Illinois Representative Harry Benton [D]

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ILHB4934Enroll
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Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Defines "veteran" and "veterans' organization". Provides that if a veterans' organization has identified human remains of a veteran that are more than 100 years old and wishes to have a marker placed to designate t...
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2024-06-05
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Craig Wilcox
ILHB5640Enroll
75%
Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed ...
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2024-06-05
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Craig Wilcox
ILHB4757Enroll
75%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Provides that the Department of Veterans Affairs shall create, and the Department of Labor shall make available, at no cost, a veterans and service members' benefits, services, and protections poster. R...
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2024-06-05
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Craig Wilcox
ILHB5596Enroll
75%
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that a day care home or group day care home is not required to be licensed under the Act if the day care home or group day care home: (1) serves only dependent children of military personnel; (2) is located...
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2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILHB5353Enroll
75%
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In provisions concerning expedited licensure for service members and spouses, provides that the military liaison's responsibilities include the management and oversight of all military portability lic...
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2024-06-03
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB2277Engross
50%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the interest penalty for the delinquent payment of taxes shall be waived if the county treasurer determines that: (i) the delinquency occurred because the subject tax bill was mailed to an incorrect address...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4432Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the child care assistance program, provides that beginning in State fiscal year 2025, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 400% of the then current federal poverty level f...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4760Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision listing the categories of families and individuals eligible for child care assistance, expands the list to include families whose children are enrolled in a Head Start program. Provides that any fam...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0457Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, including funding for any administrative costs reasonably incurred by the State Board of Education, upon the execution of one or more required statewide master contracts entered by the ...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5249Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, within 12 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, nutrition care services and medical nutrition therapy provided by a reg...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5008Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a local school council shall have and exercise the power and duty to contract with the Chicago Police Department to have police officers or school resource officers on schoo...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4806Intro
25%
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 r...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4919Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to require an annual audit from all personal assistant and home care aide vendors contracting with the Department, provides that the annual audit shall assure that...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4189Intro
25%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
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2024-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4439Engross
50%
Amends the State Designations Act. Provides that the soybean is designated as the official State bean of the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-31
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
ILHB2385Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2025 (rather th...
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2024-05-30
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILHB5395Enroll
75%
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 ma...
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2024-05-30
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILHB0681Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that any registered victim, including a person who has had a final, plenary, or non-emergency protective order g...
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2024-05-30
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Seth Lewis
ILHB5005Enroll
75%
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may designate areas as Quantum Computing Campuses. Amends the Use Tax Act, ...
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2024-05-29
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II
ILHR0843PassMourns the murder of Officer Luis M. Huesca of the Chicago Police Department.
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2024-05-29
Resolution Adopted
ILHB4412Engross
50%
Provides that a child care facility may authorize the Department of Children and Family Services or a third-party vendor to collect fingerprints for the criminal background investigation. Defines "third-party vendor".
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2024-05-28
Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Adoption & Child Welfare Committee; 011-000-000
ILHB5057Enroll
75%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Removes the restriction providing that no candidate may be allowed to student teach or serve as the teacher of record until the candidate has passed the applicable content area test. Provides ...
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2024-05-28
Passed Both Houses
ILHB3521Enroll
75%
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that no administrator, agent, or employee of a hospital affiliate may abuse a patient in a facility operated by a hospital affiliate. Defines "hospital affiliate". Makes conforming changes.
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2024-05-28
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4623Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Sally J. Turner
ILHB4491Enroll
75%
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that through June 30, 2029, either a qualified child care director or a qualified early childhood teacher with a minimum of 2,880 hours of experience as an early childhood teacher at the early childhood tea...
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2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILHB1168Enroll
75%
Amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that except in certain medical examiner or coroner investigations, whenever a person's DNA profile is collected due to the person being a victim of a crime, as identified by law enforceme...
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2024-05-26
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Meg Loughran Cappel
ILSB2573Enroll
75%
Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual plan of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Ac...
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
ILSB0773Enroll
75%
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that provisions concerning infertility coverage apply only to coverage provided on or after January 1, 2024 and before July 1, 2026. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no...
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2024-05-26
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILSB3414Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 2, with the following changes. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed ...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILSB3649Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits an employer or its agent, representative, or designee from requiring its employees to attend any training intended to foster a civil...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILHB0581Enroll
75%
Amends the Hospital Emergency Service Act. Provides that "applicant" includes any person who presents at the hospital. Provides that hospitals shall furnish hospital emergency services in accordance with the procedures required by the federal Emergen...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILSB1779Enroll
75%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Creates a permanent certified medication aide program. Defines "certified medication aide" and "qualified employer". Provides that the Department of Public Health shall administer and enforce a certified medication a...
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2024-05-26
Passed Both Houses
ILHB2547Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes that include the following. Removes a provision establishing a civil penalty for failing to disclose a quota. Provides that each employer shall establish, maintain, and preserve for 3 years...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB4237Engross
50%
Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILHB4171Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILHB4209Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources has the power to lease, from time to time, any land or property, with or without appurtenances, of which the Department has jurisdiction, and which are ...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILHB4928Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILHB5367Engross
50%
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that the Illinois Gaming Board may waive the requirement that a licensed establishment, licensed truck stop establishment, licensed large truck stop establishment, licensed fraternal establishment, or licensed ve...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHJR0058PassDeclares June 15, 2024 as History Day in the State of Illinois. Recognizes all those who volunteer at historical societies in Illinois for all they do to preserve and spread our history.
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2024-05-25
Adopted Both Houses
ILHB4645Engross
50%
Amends the State Designations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-25
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 26, 2024
ILHB4742Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, for a part-time employee using leave to serve as an organ donor, the employer shall calculate the daily average pay the part-time employee received during his ...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Paid Leave Committee
ILHB5089Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. In the definition of "supervisor", as used in the Act, provides that the term "supervisor" includes only those individuals who devote a preponderance of their employment time to exercising that authorit...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Labor Committee
ILHB5189Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that personally identifying information of train crew members contained in reports involving railroad fatalities and contained in communications between police officers and train crew members involved in tho...
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2024-05-25
Passed Both Houses
ILHB5024Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Makes changes regarding what information shall be reported by the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity. In provisions concerning the membership...
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2024-05-25
To Senate Higher Education Committee
ILHJR0048PassDesignates the State of Illinois Building at 555 West Monroe in Chicago as the "Jesse White State of Illinois Building".
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2024-05-24
Adopted Both Houses
ILHB4875Enroll
75%
Amends the Right of Publicity Act. Grants additional enforcement rights and remedies to recording artists. Provides for the liability of any person who materially contributes to, induces, or otherwise facilitates a violation of a specified provision ...
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2024-05-24
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Janet Yang Rohr
ILHB5655Enroll
75%
Amends the Public Higher Education Act. Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy to allow a student who is a member of the National Guard of any state, the District of Columbia, a commonwea...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
ILHB4966Enroll
75%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue specialty plates to motorcycles. Makes corresponding changes.
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2024-05-24
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB3592Enroll
75%
Creates the Strengthening Community Media Act. Provides that a local news organization shall not be sold to a company without giving written notice 120 days before the sales occurs to specified individuals and organizations. Amends the Higher Educati...
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2024-05-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
ILHB5135Enroll
75%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes the proposed amendments to the Illinois Physical Therapy Act. Provides, in the remaining Acts, that the provisions added by the introduced bill are not to be construe...
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2024-05-24
Passed Both Houses
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