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SB3270 - REVENUE-TECH
Seth Lewis
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "year".
STATUS
Introduced
SB3269 - HWY CD-IMPACT FEE-REPEAL
Seth Lewis
Last updated 8 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that if a unit of local government that has adopted and implemented a road improvement impact fee by ordinance or resolution and repeals the ordinance or resolution, the collected fees, along with any accrued interest, in the existing impact fee accounts may be transferred to a transportation account to be used for capacity-related improvements. Valid impact fee refunds shall be processed in accordance with the procedures set forth in the repealed ordinance or resolution.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1974 - CRIM CD-AGG DOMESTIC BATTERY
Terri Bryant, Sally J. Turner, Erica Conway Harriss
Last updated over 1 year ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who, in committing a domestic battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, knows the individual battered to be a person 60 years of age or older commits aggravated domestic battery.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2823 - SEX OFFENSE-ABUSE BY EDUCATOR
Terri Bryant, Jason Plummer, Sally J. Turner
Last updated 8 months ago
14 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the conviction of certain offenses as grounds for disqualification for licensure or suspension or revocation of a license, includes the sex offense of abuse by an educator or authority figure under the definition of "sex or other offense". Amends the Sex Offenses Article of Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits abuse by an educator or authority figure if that person holds a position of trust, authority, or supervision in relation to a student in a school, the student is at least 18 years of age, the person is at least 4 years older than the student, and the person either (1) commits an act of sexual conduct with the student or (2) commits an act of sexual penetration with the student. Provides that abuse by an educator or authority figure is a Class 3 felony for the first offense and a Class 2 felony for a second or subsequent offense or if there is more than one victim. Provides that consent of the victim is not a defense to abuse by an educator or authority figure. Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Includes abuse by an educator or authority figure under the definitions of "sex offense" and "sexual predator".
STATUS
Introduced
SB2630 - ESTATE TAX-EXCLUSION AMOUNT
Jil Walker Tracy, Thomas M. Bennett, Neil Anderson
Last updated 11 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2025, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code as that Section exists on the effective date of the amendatory Act, including the inflation adjustment and including any deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1976 - CRIM CD-DOMESTIC ASSAULT
Terri Bryant, Sally J. Turner, Erica Conway Harriss
Last updated over 1 year ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of domestic assault. Provides that a person commits the offense when, without lawful authority, he or she knowingly engages in conduct that places any family or household member in reasonable apprehension of great bodily harm, or permanent disability or disfigurement. Provides that if the defendant is arrested for domestic assault, upon release of the defendant from custody pending trial, the court, at the preliminary examination, shall order that the defendant refrain from contact or communication with the victim of the domestic assault and refrain from entering or remaining at the victim's residence for a minimum of 72 consecutive hours. Provides that domestic assault is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "family or household member".
STATUS
Introduced
SB2809 - CD CORR-1ST DEG MUR-SHAKEN BAB
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson, Jason Plummer
Last updated 8 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the court shall sentence the defendant to a term of natural life imprisonment for first degree murder if the defendant, at the time of the commission of the murder, had attained the age of 18, and is found guilty of the first degree murder of a child under the age of 5 who is determined by the court, upon testimony of a physician, to have died from abusive head trauma caused by the defendant. Provides that "abusive head trauma" includes shaken baby syndrome. Defines "abusive head trauma" and shaken baby syndrome".
STATUS
Introduced
SB2597 - VETS-TINY HOMES-EV EXEMPTION
Sally J. Turner, John F. Curran, Jil Walker Tracy
Last updated 6 months ago
31 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Electric Vehicle Charging Act. Provides that the provisions of the Act shall not apply to any non-profit organization described in specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or to any other developer, association, or entity that administers a program to fund and construct tiny homes for veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and in need of secure, long-term affordable housing. Provides that every county and municipality which has the power to issue building permits and otherwise control the construction of buildings shall require by ordinance that an applicant seeking a building permit to construct tiny homes for at-risk veterans must include with the permit application a completed and signed affidavit stating that all buildings constructed under the permit are designated for the exclusive use of qualifying veterans who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and in need of secure, long-term affordable housing. Prohibits counties and municipalities, including home rule units, from adopting any building code or ordinance that requires EV-capable parking spaces for tiny homes constructed for the purpose of providing affordable housing for at-risk veterans. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Defines terms. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB2817 - LOBBYIST-OFFERS/PROMISES
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson, Jason Plummer
Last updated 8 months ago
7 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Provides that a lobbyist or lobbying entity may not promise anything of value to an official, State employee, or a candidate for a State executive or State legislative office for the person's support, action, or inaction for a specific legislative action or executive action, including, but not limited to, campaign contributions, endorsement of candidacy, or any in-kind contributions supporting an official, State employee, or candidate for a State executive or State legislative office. Prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying entity from soliciting an official or State employee to violate similar provisions of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that nothing in the provisions prevents the making or accepting of voluntary contributions otherwise in accordance with law.
STATUS
Introduced
SB2648 - USE TAX-MILITARY-VEHICLES
Jil Walker Tracy, Neil Anderson, Jason Plummer
Last updated 9 months ago
9 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, and the Vehicle Use Tax Article of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the taxes under those Acts do not apply to a motor vehicle that is registered in the State to an Illinois resident who acquired the vehicle while the Illinois resident was stationed outside of this State as an active duty member of the military.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
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Senator from Illinois district SD-024
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Seth Lewis is from Brookings, South Dakota. He earned his B.S. in biological sciences in 2018 from South Dakota State University. He has owned Lewis Family Seed Inc since 2015. Lewis served on the SDSU Seed Technology Club from 2014-2018. Lewis served as a legislative page in the South Dakota House of Representatives in 2013. He is currently seeking election to District 3 of the South Dakota House of Representatives.read less
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