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SB1672 - EMERGENCY SERVICES&SUPPORT ACT
Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Community Emergency Services and Support Act. Replaces the term "responder" with "mobile crisis response team member" in the Act. Removes provisions concerning responder involvement in involuntary commitment, and makes other changes in provisions concerning State prohibitions relating to emergency response. Provides that the Division of Mental Health's guidance for 9-1-1 PSAPs and emergency services dispatched through 9-1-1 PSAPs shall promote, to the greatest extent practicable, referrals to a prearrest or prebooking case management unit in any area served by a prearrest or prebooking case management unit. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0053 - SCH CD-SCH TREASURER/TOWNSHIP
Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Trustees of Schools Article of the School Code. Provides that the school boards of Glenbrook High School District 225, Northbrook Elementary School District 27, Northbrook School District 28, Sunset Ridge School District 29, Northbrook/Glenview School District 30, West Northfield School District 31, and Glenview Community Consolidated School District 34 may, by proper resolution, withdraw from the jurisdiction and authority of the trustees of schools of Northfield and Maine Townships and the township treasurer, provided that the school board shall, upon the adoption and passage of the resolution, elect or appoint its own school treasurer. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1290 - HEALTH-TECH
Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0066 - TRUTH IN RECYCLING ACT
Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Truth in Recycling Act. Provides that a person who represents in advertising or on the label or container of a consumer good manufactured or distributed by the person that the consumer good is not harmful to or is beneficial to the natural environment through the use of specified environmental terms, through the use of a chasing arrows symbol, or by otherwise directing a consumer to recycle the consumer good shall maintain in written form in the person's records specified information and documentation supporting the validity of the representation. Requires the information and documentation to be furnished to any member of the public upon request. Provides that a rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic container sold in the State shall be labeled with a code meeting specified requirements and that indicates the resin used to produce the rigid plastic bottle or rigid plastic container. Contains provisions regarding deceptive or misleading claims about the recyclability of a product or packaging. Contains other provisions. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Authorizes moneys in the Solid Waste Management Fund to be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to administer the Truth in Recycling Act. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Repeals a provision regarding coding for single use plastic bottles and other single use rigid plastic containers with specified capacities.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0055 - POWER OF ATTY-VISITATION
Laura Fine, Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Power of Attorney Act. Provides that restricting or not allowing an interested person to have reasonable visitation with a principal is an action upon which a court may find that an agent is not acting for the benefit of the principal.
STATUS
Passed
SB1402 - DHS-NALOXONE KIT PILOT PROGRAM
Laura Fine, Doris Turner, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Early Mental Health and Addictions Treatment Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to implement a 2-year pilot program to provide FDA-approved 8-milligram naloxone nasal spray kits to licensed community substance use providers and public health departments in Cook County, DuPage County, Winnebago County, Sangamon County, and St. Clair County. Requires the Department to implement a data collection program to determine the number of 8-milligram naloxone nasal spray kits administered by emergency medical service providers and bystanders per overdose incident during the 2-year term of the pilot program. Provides that the data collected must also include the number of overdose reversals and deaths following the administration of the 8-milligram naloxone nasal spray. Requires the Department to prepare a report on the results of the 2-year pilot program and submit the report to the General Assembly by July 1, 2026. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB1287 - DENTAL LOSS RATIO ACT
Laura Fine, Julie A. Morrison, Laura M. Murphy
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Dental Loss Ratio Act. Sets forth provisions concerning dental loss ratio reporting. Provides that a health insurer or dental plan carrier that issues, sells, renews, or offers a specialized health insurance policy covering dental services shall, beginning July 1, 2023, annually submit to the Department of Insurance a dental loss ratio filing. Provides a formula for calculating minimum dental loss ratios. Sets forth provisions concerning minimum dental loss ratio requirements. Provides that the Department may adopt rules to implement the Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to an insurance policy issued, sold, renewed, or offered for health care services or coverage provided as a function of the State of Illinois Medicaid coverage for children or adults or disability insurance for covered benefits in the single specialized area of dental-only health care that pays benefits on a fixed benefit, cash payment-only basis. Defines terms. Amends the Dental Service Plan Act. Provides that a dental service plan corporation shall not disburse during any one year (rather than shall not disburse during any one year, except upon the approval of the Director of Insurance) a sum greater than 20% of payments received from subscribers during that year as administrative expenses. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1686 - INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLET-SPEC ED
Laura M. Murphy, Cristina Castro, Julie A. Morrison
Last updated almost 2 years ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Requires an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State to allow a student for whom it is determined that special education services are needed under the School Code to participate in interscholastic athletics and other forms of athletic competition for as long as the student is eligible for such special education services, which, for purposes of the School Code, means through the day before the student's 22nd birthday.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0013 - BULGARIAN AMER. HERITAGE MONTH
Dan McConchie, Sally J. Turner, Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Congratulates the people of the Republic of Bulgaria as they celebrate the 145th anniversary of their liberation on March 3, 2023. Declares March of 2023 as Bulgarian American Heritage Month in the State of Illinois.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0065 - PEN CD-DNST POLICE & FIRE-IMRF
Laura Fine
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Downstate Police, Downstate Firefighter, and Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a municipality with a population that has fallen below 5,000 inhabitants as determined by both of the preceding 2 federal decennial censuses, or that has a population of less than 5,000 inhabitants that approved a referendum creating a pension fund, may terminate its participation in a pension fund created under the Downstate Police or Downstate Firefighter Article with regard to persons who first become police officers or firefighters after a specified proposition is adopted and enroll in IMRF police officers or firefighters hired after the adoption of that proposition. Provides the required notice and form of the proposition. Provides that a municipality may elect to terminate its participation under the Article and dissolve the fund if certain conditions are met. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
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