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HR0584 - SUPERMAN DAY
Jawaharial Williams, Patrick Windhorst
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Declares February 29, 2024 as Superman Day.
STATUS
Passed
SB1072 - GOVERNMENT-TECH
Susan Rezin, Mike Porfirio, Michael E. Hastings
Last updated about 1 year ago
134 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Flag Display Act. Designates the Honor and Remember Flag as the symbol of the State's concern for and commitment to honoring and remembering the lives of all members of the United States armed forces who have lost their lives while serving or as a result of service and their families. Provides for the dates when and the locations where the Honor and Remember Flag must be displayed. Amends the Condominium Property Act. Adds the Honor and Remember Flag under the definition of "military flag" that is permitted to be flown by a unit owner under certain circumstances. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0031 - OFFICER PIERCE MEMORIAL HGWY
Dale Fowler, Jason Plummer, Paul Jacobs
Last updated over 1 year ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Designates the section of Illinois Route 37 from Longstreet Road to Prosperity Road as it passes Spillertown as the "Officer Brian Pierce Jr. Memorial Highway".
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1456 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Patrick Windhorst
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Law Enforcement Officer Bulletproof Vest Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0855 - STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH
Laura Fine, Terri Bryant, Karina Villa
Last updated over 1 year ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Residential Facility Safety and Support Act. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. In provisions concerning investigative reports issued by the Department of Human Services' Inspector General that pertain to allegations of resident abuse or neglect at State-operated mental health facilities, expands the list of reportable conduct to include material obstruction of an investigation by a facility employee. Requires the Inspector General to report to the Department of Public Health's Health Care Worker Registry, the identity and finding of each employee of a facility or agency against whom there is a final investigative report prepared by the Office of the Inspector General containing a substantiated allegation of material obstruction of an investigation. Defines "material obstruction of an investigation" and "presenting untruthful information". Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Prohibits mental health facilities or agencies that are licensed, certified, operated, or funded by the Department of Human Services from employing any person identified by the Health Care Worker Registry as having been the subject of a substantiated finding of physical abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, egregious neglect, or material obstruction of an investigation (rather than abuse or neglect of a service recipient). Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Prohibits health care employers from hiring or retaining any individual in a position with duties involving direct care of clients, patients, or residents who has a finding by the Department of Human Services denoted on the Health Care Worker Registry of material obstruction of an investigation. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB1430 - CRIM CD-AGG BAT-HLTH CARE WKR
Patrick Windhorst
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered to be a health care worker (rather than a nurse) while in the performance of his or her duties as a health care worker (rather than a nurse). Provides that "health care worker" has the meaning provided in the Health Care Violence Prevention Act.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1389 - OBSTRUCT JUSTICE-BODY CAMERAS
Jackie Haas, Dennis Tipsword, Patrick Sheehan
Last updated over 1 year ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person also obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly takes a body camera or any part of a body camera from a person known to be a peace officer. Provides that a violation, if the body camera or any part of the body camera is taken from the peace officer during the commission of an offense that has caused great bodily harm to the officer or another person, is a Class 1 felony. Provides that any other violation of this provision is a Class 2 felony.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1446 - CRIMINAL LAW-TECH
Patrick Windhorst
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1433 - CRIM CD-EAVESDROP EXEMPTION
Patrick Windhorst
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Eliminates the sunset of the exemption from an eavesdropping violation that provides with prior request to and written or verbal approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a qualified offense as specified in the statute. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB1542 - $LAW ENFORCEMENT CAMERA GRANTS
Dan Ugaste, Jeff Keicher, Dennis Tipsword
Last updated over 1 year ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $80,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board for deposit into the Law Enforcement Camera Grant Fund to assist units of local government in Illinois with full compliance with the mandates of the Law Enforcement Officer-Worn Body Camera Act. Contains provisions on legislative findings. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Illinois district HD-117
COMMITTEES
Illinois House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Unfortunately I am not able to access or reproduce potentially copyrighted material from the link provided. However, here is a summary of Representative Patrick Windhorst's biography: Patrick Windhorst is a Republican member of the Missouri House of Representatives, representing District 139. He was elected to his first two-year term in November 2018. Windhorst previously served as an alderman for the city of Hillsboro, Missouri. He is an attorney who owns his own law firm focused on agricultural law, real estate law, estate planning, and business formation. Windhorst graduated from Hillsboro High School. He earned his bachelor's degree in agricultural economics from the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, and his law degree from Saint Louis University School of Law. He lives in Hillsboro with his wife and two sons.read less
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