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SB1561 - SMOKE FREE ILLINOIS-E-CIG
Celina Villanueva, Mattie Hunter, Laura M. Murphy
Last updated about 1 year ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Changes the effective date of the Abortion Care Clinical Training Program Act to January 1, 2025 (rather than effective immediately). Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Changes the definition of "lawful health care". Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Sets forth provisions concerning coverage of preventive health services. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Sets forth provisions concerning postgraduate training exemption periods and visiting rotations. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1774 - CLINICAL TRIAL PARTICIPATION
Adriane Johnson, Laura M. Murphy, Linda Holmes
Last updated about 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Cancer Clinical Trial Participation Program Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Clinical Trial Participation Program Act. Throughout the Act, replaces references to "cancer clinical trial" with references to "clinical trial" and makes conforming changes. Provides that "clinical trial" includes a voluntary research study conducted on people and designed to answer specific questions about the safety or effectiveness of a drug, vaccine, therapy, medical device, medical diagnostic, or new way of using an existing treatment to treat or diagnose a condition. Defines "condition". Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB1998 - STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Personnel Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2037 - COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
Don Harmon, Javier Loera Cervantes, Mike Simmons
Last updated about 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Creates the Community Land Trust Task Force Act. Establishes the Community Land Trust Task Force to collect data regarding the current use of community land trusts in Illinois and opportunities for expansion statewide, in addition to other specified duties. Includes provisions about membership, compensation, and vacancies; meetings; and administrative support. Requires the Community Land Trust Task Force Act to submit a final report to the Governor and the General Assembly making specific recommendations of legislative and budgetary action that supports the mission of community land trusts to foster affordable housing and homeownership. Provides that the Task Force is dissolved and the Act is repealed on December 31, 2024. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SB2418 - DONOR-CONCEIVED PERSON PROTECT
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Creates the Donor-Conceived Persons and Families of Donor-Conceived Persons Protection Act. Requires a gamete agency, gamete bank, or fertility clinic to: collect and maintain identifying information and medical history from a donor; obtain a declaration from a donor agreeing to an identity disclosure; provide a donor-conceived person, upon request, with the identifying information of the donor; provide a donor-conceived person, or the parents of a minor donor-conceived person, upon request, nonidentifying medical history of the donor; permanently maintain other specified information; submit a proposed plan to permanently maintain records in the event of dissolution, insolvency, or bankruptcy; and comply with federal reporting requirements. Requires the Department of Public Health to develop written materials for intended recipient parents and gamete donors, which shall be provided to the intended recipient parents and gamete donors by a gamete agency, gamete bank, or fertility clinic. Provides for limitations regarding: the number of families established with gamete matches; the number of donor retrieval cycles per ovum donor; and the age of donors. On or after January 1, 2025, requires a gamete agency, gamete bank, or fertility clinic to be licensed by the Department, and includes application and renewal procedures. Requires the Department to establish a schedule of fees to meet the direct and indirect costs of administration and enforcement of the Act, including a fee for licensure, to be deposited into the Gamete Agency, Gamete Bank, or Fertility Clinic Fund. Allows the Department to issue a provisional license. Provides that it is a violation of the Act for any person, corporation, or other entity to operate as a gamete agency, gamete bank, or fertility clinic without a valid license or in violation of the terms and conditions of a license. Allows the Department to revoke or refuse to renew a license or assess a civil penalty of not more than $20,000 for each day the person violates the Act. Makes conforming changes in the Freedom of Information Act, the State Finance Act, and the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2189 - ACCESS TO AFFORD INSULIN ACT
Jenn Ladisch Douglass, Lakesia Collins, Will Guzzardi
Last updated about 1 year ago
89 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Creates the Access to Affordable Insulin Act. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall offer a discount program that allows participants to purchase insulin at a discounted, post-rebate price. Sets forth provisions concerning the insulin discount program. Defines terms. Provides a July 1, 2025 effective date (rather than January 1, 2025).
STATUS
Passed
SB1559 - ACCESS AFFORDABLE INSULIN ACT
Kimberly A. Lightford, Cristina Castro, Christopher Belt
Last updated 10 months ago
40 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2027, the Department of Agriculture shall not make the application available for transporting organization licenses. Provides that entities awarded a transporting license shall not be required to pay any fee required under the Transporting Organizations Article of the Act, the nonrefundable renewal fee required under that Article, or any other license fee required under that Article or by rule from January 1, 2024 to January 1, 2027. Provides that upon completion of the disparity and availability study published by the Illinois Cannabis Regulation Oversight Officer, the Department may modify or change the licensing application process to reduce or eliminate barriers and remedy discrimination identified in the study. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
HB2245 - VEH CD-STOLEN VEHICLE HOTLINES
Martin J. Moylan, Natalie A. Manley, Daniel Didech
Last updated about 1 year ago
110 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: In the Illinois Vehicle Code: Provides that a manufacturer or its vehicle location vendor shall relay vehicle location information to the best of their technical capabilities when: the 9-1-1 call center or designated dispatch center or responding law enforcement official provides adequate verification of their identity as a law enforcement officer and the identity of the responding law enforcement official to the manufacturer or the vehicle location vendor; and the responding law enforcement officials certifies to the manufacturer or the vehicle location vendor that the situation involves a clear and present danger of death or great bodily harm to persons resulting from a vehicular hijacking or kidnapping incident. Provides that a vehicle manufacturer or a subsidiary, vendor, employee, officer, director, representative, or contractor of the vehicle manufacturer shall not be liable and no cause of action shall arise under the laws of the State for providing, or in good faith attempting to provide, information or assistance to a law enforcement agency, 9-1-1 call center, or designated dispatch center pursuant to the mechanisms and processes established under the Code. Amends the Freedom From Location Surveillance Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency is not prohibited from seeking to obtain local information in an emergency situation involving a vehicular hijacking.
STATUS
Passed
SB2165 - ELECTIONS-TECH
Sara Feigenholtz
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2228 - PERSONNEL CODE REVISIONS
Linda Holmes, Kimberly A. Lightford, Julie A. Morrison
Last updated about 1 year ago
15 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts provisions of the engrossed bill with changes. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall make available, on its website or the equivalent, information regarding all exempt positions in State service and information showing the number of employees who are exempt and non-exempt from merit selection in each department. Restores a provision concerning the definition of flexible hours position for departments or agencies subject to Jurisdiction C. Restores provisions concerning goals for flexible hour positions in departments and agencies. Makes other technical changes.
STATUS
Passed
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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