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HB5407 - EDU-HOMELESS CHILD-REPORT/GRNT
Michelle Mussman, Laura Faver Dias, Kevin John Olickal
Last updated about 2 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. In provisions concerning the Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program, provides that grants shall be awarded to applicant school districts based on the percentage of students experiencing homelessness in an applicant school district (instead of to applicant school districts). Makes other changes concerning the award of grants. Specifies activities eligible for assistance. Provides that the State Board of Education may use up to 25% (instead 5%) of appropriated funds for administrative costs.
STATUS
Passed
HB4951 - NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT TAX
LaShawn K. Ford, Kelly M. Burke, Emanuel Welch
Last updated 4 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Workforce Development through Charitable Loan Repayment Act. Creates the Workforce Development through Charitable Loan Repayment Program for the purpose of facilitating student loan repayment assistance for qualified workers. Provides that the Program shall be administered by qualified community foundations with the assistance of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. Creates the Local Journalism Sustainability Act. Creates a withholding tax credit for local news organizations. Creates the Music and Creates the Musicians Tax Credit and Jobs Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may award credits to qualified music companies. Creates the Ground-Based Sparkler Purchaser Excise Tax Act. Imposes a tax, beginning January 1, 2025, upon purchasers for the privilege of using ground-based sparklers and not for the purpose of resale at the rate of 3% of the purchase price of ground-based sparklers. Creates the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, a payment card network, an acquirer bank, or a processor may not receive or charge a merchant any interchange fee on the tax amount or gratuity of an electronic payment transaction if the merchant informs the acquirer bank or its designee of the tax or gratuity amount as part of the authorization or settlement process for the electronic payment transaction. Amends various Acts concerning State and local revenue and finance. Creates the Illinois Gives 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 for that gift. Provides that the credit is equal to 25% of the endowment gift. Contains provisions setting forth maximum credit amounts. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to require an addition modification equal to the amount of any federal deduction claimed for an endowment gift for which a taxpayer receives a credit under the Illinois Gives Tax Credit Act. Amends the Community Mental Health Act. Provides that in any county with a county executive form of government, if applicable, the county executive shall appoint the community mental health board with the advice and consent of the county board. Provides that a community mental health board may provide advice to the governing body and may establish a policy and procedure for the acceptance and review of applications from interested residents prior to making a recommendation to the appointing authority. Provides that an annual tax levied by any governmental unit under the Act is separate and distinct from all other property taxes levied by that governmental unit and (1) shall not be considered an increase for purposes of the application of the Truth in Taxation Law and its requirements and (2) shall not be subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. Provides that in addition, the ballot for any proposition submitted pursuant to levy a tax in order to provide the necessary funds or to supplement existing funds for community mental health facilities and services, including facilities and services for the person with a developmental disability or a substance use disorder, shall have printed on the ballot, but not as part of the proposition submitted, only the following supplemental information (which shall be supplied to the election authority by the taxing district) in substantially the following form: (1) the approximate amount of taxes extendable at the most recently extended limiting rate and the approximate amount of taxes extendable if the proposition is approved and (2) for the first levy year for which the new rate or increase limiting rate will be applicable levy year the approximate amount of the additional tax extendable against property containing a single family residence and having a fair market value at the time of the referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be. Provides that if a proposition contains the language in substantially the form provided in the law, the referendum is valid notwithstanding any other provision of the law. Provides that nothing in these provisions prevents a governmental unit from levying less than the amount approved by the voters via referendum in any given year or varying the amount levied from year to year as approved by the governmental unit. Provides that changes made by the Act apply to referenda creating community mental health boards, including community mental health boards located in counties that have adopted a county executive form of government under the Counties Code, to levy an annual tax for the establishment and maintenance of mental health facilities and services for residents of the community that were approved or validated on or after January 1, 2020 and to referenda that are approved on or after the effective date of the Act. Deletes a provision that a community mental health board may be representative of medical societies. Provides that a community mental health board may be representative of individuals with professional or lived expertise in mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse. Provides that vacancies on a community mental health board shall be filled with the advice of the community mental health board, who may establish a policy and procedure for the acceptance and review of applications from interested residents prior to making a recommendation to the appointing authority. Provides that if the community mental health board has already held or scheduled an election of officers to take place prior to July 1, an additional election is not required on the basis of the appointment or reappointment of a member to the community mental health board. Provides that the community mental health board shall publish the annual budget and report within 180 (rather than 120) days after the end of the fiscal year in a newspaper distributed within the jurisdiction of the board, or, if no newspaper is published within the jurisdiction of the board, then one published in the county, or, if no newspaper is published in the county, then in a newspaper having general circulation within the jurisdiction of the board. Provides that a community mental health board may establish professional incentive programs for the purposes of workforce development and retention that may include education assistance, student loan repayment, professional certification and licensure assistance, and internship stipends. Provides that the annual report of a community mental health board detailing the income received and disbursements made pursuant to the Act during the fiscal year just preceding the date the annual report is submitted shall be submitted within 180 (rather than 90) days of the end (rather than close) of that fiscal year. Amends the Property Tax Code to make conforming changes. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately, except that some provisions take effect July 1, 2024, some provisions take effect January 1, 2025, and some provisions take effect February 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB5005 - EDUCATION SAVINGS PROGRAMS
Dave Vella, Diane Blair-Sherlock, Jenn Ladisch Douglass
Last updated 3 months ago
