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SB2934 - CRIM CD-HAZING-CONSENT NO DEFN
Steve Stadelman, Laura M. Murphy, Dave Vella
Last updated about 2 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is not a defense to a prosecution for hazing that the person against whom the hazing was directed consented to or acquiesced in the hazing.
STATUS
Passed
SB2689 - SCH CD-MONTESSORI EDUC LICENSE
Robert Peters, Ram Villivalam, Christopher Belt
Last updated 6 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. By June 1, 2025, requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, to establish, by rule, a Montessori education endorsement to be added to a Professional Educator License. Requires the rules adopted by the State Board of Education to outline the requirements for obtaining the endorsement. Provides that these provisions are inoperative on and after January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB3716 - LAKE MICH MONITORING-REPORTING
Adriane Johnson, Laura M. Murphy, Donald P. DeWitte
Last updated about 2 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Removes a provision requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to work with the City of Chicago and affected units of government for specified concerns. Removes a provision that require the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct water quality and lake bed surveys to evaluate the ecology and the quality of water in Lake Michigan. Removes a provision concerning reporting requirements. Provides that the Environmental Protection Agency shall regularly monitor water quality from nearshores, harbors, and public water supply intakes in Lake Michigan and provide an executive summary biennially on conditions of the water quality in Lake Michigan to the Governor and members of the General Assembly.
STATUS
Passed
SB3151 - SCH CD-DRIVER ED-WORKER SAFETY
Steve Stadelman, Laura M. Murphy, Jason Plummer
Last updated about 2 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning safety education and driver education courses, provides that the course instruction on special hazards existing at and required safety and driving precautions that must be observed at highway construction and maintenance zones shall include worker safety in highway construction and maintenance zones. Effective August 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
SB3740 - REAL ESTATE LICENSING-VARIOUS
Javier Loera Cervantes, Laura M. Murphy, Jenn Ladisch Douglass
Last updated about 2 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Provides that for licensure as a managing broker, the person must personally take and pass a written examination on Illinois specific real estate brokerage laws authorized by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides that approved pre-license education for licensure as a managing broker, broker, or residential leasing agent shall be valid for 2 years after the date of satisfactory completion of all required pre-license education. Provides that a nonresident broker who meets certain requirements may also operate a virtual office in the State. On January 1, 2026, repeals a provision concerning reciprocity for managing brokers and brokers licensed in another state. Provides that on and after January 1, 2026, applications for licensure based upon reciprocal agreements shall not be accepted. Provides that licenses granted under reciprocal agreements prior to January 1, 2026 shall remain in force and may be renewed in the same manner as provided for a broker or managing broker license under the Act. Requires fair housing training as part of the continuing education requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning licensure of managing brokers and brokers licensed under the laws of another state or jurisdiction of the United States and authorizing virtual offices. Makes changes in provisions concerning definitions; exemptions from licensure; continuing education; disclosure of compensation; employment agreements; agency relationship disclosure; grounds for discipline; citations; illegal discrimination; fines and penalties; a scholarship program; funds; and licensing of education provider instructors. Makes a conforming change in the State Finance Act. Effective January 1, 2025, except that certain provisions are effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3550 - DIVISION OF FIN INST-VARIOUS
Sara Feigenholtz, Laura M. Murphy, Mark L. Walker
Last updated about 2 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Financial Institutions Code. Changes the name of the Code to the Financial Institutions Act. Makes conforming changes, including in the Collection Agency Act. Provides that the Division of Financial Institutions is authorized to receive and investigate complaints made about regulated persons; to keep records of all registrations or other authorizations; to issue orders and fines, to require information or reports from regulated persons; to examine activities, books, and records of regulated persons; to defray operating and implementation expenses of administering the Act and other laws; to enter into cooperative agreements; to prescribe the forms of and receive applications or other authorizations and all reports, books, and records required to be made by regulated persons; to subpoena documents and witnesses and administer oaths; to appoint examiners, supervisors, experts, and special assistants; and to investigate and take actions reasonably necessary to prohibit and stop unlicensed activity. Provides for the Division to make and implement rules. Repeals provisions relating to the transfer of powers, rights, and duties from various former Departments to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides for a Director of the Division appointed by the Governor to report to the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides that any Illinois circuit court may enter an order to enforce subpoenas issued by the Division. Requires regulated persons to maintain character and fitness to justify confidence of the public. Provides for the Secretary to enter into consent orders or settlement agreements with regulated persons. Provides exceptions for some forms of financial interest in any financial institutions under the Division's jurisdiction. Makes other changes. Amends the Consumer Installment Loan Act and the Payday Loan Reform Act. Provides that the Director may fine a person doing business without the required license. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB2628 - TRANSPORTATION-FLOOD INSURANCE
