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Laura Murphy D

State Senator
Illinois Senate District 24 — Seat 2
Term: — – Jan. 3, 2028
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On Record (49)

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Nominates Melissa Ann Rogers Rollins as a Member of the Prisoner Review Board.
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Apr 07, 2026 · source · details / share
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RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, February 19, 2026, the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, February 24, 2026 or until the call of the President; and the House of Representatives stands adjourned until Tuesday, February 24, …
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the exemption for charitable purposes applies to organizations that are exempt under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
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Amends the Toll Highway Act. Requires the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority to erect and maintain at each Illinois Toll Plaza a sign stating the toll rates.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Condominium Property Act. Requires the Condominium and Common Interest Community Ombudsperson to act as the mediator or arbitrator for any mediation or arbitration done under the Act.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Extended Producer Responsibility and Recycling Refund Act. Contains only a short title provision.
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that railroad property shall be assessed based on the location of the property (rather than as a unit).
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Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mar 31, 2026 · source · details / share
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Declares March 23, 2026 as Pakistan Day in the State of Illinois.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Urges all public library trustees to participate in ongoing training programs provided by the Illinois Secretary of State to strengthen their ability to effectively oversee library operations and services. Encourages the Illinois Secretary of State to expand and enhance library trustee training opportunities, ensuring that all library board members have access to comprehensive education on governance, ethics, and policy matters.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the O'Hare Sound Mitigation Grant Program Act. Requires the Department of Transportation Division of Aeronautics to establish and administer the O'Hare Sound Mitigation Grant Program for residential homes around O'Hare International Airport. Requires the grants to be used for updating windows, doors, and other soundproofing applications needed to soundproof the residential home. Describes criteria that are to be used …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Modifies the offense of unauthorized video recording and live video transmission to also include unauthorized photographing. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to knowingly make a video record or transmit live video of or photograph another person in a courtroom or any location inside of a State courthouse without that person's consent …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Provides that the monthly amount transferred from the Motor Fuel Tax Fund to the Grade Crossing Protection Fund shall be increased in each fiscal year by the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the most recent 12-month period for which data is available on July 1 …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a policy of automobile insurance that provides coverage for rental vehicle reimbursement or loss of use shall include coverage that guarantees the insured is provided with a comparable vehicle during the period of loss of use. Provides that this requirement applies to all applicable claims if the insured has elected coverage for rental …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Changes the definition of "automated license plate reader" or " ALPR" to mean a camera or system of cameras using computer algorithms to convert images of license plates into automated computer-recognized searchable alphanumeric data (rather than an electronic device) that is mounted on a law enforcement vehicle or positioned in a stationary location and that …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. In provisions concerning the execution of forms, provides that a filing with the Secretary of State that reflects a change in the composition of the corporation's directors or officers or a change of the corporation's registered agent, from its most recent filing with the Secretary of State, shall be signed …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that a new or existing data center is a qualifying data center for purposes of the Act only if it provides in its application details regarding the water stewardship strategy used by it. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity's annual report …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, no later than January 1, 2027, the Secretary of State shall develop standards concerning the collection of personal identification information on forms used by the public to conduct business with the State. Provides that, no later than January 1, 2028, each State agency shall make changes to all forms prescribed by …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Illinois Consumer Data Privacy Act. Applies to legal entities that conduct business in Illinois or produce products or services that are targeted to Illinois residents and that satisfy one or more of the following thresholds: during a calendar year, controls or processes personal data of 100,000 consumers or more, excluding personal data controlled or processed solely for the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Local Government Inspector General Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to establish an independent entity to which allegations of incompetence, neglect of duty, malfeasance in office, corruption, or official misconduct involving units of local government, including their officers, employees, and agents, or elected or appointed local officials, may be reported and investigated with the assistance …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that using an electronic communication device includes recording a video, holding a device in one's hand or lap, composing, sending, or reading any text-based communication, or browsing the Internet. Provides that a person is presumed to be in use of an electronic communication device while driving if the electronic communication device is observed in …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a multifunction school-activity bus may additionally be used for transportation to a college, university, student job site developed through a partnership with the school, a college or career fair, or an experience that the school determines will contribute to a student's college or career readiness. Amends the School Code to make conforming changes …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall compile an annual budget implementation report. Provides that the report shall include the following information concerning each grant agreement entered into by a State awarding agency during the previous calendar year: (1) the total cost of each project; (2) detailed line items specified …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
Bill Neutral
