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HB5787 - FUNERAL HOME INSPECTIONS
Charles E. Meier
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Authorizes the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to properly inspect funeral homes and investigate complaints under the Code. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4237 - WILDLIFE CD-WLD TURKEY-SHOTGUN
Harry Benton, Wayne Arthur Rosenthal, Daniel M. Swanson
Last updated 7 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB5758 - $IDOT-RAILWAY SALARIES
Martin J. Moylan, Carol Ammons, Michelle Mussman
Last updated 9 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Transportation for the Statewide Railway Program for salaries and other expenses related to adding the professional staff in the rail division of the Office of Intermodal Project Implementation. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5085 - EMS ACT TRAINING & CURRICULUM
William Davis, Charles E. Meier, Barbara Hernandez
Last updated 4 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes changes to provisions concerning the EMT Training, Recruitment, and Retention Task Force; Emergency Medical Services personnel licensure levels; and vehicle service providers. Removes language providing that an education plan within a resource hospital may include classes performed outside of the region in which the resource hospital is located. Provides that an EMS System may coordinate education outside of the region of which it is located with valid justification and Department of Public Health approval. Provides that the didactic portion of education may be conducted through an online platform with EMS System and Department approval. Sets forth provisions concerning Department approval. Provides that an EMS Lead Instructor may oversee a paramedic with at least 3 years of experience to teach EMT classes, with a licensed teacher, in high schools. Provides that high school students electing to not take the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Certification exam shall not be accounted for in calculating the course pass rate by the EMS System or Department.
STATUS
Passed
HB4274 - SCH CD-TICK REMOVAL IN SCHOOLS
Daniel M. Swanson, Charles E. Meier, Jackie Haas
Last updated 11 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to do all of the following no later than July 1, 2025: (1) issue guidelines on how to remove and safely store a tick; (2) publish the guidelines issued and a model form on the Department's website; (3) provide public testing lab information to schools; (4) issue a model form that schools shall send to the parents or guardians of students who have been identified as having been bitten by a tick; and (5) make available to schools, upon request and free of charge, tick removal kits consisting of tweezers, bandages, a sealable plastic bag, an alcohol wipe, repellent wipes, an information card, and a tick identification card. Specifies requirements for the form. Amends the School Code. Requires, before the beginning of the 2025-2026 school year, a school board to establish procedures on tick removal consistent with the guidelines developed by the Department of Public Health. Includes provisions relating to preserving the tick for possible testing by the parent or guardian and school district immunity for tick removal.
STATUS
Introduced
HR0600 - HOUSE RULES-AMEND
Bradley J. Fritts, Tony M. McCombie, Norine K. Hammond
Last updated 9 months ago
35 Co-Sponsors
Amends the House Rules of the 103rd General Assembly. Provides that a Representative may access the House Chamber at any time on a session day and during the normal business hours of the office of the Clerk of the House on any other day.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5000 - ASSISTED LIVING CATHETER CARE
Norine K. Hammond, Jackie Haas, Charles E. Meier
Last updated 3 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Defines "infection control committee" and "infection preventionist". Provides that a person shall not be accepted for residency to an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment if the person requires insertion, sterile irrigation, and replacement of catheter, except for routine maintenance of urinary catheters, unless the catheter care is self-administered or administered by a licensed health care professional or a nurse in compliance with education, certification, and training in catheter care or infection control by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with oversight from an infection preventionist or infection control committee. Requires an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that provides catheter care to one or more residents to designate at least one person as an Infection Prevention and Control Professional to develop and implement policies governing control of infections and communicable diseases. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
HB4255 - VEH CD-TOW TRUCK LIGHTS
Amy Elik, Kevin Schmidt, Jason Bunting
Last updated 4 months ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the use of green oscillating, flashing, or rotating lights, whether lighted or unlighted, is prohibited except on specified vehicles. Provides the conditions that must be satisfied for the lights on certain specified vehicles with green oscillating, flashing, or rotating lights to be lighted. Provides that fire department vehicles of local fire departments and State or federal firefighting vehicles, police vehicles of State, federal, or local authorities, and vehicles designated by local or State authority, while parked at an emergency scene, may use a steady-on illumination or steady-burn, or flashing green beacon or beacons if such steady-on, steady-burn, or flashing beacon is used to indicate an emergency operations command post or incident command location.
STATUS
Passed
HB4987 - USE/OCC TX-FOOD
Ryan Spain, Bradley Stephens, Tony M. McCombie
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold is exempt from the taxes imposed under those Acts. Provides for a transfer from the General Revenue Fund to certain local tax funds of amounts that would have been deposited into those funds if the tax on those items had been imposed at the rate of 1%. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5252 - DHS-DD SERVICES-RATE SHEET
Sharon Chung, Charles E. Meier, Laura Faver Dias
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to, at least annually, provide each provider of home and community-based services an updated, detailed rate sheet for each funded client served by the provider. Provides that the Department must also, within 45 days of submission of any provider-based information to the Department, such as Inventory for Client and Agency Planning scores, which changes a client's reimbursement rate, issue an updated rate sheet for the client. Provides that each detailed rate sheet must include full rate calculator formula transparency.
STATUS
Introduced
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