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HB3222 - LANGUAGE EQUITY & ACCESS ACT
Dagmara Avelar, Elizabeth Hernandez, Theresa Mah
Last updated over 1 year ago
46 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Language Equity and Access Act. Creates the Division of Language Equity and Access (DLEA) within the Governor’s Office of New Americans to lead implementation of language equity and access policy and ensure meaningful access to information, services, programs, and activities for limited English proficient persons. Provides for requirements and duties of the DLEA. Provides that the DLEA shall adopt administrative rules. Establishes the Language Equity and Access Advisory Council for the purposes of advising the Office of Language Equity and Access on certain issues related to language equity. Provides for membership of the Council as well as other requirements. Requires the State to compile a Language Needs Assessment Report, prepare a language access plan, develop a framework to assess State agencies and covered entities, prepare an annual report for the Governor and General Assembly, establish requirements for availability of interpretation and translation services, set standards for adequate staffing of bilingual employees at State agencies and other covered entities, incorporate language equity compliance provisions in State contracts, and ensure persons with limited English proficiency are adequately notified in case of emergencies. Details the requirements for the Statewide Language Use Needs Assessment. Details the requirements for language access plans. Details the requirements for the annual Language Equity and Access Compliance Report to the General Assembly. Provides that the Governor’s Office shall provide administrative and other support to the DLEA. Discusses the legislative purpose of the Act and defines terms. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB4276 - LIFE CARE FACILITY-DISCLOSURES
Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Michelle Mussman, Maura Hirschauer
Last updated 5 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Clarifies that the pre-sale disclosure requirements apply only to life care contracts that are subject to refund. Provides that, upon request, current residents, former residents awaiting refunds, and the estates of former residents awaiting refunds shall be provided with the most recent entry fee refund disclosures. Provides that, if a payee for an entry fee refund cannot be determined, for purposes of calculating the data required in the pre-sale disclosure, a refund shall be considered complete when a new resident occupies the living unit.
STATUS
Passed
HB3699 - EMPLOY SECURITY-CHILD SUPPORT
Camille Lilly, Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Lamont J. Robinson
Last updated over 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the Department of Employment Security may collaborate with (rather than shall work with) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to identify employment opportunities in the State for persons who are in arrears in child support obligations. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
HB4130 - WATERWAY CLEANUP MONTH
Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Jennifer Sanalitro, Ann M. Williams
Last updated 8 months ago
18 Co-Sponsors
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB4626 - SCH CD-STUDENTS AND OFFICIALS
Janet Yang Yang Rohr
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the School Code. Provides that a public school student may communicate and work with federally elected, State-elected, or locally elected officials or other stakeholders or officials as part of the student's education.
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
HB4625 - SCH CD-DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS
Janet Yang Yang Rohr
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that all school districts shall, with guidance and standards provided by the State Board of Education and a group of educators convened by the State Board of Education, ensure that students receive developmentally appropriate opportunities to gain digital literacy skills beginning in elementary school. Provides that digital literacy instruction shall include developmentally appropriate instruction in digital citizenship skills, media literacy, and AI literacy. Provides that digital literacy skills may, based on the recommendation of the State Board of Education, incorporate existing computer literacy standards. Sets forth what the digital citizenship skills instruction, media literacy instruction, and AI literacy instruction shall include. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4316 - $DCEO-NCTV17
Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Terra Costa Howard, Stephanie A. Kifowit
Last updated 12 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $50,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to Naperville Community Television. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4294 - PHARMACY-STANDING ORDER-SCHOOL
Janet Yang Yang Rohr
Last updated about 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Provides that, in accordance with a standing order by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches or a standing order by the Department of Public Health, a pharmacist may provide a school district, public school, charter school, or nonpublic school with undesignated epinephrine injectors, asthma medication, glucagon, and opioid antagonists for the use by the school district, public school, charter school, or nonpublic school under the School Code. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall issue a standing order to provide a school district, public school, charter school, or nonpublic school with undesignated epinephrine injectors, asthma medication, glucagon, and opioid antagonists for use under the School Code. Provides that the standing order must be consistent with the current version of the guidelines of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, guidelines of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, or generally recognized evidence-based clinical guidelines. Sets forth provisions concerning liability and rulemaking.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4277 - SCH-CD-EDUC LICENSE-ASL ENDORS
Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Maurice A. West
Last updated about 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Requires the world language endorsement on a Professional Educator License to include American Sign Language under rules of the State Board of Education.
STATUS
Introduced
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