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SB3956 - FIREARM SAFETY REBATE FUND
Laura Ellman
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall administer a program to award use and occupation tax rebates to consumers who purchase firearm safety devices on or after January 1, 2025. Provides that the amount of the rebate shall be equal to the taxes paid by the consumer under the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act with respect to the purchase of a firearm safety device, but not to exceed $300 for any firearm safety device. Provides that participants shall apply to the Department in the form and manner prescribed by the Department by rule. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Firearm Safety Rebate Fund in the State treasury. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act to make conforming changes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5640 - VETERANS-SPACE FORCE
Stephanie A. Kifowit, Brandun Schweizer, Diane Blair-Sherlock
Last updated about 2 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed to include the United States Space Force. Amends the Flag Display Act, the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code, the Veterans Preference Act, the Veterans Burial Places Act, and various other Acts. In all occurrences of the definition for "armed forces of the United States" and "member of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of the United States" expands the list of armed forces branches to include the Space Force. Makes conforming changes in the definition of "veteran" under the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law, in the definition of "military service" under the Illinois Pension Code, and in a provision under the Veterans Burial Places Act that lists the various military branches that make up the Reserve Officers Training Corps. Makes other conforming changes.
STATUS
Passed
SR1035 - CONGRATS-BRIAN CAPUTO, PH.D.
Laura Ellman
Last updated 4 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Congratulates Brian W. Caputo, Ph.D. on the occasion of his retirement as president of College of DuPage. Wishes him the best in all his future endeavors.
STATUS
Passed
SB3948 - MISSING PERSONS IDENTIFICATION
Michael E. Hastings, Christopher Belt, Willie Preston
Last updated 5 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Requires a law enforcement agency to attempt to obtain a biological sample from closely related family members of the missing person or a personal item of the missing person beginning 30 days after the date of the missing person report (rather than within 30 days after receipt of a report). Provides that a law enforcement agency may not establish or maintain a policy that requires the observance of a waiting period before accepting a missing person report. Modifies the circumstances under which a law enforcement agency may not refuse to accept a missing person report. Requires a law enforcement agency to notify a person responsible for the missing person's welfare, or other specified individuals, about specified efforts to locate a missing person. Provides that, if a person remains missing for 30 days after the date of report, the law enforcement agency shall immediately (rather than may) generate a report of the missing person within NamUs, and the law enforcement agency shall (rather than may) attempt to obtain specified information and materials that have not been received. Modifies the follow-up action required by a law enforcement agency after creation of a missing person report. Modifies the definition of "high-risk missing person". Upon receipt of a missing person report (rather than immediately), requires the responding local law enforcement agency to enter all collected information relating to the missing person case in the Law Enforcement Agencies Data System and the National Crime Information Center. Makes other changes to reporting requirements. Modifies requirements for submission of fingerprints from unidentified remains for analysis as well as other requirements relating identified human remains. Provides that an assisting law enforcement agency, a medical examiner, a coroner, or the Illinois State Police may not close an unidentified person case until the individual has been identified and must keep the case active. Requires the coroner, medical examiner, or assisting law enforcement agency (rather than the coroner or medical examiner) to obtain a biological (rather than DNA) sample from an individual whose remains are not identifiable, and modifies how the sample may be analyzed and labeled. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Introduced
HB4623 - SEXUAL EXPLICIT DIGITAL IMAGE
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Jeff Keicher, Natalie A. Manley
Last updated about 2 months ago
98 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the depiction of a part of an actual child under 18 who by manipulation, creation, or modification, appears to be engaged in sexual activity. Creates the offenses of obscene depiction of a purported child and non-consensual dissemination of sexually explicit digitized depictions. Defines offenses and provides criminal penalties for violations. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides for the forfeiture to the State: (1) of any profits or proceeds and any property the person has acquired or maintained in violation of those offenses; (2) any interest in, securities of, claim against, or property or contractual right of any kind affording a source of influence over any enterprise that the person has established, operated, controlled, or conducted in violation of those offenses; and (3) any computer that contains an obscene depiction of a purported child. Amends the Bill of Rights for Children. Provides that under certain conditions, the parent or legal guardian of a child who is the victim of obscene depiction of a purported child may make a victim's impact statement on the impact which the defendant's criminal conduct or the juvenile's delinquent conduct has had upon the child. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a period of probation, a term of periodic imprisonment, or conditional discharge shall not be imposed for specified violations of the offense of obscene depiction of a purported child. Provides for enhanced penalties for specified violations of obscene depiction of a purported child. Provides that the court shall impose a consecutive sentence when the defendant is convicted of specified violations of the offense of obscene depiction of a purported child. Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act to provide that a person convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child must register as a sex offender.
STATUS
Passed
HB5028 - LABOR-OSHA-OPIOID GUIDANCE
Janet Yang Yang Rohr, Norine K. Hammond, Joyce Mason
Last updated about 2 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that a State agency may make opioid antagonists available at a location where its employees work if the State agency trains employees in the use and administration of the opioid antagonists. Makes other changes. Amend the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that any employee of a State agency who in good faith administers an opioid antagonist shall not, as a result of her or his acts or omissions, except for willful or wanton misconduct on the part of the employee in administering the drug, be liable for civil damages. Effective January 1, 2025.
STATUS
Passed
SB0381 - CIVIL LAW-TECH
Rachel Ventura, Steve McClure, Willie Preston
Last updated about 2 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the State Property Control Act. Requires the Director of Central Management Services, as Administrator, to assess surplus real property held by the State and determine whether such property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. Provides assessment factors. Requires the Administrator to prepare a report based upon the assessment that includes all surplus real properties that he or she assessed as unsellable. Provides further contents of the report. Requires the Administrator to submit the report to the Governor and the General Assembly by February 1, 2024, and by February 1 of every even-numbered year thereafter. Provides that the Administrator is authorized, subject to approval by a joint resolution of the Senate and the House of Representatives, to pursue the recommended course of action for each property specified in the report. Allows the Administrator to use funds held in the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Cleanup Fund for specified purposes. Creates the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Cleanup Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Specifies the use of the Fund. Provides for the adoption of rules. Amends the State Finance Act to provide for the Sustainable Ownership and Surplus Property Environmental Cleanup Fund. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB0867 - STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH
Don Harmon, Mark L. Walker, Mattie Hunter
Last updated 4 months ago
20 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to execute and deliver a quitclaim deed to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for specified real property located in DeKalb County, subject to specified conditions. Adds legal descriptions for Shabbona Lake and State Park. Amends the State Parks Act. Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to enter into a land management agreement with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, subject to written approval by the Director, for managing, maintaining, or operating the real property conveyed to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation by the amendatory Act. Establishes requirements for any land management agreement. Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to use State resources, subject to appropriation, for the management, maintenance, and operation of Shabbona Lake and State Park in accordance with the land management agreement that it executes with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Defines "land management agreement". Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB2376 - EPA-DISPOSABLE FOOD CONTAINERS
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Lakesia Collins, Carol Ammons
Last updated over 1 year ago
42 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, a retail establishment may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam. Exempts specified entities from the prohibition until one year after the amendatory Act's effective date. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB2211 - PLASTIC BAG REDUCTION
Laura M. Murphy, Mary Edly-Allen, Rachel Ventura
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Provides that, beginning 18 months after the amendatory Act's effective date, (1) no store or food service business shall provide or sell a single-use plastic carryout bag to a customer and (2) no grocery store shall provide or sell a single-use paper carryout bag to a customer. Preempts home rule. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
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Senator from Illinois district SD-021
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