Bill Sponsors: IL SB0646 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly
Bill Title: Creates the Task Force for a Healing-Centered Illinois Act. Creates the Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force to advance the State's efforts to become trauma-informed and healing-centered through improved alignment of existing efforts, common definitions and metrics, and strategic planning for long-term transformation. Sets forth the Task Force's objectives, including, but not limited to: (i) recommending shared language and common definitions for the State to become trauma-informed and healing-centered across sectors by aligning language and definitions included in the work of the Whole Child Task Force, the Children's Mental Health Transformation Initiative, and the Illinois Children's Mental Health Plan; (ii) ensuring the meaningful inclusion in Task Force matters of young people, parents, survivors of trauma, and residents who have engaged with Illinois systems or policies, such as child welfare and the legal criminal system; (iii) identifying the current training capacity and the training needs to support healing-centered and trauma-informed environments among organizations, professional cohorts, educational institutions, and future practitioners and project how best to meet those needs; and (iv) identifying what, if any, administrative or legislative policy changes are needed to advance goals to make Illinois a healing-centered or trauma-informed State. Contains provisions on Task Force membership; Task Force meetings; and reporting requirements. Provides that the Task Force is dissolved, and the Act is repealed, one year after the date of the Task Force's report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0545 [SB0646 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-11 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0545 [SB0646 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]
Sponsors
Name | Type | Sponsorship | District | Financial | Encyclopedia | Biography |
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Senator Don Harmon [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | SD-039 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Kimberly Lightford [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-004 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Sara Feigenholtz [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-006 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Mattie Hunter [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-003 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Laura Fine [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-009 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Rachel Ventura [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-043 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Justin Slaughter [D] | Primary | Sponsored Bills | HD-027 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Maura Hirschauer [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-049 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Will Guzzardi [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-039 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Matt Hanson [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-083 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Representative Kelly Cassidy [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | HD-014 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |
Senator Lakesia Collins [D] | Cosponsor | Sponsored Bills | SD-005 | FollowTheMoney | Ballotpedia | VoteSmart |