legislative findings. Provides that "facility" includes stadiums, arenas, or other structures for the holding of athletic contests and other events and gatherings, including, without limit...
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2025-05-13
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB2423Engross
50%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, within 6 months after the amendatory Act, all hospitals with licensed obstetric beds and birthing centers shall adopt and maintain written policies and procedures t...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3709Engross
50%
Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, each public institution of higher education with student health services shall provide enrolled students with access to health care professionals authori...
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2025-05-13
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB1927Engross
50%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3662Engross
50%
Amends the County Department of Corrections Division of the Counties Code, the Unified Code of Corrections, and the County Jail Act. Provides that, upon the release of a prisoner or committed person from a county correctional institution, county jail...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3487Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law. Provides that, in conjunction with applications for licensure and renewals (rather than only for licensure), the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of Financial and Professional...
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2025-05-13
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2025
ILHB1312Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the Governor shall annually designate by official proclamation the third Friday of September in each year as POW/MIA Recognition Day (rather than the third Friday of September in each year is de...
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 14 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB3725Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code, the Public Water District Act, the Water Service District Act, the Water Authorities Act, and the Water Commission Act of 1985 to repeal pr...
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2025-05-13
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2025
ILHB1788Engross
50%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to prioritize projects that incorporate universal design elements. Requires the Department to adopt rules to establish the priorities and scorin...
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2025-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2802Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the daily pupil attendance calculation, allows for participation in a supervised career development experience (instead of a supervised career development experience or any work-based learning experien...
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2025-05-13
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2025
ILHB3677Engross
50%
Creates the Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act. Provides that a person who sells or offers for sale complex rehabilitation technology in the State shall meet certain requirements. Requires a supplier of complex wheelchairs, except in certain speci...
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2025-05-13
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Adriane Johnson
ILHB2142Engross
50%
Amends the Emergency Services Districts Act. Provides that, if a fire protection district provides ambulance service, then an emergency services district formed and operated solely to provide ambulance service may be formed in part or in whole within...
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2025-05-13
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 14, 2025
ILHB1237Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board shall prohibit a school from using a native name, logo, or mascot. Provides, however, that a school may continue to use uniforms or other materials bearing a native name, logo, or mascot that were ...
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2025-05-13
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0246Engross
50%
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish and administer a non-profit investment pool and an electronic payment processing program to supplement and enhance investment opportunities and secure electronic payment ...
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2025-05-13
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Thaddeus Jones
ILHB2364Intro
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, 2025.
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2025-05-13
[Hearing: May 15 @ 8:00 am]
To House Appropriations-Health and Human Services Committee
ILHR0316Intro
25%
Urges full restoration of all eliminated direct support professionals (DSP) hours in the final FY26 State budget to protect the services individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) depend on.
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2025-05-13
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1843Engross
50%
Amends the Zoning Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Removes a provision giving the corporate authorities in each municipality the power to classify, to regulate, and to restrict the use of property on the basis of family relationship. Provides...
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2025-05-12
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB2435Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Changes references from "automatic dialing and announcing" to "automatic telephone dialing system". Removes a provision limiting recoverable damage...
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2025-05-12
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
ILHB1432Engross
50%
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Treasurer may make a matching contribution of $50 to an ABLE account opened on or after January 1, 2026 for a beneficiary who is a resident of Illinois. Provides that ...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILHB2682Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Removes language concerning crisis assistance funding that were included with the amendatory provisions concerning the waiver of TANF work and self-sufficiency requirements f...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB1225Engross
50%
Creates the Best Customer Price Act. Provides that a public institution of higher education or a State agency may require best customer pricing for any goods it procures. Provides that, if goods are to be purchased by the State from a supplier or res...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB1081Engross
50%
Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to submit the necessary application to the federal Centers for Medica...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB1352Engross
50%
Amends the Military Veterans Assistance Act. Provides that in counties that do not have a Veterans Assistance Commission prior to January 1, 2026, and in which there exists a judicial circuit whose jurisdictional boundaries include multiple counties,...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3650Engross
50%
Amends the Energy Transition Act. Adds electrification industries to clean energy jobs. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a gas utility may cease providing service if the Illinois Commerce Commission determines that adequate substitute s...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee
ILHB2586Engross
50%
Provides that specified provisions of the Illinois State Police Law may be referred to as Alyssa's Law. Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act. Provides that the term "employee" includes, among other things, (1) any Metropolitan Enforcement Gr...