David Koehler, Susan Rezin, Rachel Ventura
Last updated about 2 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program requirements. Requires all State agencies to obtain a special flood hazard area development permit before undertaking development activity on State-owned property that is located in a special flood hazard area. Requires the Department to adopt an administrative rule setting forth a State special flood hazard area development program to ensure that specified conditions are met for the issuance of permits prior to any State agency development within a special flood hazard area. Provides that State agencies that administer grants or loans for financing a development within a special flood hazard area, are responsible for regulating or permitting a development within a special flood hazard area, or engage in planning programs or promoting a development within a special flood hazard area shall cooperate with the Department to ensure that participants in their programs are informed of the existence and location of special flood hazard areas and of any State or local floodplain requirements that are in effect in such areas. Provides that the Department may enter into a memorandum of understanding with a State agency to outline procedures and processes to review proposed development activity on State-owned property located in a special flood hazard area. Allows the Department to enter into memorandum of understanding that provide for alternative approvals for the issuance of permits.
STATUS
Passed
SB3563 - LIBRARY-BOND PERCENTAGE
Erica Conway Harriss, John F. Curran, Linda Holmes
Last updated about 2 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Extends the estimated date of completion of a redevelopment project and the retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs to not later than December 31 of the year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer is to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the 32nd calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving the redevelopment project area was adopted if the ordinance was adopted on April 19, 2004 by the Village of Tremont. Extends the estimated dates of completion of redevelopment projects and the retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs to the 35th calendar year after the year in which various ordinances were adopted by the Village of Franklin Park, City of Jacksonville, City of Prophetstown, City of Ottawa, City of Salem, Village of Malta, City of Highland, City of Chicago, City of Des Plaines, City of Sullivan, and City of Oak Forest. Creates tax increment allocation financing extensions to the 47th year (currently, the 35th year) for various ordinances adopted by the City of Ottawa and Village of Rosemont if those municipalities adopt a specified ordinance and provide notice to the taxing bodies that would otherwise constitute the joint review board of each redevelopment project area. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3741 - PRIOR AUTH-SUBSTANCE USE
Julie A. Morrison, Mary Edly-Allen, Laura M. Murphy
Last updated about 2 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions prohibiting certain individual or group health benefit plans from imposing prior authorization requirements on medications prescribed or administered for the treatment of substance use disorder, provides that the prohibition includes limitations on dosage. Makes similar changes in the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3389 - REGIONAL PLANNING ACT-CMAP
Ram Villivalam, Donald P. DeWitte, Julie A. Morrison
Last updated about 2 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that concurrence of four-fifths of the Board members of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in office is necessary for the Board to take any action, except for decisions with regard to contracts, excluding contracts pertaining to the employment of the Executive Director, grants, purchase agreements, and meeting minutes, which shall require a simple majority vote of the Board members in office (rather than concurrence of four-fifths of the Board members in office is necessary for the Board to take action regarding the Agency's budget and work plan, a regional plan, the annual federally funded program, the legislative agenda, and any matter regarding the executive director and that action on all other matters shall be taken in accordance with the Board's bylaws). Removes changes requiring each General Assembly to appropriate dedicated funding to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning to fulfill those functions and programs authorized by the Act.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Illinois district SD-028
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Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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Laura M. Murphy was born in 1962 in San Francisco, California. She received a B.A. degree in English from Wellesley College in 1984 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law in 1990. She also received a LL.M in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center in 2005. Ms. Murphy was an attorney with the national office of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she worked on First Amendment, privacy and reproductive rights issues from 1992-2005. From 2006 to 2011, she served as Director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office.read less
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Illinois Senate from Illinois
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