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SB3280 - CEMETERY OVERSIGHT-RELIGIOUS
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Cemetery Oversight Act. Provides that the definition of "religious cemetery" includes any cemetery in which at least 70% of annual interments and entombments for each of the preceding 2 calendar years are made in accordance with the temporalities of a single recognized church, religious society, association, or denomination.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3282 - ROTA-PURCHASE REVIEW
Sara Feigenholtz, Joe C. Sosnowski, Martin McLaughlin
Last updated about 1 month ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, by March 31 of each year, each holder of a Direct Pay Permit shall review its purchase activity for the 12-month period ending on December 31 of the immediately preceding calendar year to verify that the purchases made in that 12-month period were sourced correctly and the correct tax rate was applied. Provides that the Direct Pay Permit holder is subject to a $6,000 penalty for failure to properly verify purchase activity and correct sourcing and tax rate errors. Provides that the penalty does not apply if at least 95% of the Direct Pay Permit holder's transactions for the applicable 12-month review period are correctly sourced and the correct taxes have been remitted or the permit holder acted with ordinary business care and prudence. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3281 - STATE EMPLOYEE INS-MENTAL HLTH
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that if a prescription drug approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a mental illness is removed or substituted on the drug formulary and that prescription drug has been prescribed to an employee, retired employee, annuitant, or beneficiary covered under the Act and has been successfully treating the employee, retired employee, annuitant, or beneficiary for 6 or more months, the program of health benefits shall continue to provide coverage to that individual for that prescription drug as though the prescription drug had not been removed or substituted on the drug formulary.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3316 - CHILDREN-MENTAL HEALTH
Sara Feigenholtz, Julie A. Morrison, Karina Villa
Last updated 8 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
Amends various Acts concerning children's mental health. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Governor, and relevant stakeholders as needed shall release a strategy that includes a tool for measuring capacity and readiness to implement universal mental health screening of students. Provides that the State Board of Education shall issue a report to the Governor and the General Assembly on school district readiness and plan for phased approach to universal mental health screening of students on or before April 1, 2025. Repeals the Wellness Checks in Schools Program Act. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall implement guidance to managed care organizations and similar care coordination entities contracted with the Department, so that the managed care organizations and care coordination entities respond to lead indicators with services and interventions that are designed to help stabilize the child. Amends the Children's Mental Health Act. Provides that the Children's Mental Health Partnership shall advise the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Initiative on designing and implementing short-term and long-term strategies to provide comprehensive and coordinated services for children from birth to age 25 and their families with the goal of addressing children's mental health needs across a full continuum of care, including social determinants of health, prevention, early identification, and treatment. Provides that the Department of Public health (rather than the Department of Healthcare and Family Services) shall provide technical and administrative support for the Partnership. Deletes provision that the Partnership shall employ an Executive Director and set the compensation of the Executive Director and other such employees and technical assistance as it deems necessary to carry out its duties. Amends the Interagency Children's Behavioral Health Services Act. Provides that the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team in collaboration with the Department of Human Services shall develop a program to provide one-on-one in-home respite behavioral health aids to youth requiring intensive supervision due to behavioral health needs. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SR0716 - FDA-APPROVE CAT FIP TREATMENT
Jil Walker Tracy, Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 4 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Encourages the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve GS-441524 and remdesivir to treat feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) in cats.
STATUS
Passed
SB3916 - LOCAL GOV-BIODIESEL
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 6 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, if a county or a municipality certifies to the Department of Transportation that, whenever possible, it uses a biodiesel blend that meets or exceeds the requirements for a use tax exemption, then that municipality or county is entitled to an additional payment equal to 1% of the municipality's or county's allotment from the Local Government Distributive Fund during that fiscal year. Provides for the transfer of certain amounts from the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government Biodiesel Supplemental Distributive Fund and amends the State Revenue Sharing Act to create the Local Government Biodiesel Supplemental Distributive Fund. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to provide for emergency rulemaking. Effective July 1, 2024.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2822 - DENTAL SEDATION PERMITS
Julie A. Morrison, Dave Syverson, William Cunningham
Last updated 3 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Defines the terms "deep sedation", "general anesthesia", and "moderate sedation". Provides for the minimum education requirements for permits to administer deep sedation, general anesthesia, and moderate sedation. Replaces all uses of the term "conscious sedation" with the term "moderate sedation". Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB3395 - MUSIC TAX CREDIT ACT
Sara Feigenholtz, Lakesia Collins, Mike Porfirio
Last updated 8 months ago
8 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Music and Musicians Tax Credit and Jobs Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may award credits to qualified music companies. Creates the Music Education Scholarship Act. Provides that the Board of Higher Education may award scholarships to applicants who are enrolled in or accepted for admission to an associate, baccalaureate, or graduate degree program in music education and who agree to meet certain teaching obligations. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates certain income tax credits for theater infrastructure projects. Amends the Live Theater Production Tax Credit Act. Renames the Act as the Live Music and Theater Production Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Act also applies to musical performances.
STATUS
Introduced
SB3481 - EPA-BESS
Sara Feigenholtz, Mary Edly-Allen, Anna Moeller
Last updated about 1 month ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that battery storage sites at which 5,000 kilograms or more of used batteries are stored must register with the Environmental Protection Agency prior to February 2026 or prior to commencing operation if not in operation in February 2026 and maintain records related to the weight or volume of batteries stored. Provides requirements for registration. Provides that the Agency shall propose and the Pollution Control Board shall adopt rules for the operation of battery storage sites no later than 1 year after the effective date of this amendatory Act, and provides requirements for those rules. Defines terms.
STATUS
Passed
SB3380 - DHFS-NURSING-ADD-ON PAYMENTS
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to make certain per diem add-on payments to nursing facilities that meet specified staffing levels indicated by the STRIVE study, provides that whenever the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no longer updates the STRIVE study, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall use the last quarter STRIVE numbers for add-on calculations and shall not decrease the payment amounts until a replacement staff time measurement study is incorporated by law.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-006
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Sara Feigenholtz was born in Chicago, Illinois. She earned her B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1980. Feigenholtz was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1994. She serves on several committees including Adoption & Child Welfare; Appropriations-Higher Education; Energy & Environment; Human Services; and Mental Health.read less
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Illinois Senate from Illinois
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