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2025-05-09
To Senate Criminal Law Committee
ILHB2907Engross
50%
Creates the Child Welfare Disclosure to Parents Act. Provides that it is the policy of the State that a parent involved with the Illinois child welfare system has specified rights, including, but not limited to, the right to: (1) be treated with dign...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB3500Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a school district shall provide informational materials about the Illinois Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) account program (rather than the Achieving a Better L...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB2774Engross
50%
Amends the Domestic Violence Shelters Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall be responsible for the provision of a single, easy to use telephone number for public access to information and referral for domestic violence services. A...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB3717Intro
25%
Amends the Public Community College Act. Allows the board of trustees of a community college district to establish and offer a baccalaureate degree program and confer a bachelor's degree if the board of trustees and the program meet specified conditi...
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2025-05-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2391Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. In a provision regarding wastewater reuse, provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the use of treated municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works is authorized for irrigation ...
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2025-05-08
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Thaddeus Jones
ILHB1575Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county recorder may not impose a fee for filing a restrictive covenant modification to an unlawful restrictive covenant (currently a county recorder may impose a fee for filing a restrictive covenant modifica...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHR0170Intro
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Declares March 25, 2025 as Equal Pay Day in the State of Illinois. 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 speci...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
ILHR0221PassCelebrates Transgender Day of Visibility on March 31, 2025. Commits to protecting, supporting, and affirming trans and non-binary siblings and neighbors each and every day of the year.
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2025-05-08
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicolle Grasse
ILHB3761Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness within the Department of Human Services to maintain on the Department's publicly accessible website information on how a hospital or health care provider...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILSB0058Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may enter into grants, contracts, or other agreements to provide technical ...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB2873Engross
50%
Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act. Adds to the definition of "stalking" to include harassment that is conduct that is not necessary to accomplish a purpose that is reasonable under the circumstances, would cause a reasonable person emotional d...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB1754Engross
50%
Creates the Tracking Infectious Cases Knowledgeably Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the TICK Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt rules no later than January 1, 2026, requiring medical reporters to report ca...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB1083Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act, the Conveyances Act, the Joint Tenancy Act, and the Rights of Married Persons Act. Inserts gender neutral descriptions showing marital status.
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB2362Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue special registration plates designated as Air Medal plates to residents of this State who meet the eligibility requirements prescribed by the Secretary of State. Provides that t...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB3339Engross
50%
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts images from cameras under the Expressway Camera Act and all automated license plate reader (ALPR) information used and collected by the Illinois State Police from inspection and copying. Amends the Expre...
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2025-05-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3718Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following addition: Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act is intended to include an employee of a hospital licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act or operated under the University of Ill...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILHB1787Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill with the following additions. Provides that training shall be provided in person when available. Provides that a school district shall provide support for substitute personnel by ensuring that recommendations are im...
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2025-05-08
Added as Alternate Chief Co-Sponsor Sen. Li Arellano, Jr.
ILHB2409Engross
50%
Amends the PFAS Reduction Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, organization, joint venture, importer, or domestic distributor of firefighting agents or firefighting equipment that sel...
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2025-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 13, 2025
ILSB1723Engross
50%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no person shall conduct a carbon sequestration activity within a sequestration facility that overlies, underlies, or passes through a sole-source aquifer. Specifies that this provisions does not ...
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2025-05-08
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Jaime M. Andrade, Jr.
ILHB2688Engross
50%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning definitions. In provisions concerning written collaborative agreements, provides that, in the case of home birth services provided by a certified nurse midwife, a written collabora...
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2025-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading May 8, 2025
ILHB1085Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Establishes reimbursement rates for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivere...
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2025-05-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
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