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SB2669 - AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT REPAIR
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Agricultural Equipment Repair Bill of Rights Act. Provides that, for the purpose of providing services for agricultural equipment in the State, an original equipment manufacturer shall, with fair and reasonable terms and costs, make available to an independent repair provider or owner of the manufacturer's equipment any documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools that are intended for use with the equipment or any part, including updates to documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools. Provides that, with respect to agricultural equipment that contains an electronic security lock or other security-related function, a manufacturer shall, with fair and reasonable terms and costs, make available to independent repair providers and owners any documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools needed to reset the lock or function when disabled in the course of providing services. Provides that the manufacturer may make the documentation, parts, embedded software, firmware, or tools available to independent repair providers and owners through appropriate secure release systems. Provides that these provisions do not apply to a part that is no longer available to the original equipment manufacturer or conduct that would require the manufacturer to divulge a trade secret. Provides that a manufacturer shall not refuse to make available to an independent repair provider or owner any documentation, part, embedded software, firmware, or tool necessary to provide services on grounds that the documentation, part, embedded software, firmware, or tool itself is a trade secret, except that information necessary to repair agricultural equipment may not be redacted. Provides exceptions. Defines terms.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2807 - JUV CT-VEH&AGG VEH HIJACKING
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson, Jason Plummer
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that any minor 15 years of age or older arrested or taken into custody under the Act for aggravated vehicular hijacking shall be detained in an authorized detention facility until a detention or shelter care hearing is held to determine if there is probable cause to believe that the minor is a delinquent minor and: (1) secure custody is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection of the minor or of the person or property of another; (2) the minor is likely to flee the jurisdiction of the court; or (3) the minor was taken into custody under a warrant. Provides that if the court makes that determination, the minor shall continue to be held until the disposition of an adjudicatory hearing under the Delinquent Minors Article of the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0716 - FDA-APPROVE CAT FIP TREATMENT
Jil Walker Tracy, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve GS-441524 and remdesivir to treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in cats.
STATUS
Passed
SB2817 - LOBBYIST-OFFERS/PROMISES
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson, Jason Plummer
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Provides that a lobbyist or lobbying entity may not promise anything of value to an official, State employee, or a candidate for a State executive or State legislative office for the person's support, action, or inaction for a specific legislative action or executive action, including, but not limited to, campaign contributions, endorsement of candidacy, or any in-kind contributions supporting an official, State employee, or candidate for a State executive or State legislative office. Prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying entity from soliciting an official or State employee to violate similar provisions of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that nothing in the provisions prevents the making or accepting of voluntary contributions otherwise in accordance with law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2889 - CIV PRO-PRODUCT LIABILITY
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Reenacts and changes various provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to product liability actions that were added by Public Act 89-7, which was held to be void in its entirety by the Illinois Supreme Court in Best v. Taylor Machine Works, 179 Ill. 2d 367 (1997). Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2890 - FULL & FAIR NONECONOMIC DAMAGE
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Full and Fair Noneconomic Damages Act. Provides that, in determining noneconomic damages, the fact-finder may not consider: (i) evidence of a defendant's alleged wrongdoing, misconduct, or guilt; (ii) evidence of the defendant's wealth or financial resources; or (iii) any other evidence that is offered for the purpose of punishing the defendant, rather than offered for a compensatory purpose. Provides for bifurcated trials before the same jury in cases involving punitive damages, if requested by any defendant. Outlines the procedure for the bifurcated trials. Provides for court posttrial review of noneconomic damage awards pursuant to specified nonexclusive factors. Includes legislative findings, definitions, and applicability language. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0335 - CONGRATS-KNAPHEIDE MFG.
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Congratulates the Knapheide Manufacturing Company on the occasion of its 175th anniversary. Wishes the company continued success in the years to come.
STATUS
Passed
SB2630 - ESTATE TAX-EXCLUSION AMOUNT
Jil Walker Tracy, Thomas M. Bennett, Neil Anderson
Last updated 11 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2025, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code as that Section exists on the effective date of the amendatory Act, including the inflation adjustment and including any deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2805 - PROTECTIVE ORD-PETITIONER NAME
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that if the petitioner for a firearms restraining order, domestic violence order of protection, or civil no contact order is a law enforcement officer or agent of a law enforcement officer, the petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency in which the officer is employed on all public records concerning the petition and not the individually named officer or agent who filed the petition. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2827 - ELEC CD/PROCUREMENT CD-VARIOUS
Neil Anderson, Susan Rezin, Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Election Code. Replaces some instances of annual or semi-annual reports with quarterly reports. In provisions relating to limitations on campaign contributions, removes provisions inoperative beginning July 1, 2013. Removes a reference to the dissolved Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform. Removes references to a temporary filing system effective through August 1, 2009. Removes references to specified committees and the county clerk in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices. Repeals provisions relating to contributions by a medical cannabis cultivation center or medical cannabis dispensary organization to any political action committee created by any medical cannabis cultivation center or dispensary organization to make a campaign contribution to any political committee established to promote the candidacy of a candidate or public official. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Modifies the definition of "affiliated entity" and removes the definition of "sponsoring entity".
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-050
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jill Walker Tracy was born in Missouri. She earned her BA from William Jewel College in 1987. Tracy has over 20 years in healthcare planning, administration, and public policy. She served as chief operating officer at Clinicare Corporation where she oversaw budgets, staffing, facilities, operations and strategic planning for over 20 clinics and 600 employees. Tracy also founded and ran a healthcare consulting company for 7 years.read less
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