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HB3222 - LANGUAGE EQUITY & ACCESS ACT
Dagmara Avelar, Elizabeth Hernandez, Theresa Mah
Last updated over 1 year ago
46 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Language Equity and Access Act. Creates the Division of Language Equity and Access (DLEA) within the Governor’s Office of New Americans to lead implementation of language equity and access policy and ensure meaningful access to information, services, programs, and activities for limited English proficient persons. Provides for requirements and duties of the DLEA. Provides that the DLEA shall adopt administrative rules. Establishes the Language Equity and Access Advisory Council for the purposes of advising the Office of Language Equity and Access on certain issues related to language equity. Provides for membership of the Council as well as other requirements. Requires the State to compile a Language Needs Assessment Report, prepare a language access plan, develop a framework to assess State agencies and covered entities, prepare an annual report for the Governor and General Assembly, establish requirements for availability of interpretation and translation services, set standards for adequate staffing of bilingual employees at State agencies and other covered entities, incorporate language equity compliance provisions in State contracts, and ensure persons with limited English proficiency are adequately notified in case of emergencies. Details the requirements for the Statewide Language Use Needs Assessment. Details the requirements for language access plans. Details the requirements for the annual Language Equity and Access Compliance Report to the General Assembly. Provides that the Governor’s Office shall provide administrative and other support to the DLEA. Discusses the legislative purpose of the Act and defines terms. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Engrossed
SJR0032 - SEN. S. BENNETT MEMORIAL HGHWY
Paul Faraci, Don Harmon, William Cunningham
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Designates Interstate 74 east of US 45 in Champaign-Urbana to the Indiana border as the "Senator Scott M. Bennett Memorial Highway".
STATUS
Engrossed
SB2986 - BD HIGHER ED-COLLAB BAC DEGREE
Michael W. Halpin
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall, in consultation with the Illinois Community College Board, create a standardized electronic form by which a community college district may document student demand or workforce need for a specific baccalaureate degree completion program and may demonstrate that the demand or need is currently unmet or that there is insufficient access to such a program in the district. Provides that the form must be completed by the requesting community college district and must be submitted to the Illinois Community College Board for initial review. Provides that if the Illinois Community College Board concurs with the community college district that unmet demand or need for a program exists in the district, the Illinois Community College Board may forward the form to the Board of Higher Education and if the Illinois Community College Board does not concur with the community college district, the district may appeal the decision directly to the Board of Higher Education. Provides that if the Board of Higher Education determines that unmet student demand or workforce need for a program exists, the Board of Higher Education shall communicate a request for baccalaureate partnership notification to all public universities. Sets forth the response procedure. Requires the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board to jointly adopt rules.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2792 - MEDICAID-PAID CAREGIVER PGRAM
Michael W. Halpin
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services, in consultation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to develop a caregiver program to provide direct payments to caregivers of individuals enrolled in the medical assistance program who are disabled for less than 12 months as a result of a diagnosed illness or related treatment. Sets forth the components of the caregiver program, including, but not limited to: (i) criteria applicable to a caregiver, which shall include, but not be limited to, a limitation on the total hours of a caregiver's outside employment plus hours of providing care to the enrollee to ensure that the complete plan of care is delivered; (ii) payment of caregiver services at the personal assistant level of care and pay rate; (iii) limitations on the number of reimbursable hours of personal services; and (iv) utilization of the determination of need evaluation and other comprehensive assessment tools as criteria for determining eligibility and developing service plans under the caregiver program. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to apply, by January 1, 2025, for any waivers or State Plan amendments necessary for implementation of the caregiver program. Permits the Department of Human services to adopt any rules necessary to implement and administer the caregiver program. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2795 - SAFE PATIENT LIMITS ACT
Michael W. Halpin
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Safe Patient Limits Act. Provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered nurse in specified situations. Provides that nothing shall preclude a facility from assigning fewer patients to a registered nurse than the limits provided in the Act. Provides that the maximum patient assignments may not be exceeded, regardless of the use and application of any patient acuity system. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt rules governing the implementation and administration of the Act. Provides that all facilities shall adopt written policies and procedures for the training and orientation of nursing staff and that no registered nurse shall be assigned to a nursing unit or clinical area unless that nurse has, among other things, demonstrated competence in providing care in that area. Provides requirements for the Act's implementation. Establishes recordkeeping requirements. Provides rights and protections for nurses. Contains a severability provision and other provisions. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital shall not mandate that a registered professional nurse delegate nursing interventions. Makes changes concerning staffing plans. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Requires the exercise of professional judgment by a direct care registered professional nurse in the performance of his or her scope of practice to be provided in the exclusive interests of the patient. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Compact does not supersede existing State labor laws. Provides that the State may not share with or disclose to the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators or any other state any of the contents of a nationwide criminal history records check conducted for the purpose of multistate licensure under the Nurse Licensure Compact.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2681 - CRIM CD-ELECTR TRACKING DEVICE
Michael W. Halpin
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the use of an electronic tracking device to determine the location or movement of a person is a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor) if the violation results in physical injury to the victim of the offense.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2686 - $ISAC-VETERANS/NATIONAL GUARD
Michael W. Halpin, Julie A. Morrison, Mike Porfirio
Last updated 9 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $26,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to reimburse public universities and community colleges for costs associated with the Illinois Veteran grant program and the Illinois National Guard and Naval Militia grant program. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB3566 - CHILD CARE-MIN STANDARDS
Joyce Mason, Harry Benton, Margaret Noble Croke
Last updated over 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the minimum standards for child care licensing include regulations to allow for staffing flexibility of qualified early childhood assistants to enable the early childhood assistants to supervise a classroom outside of the core developmental hours of the day, which shall not exceed more than 3 hours in a single day and shall be documented in the program's Enhanced Staffing Plan. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking by the Department of Children and Family Services. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB0734 - PUBLIC EMPLOYEE BENEFITS-TECH
Michael W. Halpin, Stephanie A. Kifowit
Last updated about 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the School Code. Specifies that the provisions apply to a school district with a full-time licensed teacher population of 575 or more teachers that maintain a 457 plan, except for the Chicago school district. Provides that every applicable school district shall make available to participants more than one financial institution or investment provider to provide services to the school district's 457 plan. Provides that a financial institution or investment provider, by entering into a written agreement, may offer or provide services to a plan offered, established, or maintained by a school district. Provides that each school district that offers a 457 plan shall make available to participants more than one financial institution or investment provider that has not entered into a written agreement to provide administration services and that provides services to a 457 plan offered to school districts. Provides that a financial institution or investment provider shall cover all plan administration costs agreed to by the school district relating to the administration of the 457 plan. Provides that nothing in the amendatory provisions shall apply to or impact the optional defined contribution benefit established by the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois under the Illinois Pension Code. Sets forth provisions regarding sharing plan data.
STATUS
Passed
HB1268 - PROBATE-EXECUTOR
Lakesia Collins, Daniel Didech, Carol Ammons
Last updated about 1 year ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following change. Provides that a person who has been convicted of a felony is qualified to act as an executor if, among other criteria, the person was not previously convicted of financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability, financial identity theft, or a similar crime in another state or in federal court.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-036
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Michael W. Halpin is from the 72nd district of Illinois. He holds a law degree from John Marshall Law School. In 2006, Halpin was elected to the Rock Island County Board. He served as Chair of the county's Health, Education and Welfare Committee. From 2013 to 2017, Halpin served in the Illinois House of Representatives. Halpin and his wife have three children. His family has lived in the Quad Cities area for over 35 years.read less
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