Illinois Senator Elgie Sims [D]

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ILHB2719PassAmends the Fair Patient Billing Act. Requires a hospital to screen each uninsured patient, upon the uninsured patient's agreement, at the earliest reasonable moment for potential eligibility for public health insurance programs and financial assistan...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0323
ILHB1526PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources (rather than the Department of Public Health) shall establish an advisory committee to assist and advise the Department of H...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0284
ILHB3699PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the Department of Employment Security may collaborate with (rather than shall work with) the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to identify employment...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0356
ILHB2831PassAmends the Department of Human Services Act. Creates the Office to Prevent and End Homelessness (Office) within the Department of Human Services to facilitate the implementation of a strategic plan and initiatives aimed at decreasing homelessness and...
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2023-07-26
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0269
ILSB1840PassAmends the Park District Code. Provides that a park district may levy and collect annually a tax for maintaining a police system, for implementing and maintaining public safety and security measures, or both (currently, only for maintaining a police ...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0235
ILSB1834PassAmends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a neglected minor includes any minor (rather than a minor under 14 years) whose parent or other person responsible for the minor's welfare leaves the minor without supervision for an unreasonable p...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0233
ILSB1835PassAmends the State Treasurer Act. Makes changes concerning banking and teller machine services. Provides that the State Comptroller shall direct and the State Treasurer shall transfer the remaining balance from the Treasurer’s Rental Fee Fund into th...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0234
ILSB2013PassAmends the Illinois Affordable Housing Act. Requires all housing financed under the Illinois Affordable Housing Program to meet a minimum standard of living requirement. Provides that in order for a program applicant to be eligible to receive funding...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0248
ILSB2175PassAmends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that during the first 180 days following a person's release from a penal institution, a court shall not order the person to pay any outstanding fines, taxes, or costs arising from a criminal pro...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0254
ILSB2374PassAmends the School Code. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall establish a competitive grant program to support the development or enhancement of computer science programs in the K-12 schools. Provides that eligib...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0264
ILHB1566PassAmends the State Finance Act. Modifies a Section concerning moneys in the Audit Expense Fund to provide for the transfer of moneys from specified funds into the Audit Expense Fund. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0129
ILHB3322PassCreates the Law Enforcement Gang Database Information Act. Defines terms. Provides requirements for the use of gang databases and shared gang databases. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in all criminal cases, evidence whic...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0185
ILSB2293PassAmends the Children and Family Services Act. Permits the Department of Children and Family Services to establish and maintain locally held funds to be individually known as the Youth in Care Support Fund. Provides that moneys in these funds shall be ...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0259
ILHB3140PassCreates the End Youth Solitary Confinement Act. Provides that the use of room confinement at a juvenile or correctional facility for discipline, punishment, retaliation, or any reason other than as a temporary response to a juvenile's behavior that p...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0178
ILHB3801PassAmends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning incentives for teachers if adequate funds are available, provides for an annual retention bonus of $4,000 per year for 2 consecutive years for National Board certified...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0207
ILHB3680PassAmends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that in the development of the individualized education program for a student, if the student needs extra accommodation during emergencies, including natural disasters or an a...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0197
ILHB1561PassAmends the School Code. Provides that a school district may maintain an on-site trauma kit at each school of the district for bleeding emergencies. Defines "trauma kit". Provides that products purchased for the on-site trauma kit shall be, wherever p...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0128
ILHB3442PassReinserts the contents of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that a district may continue to employ that same substitute teacher in that same vacant position for 90 calendar days or until the end of the semester, whichever is gr...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0193
ILHB3224PassAmends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that, as part of transition planning, a school district shall provide a student and the parent or guardian of the student (instead of just the student) with information about ...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0181
ILHB1364PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the short title of the Act to the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Workgroup Act. Removes provisions creating the 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Task Force. Provi...
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2023-06-27
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0105
ILHB0579PassAmends the Department of Insurance Law. Sets forth provisions concerning the Marketplace Director of the Illinois Health Benefits Exchange. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Sets forth provisions concerning an exemption regarding any procurements...
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2023-06-27
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0103
ILSB1849Intro
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Appropriates $10,000,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to deposit into the Workforce, Technology, and Economic Development Fund for the purpose of ...
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2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2121Intro
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Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that if a merchant closes a customer's credit account because the merchant's business is closing or being liquidated, or due to inactivity on the credit account by its owner, th...
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2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2044Intro
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Creates the Tickborne Disease Prevention and Protection Act. Presents legislative findings. Requires the Department of Public Health, in conjunction with the medical entomology lab of the Prairie Research Institute's Illinois Natural History Survey a...
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2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2042Intro
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Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Establishes procedures for determining whether a child is fit to stand trial. Provides that the procedures apply to a child under the age of 21, regardless of whether the person is subject to the Act or prosecut...
