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SB3937 - METROPOLITAN MOBILITY AUTH ACT
Ram Villivalam, Robert Peters, Natalie Toro
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act, and establishes the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Provides that the Chicago Transit Authority, the Commuter Rail Division and the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and the Regional Transportation Authority are consolidated into the Metropolitan Mobility Authority and the Service Boards are abolished, instead creating the Suburban Bus Operating Division, Commuter Rail Operating Division, and the Chicago Transit Operating Division. Reinserts, reorganizes, and changes some provisions from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act into the new Act. Includes provisions about the operation of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Repeals the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Amends various Acts, Laws, and Codes to make conforming changes. Creates the Equitable Transit-Supportive Development Act. Establishes the Office of Transit-Oriented Development and the Transit-Supportive Development Fund. Provides that the Office and the Fund are to aid transit-supportive development near high-quality transit by providing specified funding to municipalities that have adopted the standards in the transit support overlay district for that area or that have adopted zoning and other changes that the Office determines have benefits greater than or equal to such a District, including transit support overlay districts. Includes provisions relating to Office standards, procedures, and reports. Amends the State Finance Act to make a conforming change. Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code. Requires the Department to establish, staff, and support an Office of Public Transportation Support for the purpose of optimizing the operation of public transportation vehicles and the delivery of public transportation services on highways under the Department's jurisdiction in the Metropolitan Mobility Authority's metropolitan region. Describes the duties and operations of the Office. Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that the Chair of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority is a nonvoting member of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3727 - PATIENT ACCESS 340B PHARMACY
Ann Gillespie, Mike Simmons, Javier Loera Cervantes
Last updated 9 months ago
27 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may deny, restrict, prohibit, condition, or otherwise interfere with, either directly or indirectly, the acquisition of a 340B drug by, or delivery of a 340B drug to, a 340B covered entity or a 340B contract pharmacy authorized to receive 340B drugs on behalf of the 340B covered entity unless such receipt is prohibited by federal law. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may impose any restriction on the ability of a 340B covered entity to contract with or designate a 340B contract pharmacy including restrictions relating to the number, location, ownership, or type of 340B contract pharmacy. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may require or compel a 340B covered entity or 340B contract pharmacy to submit or otherwise provide ingredient cost or pricing data pertinent to 340B drugs; institute requirements in any way relating to how a 340B covered entity manages its inventory of 340B drugs that are not required by a State or federal agency, including requirements relating to the frequency or scope of audits of inventory management systems of a 340B covered entity or a 340B contract pharmacy; or require a 340B covered entity or its 340B contract pharmacy to submit or otherwise provide data or information that is not required by State or federal law. Sets forth provisions concerning enforcement of this Act; preemption of this Act; and severability of this Act. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5078 - REGIONAL PLANNING ACT-CMAP
Robert Rita, Eva Dina Delgado, William Davis
Last updated 3 months ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Authorizes the Director of Central Management Services to execute and deliver to the Tinley Park - Park District a quitclaim deed, quitclaim bill of sale, and any ancillary documents, for $1, to specified real property, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB5395 - NETWORK ADEQUACY-STANDARDS
Anna Moeller, Robyn Gabel, Eva Dina Delgado
Last updated 4 months ago
83 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes that include the following. Requires the issuer of a network plan to submit a self-audit of its provider directory and a summary to the Department of Insurance, which the Department shall make publicly available. Makes changes to the information that must be provided in a network plan directory. Sets forth required actions if an issuer or the Department identifies a provider incorrectly listed in the provider directory. Removes provisions repealing the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act and the related changes. Makes changes to provisions concerning confidentiality; transition of services; unreasonable and inadequate rates; the definitions of "excepted benefits" and "step therapy requirement"; off-formulary exception requests; algorithmic automated review processes; utilization review criteria; and adverse determinations. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2025, except that certain changes to the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act take effect January 1, 2026.
