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SB2826 - ELEC CD-WRITE-IN CANDIDATES
Neil Anderson, Susan Rezin, Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 8 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Election Code. Requires a person who has not timely filed valid nomination papers and who intends to become a write-in candidate for a political party's nomination for any office for which the nomination is uncontested to file a written statement or notice of that intent with the local election official where the candidate is seeking to appear on the ballot (rather than to file a written statement or notice of that intent with the State Board of Elections or the local election official with whom nomination papers for such office are filed).
STATUS
Introduced
SB2771 - SCH CD-NONPUBLIC STUDENT-SPORT
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson
Last updated 8 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires a school board to allow a student who resides in the school district but attends a nonpublic school to participate in extracurricular athletic activities sponsored by the district without being required to enroll or complete coursework at a public school within the district if certain conditions are met. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1156 - LONG TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN INFO
Charles E. Meier, Jawaharial Williams, Maura Hirschauer
Last updated about 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. In the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the Life Care Facilities Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the MC/DD Act, and the ID/DD Community Care Act, removes provisions requiring that establishments or facilities licensed under the Acts post on the home page of the licensed establishment's or facility's website the following statement: "The Illinois Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is a free resident advocacy service available to the public.". Provides that an establishment or a facility is not required to comply with the requirement to post the required information in instances where the parent company operates in multiple states and the establishment or facility does not maintain a unique website. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB0208 - CIV PRO-INSTRUCTION-LIABILITY
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends and reenacts provisions of the Civil Practice Article of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability. Provides that the court shall not instruct the jury of the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or defendant under specified provisions of the Code. Deletes language providing that the court shall instruct the jury in writing that the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought. In the Section concerning joint liability, deletes language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's employer, is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the plaintiff's employer, is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Adds language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Contains applicability provisions.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2026 - DHFS-DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT WAGE
Laura M. Murphy, Chapin Rose, Terri Bryant
Last updated over 1 year ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2024 shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $4.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support personnel, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined in by the Department of Human Services. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for ID/DD facilities and MC/DD facilities, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2024 shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $4.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in for front-line personnel; and (ii) provide wages for all other residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support personnel, at the U.S. Department of Labor's average wage as defined in rule by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Grants the Departments of Human Services and Healthcare and Family Services emergency rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1418 - CRIM CD-WEAPONS IN VEHICLES
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a person who has been convicted of a felony to knowingly possess in any vehicle a weapon prohibited under the unlawful use of weapons statute or to knowingly possess firearm ammunition.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1151 - REVENUE-TECH
Jil Walker Tracy, Erica Conway Harriss, Sally J. Turner
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1068 - GOVERNMENT-TECH
Dale Fowler, Doris Turner, Sally J. Turner
Last updated about 1 year ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the Director of the Department of Natural Resources to execute and deliver to Two Rivers Fisheries, for and in consideration of the appraised value as determined by a Certified General Appraiser, a quitclaim deed to specified real property located in the Alexander County. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1285 - PEN CD-TRS-SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS
Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions that limit the number of days and hours an annuitant may accept employment for without impairing retirement status, provides that the limitation does not apply to an annuitant who returns to teaching as a substitute teacher in a school district that has been granted a waiver by the System. Provides that a school district may apply for a waiver by providing to the System sufficient evidence that there is a substitute teacher shortage in the school district and an estimate of the number of paid hours in the school year that the annuitant will work. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1356 - BD HIGHER ED-IN-DEMAND JOBS
Thomas M. Bennett, Jil Walker Tracy, Michael W. Halpin
Last updated over 1 year ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall compile, on an annual basis, a list of the most in-demand jobs in this State, along with the starting salary, the median salary, and the typical education level for those jobs. Provides that the Board shall make the list available to the public on its Internet website. Effective July 1, 2023.
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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