Illinois Senator Thomas Bennett [R]

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ILSB2965Intro
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Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the 16th day of July of each year is designated a commemorative holiday to be known as Atomic Veterans Day and to be observed throughout the State as a day in honor and remembrance of the men an...
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2024-01-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2958Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires every applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle to present, at the time of submission of an application for registration, a valid driver's license.
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2024-01-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2668Intro
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Amends the Property Owned By Noncitizens Act. Provides that a prohibited foreign-party-controlled business shall not acquire by grant, purchase, devise, descent, or otherwise any interest in public or private land in the State. Provides that a prohib...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2917Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Requires Voter Identification Cards for those who do not have acceptable photo identification. Sets forth requirements and exemptions. Provides that any person desiring to vote shall present to the judges of election for ver...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2897Intro
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Creates the Campus Free Speech Act. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college to develop and adopt a policy on free expression; sets forth what the policy must contain. Requires the Board of Higher Education to crea...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2904Intro
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Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides for the acquisition and placement of a statue depicting President Ronald W. Reagan. Provides that the Architect of the Capitol may provide for the design and fabrication of the st...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2916Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county clerk of a county where a decedent last resided shall (rather than may) issue certifications of death records from the electronic reporting system for death registrations and shall (rather than may) ...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2905Intro
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Amends the Legislative Commission Reorganization Act of 1984. Provides for the acquisition and placement of statues depicting: (1) President Ronald W. Reagan; and (2) President Barack H. Obama. Provides that the Architect of the Capitol may provide f...
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2024-01-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2200Intro
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Appropriates the sum of $200,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to reimburse an eligible electric utility serving adversely impacted residential and small commercial customers. Effective July ...
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2024-01-10
Re-assigned to Appropriations
ILSB0156Intro
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Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, requires school boards to report, on their school district's website, a list of the learning materials and activities to be used for student instruction during the school year. Require...
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2024-01-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0569PassCongratulates Christine Myers on her retirement as executive director of the Livingston County Mental Health and Disabilities Boards. Expresses heartfelt gratitude for her exceptional service, leadership, and contributions to behavioral health and fo...
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2023-11-09
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0598Intro
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Condemns the terrorist attacks by Hamas on the State of Israel, expresses deepest sorrow to all innocent people impacted by this terrorist attack and for all the innocent lives lost in Israel and Gaza, calls for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid ...
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2023-11-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0076VetoAmends the Public Utilities Act. Deletes language that provides that no construction shall commence on any new nuclear power plant to be located within the State, and no certificate of public convenience and necessity or other authorization shall be ...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands
ILSB2149Intro
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Amends the Invest in Kids Act. Provides that the Invest in Kids credit applies on a permanent basis. Removes a limitation that the credit may not be taken for any qualified contribution for which the taxpayer claims a federal income tax deduction. Am...
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2023-10-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3814PassAmends the School Boards Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning the daily pupil attendance calculation, provides that participation in a Supervised Career Development Experience or any work-based learning experience in which student par...
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2023-08-14
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0560
ILHB1131PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill as modified by Senate Amendment No. 1 and makes the following changes. Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Requires persons serving as Executive Director or otherwise involved with directing the...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0517
ILHB0301PassAmends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Removes language referring to the program as a pilot program. Requires each participating public university to indicate that grants under the program...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0516
ILSB1488PassAmends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning educator testing, provides that beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act through August 31, 2025, no candidate completing a teacher preparation program or...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0488
ILSB1701PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Makes the following changes in the provisions regarding the Partners for Conservation Fund and the Partners for Conservation Projects Fund in the State Finance Act: provides ...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0494
ILHB3172PassAmends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Removes a provision prohibiting a person from being accepted for residency to an assisted living establishment if the person requires sliding scale insulin administration unless self-performed or adm...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0444
ILSB1072PassAmends the Flag Display Act. Designates the Honor and Remember Flag as the symbol of the State's concern for and commitment to honoring and remembering the lives of all members of the United States armed forces who have lost their lives while serving...
