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SB3298 - MEDICAL DEBT REPORTING-FRAUD
Mike Simmons
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person shall not report to a consumer reporting agency any medical debt incurred by a consumer or any collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt. Provides that a consumer reporting agency shall not make, create, or furnish any consumer report or credit report containing, incorporating, or reflecting any adverse information that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know relates to medical debt incurred by the consumer or a collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt. Provides that no consumer reporting agency shall maintain in the file of a consumer any information relating to medical debt incurred by a consumer or a collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt. Provides that a health care provider shall not furnish or report any medical debt incurred by a consumer or any collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Provides that a health care provider shall include a provision in any contract entered into with a collection agency for the purchase or collection of medical debt that prohibits the reporting of any medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Provides that a violation of the provisions constitutes an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3300 - SENIOR CORPS PROGRAM
Mike Simmons
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Department on Aging to develop and implement, by January 1, 2025, a Senior Corps Program to assist Illinois residents aged 55 and older find volunteer opportunities or meaningful service employment opportunities in Illinois. Provides that in addition to assisting eligible individuals with employment and services opportunities, the program shall also include job training and opportunities for eligible individuals to develop new skills that will increase their job marketability. Provides that beginning January 1, 2026 and each January 1 thereafter, the Department shall submit to the Governor and the General Assembly an annual report which includes, but is not limited to, the following information: (1) the total number of individuals participating in the program; (2) the total number of individuals who have been placed in volunteer roles and the total number of individuals who have been placed in reemployment roles; (3) the total number of individuals who have not been successfully placed in a volunteer or employment opportunity and the reasons that individuals were not able to be placed; and (4) the types of businesses and nonprofit organizations that individuals participating in the program have been placed in. Provides that the Department may adopt any rules necessary for implementation and administration of the Senior Corps Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3018 - EDUCATION-TECH
Don Harmon, Mike Simmons
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3299 - ARTS COUNCIL-ARTS INITIATIVE
Mike Simmons
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Arts Council Act. Requires the Illinois Arts Council, subject to appropriation, to establish a statewide arts and humanities initiative to capture current Illinois culture, values, and beauty. Specifies that the initiative shall begin on January 1, 2025 and shall end on December 31, 2025. Authorizes eligible applicants to submit art and humanities project ideas to the Council from July 1, 2024 through September 1, 2024. Allows the Illinois Arts Council to consult with the Illinois Humanities Council, Inc., and other arts and cultural institutions in the development of the initiative and to adopt any rules necessary to implement and administer the initiative. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3310 - HUMAN RIGHTS-REMEDIES
Mike Simmons, Adriane Johnson, Mary Edly-Allen
Last updated 3 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Extends the date to file a charge from 300 calendar days to 3 years for an alleged violation under the Act except for the Real Estate Transactions Article.
STATUS
Passed
SB3297 - HOUSING IS RECOVERY-18
Mike Simmons, Mary Edly-Allen, Laura Fine
Last updated 3 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program Act. Provides that an individual is eligible to receive a Housing is Recovery bridge rental subsidy for purposes of stabilizing his or her mental illness or substance use disorder if: (1) the individual is at high risk of unnecessary institutionalization who is 18 (rather than 21) years of age or older, or is aging out of guardianship under the Department of Children and Family Services, and who is eligible to enroll in, or is enrolled in, Medicaid for purposes of receiving mental health treatment; or (2) an individual at high risk of overdose who is 18 (rather than 21) years of age or older, or is aging out of guardianship under the Department of Children and Family Services, and who is eligible to enroll in, or is enrolled in, Medicaid for purposes of receiving substance use treatment.
STATUS
Passed
SB3309 - VEH CD-BIKE TRAIL SIGNAGE
Mike Simmons, Mary Edly-Allen, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the authority having maintenance jurisdiction over publicly owned paved bicycle trails in the State shall erect permanent regulatory or warning signage alerting pedestrians or cyclists of highway crossings, unless the intersection where the trail crosses the highway is controlled by an official traffic control device or sign. Provides that if the authority having maintenance jurisdiction over publicly owned bicycle trails has actual knowledge of an emergency or safety hazard that creates a dangerous condition on a publicly owned paved bicycle trail, the authority shall take reasonable steps to erect temporary signage or other warning markers, including, but not limited to, cones, barricades, or drums, alerting pedestrians or cyclists of the dangerous condition. Makes other changes.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3183 - JUV CT-REUNITE CHILD-FAMILY
Lakesia Collins, Rachel Ventura, Karina Villa
Last updated 9 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Changes all references in the General Provisions Article and the Abused, Neglected or Dependent Minors Article of the Act from "reasonable efforts" to "active efforts" in cases that involve reunification by the Department of Children and Family Services. Defines "active efforts" as efforts that are affirmative, active, thorough, timely and intended to maintain or reunite a child with the child's family and represent a higher standard of conduct than reasonable efforts. In the court review provisions, provides that if the court makes findings that the Department of Children and Family Services has failed to make active efforts to provide services as provided in the service plan, the court's order shall specify each party that failure applies to and the applicable time period. Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that a person shall not be considered an unfit person for the sole reason that the Department of Children and Family Services or its assign has been found to have not made active efforts as defined in the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 during any period during the pendency of the case at hand. Provides that a parent shall not be found unfit for failure to make reasonable efforts or reasonable progress for any 9-month period during which a court, hearing a case under the Abused, Neglected or Dependent Minors Article of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, found that the Department failed to make active efforts, as defined in the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 with respect to that parent. Provides that this provision applies to findings of failure to make active efforts made on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3226 - $ICJIA-GRANT CHRC
Adriane Johnson, Lakesia Collins, Mike Simmons
Last updated 9 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Agency for grants to Community Resource Healing Centers (CHRC)for their operational expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3182 - BIRTH CERTIFICATE-STILLBIRTH
Lakesia Collins, Karina Villa, Rachel Ventura
Last updated 3 months ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital having custody of a fetus following a spontaneous fetal death occurring during or after a gestation period of at least 20 completed weeks must notify the gestational parent of the parent's right to receive a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that after each fetal death that occurs in the State after a gestation period of at least 20 (rather than 26) completed weeks, or in cases where gestational age is uncertain, where the fetus weighs at least 350 grams, the person who files a fetal death certificate shall also prepare a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. Requires the person who files a fetal death certificate to notify the gestational parent of the stillborn of that parent's right to request and receive a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Illinois district SD-007
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