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that any person hauling or transporting timber that is subject to the Timber Buyers Licensing Act (rather than timber) on any highway in the State shall be required to show proof of ownership. In provisions concerning violations, removes the requirement that every person hauling a tree or trees …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Stop Abusive Website Access Litigation Act. Authorizes the Attorney General, on behalf of a class of residents, that is subject to litigation that alleges any website access violation to file a civil action in a State court against the party, attorney, or law firm that initiated the litigation for a determination as to whether this is abusive litigation. …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows a unit of local government that has ownership or control over an intersection that is adjacent to property that is used for an elementary or secondary school to install at the ends of the pedestrian crosswalks for that intersection rapid flashing beacons that alert motor vehicle drivers to the presence of pedestrians in the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Mobile and Manufactured Home Ombudsperson Act. Creates the Office of Mobile and Manufactured Home Ombudsperson within the Department of Public Health. Provides that the Ombudsperson shall offer training, educational materials and course offerings for residents, owners, and other interested persons or groups on the operation and management of mobile and manufactured home parks and the relevant laws that …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning the low-income senior citizens assessment freeze homestead exemption, provides that the applicant's income does not include up to $10,000 per household in required minimum distributions under the Internal Revenue Code from a retirement plan, retirement account, or retirement annuity. Provides that, for taxable year 2025 and thereafter, the maximum income limitation is …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the University of Illinois Hospital Act and Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital shall ensure that all employees of the hospital have a panic button attached to their staff identification card. Effective July 1, 2025.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Conversion and Formation of School Districts Article of the School Code. Within 3 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, requires elementary school districts to form new school districts but only with other elementary school districts and high school districts to form new school districts but only with other high school districts, notwithstanding any referendum requirements …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Election Code. Requires that each election authority maintain a website. Provides that each election authority shall update the election results on its website each time a new batch of votes is tabulated or every 12 hours, whichever is less. Provides that each election authority shall also update on its website, every 12 hours, the number of vote by …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Superintendent of Education may notify a license holder's current or most recent employer, if the employer is a public school or school district, charter school, special education cooperative, nonpublic school, nonpublic special education facility, or public school residential facility, that the license holder is being investigated for …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit in an amount equal to the amount paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for the purpose of purchasing materials, labor, and professional services to soundproof a residential home located at an eligible address against aircraft noise generated by an airport governed by the provisions of the Permanent …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Plastic Bottle Cap Reduction Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2029, a manufacturer may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in the State a single-use plastic beverage container with a plastic beverage cap unless the plastic beverage cap is composed of a plastic resin with the same resin identification code as the single-use plastic beverage …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Prohibits a legislator from engaging in compensated lobbying of the governing body of a municipality, county, or township, or an official thereof, or the executive branch of the State of Illinois, or an official thereof. Effective immediately.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Genetically Engineered Food Labeling Act. Provides that, beginning on the effective date of the Act, any food offered for retail sale in this State is misbranded if it is entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering and that fact is not disclosed in a specified manner. Provides that the Act shall not be construed to require the listing …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that a taxpayer who may claim a qualifying student as a dependent is allowed a credit of up to $2,000 for qualified tuition and fee expenses paid by the taxpayer. Provides that the term qualifying student means a person who (i) is a resident of the State, (ii) is under the age of …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Reinserts the contents of the bill as engrossed and as amended by House Amendment No. 1, but provides that a school district is not required to develop procedures until the school year following when the publication of guidance is made available (instead of until guidance is made available) on the website of the State Board of Education.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Requires an association or other entity that has as one of its purposes promoting, sponsoring, regulating, or in any manner providing for interscholastic athletics or any form of athletic competition among schools and students within this State to allow a student for whom it is determined that special education services are needed under the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall provide coverage for hippotherapy and other forms of therapeutic riding. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Delays the implementation date for the direct support professional credential pilot program to State Fiscal Year 2028 (rather than 2025). Effective immediately.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Expanded Access to Lung Cancer Screening Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall require information and counseling concerning lung cancer screening to be made available to individuals accessing the tobacco quitline. Provides that the Department may enter into contracts and agreements and award grants to persons operating the tobacco quitline. Provides that the Department shall develop …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that 20% of the lesser of (rather than the lesser of): (i) the purchase price or (ii) the fair market value shall constitute the rate base associated with the water or sewer utility as acquired by and incorporated into the rate base of the district designated by the acquiring large public utility, subject to …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Election Code. Creates the Ranked-Choice Voting in State and Local Elections Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall study the possibility of implementing ranked-choice voting for State and local elections. Directs the Task Force (1) to engage election officials, interested groups, and members of the public for the purpose of assessing the adoption and implementation of ranked-choice …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Creates the Small Business Economic Incentive Act. Provides that at least 50% of the dollar value of all economic incentives awarded to businesses by the State or by any State agency on or after January 1, 2026 shall be awarded to businesses with 50 or fewer full-time employees. Effective January 1, 2026.
