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SB3384 - $DHS-SEXUAL HEALTH ED
Ram Villivalam, Sara Feigenholtz, David Koehler
Last updated 9 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services to implement Public Act 102-522 and provide grants to local school districts and community organizations for comprehensive personal health and safety education in kindergarten through the 5th grade and comprehensive sexual health education in the 6th through 12th grades. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3466 - MEDICAID-PAYMENTS-CNA HOURS
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning payments to nursing facilities to increase compensation for certified nursing assistants (CNA), removes language requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish, by rule, payments to nursing facilities equal to Medicaid's share of the tenure wage increments for all reported CNA employee hours compensated. Instead provides that, based on the schedule set forth in the amendatory Act, the Department shall pay to each facility Medicaid's share of the facility's estimated CNA hours performed by employees and agency workers, estimated overtime hours, and benefits and taxes paid to and on behalf of CNA workers at the beginning of each quarter. Provides that moneys paid by the Department to each facility and moneys paid by each facility to workers and agencies or on behalf of workers and agencies shall be reconciled at the end of each quarter. Sets for a schedule concerning the calculation of tenure compensation which shall include: (i) compensation for regular CNA hours; (ii) overtime calculated at time and a half; and (iii) benefits and taxes at 25%. Provides that estimates of overtime shall be calculated at time and a half and benefits and taxes at 25%. Requires the Department to pay the facility for qualifying promotions estimated at the beginning of each quarter and reconciled at the end of the quarter.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3465 - SUPPORTIVE LIVING STAFF RATIOS
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility that has received a notice of violation for a violation of minimum staffing requirements is not required to display a notice concerning the violation if staffing was at 90% of the minimum staffing requirements or the facility corrected the violation of the minimum staffing requirements before the posting deadline. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3383 - ELEC CD-SCHOOL POLLING PLACE
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of election commissioners may use public school buildings as polling places only if a school board or a local school council approves the use of that school. Provides that, if the county board or board of election commissioners uses all convenient and available public buildings and determines that a public school building is needed as a polling place, it shall send a written request to use the public school building to the school board or local school council. Sets forth provisions concerning the contents of the request and the response to the request. Amends the School Code. Provides that each school board or local school council shall have the power to approve or deny, in accordance with the school board or local school council's rules and policies, any request of a county board or board of election commissioners to use a school building as a polling place. Makes corresponding changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3462 - ILLINOIS GUARANTEED INCOME LAW
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Illinois Guaranteed Income Law. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Establishes the Guaranteed Income Implementation Board within the Department of Human Services to: (i) evaluate the efficacy of guaranteed income in improving outcomes for Illinois residents; (ii) propose statewide policies to create and implement one or more permanent guaranteed income programs; and (iii) provide oversight related to the implementation of any guaranteed income program enacted by the General Assembly. Sets forth the composition of the Board and provides that all appointments to the Board must be completed by August 31, 2024. Requires the Board to meet at the call of the co-chairs no less than 6 times a year with the first meeting to be held no later than 30 days after all Board members have been appointed. Provides that the Board must perform certain tasks including reviewing the landscape of cash supports available to low-income residents of Illinois and identifying populations without significant access to cash supports. Contains provisions concerning Board reporting requirements, Board recommendations and subcommittees, and other matters. Provides that the Board shall dissolve on December 31, 2027. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer, subject to appropriation, a Guaranteed Income for Illinois Program that provides a monthly cash benefit of $1,000 to Illinois residents, regardless of immigration status, who: (1) provides care for a child or other specified dependent; (2) recently gave birth or adopted a child; or (3) is enrolled in an educational or vocational program. Contains provisions on qualifying life events that effect eligibility determinations, renewal applications for benefits, and Department rules. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3386 - ABOVE-GROUND POOL STANDARDS
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 9 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Swimming Facility Act. Provides that rules adopted by the Department of Public Health under the Act must include unique design criteria and general standards for above-ground pools.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0331 - HIGHER ED-PAY DURING CLOSURE
Doris Turner, Dale Fowler, Meg Loughran Cappel
Last updated 4 months ago
24 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill but removes provisions requiring the governing board of each public university and community college district to pay contractors their daily, regular rate of pay and benefits if a campus is closed due to a city, county, or State declaration of a winter weather emergency.
STATUS
Passed
SB2877 - ADMIN PROC-LANGUAGE ASSISTANCE
Karina Villa, David Koehler, Javier Loera Cervantes
Last updated 10 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Specifies that the notice in contested case hearings must include an enclosure that notifies the recipient of the ability to request interpretive assistance for the hearing and to receive language assistance in translating the contents of the notice. Provides that an administrative law judge has the duty to inquire and determine whether a self-represented litigant or witness in a hearing needs interpretive assistance to participate in or understand the hearing. Authorizes any self-represented litigant, witness, or indigent person to request, at any time during the course of a hearing, interpretive assistance needed to participate in or understand the hearing. Provides that, if interpretive assistance is requested by a self-represented litigant, a witness, or an indigent person or if interpretive assistance is determined to be necessary by the administrative law judge, the administrative agency must appoint a foreign language interpreter at no cost to the person in need of the assistance for use in a substantive hearing. Authorizes an administrative agency to provide interpretive assistance during a nonsubstantive hearing through use of an interpreter who is not a foreign language interpreter, provided the administrative law judge examines the interpreter for competency for the purposes of the nonsubstantive hearing. Requires all persons appointed to provide interpretive assistance in substantive and nonsubstantive hearings to make certain affirmations. Contains provisions concerning waiver of these language assistance provisions.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0883 - GANDHI YOUTH MISSION DAY
Ram Villivalam
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Declares June 7, 2024 as Global Gandhi Youth Mission Day.
STATUS
Passed
SB3771 - HIGHER ED-EXONERATED GRANTS
Ram Villivalam, Mary Edly-Allen, Kevin John Olickal
Last updated 3 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to grants for exonerated persons. Provides that a grant applicant need not be a resident of this State at the time of enrollment. Provides that, beginning no later than the 2025-2026 academic year, if an exonerated person has been found by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to qualify for a grant and the exonerated person has not yet exhausted the benefits for which the exonerated person is eligible, the exonerated person may designate one or more dependents to use any unexpended portion of the benefits for which the exonerated person is eligible, up to the total benefit for which the exonerated person is eligible. Provides that the combined benefit used by the exonerated person and any designated dependents may not exceed the total benefit for which the exonerated person is eligible. Provides that if funding is insufficient to serve all applicants, the Commission may prioritize applicants who have been exonerated over applicants who are dependents of exonerated individuals. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. In provisions concerning a petition for a certificate of innocence, provides that the clerk of the circuit court shall provide to a person whose records were expunged and sealed information about grants for exonerated persons and their dependents under the Higher Education Student Assistance Act and the address of the Internet website of the Commission, where additional information about the grants may be obtained.
STATUS
Passed
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Senator from Illinois district SD-008
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