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SB2662 - YOUTH VAPING-ADVERTISING
Julie A. Morrison, Meg Loughran Cappel, Adriane Johnson
Last updated 3 months ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Preventing Youth Vaping Act. Restricts a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer from advertising, marketing, or promoting an electronic cigarette in a manner that is likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher, or other adult to mistake the electronic cigarette for a product that is not a tobacco product.
STATUS
Passed
SB2883 - INC TX-GREEN PARKING
Julie A. Morrison, Mike Simmons
Last updated 10 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for qualified businesses that install solar canopies or permeable surfaces in their parking areas during the taxable year. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2175 - CRIM PRO-COST ASSESSMENT
Mike Simmons, Christopher Belt, Adriane Johnson
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that during the first 180 days following a person's release from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal proceeding involving the person.
STATUS
Passed
SB2035 - ENSURING ESSENTIAL SERVICES
Javier Loera Cervantes, Celina Villanueva, Omar Aquino
Last updated almost 2 years ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Ensuring Essential Services Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to ensure the State meets its obligation to provide certain essential services for individuals with developmental disabilities at consistent quality levels in accordance with its waiver agreement with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, all while allocating scarce taxpayer resources. Provides that any contract entered into between the Department of Human Services and an agency shall include a provision assuring the State of the uninterrupted delivery of the contracted-for services. Provides that such assurance shall provide that the agency has entered into a binding labor peace agreement with any labor organization that is the exclusive representative of the agency's frontline and direct support staff or, where no exclusive representation has been established, that the agency has or will enter into an agreement with any labor organization that seeks to become the agency's frontline and direct support staff's exclusive representative. Provides that the assurance shall become a condition of any contract entered into, renewed, or amended on or after the effective date of the Act. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to, no later than 90 days after the effective date of the Act, apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or State Plan amendment to allow implementation of the contracting requirements. Requires the Department of Human Services, no later than 60 days after the effective date of the Act, to adopt rules implementing the requirements of the Act. Contains provisions on contract requirements for Department of Human Services' contracts; enforcement of contractual assurances; remedial actions for noncompliance; and other matters. Effective June 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1501 - NOT FOR PROFIT-DEMOGRAPHICS
Adriane Johnson, Mary Edly-Allen, Mattie Hunter
Last updated almost 2 years ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Provides that in its annual report filed with the Secretary of State, a domestic or foreign corporation shall include the aggregated demographic information of its directors and officers, including race, ethnicity, gender, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. Provides that no later than 30 calendar days after filing the annual report with the Secretary of State, a corporation shall post to the corporation's publicly available website, if one exists, the aggregated demographic information of the corporation's directors and officers. Effective January 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2643 - INTEGRITY IN DEATH CARE ACT
Doris Turner, William Cunningham, Lakesia Collins
Last updated 3 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Defines "chain of custody record" and "uniquely identified". Provides that the examination to qualify as an embalmer or funeral director shall embrace the subject of identification rules and regulation in relation to the handling and storing of human bodies. Provides that when the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation receives a complaint against a licensee regarding violations of the Act, the Department shall inspect the premises of the licensee. Provides that when the Department receives a complaint against a licensee relating to the mishandling of human remains or the misidentification of human remains, the Department shall inspect the premises named in the complaint within 10 calendar days after receipt of the complaint. Makes changes to provisions concerning grounds for discipline. Adds provisions providing criminal penalties for certain violations of the Act. Provides that the Department shall require a funeral establishment to maintain an identification system that ensures that a funeral establishment is able to identify the human remains in its possession through final disposition. Amends the Crematory Regulation Act. Defines "chain of custody record" and "uniquely identified". Provides that a crematory authority shall maintain a chain of custody record, which is an identification system that ensures that a crematory authority is able to identify the human remains in its possession throughout all phases of the cremation process.
STATUS
Passed
SB2933 - MEDICAL DEBT REPORTING-FRAUD
Steve Stadelman, Michael E. Hastings, Michael W. Halpin
Last updated 5 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a consumer reporting agency: (1) to 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; and (2) to maintain in the file on a consumer any information relating to medical debt incurred by a consumer or a collection action against the consumer to collect medical debt.
STATUS
Passed
SB2872 - SCH CD-RELAXATION ACTIVITIES
Rachel Ventura, Mike Simmons, Laura Faver Dias
Last updated 4 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school district shall provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least once a week, relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of students as part of the school day. Specifies which activities may be considered relaxation activities. Provides that a school district may partner with local community-based organizations to provide relaxation activities. Provides that these activities may take place in a physical education class, social-emotional learning class, or student-support or advisory class or as a part of another similar class, including a new class.
STATUS
Passed
SB2878 - PROP TX-SENIOR HOMESTEAD EXMPT
Laura Ellman, Lakesia Collins, Michael E. Hastings
Last updated 7 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the senior citizens homestead exemption, permanently removes the requirement to reapply for the exemption in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants (currently, that requirement was eliminated only for taxable years 2019 through 2023). In counties with less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, provides that, if the county board passes a resolution removing the requirement to reapply for the exemption, the chief county assessment official shall conduct, by no later than December 31 of the first year of each reassessment cycle, an audit of all senior citizen homestead exemptions granted for the preceding reassessment cycle.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB2347 - JUV CT-COMMITMENT-AGE
Rita Mayfield, Carol Ammons, Anne M. Stava-Murray
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1. Further amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission shall study and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding the impact and advisability of raising the minimum age of detention to 14, and develop a process to assist in the implementation of the provisions of the amendatory Act. Further amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that probation and court services shall document and share on a monthly basis with the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission each instance where alternatives to detention failed or were lacking, including the basis for detention, the providers who were contacted, and the reason alternatives were rejected, lacking, or denied. Provides that instead of detention, minors under the age of 13 who are in conflict with the law may be held accountable through a petition under the Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention Article of the Act, or may be held accountable through a community mediation program. Provides that on or after July 1, 2025, with the exception of minors age 12 years or older and charged with first degree murder, aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated battery in which a firearm was used in the offense, or aggravated vehicular hijacking, any minor 13 years of age or older arrested pursuant to the Act where there is probable cause to believe that the minor is a delinquent minor and that secure custody is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity in light of a serious threat to the physical safety of a person or persons in the community, or to secure the presence of the minor at the next hearing as evidenced by a demonstrable record of willful failure to appear at a scheduled court hearing within the past 12 months may be kept or detained in an authorized detention facility. Deletes the provisions raising the minimum age from 13 to 14 in which the minor may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
STATUS
Engrossed
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Senator from Illinois district SD-007
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