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ILSB3725Intro
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Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, beginning on July 1, 2024, certain food, drugs, and medical appliances that were taxed at the rate of 1% shall be e...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3686Intro
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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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2024-03-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Paul Faraci
ILSB2639Intro
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that, for a group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits that is issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in this State...
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2024-03-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILSB3814Intro
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Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for costs associated with the Crop Insurance Rebate Initiative to provide incentives for at least 500,000 acres of eligible land. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3087Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor or trafficking in persons if the victim is under 18 years of age shall not be permitted to plead down to lesser offenses. Provides that no p...
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2024-03-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2862Intro
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Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall compile, on an annual basis, a list of the most in-demand jobs in this State, along with the starting salary, the median salary, and the typical education lev...
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2024-03-20
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Andrew S. Chesney
ILSB2921Intro
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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Makes certain changes concerning estates that contain qualified farm property. Provides that, for the purposes of calculating the State Death Tax Credit, those estates are subject t...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2772Intro
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Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires school boards to report, on their school district's website, a list of the learning materials and activities to be used for student instruction during the school year. Require...
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2024-03-20
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2972Intro
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Amends the Illinois Prescribed Burning Act. Establishes the procedures required before conducting a prescribed burning. Provides that no landowner, agent of the landowner, or certified prescribed burn manager shall be liable for damage, injury, or lo...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0222Intro
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that upon commencement of services, or as soon thereafter as the condition of the recipient permits, every adult recipient, as well as the recipient's guardian or substitute decis...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1355Intro
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Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that upon payment of an annual administrative fee not exceeding $100, during the first 3 calendar quarters an employer may pay its quarterly contributions due for wages in equal installments. Establishe...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1583Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a credit in an amount equal to 10% of the stipend or salary paid by the taxpayer to up to (i) 5 qualified college interns or (ii) 5 qualified high school interns during the taxable year. Provides that no ta...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1532Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for Illinois licensed wine manufacturers and craft brewers in an amount equal to 50% of the qualified costs incurred by a qualified taxpayer during the taxable year. Prohibits a taxpaye...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1655Intro
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Creates the Counseling Compact Act. Provides that the State of Illinois enters into the Counseling Compact. Specifies that the Compact's purpose is to facilitate interstate practice of licensed professional counselors with the goal of improving publi...
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2024-03-15
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As April 5, 2024
ILSB0172Intro
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Creates the Endow Illinois Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who provide an endowment gift to a permanent endowment fund during the taxable year and receive a certificate of receipt fo...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1974Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who, in committing a domestic battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits aggravated domestic battery.
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1976Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of domestic assault. Provides that a person commits the offense when, without lawful authority, he or she knowingly engages in conduct that places any family or household member in reasonable appr...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3083Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered to be a health care worker (rather than a nurse) while in...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2996Intro
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if a veteran with a surviving spouse dies while an application for a veteran's homestead exemption is being reviewed, the review of that application shall continue, and any subsequent approval granted to t...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1863Intro
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Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that if the defendant committed the offense in or on the grounds of a hospital, ambulatory surgical treatment center, physician's office, or other medical facility that treats patients and the offense ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0102Intro
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Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall establish and administer a workforce industry needs scholarship program to provide scholarships to qualified...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3261Intro
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Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, at least once every 2 years, a school board shall conduct in-service training for all school district employees on how to identify trafficking in persons under the Crimi...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2959Intro
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Amends the State Finance Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for the issuance of Sons of the American Legion decals. Provides that the fee for original issuance of the Sons of the American Legion decals shall be $25 with $10 to the Sons of th...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB3277Intro
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Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Directs the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with others, to develop mandatory protocols and best practices for providing the necess...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB2658Intro
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Amends the Newborn Metabolic Screening Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to provide all newborns with screening tests for the presence of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Requires the testing to begin within 6 months following the occurrence ...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB3237Intro
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Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning grant award amounts and required local matches, provides that the required local match and grant award amount are calculated by multiplying the required local match percentage and the grant...
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2024-03-14
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading March 20, 2024
ILSB1533Intro
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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2024, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Cod...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3170Intro
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Creates the Noncitizen Population Spending Transparency Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services, in collaboration with relevant State agencies, shall prepare an annual report identifying all State spending on services and resources for no...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2132Intro
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Amends the Pupils Article of the School Code. In provisions regarding compulsory school age, provides that a student absent from a school in which the student is regularly enrolled shall be considered as being in attendance if the reason for such abs...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0160Engross
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Amends the Telephone Solicitations Act. Provides that a person, business, or organization may not spoof a caller's information or otherwise misrepresent the origin of a telemarketing call unless the person, business, or organization has the right to ...
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2024-03-06
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2630Intro
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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2025, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Cod...
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2024-02-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3243Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act and the Invest in Kids Act. Provides that the Invest in Kids credit applies permanently (currently, the credit applies for taxable years ending before January 1, 2024). Effective immediately.
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2024-02-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3084Intro
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Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the expiration date of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act must be boldly and conspicuously displayed on the face of the ca...
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2024-02-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3251Intro
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Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides a statutory form for a petition for adjudication of wardship. Deletes language prohibiting the court from ordering specific placements, specific services, or the use of specific service providers.
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2024-02-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3697Intro
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to coordinate the services of multidisciplinary child protection investigation teams to respond to child sexual abuse and sex trafficking reports mad...
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2024-02-21
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2581Intro
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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2024, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Cod...
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2024-02-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3533Intro
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Amends the Transitional Bilingual Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, a program in transitional bilingual education shall include a unit of instruction that teaches English learners about Ame...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3250Intro
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Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that a live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law. Removes language regarding interpretation of specified provisions....
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2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3253Intro
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Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the municipal treasurer shall deposit taxes into the municipal fund dedicated to the maintenance or repair of roads and bridges intended for motor vehicle use. Provides that the municipal treasurer shal...
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2024-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1150Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-05
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3088Intro
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Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.
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2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2995Intro
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Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish and administer a program to award property tax relief grants to property taxpayers within school districts in this State. Provides that the State Board of Education sh...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2965Intro
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Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the 16th day of July of each year is designated a commemorative holiday to be known as Atomic Veterans Day and to be observed throughout the State as a day in honor and remembrance of the men an...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2958Intro
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2668Intro
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Amends the Property Owned By Noncitizens Act. Provides that a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business shall not acquire by grant, purchase, devise, descent, or otherwise any interest in public or private land in the State. Provides that a prohib...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2917Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Requires Voter Identification Cards for those who do not have acceptable photo identification. Sets forth requirements and exemptions. Provides that any person desiring to vote shall present to the judges of election for ver...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2897Intro
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Creates the Campus Free Speech Act. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college to develop and adopt a policy on free expression; sets forth what the policy must contain. Requires the Board of Higher Education to crea...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2904Intro
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Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides for the acquisition and placement of a statue depicting President Ronald W. Reagan. Provides that the Architect of the Capitol may provide for the design and fabrication of the st...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2916Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county clerk of a county where a decedent last resided shall (rather than may) issue certifications of death records from the electronic reporting system for death registrations and shall (rather than may) ...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2905Intro
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Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides for the acquisition and placement of statues depicting: (1) President Ronald W. Reagan; and (2) President Barack H. Obama. Provides that the Architect of the Capitol may provide f...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
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