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SB1352 - SCH CD-TEACHER RESIGNATION
Kimberly A. Lightford, Doris Turner, Laura Ellman
Last updated about 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the contents of the engrossed bill but specifies that the amendatory provisions apply to the termination of service by a teacher (instead of the termination of contractual continued service by a teacher).
STATUS
Passed
SB1500 - COLLATERAL RECOVERY-VARIOUS
Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Repeals the Collateral Recovery Act on January 1, 2032 (instead of January 1, 2027). Amends the Collateral Recovery Act. Makes changes to the findings and purposes provisions. Defines "hazardous material" and "personal information". Provides that the licensed repossession agency shall recycle or dispose of any personal effect that is a hazardous material in the manner required by State or federal law. Provides that if a licensed repossession agency certifies that a repossessed vehicle contains one or more hazardous materials, the legal owner shall pay the licensed repossessing agency a disposal or recycling surcharge fee. Provides that the first surcharge fee shall be $50. Provides that on January 15, 2025 and each year thereafter, the Illinois Commerce Commission shall adjust and publish a new surcharge fee. Provides that if a licensed repossession agency has cause to believe that a vehicle that serves as collateral collects or stores personal information, then, as soon as practicable upon repossession of the vehicle and prior to the release of the vehicle from the possession of the licensed repossession agency, the licensed repossession agency shall clear, erase, delete, or otherwise eliminate the personal information collected or stored in or by the vehicle by utilizing a standardized electronic solution.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0289 - $ST BD ED/DHS-CHILDREN
Kimberly A. Lightford, Cristina H. Pacione-Zayas, Michael W. Halpin
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Makes an appropriation of $717,765,720 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for early childhood education. Makes various appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for early intervention, for grants and administration expenses associated with the Maternal and Child Home Visiting Program, for grants and administrative expenses associated with the Healthy Families Program, and for grants and administrative expenses associated with child care services, including prior year costs. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1291 - SCH CD-TEACHER-ANNUAL INCENTIV
Katie Stuart, Nicholas K. Smith, Janet Yang Yang Rohr
Last updated about 1 year ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the Illinois Teaching Excellence Program, provides that the annual incentive shall be $2,250 (instead of $1,500) and that 45 hours of mentoring shall be required (instead of 30). Provides that funds may also be used for professional development training provided by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or the National Board Resource Center. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1400 - SCH CD-STUDENT DISCIPLINE
Kimberly A. Lightford, Cristina Castro, Mary Edly-Allen
Last updated about 1 month ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Restores current law with respect to annually reviewing discipline policies. Requires the State Board of Education to consult with stakeholders in its drafted and published guidance, and requires the guidance to be drafted and published on or before July 1, 2025. Changes certain references from "early intervention" to "intervention". Makes changes concerning suspensions, school exclusions, and disciplinary removals to alternative schools. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1569 - SCH CD-TEACHER DISMISSAL
Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Employment of Teachers Article of the School Code. Provides that if an employing board determines to dismiss any teacher who currently holds a summative evaluation rating of "Proficient" or "Excellent" during the probationary period (instead of determines to dismiss a teacher in the last year of a specified probationary period), the employing board must provide a written notice for dismissal with specific reasons for dismissal. Provides that any full-time teacher who does not receive written notice from the employing board at least 45 days before the end of any school term and whose performance does not require dismissal (instead of whose performance does not require dismissal after the fourth probationary year) shall be re-employed for the following school term. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0005 - BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY DAY
Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Declares February 28, 2023 as Black Women's History Day in the State of Illinois to honor the accomplishments, power, beauty, courage, intelligence, ingenuity, stewardship, and leadership of Black women. Encourages all Illinoisans and their families to acknowledge, in word and in deed, the accomplishments of Black women in places where they live, work, and play, because doing so recognizes Black women's history as American history.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1401 - SCH CD-MAXIMUM CASELOADS
Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the School Code. Adds certain data that must be included in school report cards prepared by the State Superintendent of Education. In provisions concerning school social workers, school nurses, school counselors, school psychologists, and speech-language pathologists, sets limits on caseloads. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1266 - SCH CD-FINANCIAL EDUCATION
Kimberly A. Lightford
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Instead of requiring consumer education to be taught and studied, provides that beginning with pupils entering the 9th grade in the 2024-2025 school year, pupils in the public schools in grade 11 or 12 shall be taught and be required to complete a stand-alone, one-semester or equivalent course covering personal finance, which shall include, but is not limited to, instruction covering behavioral economics; banking and bill payment; investing; types of credit; managing credit; including credit scores; paying for college; insurance; taxes; budgeting; consumer skills; retirement planning, including tax-advantaged retirement plans; home ownership and financing; and personal transportation, including car ownership and leasing. Provides that the State Board of Education shall devise or approve the personal finance education standards for the course. Provides that the school board shall oversee implementation of the personal finance course for each high school student prior to graduation. Specifies the oversight duties of the school board. In provisions regarding required high school courses, provides that the personal finance education course may be counted toward the fulfillment of other graduation requirements. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1600 - DHFS-DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT WAGE
Celina Villanueva, Javier Loera Cervantes, Rachel Ventura
Last updated over 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and service coordination agencies serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides that for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after July 1, 2023 shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $4.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2023 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, by rule, by the Department. 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 July 1, 2023, shall be increased sufficiently to: (i) provide a minimum $4.00 per hour wage increase over the wages in effect on June 30, 2023 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, by rule, by the Department. Requires the same increase for front-line personnel employed at community-based providers serving persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Grants the Departments of Human Services and Healthcare and Family Services emergency rulemaking authority. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-004
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Kimberly A. Lightford is a Democratic member of the Illinois State Senate, representing District 4. Senator Lightford was appointed to the Illinois Senate in 1998. She serves as Majority Leader. Senator Lightford earned her BA in Healthcare Administration from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and her MPA from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is married and has two children.read less
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