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HB2479 - LOTTERY-JUVENILE DIABETES
Ann M. Williams
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Creates a special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Illinois Chapter, type 1 diabetes research, support, education, and awareness. Provides that the net revenue from the scratch-off game shall be deposited into the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Fund. Makes conforming changes throughout the Law. Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall administer the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Fund and shall pass all of the moneys deposited in the Fund as grants to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation for (i) research, treatment, and awareness of diabetes and (ii) improved diabetes self-management and training. Makes a corresponding change to the State Finance Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2847 - INS-MENTAL HEALTH CARE ACCESS
Lindsey LaPointe, Camille Lilly, Maurice A. West
Last updated about 1 year ago
43 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Creates the Mental Health and Wellness Act (rather than the Mental Health Equity Access and Prevention Act). In provisions concerning coverage of no-cost mental health prevention and wellness visits, provides that a mental health prevention and wellness visit shall be in addition to an annual physical examination. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall update current procedural terminology codes through adoption of rules if the codes listed in the provisions are altered, amended, changed, deleted, or supplemented. Provides that a mental health prevention and wellness visit may be incorporated into and reimbursed within any type of integrated primary care service delivery method. Provides that the Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement the provisions by no later than October 31, 2024 (rather than 2023). Removes provisions concerning coverage of out-of-network mental health care, provisions concerning coverage of medically necessary mental health care for individuals not diagnosed with a mental health disorder, and provisions concerning analysis of mental health care coverage on insurance premiums. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, and the School Code. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB3603 - PROTECT HEALTH DATA ACT
Ann M. Williams, Emanuel Welch, Lakesia Collins
Last updated over 1 year ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Protect Health Data Privacy Act. Provides that a regulated entity shall disclose and maintain a health data privacy policy that, in plain language, clearly and conspicuously disclosures specified information. Provides that a regulated entity shall prominently publish its health data privacy policy on its website homepage. Provides that a regulated entity shall not collect, share, sell, or store categories of health data not disclosed in the health data privacy policy without first disclosing the categories of health data and obtaining the consumer's consent prior to the collection, sharing, selling, or storing of such data. Prohibits the collection, sharing, selling, or storing of health data. Describes the regulated entity's duty to obtain consent; the consumer's right to withdraw consent; prohibitions on discrimination; prohibitions on geofencing; a private right of action; enforcement by the Attorney General; and conflicts with other laws. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2523 - $AGR-DISADVANTAGED FARMER
Sonya M. Harper, Ann M. Williams, Emanuel Welch
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $ 5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of making grants to socially-disadvantaged farmers to provide funding for startup capital and for costs associated with farming operations and equipment. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR0020 - AFFIRM EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Katie Stuart, Terra Costa Howard
Last updated over 1 year ago
35 Co-Sponsors
Urges the Administration of President Biden to publish and certify without delay the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Urges Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment. Calls on other states to join in this action by passing the same or similar resolutions.
STATUS
Passed
HB2381 - $IDOT-KASKASKIA STUDY
Charles E. Meier, Blaine Wilhour, Katie Stuart
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $1,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for a comprehensive study of the Kaskaskia River watershed in coordination with the United States Army Corps of Engineers. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2875 - THERMAL ENERGY NETWORK
Ann M. Williams, Jaime M. Andrade, Mary Beth Canty
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Makes changes to legislative findings. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall initiate a proceeding within 6 months (rather than 3 months) after the effective date of the amendatory Act to support the development of pilot thermal energy networks. Provides that within 12 months (rather than 3 months) after the effective date of the amendatory Act, any gas public utility, electric public utility, or combination public utility serving over 100,000 customers shall file with the Commission a petition seeking Commission approval of at least one and no more than 3 proposed pilot thermal energy network projects. Provides that a gas public utility, electric public utility, or combination public utility required to develop any pilot thermal energy network project shall be permitted to recover all reasonable and prudently incurred costs associated with the development, construction, and operation of one or more pilot thermal energy network projects through general rates. Removes provisions amending the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB3491 - PREVAILING WAGE-CONTRACTORS
Matt Hanson, Joyce Mason, Sue Scherer
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that any laborer, worker, or mechanic who is employed by the contractor or by any lower tier sub-contractor and is paid for services in a sum less than the prevailing wage rates for work performed on a project shall have a right of action for whatever difference there may be between the amount so paid and the prevailing rates required to be paid for work performed on the project. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Passed
HR0132 - EQUAL PAY DAY
Anna Moeller, Lakesia Collins, Eva Dina Delgado
Last updated over 1 year ago
50 Co-Sponsors
Declares March 14, 2023 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.
STATUS
Passed
HB2782 - SUSTAINABILITY DISCLOSURES
Ann M. Williams, Laura Faver Dias, Will Guzzardi
Last updated about 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Sustainable Investing Act. Provides that, effective January 1, 2024, every investment manager shall comply with annual disclosure requirements that will require the investment manager to provide a description of the process through which the manager prudently integrates sustainability factors into its investment decision-making, investment analysis, portfolio construction, due diligence, and investment ownership in order to maximize anticipated financial returns, identify and minimize projected risk, and execute its fiduciary duties more effectively. Provides that the investment manager shall provide the annual disclosure to each public agency, pension fund, retirement system, or governmental unit for whom the investment manager is acting as a fiduciary or seeking selection as a fiduciary prior to acting in this capacity and at least annually thereafter. Provides that annual disclosures shall be submitted by January 31st of every year after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Defines "investment manager".
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Illinois district HD-011
COMMITTEES
Illinois House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Ann M. Williams is running as a Democratic candidate for Illinois' 11th Congressional District. Williams graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law. She worked as a civil rights lawyer and nonprofit leader. Williams served as senior advisor at NORC at the University of Chicago and oversaw the National Public Health and Hospital Institute. She helped lead the Obama Presidential Center project as Associate Vice President of Community Engagement and External Affairs at the University of Chicago.read less
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