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027 shall provide coverage for all medically necessary diagnostic testing and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatments or medications prescribed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's …
Mar 16, 2026 · source · details / share

Crossposts (101)

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Creates the Farmer Tax Benefit Act. Provides that, for taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2027, landowners may apply to the Department for an income tax credit in an amount equal to either (i) 100% of the fair …
May 27, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Behavior Analyst Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the College Campus Press Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Amends the Arthritis Prevention, Control, and Cure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, except removes certain findings, makes technical changes to the bill, and changes the effective date to January 1, 2026.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that no person may intentionally drag or pull any bovine by its tail by any means for the purpose of entertainment, sport, practice, or contest.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Agency Energy Efficiency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mar 31, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that an owner or operator of a community water supply may, by an additional method approved by the State, give written notice of the existence of lead service lines that are connected to buildings. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Provides that the Breakthrough Therapies for Veteran Suicide Prevention Program Advisory Council created by Public Act 103-8 is continued within the Department of Public Health, with modifications to its duties and composition. Amends …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no company may impose renewal premium increases of more than 10% for specified lines of business unless the company mails or delivers by electronic means to the named insured and by electronic means …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for a qualified employer who makes a qualified contribution toward a health reimbursement arrangement for the qualified taxpayer's employees. Provides that the amount of the credit is $400 per …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Toll Highway Act. Modifies powers of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in regard to: the appointment of attorneys (rather than assistant attorneys) for the Authority, who shall be under the control, direction, and supervision of the Authority …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. In provisions concerning payment from a health insurance issuer to a nonparticipating ground ambulance service provider, provides that, for nonparticipating ground ambulance service providers subject to a unit of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following change. In provisions concerning the registration and recognition of non-public elementary and secondary schools, provides that a non-public, sectarian school that has registered or seeks to register or that has …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027 that provides coverage for durable medical …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions requiring the Department of Children and Family Services to establish rules concerning transition planning for youth aging out of care, requires the Department to consult with the Statewide Youth Advisory Board …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Voting Rights Act of 2026. Creates the Voting Rights Act of 2026 Article in the Code. Provides that a political subdivision, State agency, or any …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act, the Civil No Contact Order Act, and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that on issuance of a plenary order, the emergency order remains in effect until the plenary order or …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. In the definition of "harassment" Provides that, unless the presumption is rebutted by a preponderance of the evidence, the following types of conduct shall …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that for additional purposes of the amendatory provisions, a student initiates sexual activity with another individual without that individual's consent if the other individual did not agree to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines the terms "anaerobic digester", "anaerobic digestion", "digestate", and "food waste processing facility". Replaces the definition of "food scrap" with the definition of "food waste". Replaces references to food scrap with references to food waste. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning the exercise of eminent domain powers by a public utility, provides that an owner or operator of a pipeline designed, constructed, and operated to transport carbon dioxide to which the Illinois Commerce …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Instructs the Department of Public Health to require a health care practitioner who is treating a patient diagnosed with epilepsy and at elevated …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends 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 on or after January 1, 2027 shall provide coverage for medically prescribed seizure detection …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Combines harassment by telephone and harassment through electronic communications into one statute. Provides that a person also commits the offense by knowingly making any comment, request, suggestion, or proposal with the intent to harass …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Agricultural Land Conservation Act. Makes findings. Defines terms. