Illinois Senator Rachel Ventura [D]

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ILHB3158Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, with the changes proposed in House Amendment No. 1 and House Amendment No. 2, and the following additional changes. Requires the vessels used for natural organic reduction to be made of stainless steel...
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2024-05-10
To Senate End of Life Issues Committee
ILSB2608Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois State Police Act and the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that an applicant's credit history may not be used to prevent the appointment or employment of a law enforcement officer, including an Illinois State Police officer. ...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2637Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2027, a person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale a food product for human consumption that contains brominated vege...
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2024-05-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2628Engross
50%
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program requirements. Requires all State agencies to obtain a special flood hazard area dev...
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2024-05-10
House Floor Amendment No. 3 Referred to Rules Committee
ILSB2626Enroll
75%
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that, in anticipation of the successful completion of a diversion program, a petitioner may file a petition for expungement at least 61 days before the anticipated dismissal of the case. Provides that,...
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2024-05-10
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-05-10
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024
ILHB5189Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Directs persons in possession of train fatality reports to maintain those reports and to do so in a manner that preserves the confidentiality of the train crew's private info...
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:00 pm]
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Government Operations Committee
ILHB0478Engross
50%
Authorizes the Adjutant General for Illinois to convey to the City of Chicago the described parcel of land in Cook County upon payment of $1.00, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILSB0001Enroll
75%
Creates the Department of Early Childhood Act. Creates the Department of Early Childhood to begin operation on July 1, 2024 and transfers to it certain rights, powers, duties, and functions currently exercised by various agencies of State Government....
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2024-05-10
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Laura M. Murphy
ILSB3764Intro
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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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3762Engross
50%
Creates the Language Equity and Access Act. Requires the Governor's Office of New Americans, in partnership with the Department of Human Services, to: prepare a Language Needs Assessment Report that identifies the languages spoken throughout the Stat...
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2024-05-10
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Lindsey LaPointe
ILSB3323Engross
50%
Creates the Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Station Act. Requires the Department of Transportation to ensure that charging stations in the State are sufficiently accessible to allow independent use by drivers with disabilities, including people ...
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2024-05-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3680Intro
25%
Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Repeals provisions prohibiting ordinances penalizing tenants who contact the police or other emergency services. Adds provisions prohibiting a county or municipality from enacting a program, o...
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2024-05-10
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 17, 2024
ILSB2606Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act. Provides that, beginning no later than the 2026-2027 academic year, the governing body of each public college or university shall adopt a student wellness day policy for each academic term that doe...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
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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2024-05-10
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILHB5395Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with changes that include the following. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Protection Act. In the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act, p...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILHB4500Engross
50%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an arm...
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:30 pm]
To Senate Executive Committee
ILHB0255Engross
50%
Creates the Youth and Young Adult Conservation Education Act. Directs the Department of Natural Resources to establish a Youth and Young Adult Conservation Program in order to provide educational and employment opportunities to youth and young adults...
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2024-05-10
[Hearing: May 16 @ 8:30 am]
To Senate Agriculture Committee
ILHB4475Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivered, issued, or r...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5417Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes references to the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB5537Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Removes an exception for skilled and intermediate long-term care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from providing a Safety Net Impact Statement as part of its general review criter...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB5142Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with changes. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that coverage for abortion care may not impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-shar...
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2024-05-10
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILHB1375Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that pupils in the public schools in grades 9 through 12 shall be taught and be required to study courses which include instruction in the area of financial literacy and consumer education in alignment with the Illino...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Suzy Glowiak Hilton
ILSB2651Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a county board may also maintain, restore, rehabilitate, beautify, or adaptively reuse land along scenic byways (in addition to places of architectural signific...
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2024-05-09
Arrived in House
ILSB3661Engross
50%
Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Changes the definition of a health care employer to include a Comprehensive Community Mental Health Center certified by the Department of Human Services.
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3237Engross
50%
Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning grant award amounts and required local matches, provides that the required local match and grant award amount are calculated by multiplying the required local match percentage and the grant...
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2024-05-09
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Dagmara Avelar
ILSR0896PassDeclares May 10, 2024 as Provider Appreciation Day in the State of Illinois. Encourages all residents of Illinois to recognize child care providers, the importance of their work, and the immeasurable value they bring to communities.
