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HB1006 - PAID FAMILY LEAVE ACT
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Paid Family Leave Act. Requires private employers with 50 or more employees to provide 6 weeks of paid leave to an employee who takes leave: (1) because of the birth of a child of the employee and in order to care for the child; (2) to care for a newly adopted child under 18 years of age or a newly placed foster child under 18 years of age or a newly adopted or newly placed foster child older than 18 years of age if the child is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability; or (3) to care for a family member with a serious health condition. Provides that paid family leave shall be provided irrespective of the employer's leave policies; and shall be provided to an employee who has been employed by the employer for at least one year. Permits employees to voluntarily waive paid family leave. Provides that the Department of Labor may adopt any rules necessary to implement the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1102 - FAMILY LEAVE INSURANCE ACT
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Family Leave Insurance Act. Requires the Department of Employment Security to establish and administer a family leave insurance program. Provides family leave insurance benefits to eligible employees who take unpaid family leave to care for a newborn child, a newly adopted or newly placed foster child, or a family member with a serious health condition. Authorizes family leave of up to 12 weeks during any 24-month period. Authorizes compensation for leave in the amount of 85% of the employee's average weekly wage subject to a maximum of $881 per week. Contains provisions concerning disqualification from benefits; premium payments; the amount and duration of benefits; the recovery of erroneous payments; hearings; defaulted premium payments; elective coverage; employment protection; coordination of family leave; defined terms; and other matters. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the State Benefits Fund. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1025 - HEALTH-TECH
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1000 - MEDICAID-CHILDBEARING WOMEN
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Extends medical assistance coverage to all women of childbearing age regardless of income level.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1086 - HIGHER ED-ESSENTIAL WORKERS
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides for the issuance of grants to essential workers and the dependents of essential workers, subject to appropriation. Defines "essential worker" as an individual whose employment duties provide a service that is typically deemed vital to public health and safety and economic and national security and essential to continue critical infrastructure operations. Sets forth provisions concerning application and qualifications for a grant, the amount of a grant and its use, and rulemaking. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2214 - DHS-STOLEN SNAP BENEFITS-DATA
Sonya M. Harper, Carol Ammons, Justin D. Slaughter
Last updated over 1 year ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services to track and collect data on the scope and frequency of SNAP benefits fraud in Illinois where a SNAP recipient's benefits are stolen from the recipient's electronic benefits transfer card by means of card skimming, card cloning, or some other similar fraudulent method. Requires the Department to specifically keep a record of every report made to the Department by a SNAP recipient alleging the theft of benefits due to no fault of the recipient, the benefit amount stolen, and, if practicable, how those stolen benefits were used and the location of those thefts. Requires the Department to report its findings to the General Assembly on a quarterly basis beginning in calendar year 2024. Provides that a SNAP recipient's personally identifiable information shall be excluded from the reports consistent with State and federal privacy protections; and that each quarterly report shall be posted on the Department's official website. Provides that if the Department determines that a SNAP recipient has made a substantiated report of stolen benefits due to card skimming, card cloning, or some other similar fraudulent method, the Department shall refer the matter to the Attorney General and shall provide any assistance to the Attorney General in the prosecution of the alleged theft or fraud.
STATUS
Passed
HB1085 - $GRANTS-DHFS-GROUND AMBULANCES
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for grants to IMPACT-enrolled and BEP-certified medi-car and stretcher van transport services for expenses related to capacity building activities. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1202 - MEDICAID-YOUTHCARE PROGRAM
Mary E. Flowers, Carol Ammons
Last updated almost 2 years ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly to ensure that all youth in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services have increased access to health care under the YouthCare Program. Provides that in order to maximize the accessibility of health care services for youth in care and former youth in care enrolled in the YouthCare Program, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall amend its managed care contracts such that a managed care organization (MCO) that manages health care for youth in care and former youth in care must pay for services rendered by a non-affiliated provider, for which the health plan would pay if rendered by an affiliated provider, at the rate paid under the Illinois Medicaid fee-for-service program methodology for such services, including all policy adjusters, including, but not limited to, Medicaid High Volume Adjustments, Medicaid Percentage Adjustments, Outpatient High Volume Adjustments, and all outlier add-on adjustments to the extent such adjustments are incorporated in the development of the applicable MCO capitated rates, unless a different rate was agreed upon by the health plan and the non-affiliated provider. Provides that the payment requirement under the amendatory Act shall not apply if: (i) the services provided by the non-affiliated provider were not emergency services; (ii) the non-affiliated provider has, within the 12 months preceding the date of service, rejected a contract that was offered in good faith by the health plan as determined by the Department; and (iii) the health plan has terminated a contract with the non-affiliated provider for cause, and the Department has not deemed the termination to have been without merit. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1251 - VEH CD-AMBULANCE-SIRENS-LAMPS
Adriane Johnson, Rachel Ventura, Mary Edly-Allen
Last updated over 1 year ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the driver of an ambulance or rescue vehicle may proceed past a red traffic control signal or stop sign if the ambulance or rescue vehicle is making use of both the audible and visual signals meeting the required, but only after slowing down as necessary for safe operation.
STATUS
Passed
HB1040 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Mary E. Flowers
Last updated almost 2 years ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Illinois district HD-031
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