SEE LATEST
SPONSORED LEGISLATION
HB0301 - EDUCATION-TECH
Katie Stuart, Daniel M. Swanson, Aaron M. Ortiz
Last updated about 1 year ago
48 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Removes language referring to the program as a pilot program. Requires each participating public university to indicate that grants under the program come from AIM HIGH and to use the words "AIM HIGH" in the name of any grant under the program and in any published or posted materials about the program. Provides that each public university campus shall allow qualified full-time undergraduate students to apply for a grant, but may choose to allow qualified part-time undergraduate students who are enrolling in their final semester at the public university campus to also apply. Provides that a public university in which an average of at least 49% of the students seeking a bachelor's degree or certificate received a Pell Grant over the prior 3 academic years shall match 35% (instead of 20%) of the amount of funds awarded in a given academic year with non-loan financial aid for eligible students. Provides that a public university in which an average of less than 49% of the students seeking a bachelor's degree or certificate received a Pell Grant over the prior 3 academic years shall match 70% (instead of 60%) of the amount of funds awarded in a given academic year with non-loan financial aid for eligible students. Provides that each public university campus must report to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission the total non-loan financial aid amount given by the public university campus to undergraduate students in the 2017-2018 academic year or the 2021-2022 academic year (instead of just the 2017-2018 academic year), not including the summer terms. Provides that, to be eligible to receive funds under the program, a public university campus may not decrease the total amount of non-loan financial aid it gives to undergraduate students, not including any funds received from the Commission or any funds used to match grant awards, to an amount lower than the amount reported for the 2017-2018 academic year or the 2021-2022 academic year, whichever is less (instead of just the 2017-2018 academic year), not including the summer terms. Removes the repealer provision. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Passed
SJR0002 - SGT. FEEZELL MEMORIAL BRIDGE
Susan Rezin
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Designates the West Baltimore Street Bridge over Forked Creek in Wilmington as the "Sgt. Dan G. Feezell Memorial Bridge".
STATUS
Introduced
SB0077 - SCH CD-TRUANCY-COVID-19
Susan Rezin
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
HB2123 - DIGITAL FORGERIES ACT
Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Emanuel Welch, Nabeela Syed
Last updated about 1 year ago
57 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Civil Remedies for Nonconsensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images Act. Changes the definition of "sexual image" to also mean a photograph, film, videotape, digital recording, or other similar medium that falsely appears to show the fully unclothed, partially unclothed, or transparently clothed genitals, pubic area, anus, or female post-pubescent nipple, partially or fully exposed, of a depicted individual or a depicted individual engaging in or being subjected to sexual conduct or activity. Provides that a depicted individual of an intentionally digitally altered sexual image has a cause of action against a person disseminating or threatening to disseminate the sexual image. Provides that a depicted individual has a cause of action against a person disseminating or threatening to disseminate a sexual image if the person recklessly disregarded the possibility that the depicted individual did not consent to the dissemination, the image was a private or intentionally digitally altered sexual image, and the depicted individual was identifiable. Provides that in the case of digitally altered sexual images, disclosing that the images were digitally altered is not a defense to liability. Removes language providing that nothing in the Act shall be construed to impose liability on an interactive computer service for content provided by another person. Provides that the dissemination of or a threat to disseminate a private sexual image is not a matter of public concern solely because the image is accompanied by a political message. Allows the court to award equitable relief, such as a temporary restraining order, preliminary injunction, or permanent injunction ordering the defendant to cease the display or disclosure of the image, to a prevailing plaintiff in an action brought under the Act.
