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SB1909 - DECEPTIVE PRACTICE-PREG CENTER
Celina Villanueva, Sara Feigenholtz, Cristina Castro
Last updated about 1 year ago
57 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Prohibits a limited services pregnancy center from engaging in unfair methods of competition or unfair or deceptive acts or practices: (1) to interfere with or prevent an individual from seeking to gain entry or access to a provider of abortion or emergency contraception; (2) to induce an individual to enter or access the limited services pregnancy center; (3) in advertising, soliciting, or otherwise offering pregnancy-related services; or (4) in conducting, providing, or performing pregnancy-related services. Defines terms. Sets forth legislative intent. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB2231 - TNC ACT-COMMON CARRIER,TAXICAB
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Eva Dina Delgado, Curtis J. Tarver
Last updated about 1 year ago
56 Co-Sponsors
Further amends the Transportation Network Providers Act. Extends the Act's repeal date from September 1, 2023 to September 1, 2028. Provides that a provision which specifies that TNCs and TNC drivers are not common carriers, contract carriers, or motor carriers and do not provide taxicab or for-hire vehicle service becomes inoperative January 1, 2024. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB2245 - VEH CD-STOLEN VEHICLE HOTLINES
Martin J. Moylan, Natalie A. Manley, Daniel Didech
Last updated about 1 year ago
110 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: In the Illinois Vehicle Code: Provides that a manufacturer or its vehicle location vendor shall relay vehicle location information to the best of their technical capabilities when: the 9-1-1 call center or designated dispatch center or responding law enforcement official provides adequate verification of their identity as a law enforcement officer and the identity of the responding law enforcement official to the manufacturer or the vehicle location vendor; and the responding law enforcement officials certifies to the manufacturer or the vehicle location vendor that the situation involves a clear and present danger of death or great bodily harm to persons resulting from a vehicular hijacking or kidnapping incident. Provides that a vehicle manufacturer or a subsidiary, vendor, employee, officer, director, representative, or contractor of the vehicle manufacturer shall not be liable and no cause of action shall arise under the laws of the State for providing, or in good faith attempting to provide, information or assistance to a law enforcement agency, 9-1-1 call center, or designated dispatch center pursuant to the mechanisms and processes established under the Code. Amends the Freedom From Location Surveillance Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency is not prohibited from seeking to obtain local information in an emergency situation involving a vehicular hijacking.
STATUS
Passed
HB2545 - IDPH-SAFE GUN STORAGE
Maura Hirschauer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to ensure that safe gun storage information is available at all Secretary of State driver services facilities. Provides that the Department may use existing public or private programs to implement the provisions. Requires the Department to disseminate safe gun storage information on its website and in Department facilities. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2723 - SAFE GUN STORAGE ACT
Maura Hirschauer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Safe Gun Storage Act. Provides that a firearm owner shall not store or keep any firearm in any premises unless the firearm is secured in a locked container, properly engaged so as to render the firearm inaccessible or unusable to any person other than the owner or other lawfully authorized user. Provides that if the firearm is carried by or under the control of the owner or other lawfully authorized user, then the firearm is deemed lawfully stored or kept. Provides that a violation is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500. Provides that a violation is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 if any person knows or reasonably should know that a minor, an at-risk person, or a prohibited person is likely to gain access to a firearm belonging to or under the control of that person and a minor, an at-risk person, or a prohibited person obtains the firearm. Provides that a violation is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $10,000 if a minor, an at-risk person, or a prohibited person obtains a firearm and uses it to injure or cause the death of a person or uses the firearm in connection with a crime. Provides that any money received from the collection of a civil penalty shall be deposited in the Mental Health Fund. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the age of a minor from under 14 to under 18 years of age for which it is unlawful, with certain exception, for any person to store or leave, within premises under his or her control, a firearm if the person knows or has reason to believe that a minor who does not have a Firearm Owner's Identification Card is likely to gain access to the firearm without the lawful permission of the minor's parent, guardian, or person having charge of the minor, and the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the firearm.