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, a Farmland Conversion Fee shall be paid by the buyer or lessee in a transaction for any agricultural land that will be removed from …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Illinois Statewide Trauma-Informed Response to Human Trafficking Act. Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall maintain a human trafficking unit …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Adds additional provisions concerning climate resilience projects. Further amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Provides that the Illinois Finance Authority may finance or refinance any accounts receivable, working capital, liability, or …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Removes language providing that the Department of the Lottery shall publish each January in the Illinois Register a list of all game-specific rules, play instructions, directives, operations manuals, brochures, or other game-specific publications issued by …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Reinserts provisions concerning the inspection of employee records. Changes various references from "an offer of employment" to "a final offer of employment". …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Single-Use Plastic Bag Reduction Act. Defines terms. Prohibits, starting July 1, 2026, a retail mercantile establishment from offering or making available a single-use checkout bag to consumers at the point of sale. Allows a retail mercantile establishment to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no person shall conduct a carbon sequestration activity within a sequestration facility that overlies, underlies, or passes through a sole-source aquifer. Specifies that this provisions does not deprive the Environmental Protection Agency of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides for the election (rather than appointment) of the board of trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago beginning with the 2027 consolidated election. Provides that the City of Chicago shall be subdivided into …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Provides that, on or before July 1, 2026, each school district that serves students in any of grades kindergarten through 3 shall report specified information to the State Board of Education …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Disposable Food Service Container Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2030, a person may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam. Specifies …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Requires the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to develop a course and certification program for certified therapy dog teams consisting of officers employing the use of therapy dogs in relation to crisis and …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends 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 January 1, 2026 must provide coverage, no less than once every 12 months, …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
Bill crosspost Neutral
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines the terms "anaerobic digester", "anaerobic digestion", and "food". Deletes provisions that exempted certain composting facilities from regulation as a pollution control facility. Creates exemptions from the definition of "pollution control facility" for (i) the …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the Comptroller and Treasurer shall transfer from the Solid Waste Management Fund into a separate account within the Solid Waste Management Fund, $225,000 on October 1, 2026, $234,000 on October 1, 2027, and …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Historical Cost of Attendance Disclosure Act. Requires each public or private college or university to post its cost of attendance on its website for each of the 10 academic years immediately preceding the effective date of the Act …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Capital Development Board Act. Provides that, on or before July 1, 2026, and every year thereafter, the Capital Development Board shall submit a report to the General Assembly and the Governor concerning all upcoming and proposed projects constructed …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Prenatal Syphilis Act. Provides that every appropriate health care professional (rather than physician or other person) attending in a professional capacity a pregnant woman in Illinois shall test every pregnant person (rather than take or cause to be …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2027, a person or entity shall not manufacture a food product for human consumption that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3. Provides …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Clean Transportation Standard Act. Establishes a clean transportation standard to reduce lifecycle carbon intensity of fuels for the ground transportation sector by specified amounts. Provides for related rulemaking and calculations. Provides that the clean transportation standard shall take …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that when a legislator chooses to take official action on a matter despite the existence of a conflict situation, he or she shall (in addition to serving the public interest) also disclose that …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that acts submitting to the general jurisdiction of Illinois courts include (1) a corporation having its principal place of business in Illinois or (2) is a foreign business corporation that has consented to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Appropriates $700,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Illinois Center for Employee Ownership for the purpose of expanding education, outreach, and technical assistance related to employee ownership transitions …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Agricultural Land Conservation Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2027, a Farmland Conversion Fee of $275 per acre shall be paid by the buyer or lessee of a transaction for any