STATUS
Passed
SB1312 - CRIM CD-CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTRE
Susan Rezin, Jason Plummer, Win Stoller
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person also commits criminal damage to property when he or she intentionally damages, destroys, or tampers with equipment in a critical infrastructure facility without authorization from the critical infrastructure facility. Provides that a violation is: (1) a Class 4 felony when the damage to property does not exceed $500; (2) a Class 3 felony when the damage to property exceeds $500 but does not exceed $10,000; and (3) a Class 2 felony when the damage to property exceeds $10,000. Provides that a person may be liable in any civil action for money damages to the owner of the critical infrastructure facility for any damage resulting from a violation. Provides that it is an affirmative defense to a violation that the owner of the property or land damaged consented to the damage. Provides that a person may also be liable to the owner for court costs and reasonable attorney's fees resulting from a violation. Changes the name of the offense of criminal trespass to a nuclear facility to criminal trespass to a critical infrastructure facility. Includes as an element of the offense that the person must have the intent to damage, destroy, or tamper with equipment of the facility. Provides that a person may also be liable in a civil action for money damages to the owner of the critical infrastructure facility for any damage to personal or real property of the facility resulting from the trespass. Provides that a person may also be liable to the owner for court costs and reasonable attorney's fees. Defines "critical infrastructure facility" and "with the intent to damage, destroy, or tamper with equipment of the facility".
STATUS
Introduced
SB1550 - PROPERTY-CARBON SEQUESTRATION
Susan Rezin
Last updated over 1 year ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amends the State Property Control Act. Provides that Marquis Carbon Injection, LLC, is granted the right to inject and sequester carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for fair market value consideration as set by the Director of Central Management Services, as administrator, but not to exceed $0.25 per ton, on specified real property owned by the State of Illinois and managed by the Department of Natural Resources. Specifies the Parcel Identification Numbers of the properties concerned.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1588 - IL POWER AG-BROWNFIELD SITE
William Cunningham, Christopher Belt, Doris Turner
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Adds to the definition of "brownfield site photovoltaic project", photovoltaics that meet the criteria that the project is interconnected to an electric utility, a municipal utility, a public utility as defined in the Public Utilities Act, or an electric cooperative as defined in the Public Utilities Act and is located on any part of the site, and within the property boundaries, of a coal-fueled electric generating plant in this State that was retired as of January 1, 2023, or that the generating plant owner commits to retire prior to the commercial operation date of the project. In provisions concerning renewable energy credits from new projects in the long-term renewable resources procurement plan, the Agency shall procure 55% from photovoltaic projects where at least 44% (rather than 47%) are from utility-scale solar projects and at least 3% are from projects that meet specified criteria. Effective immediately.
STATUS
Introduced
SB1470 - SCH CD-REMOTE LEARNING DAY
Thomas M. Bennett, Susan Rezin, Sally J. Turner
Last updated over 1 year ago
11 Co-Sponsors
Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that before the district superintendent adopts a remote learning plan, the school board must hold a public hearing on the school district's initial proposal for a remote learning plan or for renewal of the remote learning plan at a regular or special meeting of the school board, at which meeting the terms of the proposal or renewal must be substantially presented and an opportunity for allowing public comments must be provided. Makes typographical and grammatical changes regarding provisions concerning payment to contractors providing educational support services. Effective July 1, 2023.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB2289 - ELECTIONS-VACANCY APPOINTMENT
Susan Rezin, Rachel Ventura
Last updated over 1 year ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Amends the Election Code. Provides that when a vacancy occurs in any elective county office, the office of clerk of the circuit court in a county of less than 3,000,000 population that is not a home rule unit, or in the office of an elected member of the county board in a county other than Champaign County that is operating under the county executive form of government under specified provisions of the Counties Code, the appointee shall be a member of and affiliated with the same political party as the person being succeeded, as determined at the time the person being succeeded was elected.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR0011 - SPC TREEST MEMORIAL HWY
Lance Yednock, Susan Rezin, Jason Plummer
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Designates the section of Route 6 in the City of Marseilles that runs from the intersections of Route 6 and Oakdale Street to Route 6 and Main Street as the "SPC Norman Treest Memorial Highway".
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Illinois district SD-038
COMMITTEES
Illinois Senate
BIRTH
--
ABOUT
Susan Rezin is a Republican member of the Illinois State Senate, representing District 47. She was first elected to the chamber in 2016. Rezin served on the LaSalle City Council from 2007 to 2015. Her professional experience includes working as a real estate broker for North Central Illinois Realty. Rezin is a member of the Peru Chamber of Commerce, the Starved Rock Country Alliance of Chambers, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and the Illinois Association of Realtors. She earned a B.S. in education from Illinois State University in 1987.read less
OFFICES HELD
Illinois Senate from Illinois
NEXT ELECTION