STATUS
Introduced
HB3233 - FIN-DONATIONS TO IL DREAM FUND
Elizabeth Hernandez, Maura Hirschauer, Karina Villa
Last updated about 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Inserts the provisions of Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. In provisions in the Higher Education Student Assistance Act regarding the Illinois DREAM Fund Commission developing a comprehensive program for education, provides that the Commission shall develop specific marketing materials for the voluntary use by persons licensed pursuant to the Transmitters of Money Act. In provisions in the Transmitters of Money Act regarding donations, provides that licensees may (rather than shall) offer customers the option to make a voluntary donation to the Illinois DREAM Fund before completing the transaction. Removes a provision that licensees shall be responsible for ensuring that authorized sellers comply with certain provisions. Removes a provision that, beginning January 1, 2024, certain provisions apply to international money transmissions initiated by customers at a licensee’s or authorized seller’s physical location. Removes a provision that, beginning January 1, 2025, certain provisions apply to international money transmissions that are initiated online or in any other manner. Adds a provision that the Department shall provide to licensees electronic copies of all marketing materials created by the Commission for licensees pursuant to a certain provision in the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Effective immediately (rather than effective January 1, 2024).
STATUS
Passed
HB2464 - VEH CD-PEDESTRIAN BEACONS
Kelly M. Cassidy, Will Guzzardi, Carol Ammons
Last updated about 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the provision requiring the driver of a vehicle approaching a traffic-control signal on which no signal light facing such vehicle is illuminated to stop before entering the intersection does not apply to the driver of a vehicle approaching a pedestrian hybrid beacon. Defines "pedestrian hybrid beacon" as a traffic-control device used to warn and control traffic, at locations that are otherwise without a traffic-control signal, to assist pedestrians in crossing a street or highway at a marked crosswalk.
STATUS
Passed
HB2517 - DHS-TEEN PARENT-DRIVER'S ED
Maura Hirschauer
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Department of Human Services shall establish a teen parent driver's license program to provide financial assistance for the cost of driver's education school training for eligible individuals and the cost to obtain a driver's license or permit. Requires the Department to solicit interest and cost distribution proposals from teen parent organizations to administer the program. Provides that upon the Department's approval, the teen parent organizations may subcontract with and pay money received under the program to the providers of the services as necessary to serve eligible individuals. Provides that the selected teen parent organizations must be operational no later than 30 days after entering into a contract with the Department. Provides that for purposes of selecting a teen parent organization before July 1, 2024, to administer the program, the selection process is not subject to the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that for purposes of selecting a teen parent organization on or after July 1, 2024, the Department shall commence a selection process that complies with the Illinois Procurement Code. Requires the Department to submit a preliminary report on the program to the General Assembly for State Fiscal Year 2025. Requires the Department to submit annual reports to the General Assembly to be posted on the Department's website beginning State Fiscal Year 2026 and every State fiscal year thereafter. Sets forth the information that must be included in the reports. Provides that for State Fiscal Year 2025, funding for the program shall not exceed $100,000; and that for State Fiscal Year 2026 and each State fiscal year thereafter, funding for the program shall not exceed whatever amount necessary to implement the program. Permits the Department to use up to 7.5% of any money appropriated by the General Assembly for administrative costs incurred by the Department. Grants the Department rulemaking authority.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2394 - CERT SHORTHAND REPORT-VARIOUS
Bob Morgan, Theresa Mah, Fred Crespo
Last updated 10 months ago
37 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, if the Secretary of Professional Regulation finds that there is a significant operational need to do so or that it is necessary to do so to avoid undue hardship on a class of individuals whose professional licenses, registrations, or certificates are issued by the Department, then the Secretary shall extend the expiration date or renewal period of those licenses, registrations, or certificates of those individuals for a period not to exceed the standard renewal period of those licenses, registrations, or certificates. Provides that the Secretary may consider specified factors when determining whether to extend the expiration date or renewal period of the license, registration, or certificate of those individuals. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall identify a method of source selection that will make it possible to implement a software solution to support the Department's mandates to enforce the professional licensing Acts that it administers and rules adopted under those Acts. Provides that the software solution selected by the Department shall satisfy specified criteria. Provides for additional requirements concerning the source selection process. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB3751 - MUNI CD-POLICE APPLICANTS
Barbara Hernandez, Angelica J. Guerrero-Cuellar, John M. Cabello
Last updated about 1 year ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill and adds that an individual against whom immigration action has been deferred by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process is allowed to apply for the position of police officer, deputy sheriff, or special policeman, subject to specified requirements. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
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Representative from Illinois district HD-049
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Illinois House
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ABOUT
Maura Hirschauer is running as a Republican candidate for Texas House of Representatives, District 18. Hirschauer serves on the board of Lone Star Speech and Language Services. She is also a business partner and executive director at Five Stones Classical Academy. Hirschauer graduated from Liberty University with a B.S. in Communications and also attended graduate school at Liberty University. She is currently pursuing ministry training at Christ for the Nations Institute. Hirschauer has experience in marketing, development, communication strategy, fundraising, event planning, and public relations.read less
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