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2023-07-31
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0409
ILHB2855PassAmends provisions of the Lyme Disease Prevention and Protection Act concerning the Lyme Disease Task Force. Provides that one veterinarian appointed to the Task Force by the Director of Public Health must be a practicing Doctor of Veterinary Medicine...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0328
ILSB2340PassAmends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that any person convicted of violating provisions related to approaching, overtaking, or passing a school bus, or similar provisions of a local ordinance, shall be subject to a mandatory fine of $500 (rather...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0404
ILHB3277PassAmends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that incidental sales of finished compost do not need to be applied to agronomic rates in determining whether a person needs a permit to conduct a landscape waste composting operation at specified sit...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0342
ILHB3203PassAmends the Overdose Prevention and Harm Reduction Act. Provides that a pharmacist may sell fentanyl test strips over-the-counter to the public to test for the presence of fentanyl, a fentanyl analogue, or a drug adulterant within a controlled substan...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0336
ILHB3436PassAmends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the issuance of the Thank a Line Worker license plate decal by the Illinois Department of Education. Creates the Thank a Line Worker Scholarship Fund. Provides that $10 of each original issuance and $23 of eac...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0349
ILHB2245PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: In the Illinois Vehicle Code: Provides that a manufacturer or its vehicle location vendor shall relay vehicle location information to the best of their technical capabilities ...
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2023-07-28
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0300
ILSB2325PassAmends the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Act. Provides that a soil and water conservation district may request that the Department of Transportation install a sign related to the district on an existing or new Department sign post or pole in ...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0262
ILHB2582PassAmends Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes the testing requirement for motorcycle operators who are under the age of 18.
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0162
ILSB2247PassAmends the State Treasurer Act. Provides that any entity may make contributions to an ABLE account. Makes changes concerning privacy of ABLE account information. Provides that the ABLE Account Program may also be referred to as the Senator Scott Benn...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0256
ILHB3613PassAmends the General Provisions Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning medical prescriptions for schools, Provides that the school district, public school, charter school, or nonpublic school may maintain a supply of undesignated oxygen t...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0196
ILSB0046PassCreates the Illinois Waterway Ports Commission Act. Provides that the Illinois Waterway Ports Commission is created and shall exercise jurisdiction with respect to the duties and powers delegated to it under the Act within the following port district...
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2023-06-30
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0214
ILSR0058Intro
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Declares May 3, 2023 as "Illinois Bacon Day".
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2023-06-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1468PassAmends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that through June 30, 2026 (instead of June 30, 2023), an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is no...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0088
ILSB1115PassAmends the State Universities Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, in lieu of the amount of a disability benefit otherwise provided, for a participant who is employed as a police officer and who incurs a line of duty disability, the d...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0080
ILHB1273PassAmends the School Code. Provides that Constitution Day (September 17) shall also be a commemorative holiday. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0015
ILHB1629PassAmends the Wildlife Code. Provides that the Eurasian Collared Dove and Ringed Turtle-Dove are excluded from the list of wildlife protected by the Act. Provides that the Virginia Rail, Sora Rail, Wilson's Snipe, Woodcock, Mourning Dove, and White-wing...
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2023-06-09
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0023
ILSJR0032PassDesignates Interstate 74 east of US 45 in Champaign-Urbana to the Indiana border as the "Senator Scott M. Bennett Memorial Highway".
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2023-05-31
Adopted Both Houses
ILSJR0023Intro
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Designates Interstate 55 as it travels around the city of Chenoa as the "Cpl. Donald C. Taylor Memorial Highway".
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2023-05-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0066PassDeclares July 16, 2023 as Atomic Veterans Day in the State of Illinois.
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2023-05-19
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Jason Plummer
ILSR0129PassDeclares the third week of September 2023 as "Prairie Week".
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2023-05-19
Resolution Adopted
ILSR0241PassUrges the Illinois Department of Transportation and the High Speed Railroad Commission to move expeditiously in preparing a Statewide Integrated Network Plan, including the identification of desired service points and key transfer stations, the const...
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2023-05-19
Resolution Adopted
ILSB2577Intro
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Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, a public school may obtain crisis response mapping data and provide copies of the crisis response mapping data to appropriate local, county, State, and federal first respond...
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2023-05-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSJR0022PassDeclares May 3, 2023 as "Illinois Bacon Day".
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2023-05-18
Adopted Both Houses
ILSB1588Intro
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Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Adds to the definition of "brownfield site photovoltaic project", photovoltaics that meet the criteria that the project is interconnected to an electric utility, a municipal utility, a public utility as defined i...
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2023-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1968Intro
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Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits disorderly conduct when he or she knowingly transmits or causes to be transmitted in any manner a threat of destruction of a child care institution or day care center building or proper...
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2023-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1086Intro
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Amends the Community Expanded Mental Health Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2023-05-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2253Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, each individual who serves as a volunteer emergency worker for at least 9 months during the taxable year and does not receive compensation for ...
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2023-05-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0267Intro
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Recognizes Mother's Day and all of the contributions Illinois mothers have made and continue to make.
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2023-05-11
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3162PassAmends the Chicago Police and Chicago Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Establishes a presumption that a fireman or policeman who becomes disabled as a result of exposure to and contraction of COVID-19 was injured in the line of duty...
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2023-05-10
Effective Date May 10, 2023
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