Bill Sponsors: IL HB5451 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
Bill Title: 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. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2026 the Department of Early Childhood shall be the lead State agency for administering and providing early childhood education and care programs and services to children and families including: home-visiting services; early intervention services; preschool services; child care services; licensing for day care centers, day care homes, and group day care homes; and other early childhood education and care programs and administrative functions historically managed by the State Board of Education, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of Children and Family Services. Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the Department of Early Childhood (rather than the Department of Children and Family Services) administers day care centers, day care homes, and group day care homes. Makes conforming changes to various Acts including the Department of Human Services Act, the Illinois Early Learning Council Act, the Illinois Procurement Code, the School Code, the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Early Intervention Services System Act and the Children and Family Services Act. Effective immediately, except the provisions amending the Child Care Act of 1969 take effect July 1, 2026.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5451 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB5451 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [HTML]
Sponsors
Name | Type | Sponsorship | District | Financial | Encyclopedia | Biography |
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Representative Mary Canty [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-054 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Joyce Mason [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-061 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Camille Lilly [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-078 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Elizabeth Hernandez [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-002 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative William Davis [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-030 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Kelly Cassidy [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-014 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Bob Morgan [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-058 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Terra Costa Howard [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-042 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Michelle Mussman [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-056 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Harry Benton [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-097 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Nabeela Syed [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-051 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | N/A |
Representative Eva Dina Delgado [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-003 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Lilian Jimenez [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-004 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Marcus Evans [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-033 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Anna Moeller [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-043 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Martin Moylan [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-055 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Abdelnasser Rashid [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-021 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Kevin Olickal [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-016 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Hoan Huynh [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-013 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Norma Hernandez [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-077 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Anne Stava-Murray [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-081 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Robert Rita [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-028 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Matt Hanson [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-083 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Margaret Croke [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-012 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Laura Faver Dias [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-062 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Maura Hirschauer [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-049 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Sharon Chung [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-091 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | N/A |
Representative Mark Walker [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-053 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Maurice West [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-067 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Katie Stuart [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-112 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Justin Slaughter [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-027 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Kambium Buckner [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-026 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Ann Williams [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-011 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Kelly Burke [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-036 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Edgar Gonzalez [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-023 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Sonya Harper [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-006 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Mary Gill [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-035 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Representative Tracy Katz Muhl [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-057 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Will Guzzardi [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-039 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Barbara Hernandez [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-050 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Janet Yang Rohr [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-041 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Emanuel Welch [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-007 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Theresa Mah [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-024 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Diane Blair-Sherlock [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-046 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Jay Hoffman [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-113 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Jenn Ladisch Douglass [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-045 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | N/A |
Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-017 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Carol Ammons [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-103 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative LaShawn Ford [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-008 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Cyril Nichols [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-032 | N/A | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |