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SB0646 - HEALTH-TECH
Don Harmon, Kimberly A. Lightford, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Task Force for a Healing-Centered Illinois Act. Creates the Healing-Centered Illinois Task Force to advance the State's efforts to become trauma-informed and healing-centered through improved alignment of existing efforts, common definitions and metrics, and strategic planning for long-term transformation. Sets forth the Task Force's objectives, including, but not limited to: (i) recommending shared language and common definitions for the State to become trauma-informed and healing-centered across sectors by aligning language and definitions included in the work of the Whole Child Task Force, the Children's Mental Health Transformation Initiative, and the Illinois Children's Mental Health Plan; (ii) ensuring the meaningful inclusion in Task Force matters of young people, parents, survivors of trauma, and residents who have engaged with Illinois systems or policies, such as child welfare and the legal criminal system; (iii) identifying the current training capacity and the training needs to support healing-centered and trauma-informed environments among organizations, professional cohorts, educational institutions, and future practitioners and project how best to meet those needs; and (iv) identifying what, if any, administrative or legislative policy changes are needed to advance goals to make Illinois a healing-centered or trauma-informed State. Contains provisions on Task Force membership; Task Force meetings; and reporting requirements. Provides that the Task Force is dissolved, and the Act is repealed, one year after the date of the Task Force's report.
STATUS
Passed
HB0579 - REGULATION-TECH
Robyn Gabel, Bob Morgan, Elizabeth Hernandez
Last updated over 1 year ago
40 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Department of Insurance Law. Sets forth provisions concerning the Marketplace Director of the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Sets forth provisions concerning an exemption regarding any procurements necessary for the Department of Insurance to implement the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Law. Amends the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Law. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall operate the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange as a State-based exchange using the federal platform by plan year 2025 and as a State-based exchange by plan year 2026. Provides that, except where inconsistent with State law, the Department shall enforce health plan coverage requirements under the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that apply to the individual and small group markets. Provides that the Director of Insurance may elect to add a small business health options program to the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange. Provides that the General Assembly shall appropriate funds to establish the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange. Provides that issuers must remit an assessment in monthly installments to the Department. Sets forth provisions concerning State medical assistance program coordination and provisions concerning the authority of the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Creates the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Fund. Sets forth provisions creating the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange Advisory Committee. Makes a conforming change in the State Finance Act. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1907 - EDUC-EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Celina Villanueva, Mary Edly-Allen, Rachel Ventura
Last updated over 1 year ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Defines "wellness kiosk". Replaces references to "vending machine" with "wellness kiosk". Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SR0589 - MEMORIAL-RUTH A. COLBY
Michael E. Hastings, Rachel Ventura, John F. Curran
Last updated about 1 year ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Mourns the passing of Ruth A. (Cohen) Colby.
STATUS
Passed
HB2389 - VEH CD-WINDSHIELD DRIVERS VIEW
LaShawn K. Ford, Angelica J. Guerrero-Cuellar, Joyce Mason
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that no motor vehicle, or driver or passenger of a motor vehicle, shall be stopped or searched by any law enforcement officer solely on the basis of a violation or suspected violation of driving a motor vehicle with any objects placed or suspended between the driver and the front windshield which materially obstructs the driver's view.
STATUS
Passed
HB3708 - FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED CITIES
Debbie Meyers-Martin, William Davis, Rachel Ventura
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Financially Distressed City Law of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, if a financially distressed city or the city's Financial Advisory Authority is awarded a State grant, any moneys the financially distressed city or Authority would be required to match under the grant are waived unless the moneys under the grant come from federal moneys that require the match. Provides that a municipality's status as a financially distressed city may not negatively impact a decision of whether or not to award a State grant to the municipality or negatively impact the amount of moneys received by the municipality from a State grant. Provides that, in addition to a request by the corporate authorities of a municipality to be certified and designated as a financially distressed city, the State Treasurer may conduct a preliminary review of the municipality's finances and establish a review team to make recommendations to the Governor for a municipality to be certified and designated as a financially distressed city. Provides an additional method for a municipality to qualify as a financially distressed city. Includes provisions allowing the municipality's Financial Advisory Authority to commence an action in circuit court to enforce the Law if the corporate authorities or employees of the municipality materially violate the provisions of the Law. Makes conforming and other changes.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB1364 - 9-8-8 TASK FORCE
Will Guzzardi, Lindsey LaPointe, Maurice A. West
Last updated over 1 year ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the short title of the Act to the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Workgroup Act. Removes provisions creating the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Task Force. Provides that the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, shall convene a working group that includes members of the General Assembly, representatives of State agencies, the State's Chief Behavioral Health Officer, the Director of the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative, service providers from the regional and statewide 9-8-8 call centers, representatives of organizations that represent people with mental health conditions or substance use disorders and that operate an Illinois social services helpline or crisis line other than 9-8-8, including veterans' crisis services, more than one individual with personal or family lived experience of a mental health condition or substance use disorder, experts in research and operational evaluation, and any other person or persons as determined by the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health. Requires the Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health, to submit a report to the General Assembly regarding the Workgroup's findings related to the 9-8-8 call system. Modifies the Workgroup's responsibilities, including removing requirements to review the recommendations and decisions of previous State-led workgroups on transforming the mental health crisis response system and that the action plan must include a plan to sustainably fund a statewide 9-8-8 call center network in fiscal year 2025 and beyond. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1407 - RIVERS EDGE-JOLIET & KANKAKEE
Meg Loughran Cappel, Patrick J. Joyce, Rachel Ventura
Last updated almost 2 years ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may certify 2 additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zones, including one in the City of Joliet and one in the City of Kankakee. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2014 - IDOT-SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS
Mike Simmons, Ram Villivalam, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
19 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2024, the Department shall provide a semi-annual report to the General Assembly on pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements on non-highway State routes that have been initiated, are in progress, or are recently completed. The Department shall provide the reports every June 30th and January 1st thereafter. Adds an immediate effective date.
STATUS
Passed
SB1701 - SOIL & WATER CONSERVATION DIST
Ram Villivalam, Doris Turner, Jason Plummer
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Makes the following changes in the provisions regarding the Partners for Conservation Fund and the Partners for Conservation Projects Fund in the State Finance Act: provides that the Funds may be used to support (rather than implement) the State's Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy; removes new purposes that the Funds may be used for relating to the Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy, grants to support soil and water conservation districts, and development of a Healthy Soils and Watersheds AmeriCorps program; provides that the use of moneys of the Funds for implementation of a crop insurance premium discount program must be used for a State-level implementation; removes added amounts that would have been transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Partners for Conservation Fund; and removes provisions allowing the Fund to receive grants, gifts, and awards from any public or private entity for the purpose of expanding financial and technical assistance in order to advance nutrient loss reduction efforts within priority watersheds. Makes the following changes in the provisions amending the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Act: changes the Initiative to the Illinois Healthy Soils Initiative (rather than the Illinois Healthy Soils and Watersheds Initiative); removes references to watersheds and nutrient loss reduction from the Initiative; provides that the Department of Agriculture shall report on progress of the Initiative annually (rather than as a component of biennial reporting for the Illinois Nutrient Loss Reduction Strategy); changes a goals and needs assessment to a soil health assessment; makes changes to the goals and needs for soil health assessments that the Department shall consider in the Initiative; removes provisions providing that the Initiative should seek to leverage funding and resources from local, State, federal, and private entities and that the Initiative may be coordinated with research and pilot projects directed by the Nutrient Research and Education Council; and makes conforming and other changes. Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to the Department of Agriculture's Soil and Water Conservation District Grants Program. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
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