60 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may designate areas as Quantum Computing Campuses. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Electricity Excise Tax Law, the Telecommunications Excise Tax Act, the Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act, and the Gas Use Tax Law to make conforming changes. Amends the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. Provides that a restriction on designating businesses located in an Enterprise Zone as high impact businesses does not apply to grocery stores. Repeals provisions concerning certified payments for high impact businesses. Amends the River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act. Provides that a River Edge Redevelopment Zone may overlap with an Enterprise Zone. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may certify a specified number of additional pilot River Edge Zones. Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Provides that certain credits under the Act may be taken against the taxpayer's withholding tax liability. Contains provisions concerning work hours at the project location. Amends the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act. Adds provisions concerning credits awarded for research and development activities related to aircraft. Amends the Manufacturing Illinois Chips for Real Opportunity (MICRO) Act. Extends the provisions of the Act to quantum computer manufacturers. Specifies that, in order to receive credit for construction expenses under the Act, a company must provide the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity with evidence that a certified third-party executed an Agreed-Upon Procedure (AUP) verifying the construction expenses or accept the standard construction wage expense estimated by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that 2 or more taxing districts may agree to abate a portion of the real property taxes otherwise levied or extended by those taxing districts on a REV Illinois Project facility. Provides that abatements for REV project facilities may not exceed a period of 30 consecutive years. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to extend the sunset of the research and development credit. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act and the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Provides that taxpayers who have been awarded a tax credit under the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008 shall pay a fee to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Sets forth the amount of the fee. Provides that the fee shall be deposited into the Illinois Production Workforce Development Fund. Provides that, beginning on July 1, 2024, a taxpayer is no longer required to pay a fee to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the transfer of credits under the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB0689 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Don Harmon, Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas, Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
34 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Chicago Board of Education District Act. Divides the City of Chicago into 10 districts and 20 subdistricts for the purposes of identifying persons who will serve on the Chicago Board of Education. Amends the School Code. Provides that, by December 14, 2024, the Mayor of the City of Chicago shall appoint a President of the Chicago Board of Education who shall serve a 2-year term. Provides that, for purposes of selection of members of the Chicago Board of Education, the City of Chicago shall be divided into 10 districts, and each of those 10 districts shall be subdivided into 2 subdistricts. Provides that, until January 15, 2027, each district shall be represented by one member who is elected at the 2024 general election to a 2-year term and one member who is appointed by the Mayor by no later than December 16, 2024 to a 2-year term. Requires each of those elected members to reside within the district that the member represents. Requires each of those appointed members to reside both within the district that the member represents and outside of the subdistrict within which the elected member of the district resides. Provides that, beginning January 15, 2027, each subdistrict shall be represented by one member who is elected at the 2026 general election. Specifies that, if a member is elected at the 2026 general election to fill the expired term of an appointed member, then the elected member shall serve a 2-year term. Specifies that, if a member is elected at the 2026 general election to fill the expired term of an elected member, then the member shall serve a 4-year term. Requires each of those elected members to reside within the subdistrict that the member represents. Provides that, if a member is elected at the 2026 general election to serve a 2-year term, then the member elected at the 2028 general election shall serve a 4-year term, and, if a member is elected at the 2026 general election to serve a 4-year term, then the member elected in that subdistrict at the 2030 general election shall serve a 2-year term. Provides that, beginning with the members elected at the 2032 general election, the members of each district shall serve two 4-year terms and one 2-year term for each 10-year period thereafter as determined by lot. Makes changes concerning: conflicts of interests of board members, eligibility of individuals to serve as board members, nominating petitions for board members, the creation of the Chicago Board of Education Black Student Achievement Advisory Board and other advisory bodies, and the creation and redistricting of subdistricts. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1907 - EDUC-EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Celina Villanueva, Mary Edly-Allen, Rachel Ventura
Last updated about 1 year ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Defines "wellness kiosk". Replaces references to "vending machine" with "wellness kiosk". Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB1364 - 9-8-8 TASK FORCE
Will Guzzardi, Lindsey LaPointe, Maurice A. West
Last updated about 1 year ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the short title of the Act to the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Workgroup Act. Removes provisions creating the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Task Force. Provides that the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, shall convene a working group that includes members of the General Assembly, representatives of State agencies, the State's Chief Behavioral Health Officer, the Director of the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative, service providers from the regional and statewide 9-8-8 call centers, representatives of organizations that represent people with mental health conditions or substance use disorders and that operate an Illinois social services helpline or crisis line other than 9-8-8, including veterans' crisis services, more than one individual with personal or family lived experience of a mental health condition or substance use disorder, experts in research and operational evaluation, and any other person or persons as determined by the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health. Requires the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, to submit a report to the General Assembly regarding the Workgroup's findings related to the 9-8-8 call system. Modifies the Workgroup's responsibilities, including removing requirements to review the recommendations and decisions of previous State-led workgroups on transforming the mental health crisis response system and that the action plan must include a plan to sustainably fund a statewide 9-8-8 call center network in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-012
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Celina Villanueva was born in Clayton County, Georgia. She earned her Bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia. Villanueva worked as a TV news reporter in Atlanta for over a decade. She served on the Riverdale City Council from 2018-2022 before running for U.S. House for Georgia's 3rd district. Villanueva won the open seat in the 2022 midterm elections.read less
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