agricultural land that will be removed …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Changes references from "electronic credential" to "mobile identification card". Provides that no relying party, including law enforcement, may take physical possession of a mobile identification card holder's mobile device for purposes of verifying the …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that in the Articles governing employment, financial credit, and public accommodations it is a civil rights violation to use criteria or methods including practices, policies, and groups of practices or policies that has …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Military Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Military Affairs has the authority to make grants from the Military Affairs Trust Fund for the purpose of incentivizing recruitment into the Illinois National Guard. Provides that the Joint …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Servicemember Education Rights Veneration Act. Requires institutions of higher education (institution) to accommodate service member student's academic military leave and grant prompt readmission when the service member student has not exceeded a cumulative academic military leave period beyond …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Delinquent Minors Article of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Adds a Part concerning Fitness to Stand Trial. Specifies the unfitness standard for a minor. Sets forth procedures to raise the issue of the unfitness of a minor. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Community Housing Reintegration Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund may be used to provide housing-related costs for eligible persons who are either (i) transitioning out of congregate long-term care settings into less …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Motor Vehicle Franchise Act. Provides that it shall be deemed a violation for a manufacturer, distributor, wholesaler, or other specified entity to distribute new motor vehicles directly to consumers or to circumvent franchise distribution obligations under the Act. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Transit Innovation, Integration, and Reform Act. Provides that the member appointed to the Committee to represent individuals with disabilities shall either be an individual with a disability or an individual who has demonstrated experience …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the MC/DD Act, and the ID/DD Community Care Act. Provides that notice of closure of an establishment or facility licensed under those Acts shall be given to the Office of the State …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is less than 16 years of age may ride as a passenger on a Class 3 low-speed electric bicycle that is designed to accommodate passengers if the operator is 18 …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Act. Requires all service officers and any supervisors, including the field manager, within the field division to be currently serving reservists or national guardsmen in good standing or honorably discharged veterans from service in …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act. Provides that all individual in the State have the right to wear protective medical equipment in any place of public accommodation where they have a lawful right to be without obligation to disclose …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the design and color of registration plates shall be wholly within the discretion of the Secretary of State. Provides that plates for veterans with disabilities who have been approved for benefits under the …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that a person commits the crime of violation of an order of protection under the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act. Requires large frontier artificial intelligence developers to adopt and publish a frontier artificial intelligence framework addressing catastrophic risk management, transparency, and cybersecurity. Mandates reporting of critical safety incidents to the Attorney General …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning expenses that are recoverable by a public utility, provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall not consider as an expense of any public utility company, for the purpose of determining any rate …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois State Police Law and the Illinois Police Training Act to require instruction during training on the policies and procedures for administering a lethality assessment, including referrals to domestic violence services. Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act. Requires direct service workers employed by the Department of Human Services, or an agency contracted with the Department, to provide services under the Home Services Program to complete at least 2 hours …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Genetic Information Privacy Act. Provides that the use of genetic testing, biomarker testing, or both (rather than only genetic testing), and the information derived from testing, is confidential and privileged and may be released only to the individual …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Includes an establishment under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act in the definition of "facility". Makes a conforming change in a the definition of "resident's representative".
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Smoke Detector Act. Bans, beginning December 31, 2027, the selling, offering for sale, or giving as a gift a smoke detector that is not designed to receive primary power from the building wiring or does not meet certain …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Appropriates $6,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for distribution to Area Agencies on Aging for services provided under the Family Caregiver Act. Effective July 1, 2025.