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2023-06-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2789PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: changes references to "public library or library system" to "library or library system"; provides that an alternative to the development of a written statement (rather than p...
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2023-06-12
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0100
ILSB1623PassCreates the Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force Act. Creates the Illinois Underground Railroad Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall develop a statewide plan to connect existing local projects and new projects to create a cohesive state...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0097
ILSB0099PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but makes the following changes. Changes the name of the Act to the Removing Barriers to Higher Education Success Act. Makes changes concerning the types of documentation that can be provided to establi...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0058
ILSB0328PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: 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, where suc...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0070
ILHB3705PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but with the following changes: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to place children in suitable permanent family arrangements, through guardianship or adoption (rather than to plac...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0050
ILHB2389PassAmends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that no motor vehicle, or driver or passenger of a motor vehicle, shall be stopped or searched by any law enforcement officer solely on the basis of a violation or suspected violation of driving a motor vehi...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0032
ILHB1557PassAmends the Casualty Insurance, Fidelity Bonds, and Surety Contracts Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurer that is licensed and authorized to do business in the State of Illinois shall consider an applicant's or insured's co...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0020
ILHB3817PassEstablishes the FY 2024 Budget Implementation Act. Makes changes in State programs necessary to implement the State budget for Fiscal Year 2024. Effective immediately, except that some provisions take effect on other specified dates.
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2023-06-07
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0008
ILHB3551PassEstablishes the Bond Authorization Act of 2023. Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Increases the total amount that the State of Illinois is authorized to issue in general obligation bonds from $79,256,839,969 to $79,440,839,969. Increases the am...
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2023-06-07
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0007
ILSB1963PassAmends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, and the Service Occupation Tax Act to update a cross reference. Makes changes concerning incentives for mid-range ethanol blends, gasohol, and majority blended ethanol fuel. Makes changes concerning an...
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2023-06-07
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0009
ILSB1826Engross
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Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Provides that any person may report information about the suspicious death of an eligible adult to an agency designated to receive such reports or to the Department on Aging. Provides that if a mandated repor...
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2023-05-31
To House Rules Committee
ILSR0226PassRecognizes Loyola University Chicago, the only Jesuit Catholic University in the State of Illinois.
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2023-05-26
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0172PassUrges all institutions and facilities of the Department of Corrections to provide every committed person with access to bathing facilities once per day. Urges, in the case of a lockdown, access to bathing facilities to be restricted for the first two...
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2023-05-25
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mattie Hunter
ILHJR0018PassCreates the Task Force on Black Immigrants to study the state of Black immigrants in Illinois and provide recommendations on how to assist them.
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2023-05-19
Adopted Both Houses
ILSR0317PassMourns the death of Aréanah M. Preston.
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2023-05-19
Resolution Adopted
ILSB1832Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that the research and development credit applies for taxable years ending prior to January 1, 2037 (currently, January 1, 2027). Provides that, in the case of qualifying quantum information science expendi...
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2023-05-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2264Engross
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Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a contributing employee may elect to purchase creditable service for up to 48 months of active-duty military service, whether or not that service followed service as a county ...
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2023-05-08
To House Rules Committee
ILSR0242PassMourns the death of Marcus L. Lucas of Springfield.
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2023-05-05
Resolution Adopted
ILHB1519Engross
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Amends the Student Loan Servicing Rights Act. Creates the Educational Income Share Agreements Article of the Student Loan Servicing Rights Act. Defines terms. Regarding income share agreements, sets forth provisions concerning monthly payment afforda...
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2023-05-05
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1830Intro
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Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that a petitioner may file a petition to vacate and expunge certain felony possession violations under the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act...
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2023-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1850Engross
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Amends the Cigarette Tax Act. Makes changes concerning the distribution of moneys collected pursuant to (i) the Cigarette Tax Act, (ii) the Cigarette Use Tax Act, and (iii) the tax imposed on little cigars under the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995. ...
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2023-04-28
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1685Engross
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Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Supporting Special Needs Students Law. Amends the School Code. When computing certain completion rates, requires the State Superintendent of Education to exclude students who: are at least 18 years of a...
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2023-04-28
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1016Engross
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Amends the Court of Claims Act. Provides that the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all claims against the State for time unjustly served in a county jail, on parole, on intensive supervision probation, or on the sex offen...
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2531Intro
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Makes specified appropriations to the Legislative Information System, Legislative Printing Unit, Legislative Audit Commission, Legislative Reference Bureau, Joint Committee on Administrative Rules, Architect of the Capitol, and Legislative Ethics Com...
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2023-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2551Intro
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Makes appropriations to the Office of the Attorney General for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2023-04-25
To Senate Assignments Committee
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