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HB4561 - PROP TX-PROTEST PAYMENTS
Amy Elik, Travis Weaver, Steven Reick
Last updated 11 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the amount required to be paid under protest for the 2024 or 2025 tax year. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4260 - FOID&CONCEALED CARRY
Amy Elik, Norine K. Hammond
Last updated about 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that, if the Illinois State Police denies an application for or revokes and seizes a Firearm Owner's Identification Card because an individual has been a patient of a mental health facility, the notice to the applicant or card holder of denial of an application for or revocation of the person's Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include the date or dates of admission of the person to the mental health facility and the name of the facility. Provides that, if the Firearm Owner's Identification Card Review Board does not, within 90 days of the filing of the applicant's appeal of a denial of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card or revocation of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card, render a decision on the appeal, the failure to render a decision shall constitute a rejection of the appeal, and the applicant or card holder may appeal to the circuit court for relief. Provides that the cost for replacement of a combined Firearm Owner's Identification Card and concealed carry license is $5 if the person has changed his or her address. Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act to make conforming changes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4241 - SEX OFFENSE-ABUSE BY EDUCATOR
Amy Elik, Joyce Mason, Katie Stuart
Last updated 8 months ago
54 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Committee Amendment No. 1, with the following the changes. In the amendatory changes to the Criminal Code of 2012: (1) makes further changes to the definitions of "authority figure", "educator", "school", and “student”; and (2) provides that a person commits abuse by an educator or authority figure if that person is an educator or authority figure at the school, the student is at least 18 years of age but under 23 years of age (instead of is at least 18 years of age and is enrolled or was previously enrolled in the school within the past year), the person is at least 4 years older than the student and holds or held within the previous year a position of trust, authority, or supervision in relation to the student in connection with an educational or extracurricular program or activity, and the person either: (i) commits an act of sexual conduct with the student; or (ii) commits an act of sexual penetration with the student.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB4573 - PROPERTY TX-SURPLUS
Amy Elik, Kevin Schmidt
Last updated 11 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, within 30 days after recording of a tax deed with respect to residential property, the tax deed grantee shall pay the surplus to the previous owner of the property described in the deed. Sets forth the procedures to calculate the surplus.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4527 - CRIM CD-SEXUAL REL-STUDENTS
Joyce Mason, Amy Elik, Daniel Didech
Last updated 11 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of sexual misconduct with a student. Provides that a person commits sexual misconduct with a student when he or she is or was an employee of a school and commits sexual misconduct with a student who, at the time the employee was employed by the school, attended the school. Provides that the consent of the student is not a defense to a prosecution under this provision. Provides that a student is deemed incapable of consent, for purposes of this provision, when he or she is a student who attended the school while the employee was employed at the school. Provides that it is not a defense to a violation of this provision that the student was of the age to give consent to sexual penetration or sexual conduct in circumstances not involving a violation of this provision. Provides that a person convicted of violating this provision shall immediately forfeit his or her employment with a school and may not subsequently be employed at a school. Provides that a violation is a Class 3 felony. Provides exemptions. Defines "school" as a public or private elementary or secondary school or a school that operates grades kindergarten through 12. Defines "sexual misconduct" as any act, including, but not limited to, any verbal, nonverbal, written, or electronic communication or physical activity, by an employee or agent of the school district, charter school, or nonpublic school with direct contact with a student that is directed toward or with a student to establish a romantic or sexual relationship with the student. Defines other terms.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2392 - SCH CD-LAST TEACHER EVALUATION
Sue Scherer, Jenn Ladisch Douglass, Jonathan Carroll
Last updated over 1 year ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. Provides that any teacher who is a member of a statewide association representing teachers and who is elected by the association's membership to represent the association in federal advocacy work may spend up to 10 days during a school term representing the association in federal advocacy work. Provides that no deduction of wages may be made for such absence, and the statewide association shall reimburse the employing school district for the cost of the need for a substitute teacher as the result of the teacher's absence.
STATUS
Passed
HB1274 - PROP TX-SENIOR HOMESTEAD
Amy Elik, Tony M. McCombie, Patrick Sheehan
Last updated almost 2 years ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for taxable years 2024 and thereafter, the maximum reduction under the senior citizens homestead exemption is $8,000 in all counties (currently, $8,000 in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants and counties that are contiguous to a county of 3,000,000 or more inhabitants and $5,000 in all other counties). Provides that the maximum income limitation for the senior citizens assessment freeze homestead exemption is $75,000 (currently, $65,000). Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4616 - SCH CD-ANTI-LITTER EDUCATION
Amy Elik
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school board may provide instruction in anti-litter education in all grades and include that instruction in the courses of study regularly taught in those grades. Provides that by January 1, 2025, the State Board of Education shall post on its Internet website instructional materials relating to teaching anti-litter education. Creates the Anti-Litter Education Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Superintendent of Education may provide a grant to a school district to support the school district's anti-litter programming, including implementation of litterbug programs within the schools of the district. Provides that grants may be awarded from the Anti-Litter Education Fund. Provides for rulemaking. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HR0533 - MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INV. WEEK
Amy Elik, Jackie Haas, Natalie A. Manley
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Declares the week of January 21 through January 27, 2024 as Medicolegal Death Investigation Professionals Week in the State of Illinois in honor of the coroners, deputy coroners, medical examiners, support and ancillary staff, forensic pathologists, and medicolegal death investigators for their ongoing commitment of service to the citizens of Illinois and their communities.
STATUS
Passed
HB4662 - PEN CD-TRS-RETURN TO TEACHING
Amy Elik, Dave Severin, Kevin Schmidt
Last updated 8 months ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision defining "eligible employment" for the purpose of allowing a teacher to return to teaching in subject shortage areas without impairing his or her retirement status or retirement annuity, changes the ending date of the employment from no later than June 30, 2024 to no later than June 30, 2029. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
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