Illinois Representative Terra Costa Howard [D] | Introduced

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ILHB3141Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish a maximum acceptable Global Warming Potential (GWP) standard for State purchases of vehicles, applianc...
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2024-04-18
House Floor Amendment No. 3 Recommends Be Adopted Energy & Environment Committee; 019-009-000
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
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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2024-04-18
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
ILHB4567Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Includes in offense of threatening a public official or human service provider, threatening a library employee. Provides that the threat to a public official, human service provider, or library employee includes a th...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
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
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
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
ILHB5371Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of its employees by the employer's nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer be...
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2024-04-18
House Floor Amendment No. 3 Referred to Rules 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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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB3721Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Replaces references to "naturopathic physician" with "naturopathic doctor". Authorizes licensees under the Act to only use certain titles. Adds a provision requiring naturopa...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4449Intro
25%
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision concerning law enforcement assistance for child protective investigators when responding to a high-risk report of child abuse or neglect, provides that when assistance is not availab...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4884Intro
25%
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that if guardianship is necessary and the petition for guardianship is filed by a person, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other entity with no legally recognized relationship to the alleged person with...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4855Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administration Code of Illinois. Requires (instead of allows) the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to accept payment by credit card for any fee, fine, or other charg...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5086Intro
25%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that when a health care facility is found liable for an injury to a patient or resident because of a negligent act performed by a nurse or certified nurse aide employed, assigned, or referred by the nurse agenc...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-04-17
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB5561Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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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
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
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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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5551Intro
25%
Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Provides that for licensure as a managing broker, the person must personally take and pass a written examination on Illinois specific real estate brokerage laws authorized by the Department of Financial and...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4776Intro
25%
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a minor found to be guilty may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice if the minor is at least 14 (rather than 13) years and under 20 years of age, provided that the commitment to the D...
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2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Standard Debate
ILHB4823Intro
25%
Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for local health protection grants for health protection programs. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-16
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5270Intro
25%
Creates the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact Act. Provides that the State of Illinois ratifies and approves the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. Provides that the purpose of the Compact is to facilitate interstate practice of Occupationa...
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2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0606Intro
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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
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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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer
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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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cyril Nichols
ILHB1605Intro
25%
Amends the Gender Violence Act. Provides that "gender-related violence" includes sexual contact between a sexual organ of one person and a intimate part of another person in which a "sexually protective device" has been intentionally removed by the d...
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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
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
ILHB0545Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Medical Assistance Article.
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2024-04-12
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Aaron M. Ortiz
ILHB4249Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, expands the definition of "access" to means the right to inspect and copy the clinical and other records of a participant or resident, regardless of ...
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2024-04-10
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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
ILHB4643Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. In a provision requiring the Department of Human Service' Division of Mental Health to implement a direct support professional credential pilot program, delays the pilot prog...
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2024-04-10
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5045Intro
25%
Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for Collaborative Care Demonstration Grants, as defined in the Psychiatry Practice Incentive Act, and related expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-10
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5046Intro
25%
Amends the Psychiatry Practice Incentive Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall establish a Collaborative Care Demonstration Grant program and set criteria for the program. Provides that the Director of Public Health may establish a...
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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3904Intro
25%
Creates the Local Official Vacancy Posting Act. Provides that a unit of local government shall post every elected official vacancy on its website, if the full-time staff of the municipality maintain the website, and the county clerk shall also post t...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2620Intro
25%
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Changes the definition of "recurrent requester" to mean a person who, in the 12 months immediately preceding the request, has submitted to the same public body (i) a minimum of 40 (instead of 50) requests for re...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4434Intro
25%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Compact does not supe...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4462Intro
25%
Amends the Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention Article of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that no minor shall be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement for more than 48 hours (rather than 21 business days.)
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4486Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish a reimbursement code for music therapy services provided by licensed music therapists. Provides that, to be ...
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2024-04-05
To House Medicaid & Managed Care Committee
ILHB4739Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that in order to give providers more time to prepare for and implement changes to the Medicaid Mental Health Fee Schedule and to ensure that the quality and delivery of b...
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2024-04-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4941Intro
25%
Amends the Title Insurance Act. Provides for the licensure of title insurance agents (instead of registration of title insurance agents by title insurance companies). Makes changes in the definition of "financial interest". Defines "core title agent ...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5038Intro
25%
Amends the State Records Act, the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code, the State Library Act, the Illinois Literacy Act, the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act, the Illinois Vehicle Code,...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4922Intro
25%
Amends various Acts concerning children's mental health. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Go...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5065Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the Public Act may be referred to as the Safe Firearm Storage Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control (rathe...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4240Intro
25%
Amends the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Restores language concerning how the terms of elected commissioners are to be determined for a forest preserve district having boundaries that are coextensive with the boundaries of a county having a...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5518Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that "State-regulated health plan" means any health insurance plan issued by an insurer regulated by the State or health insurance plan operated and administered by the State, including, but not limited to...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5060Intro
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Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-03
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4601Intro
25%
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for costs associated with the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program Act. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-02
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB3991Intro
25%
Appropriates $35,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the New Arrival Student Grant Program. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-04-02
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
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