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2024-05-09
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Willie Preston
ILSB3157Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish an electronic payment processing program to supplement and enhance secure electronic payment options otherwise available to not...
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2024-05-09
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
ILSB2764Engross
50%
Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that sells or offers to sell any products or services to a consumer pursuant to a contract that includes a free gift or a trial period...
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2024-05-09
House Floor Amendment No. 4 Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB4206Engross
50%
Amends the Landlord and Tenant Act. Provides that if a landlord uses a third-party payment portal to collect rental payments from tenants and if a transaction fee or other charge is imposed through the portal on rental payments made by e-check or oth...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
ILHB5285Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, except in the definition of "conviction" in the Criminal Code of 2012, restores a provision that "conviction" means a judgment of conviction or sentence (rather than a judgment of conviction and senten...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Sue Rezin
ILHB5507Engross
50%
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Creates a process that an Illinois resident may use to seek an Illinois judicial order making findings of fact to change a birth certificate issued in another state or country so the Illinois resident may petition ...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
ILSR0882PassDeclares May 17, 2024 as Take Break from Social Media Day in the State of Illinois.
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2024-05-09
Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Sen. Willie Preston
ILSB3727Intro
25%
Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may deny, restrict, prohibit, condition, or otherwise interfere with, either directly or indirectly, the acquisiti...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3235Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Community Reinvestment Act. Requires the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to conduct studies to: (1) identify and delineate geographies in Illinois exhibiting significant disparities by protected classes as identified by the Hum...
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2024-05-09
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5431Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the County Department of Corrections Law, the Health Care Violence Prevention Act, and the County Jail Act to replace use of "prisoner" with "committed person"...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Bill Cunningham
ILHB4219Engross
50%
Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes provisions concerning fentanyl education from the School Code. Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program shall include disaster pre...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
ILHB4768Engross
50%
Creates the Landlord Retaliation Act. Declares that it is against the public policy of the State for a landlord to take retaliatory action against a tenant. Prohibits a landlord from knowingly terminating a tenancy, increasing rent, decreasing servic...
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2024-05-09
Added as Alternate Co-Sponsor Sen. Rachel Ventura
ILHB5164Engross
50%
Amends the Clerks of the Court Act. Provides that filing fees for a petition for change name may not exceed $25, and the court may waive this fee for good cause shown. Amends Name Change Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes the requirement...
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2024-05-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1652Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. In provisions concerning petitions for nomination and submission of public questions, provides that by signing an objector's petition, the objector certifies that the petition is not being presented for any improper purpose,...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB2371Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, Assistant State's Attorneys, Assistant Public Defenders, and Assistant Appellate Defenders are not managerial employees for purposes...
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2024-05-08
[Hearing: May 15 @ 2:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Labor & Commerce Committee; 017-007-000
ILSB2781Engross
50%
Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and we...
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2024-05-08
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
ILSB2872Engross
50%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that each school district shall provide to students, in addition to and not substituting recess, at least once a week, relaxation activities to enhance the mental and physical health of...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3091Engross
50%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to convey the described parcel in Will County to the Forest Preserve District of Will County. Effective immediately.
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2876Engross
50%
Reinsert the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Excludes from the definition of "event facility" school stadiums and hotels (rather than only school stadiums). Makes technical and other changes.
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2024-05-08
House Floor Amendment No. 1 Referred to Rules Committee
ILSB3203Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or before December 31, 2025 that provides coverage for prescription drugs m...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3501Engross
50%
Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act. Includes legislative findings. Defines terms. Provides that all new, renovated, or retrofitted luminaires purchased with State funds after the effective date of the Act or installed after the effe...
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2024-05-08
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3527Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control unless the firearm is unloaded and secured in a lock box or container in a manner that ...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3737Intro
25%
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Internet-based system for determining the validity of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include a written notice, in both English and Spanish, of a firearm owner's obligat...
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2024-05-08
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB0381Engross
50%
Amends the State Property Control Act. Requires the Director of Central Management Services, as Administrator, to assess surplus real property held by the State and determine whether such property is unsellable in its current assessed condition. Prov...
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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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