STATUS
Passed
SB3936 - CLEAN&EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION
Ram Villivalam, Napoleon Harris, Laura Fine
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act, and establishes the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Provides that the Chicago Transit Authority, the Commuter Rail Division and the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and the Regional Transportation Authority are consolidated into the Metropolitan Mobility Authority and the Service Boards are abolished, instead creating the Suburban Bus Operating Division, Commuter Rail Operating Division, and the Chicago Transit Operating Division. Reinserts, reorganizes, and changes some provisions from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act into the new Act and repeals those Acts. Includes provisions about the operation of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Creates the Equitable Transit-Supportive Development Act. Establishes the Office of Transit-Oriented Development. Provides that the Office and the Fund are to aid transit-supportive development near high-quality transit by providing specified funding to municipalities that have adopted the standards in the transit support overlay district for that area or that have adopted zoning and other changes that the Office determines have benefits greater than or equal to such a District, including transit support overlay districts. Includes provisions relating to Office standards, procedures, and reports. Creates the Zero-Emission Vehicle Act. Provides that all on-road vehicles purchased or leased by a governmental unit on or after January 1, 2028 must be a manufactured zero-emission vehicle, repowered zero-emission vehicle, manufactured near zero-emission vehicle, or repowered near zero-emission vehicle. Provides that on and after January 1, 2033, all on-road vehicles purchased or leased by a governmental unit must be a manufactured zero-emission vehicle or repowered zero-emission vehicle. Provides that, by January 1, 2048, all on-road vehicles operated by a governmental unit must be a manufactured or repowered zero-emission vehicle. Sets forth provisions implementing the Act, including requiring the Department of Central Management Services to adopt certain rules. Amends various Acts, Laws, and Codes to make conforming changes for the new Acts and to make other changes. Provides that some provisions are effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB0340 - EDUCATION-TECH
Michelle Mussman, Emanuel Welch, Diane Blair-Sherlock
Last updated 4 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Inserts the contents of House Amendment No. 1 but removes a conforming change.
STATUS
Passed
SB3764 - DHS-DIRECT SUPPORT-RATES
Karina Villa, Laura M. Murphy, Paul Faraci
Last updated 9 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase in the rate methodology sufficient to provide a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases. Provides that the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025 shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding direct support personnel, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as defined by rule by the Department of Human Services. Provides that for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the ID/DD Community Care Act as ID/DD facilities and under the MC/DD Act as MC/DD facilities, subject to federal approval of a State Plan Amendment, the rates taking effect for services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, shall include a $3 per hour wage rate increase for all direct support personnel and all other frontline personnel who are not subject to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage increases and who work in residential and community day services settings, with at least $1.50 of those funds to be provided as a direct increase to all aide base wages and the remaining $1.50 to be used flexibly for base wage increases to the rate methodology for aides. Provides that for residential services delivered on or after January 1, 2025, the rates shall include an increase sufficient to provide wages for all residential non-executive direct care staff, excluding aides, at the federal Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics' average wage as determined by the Department. Requires the Department to adopt rules, including emergency rules, to implement the amendatory Act.
STATUS
Introduced
SB0898 - TRANSPORTATION-TECH
Ram Villivalam, Donald P. DeWitte, Jay C. Hoffman
Last updated 3 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every owner of a vehicle that is in the State for which no Illinois certificate of title has been issued by the Secretary of State and every owner of a vehicle that is in the State applying for a duplicate certificate of title or a corrected certificate of title to make application to the Secretary of State for an Illinois duplicate certificate of title or corrected certificate of title. Provides that any owner of a vehicle in the State with a certificate of title that was issued by an entity other than the Secretary of State and showing an Illinois address for the owner must be converted to an Illinois title before the owner can transfer the vehicle. Provides that under no circumstances shall a dealer required to obtain an Illinois certificate of title be allowed to obtain an out-of-state certificate of title for purposes of a vehicle held for sale in the State by the dealer. Provides that under no circumstances shall a dealer be allowed to obtain an out-of-state certificate of title in lieu of an Illinois-issued dealer lien release certificate of title when a dealer may have need of such title issuance. Prohibits a certificate of title or a duplicate certificate of title issued by another State showing an Illinois address for the owner from being used to transfer ownership of a vehicle. Requires the owner of a vehicle with a certificate of title or duplicate certificate of title issued by another state showing an Illinois address to first convert the certificate of title to an Illinois certificate of title before transferring ownership of the vehicle. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB2984 - $PUBLIC HEALTH-CLINICS
Karina Villa, Adriane Johnson, Javier Loera Cervantes
Last updated 10 months ago
16 Co-Sponsors
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
HB5507 - GENDER IDENTITY-CORRECT INFO
Kevin John Olickal, Mary Beth Canty, Kelly M. Cassidy
Last updated 5 months ago
26 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Creates a process that an Illinois resident may use to seek an Illinois judicial order making findings of fact to change a birth certificate issued in another state or country so the Illinois resident may petition the issuing jurisdiction to change the birth certificate. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
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