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that crime victims have the right, when a person reports being a crime victim as defined in the Act, to be treated with fairness and respect during the investigatory process, …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Contains provisions concerning procurements made by or on behalf of public institutions of higher education for food. Provides that, in the case of certain contracts for the procurement of food, the chief procurement officer must …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning radon testing, provides that every school building of a school district that is occupied or will be occupied shall be tested by January 1, 2029 and shall be retested every 5 years thereafter …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Safe Gun Storage Act. Provides that a firearm owner shall not store or keep any firearm in any premises where the firearm owner knows or reasonably should know a minor without the lawful permission of the minor's parent, …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a small business financing program to provide low-interest financing to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Wetlands Protection Act. Provides that no person may discharge dredged or fill material into a State jurisdictional wetland except with a permit issued by the Department of Natural Resources. Exempts certain activities from the requirements of the Act. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Code. Provides that, on or before the 2026-2027 school year, each school board shall adopt and implement a wireless communication device policy that: (1) prohibits a student from using a wireless communication device during instructional time, except …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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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 acquisition of a 340B drug by, or delivery …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Powering Up Illinois Act. Defines terms. Sets forth findings. Requires an electric utility that operates within the State to (i) upgrade the State's electrical distribution systems as needed and in time to achieve the State's decarbonization goals, and …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Responsibility in Firearm Legislation (RIFL) Act. Establishes a firearms manufacturer licensing program in the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, with certain requirements, including that the sum of all fees for firearms manufacturer licenses shall be equal to …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, in Fiscal Year 2026 and thereafter, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall require that any convention and tourism bureau receiving …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, beginning on January 1, 2026, the reimbursement rates for the support component of the nursing facility rate for facilities licensed under the Nursing …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987. Provides that a physician assistant may prescribe, dispense, order, administer, and procure drugs and medical devices without delegation of authority by a physician. Provides that a physician assistant may practice without a …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Defines "acute sexual assault" as a sexual assault that has recently occurred within a specified time. Replaces various references to "sexual assault" with "acute sexual assault". Deletes the definition of "prepubescent sexual …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall require all school districts to supply all active classroom instructors, all school staff and administration, and district leadership with an educational document explaining the values of good indoor …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Code. In a provision concerning evidence-based funding for student success, allows the Professional Review Panel to study, at the discretion of the chairperson, any proposed legislation by the General Assembly impacting the provision or the distribution of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Provides that the second series of incentive periods shall begin on July 1, 2025 and end on June 30, 2032 (in the introduced bill, the second series of incentive periods shall …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Operating Room Patient Safety Act. Provides that each surgical technologist hired or contracted by a health care facility on or after January 1, 2027 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides that nothing in the Act …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Substance Use Disorder Act. In provisions requiring the Department of Human Services to establish a public education program regarding gambling disorders, requires the program to (i) promote public awareness to create a gambling informed State regarding the impact …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the State Treasurer Act. Makes formatting changes. Amends the Accountability for the Investment of Public Funds Act. Provides that each State agency shall make available on the Internet, and update at least monthly, no later than the end of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Health Care Availability and Access Board Act. Establishes the Health Care Availability and Access Board to protect State residents, State and local governments, commercial health plans, health care providers, pharmacies licensed in the State, and other stakeholders within …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Election Code, the Illinois Act on the Aging, the Children and Family Services Act, the Grocery Initiative Act, the Illinois Lottery Law, the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a credit for certain small businesses in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 10% of the property taxes paid by the qualified small business during the taxable year for eligible real …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the School Code with respect to the waiver or modification of mandates provisions. Requires the notice of public hearing to be published on all social media accounts maintained and operated by a school district (rather than in a newspaper …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the Community Care Program, provides that, subject to federal approval, on and after January 1, 2026, rates for in-home services shall be increased to $32.75 to sustain a minimum wage …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the renewal of a driver's license who is 79 years or older to renew in person. Requires every applicant for the renewal of a driver's license who is 87 years of …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the definition of "public works" includes all federal construction projects administered or controlled by a public body if the prevailing rate of wages is equal to or greater than the prevailing wage determination …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Build Illinois Homes Tax Credit Act. Provides that owners of qualified low-income housing developments are eligible for credits against the taxes imposed by the Illinois Income Tax Act or taxes, penalties, fees, charges, and payments imposed by the …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning mental health and substance use parity, makes changes to defined terms. Requires specified provider reimbursement rates to comply with the reimbursement floors for all in-network mental health and substance use disorder services. …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share
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Creates the Junk Fee Ban Act. Provides that it is a violation of the Act for a person to: (1) offer, display, or advertise an amount a consumer may pay for merchandise without clearly and conspicuously disclosing the total price; …
Mar 16, 2026 · details / share