Illinois Representative Suzanne Ness [D] | Introduced

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ILHB3286Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall provide stipends for teachers who participate in externships with a manufacturing company in the State.
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB4090Intro
25%
Amends the Rental Property Utility Service Act by changing the short title to the Residential Property Utility Service Act and changing the Act title. Repeals the Tenant Utility Payment Disclosure Act and adds the provisions of the repealed Act to th...
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2024-04-18
House Floor Amendment No. 3 Recommends Be Adopted Public Utilities Committee; 025-000-000
ILHB4431Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes language providing that the examination of an applicant for a driver's license or permit who is 75 years of age or older or, if the Secretary of State adopts rules to raise the age requirement for actual demo...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Gregg Johnson
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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2024-04-18
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter Schools; 006-002-000
ILHB5276Intro
25%
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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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB4475Intro
25%
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Strengthening Mental Health and Substance Use Parity Act. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed ca...
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2024-04-18
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Mental Health & Addiction Committee; 017-000-000
ILHB5249Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, within 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, nutrition care services and medical nutrition therapy provided by a reg...
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2024-04-18
To House Medicaid & Managed Care Committee
ILHB5395Intro
25%
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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2024-04-18
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5386Intro
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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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Yolonda Morris
ILHB4677Intro
25%
Creates the Illinois Caregiver Assistance and Resource Portal Act. Requires the Department on Aging, in consultation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to b...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
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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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
ILHB5643Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026 ...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB5621Intro
25%
Amends the Build Illinois Act. Provides that the amount of small business loans made to minority persons, veterans, females, or persons with a disability under the Act shall not exceed $2,000,000 (rather than $400,000) or 50% of the business project ...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
ILHB4919Intro
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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2024-04-18
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5610Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes all instances of "electric corporation" to "electric utility". Provides that an electric utility that operates within the State shall allow customers seeking energiza...
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2024-04-18
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Jay Hoffman
ILHB3288Intro
25%
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 shall develop a program of technical assistance in support of regional manu...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4489Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in...
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2024-04-17
To House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee
ILHB4524Intro
25%
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Removes a requirement that the Department of Children and Family Services notify the public when a child care institution, maternity center, or group home licensed by the Department undergoes a change in the area wi...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4807Intro
25%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that whenever a child is placed in the substitute care of the Department of Children and Family Services, and the child has previously been in substitute care, the Department may consider a child'...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5018Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Pesticide Act. Increases monetary penalties, and increases point values in determining monetary penalties. Distinguishes pesticide effects on woody perennial plants and herbaceous plants with respect to penalties. Defines terms.
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4473Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the Career and Technical Education Task Force is created within the State Board of Education to examine how to involve more students in technical education. Specifies the m...
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2024-04-17
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4178Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to apply for a Home and Community-Based Services State Plan amendment and any federal waiver necessary to reimburse legal...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5275Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois School Student Records Act. Provides that the term "Student Permanent Record" may include reports of psychological evaluations, including information on intelligence and personality, academic information obtained through test admi...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5252Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to, at least annually, provide each provider of home and community-based services an updated, detailed rate sheet for each funded client served by the provider. Pr...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5543Intro
25%
Amends the Township Code. When the electors in a township in a county with a population of 1,000,000 or more authorize the township board to contract with one or more municipalities in the township or with the county within which the township is loca...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5406Intro
25%
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, for the benefit of the physical and mental health of athletes, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, all practices, games, or contests by a State high school athletic program or t...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5348Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Creates the Portable and Medium-Format Battery Stewardship Act (rather than the Portable Battery Stewardship Act). Requires those who sell, offer for sale, or distribute (rat...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4806Intro
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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2024-04-17
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4781Intro
25%
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act. Provides that the KIND Act creates the statutory vision and authority for the Department of Children and Family Services to execute a kin-first approach to servi...
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2024-04-17
To House Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
ILHB4828Intro
25%
Creates the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Nelson Mandela Act. Provides that, except as otherwise provided in the Act, the use of isolated confinement in correctional facilities in the State shal...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5655Intro
25%
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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2024-04-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
ILHB5789Intro
25%
Appropriates the amount of $709,500 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County for the administration and operation of Greencorps Chicago and Forest ...
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2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0506Intro
25%
Urges the passage of important policies to better support family caregivers, particularly by enacting policies that: (1) provide increased funding for Illinois' Community Care Program, Home Delivered Meals, the Illinois Family Caregiver Act, Illinois...
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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit
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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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer
ILHB0473Intro
25%
Amends the Public Building Commission Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-15
Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Suzanne M. Ness
ILHB0444Intro
25%
Amends the Brominated Fire Retardant Prevention Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-15
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Revenue & Finance 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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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5766Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Prohibits, until February 1, 2027, the Chicago Board of Education from closing any attendance center within the school district that has selective admission requirements that are approved...
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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0501Intro
25%
Recognizes McHenry County for its participation in Operation Green Light for Veterans and its continued support for veterans and their families. Encourages the residents of Illinois to recognize and honor all veterans who have made immeasurable contr...
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2024-04-11
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
ILHB4785Intro
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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2024-04-11
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILHB3791Intro
25%
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a forest preserve district from prohibiting persons from carrying a firearm into any botanic garden, campground, aquatic center, grounds of an aquatic center, boat lau...
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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2466Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that a taxpayer who employs a person with a developmental disability or a severe mental illness, as certified by the Department of Human Services, during the taxable year is entitled to an income tax credi...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1305Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Creates the Task Force on Firearm Insurance to review current and potential future insurance policy offerings for the safe and legal possession of firearms and offer policymaking recommendations related to the use ...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2843Intro
25%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a for-profit facility licensed under the Act shall disclose data regarding the lease or rental of the facility by a real estate partnership owning the facility to a business operating the facility in an...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3344Intro
25%
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the Division of Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Human Services shall continue, in cases of medically required absences from a community...
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2024-04-05
To House Medicaid & Managed Care Committee
ILHB3287Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriations, the State Board of Education shall pay one-half of the salary of an employee that is employed by a manufacturing company and working within a sc...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3441Intro
25%
Amends the Employee Classification Act. Provides that in making a determination of a worker's classification under this Act, the Department of Labor shall consider any guidance provided by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States Department ...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3704Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that, if a dependent of the taxpayer is included in the PUNS database maintained by the Department of Human Services during the taxable year, then the taxpayer is entitled to a refundable income tax credit...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4218Intro
25%
Amends the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act. Provides that a postsecondary institution shall require applicants for admission to report which College and Career Pathway Endorsements, if any, they have received.
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3054Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for taxable years 2024 and thereafter, the maximum income limitation for the Low-Income Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption is $85,000 for all qualified property. Effective immediately.
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
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