Illinois Senator Christopher Belt [D] | Senate

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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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Labor & Commerce Committee
ILSB2803Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Sets forth procedures for the Secretary of State to issue a standard Illinois Identification Card to a person committed to the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a Federal Burea...
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2024-04-24
To House Restorative Justice Committee
ILSB3239Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health and Hazardous Substances Registry Act. Repeals provisions relating to the Health and Hazardous Substances Coordinating Council.
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2024-04-24
To House Public Health Committee
ILSB3422Engross
50%
Amends the State Finance Act. In relation to grants to units of local government from the State Aviation Program Fund based on enplanements, total cargo, and airport operations, provides that airport operations shall be measured based on 12 calendar ...
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2024-04-24
To House Appropriations-Public Safety Committee
ILSB2689Engross
50%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. By June 1, 2025, requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, to establish, by rule, a Montessori education endorsement to be...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School Committee
ILSB3238Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals provisions relating to the higher education supplier diversity report and race and gender wage reports and moves those provisions, with cha...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Economic Opportunity & Equity Committee
ILSB2683Engross
50%
Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act. Defines a course of conduct to include using any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine a targeted person's location, moment, or travel patterns. Requires an order under thi...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 9:00 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILSB3219Engross
50%
Amends the Grocery Initiative Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may, subject to appropriation, provide grants for equipment upgrades for farmer-owned grocery stores or markets.
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILSB2626Engross
50%
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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILSB2697Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Removes language concerning coverage for any cancer risk management strategy, as recommended by a health care professional. Requires, for individu...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB0771Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2024-04-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford
ILSB3471Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue a new set of license plates to an owner of a vehicle whose plates were stolen. Provides that the new set of plates shall be issued without a fee. Requires the Secretary to assig...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee
ILSB0056Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning Medicare supplement policy minimum standards, provides that if an individual is at least 65 years of age but no more than 75 years of age and has an existing Medicare supplement policy, the...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB3606Engross
50%
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that the term "special educational facilities and services" includes private special schools (instead of special schools) and separate public special education day schools. Pr...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILSB2672Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Adds a definition of "unavailable". Provides that if a generic drug or a therapeutic equivalent is unavailable (rather than if a generic drug is unavailable) due to a supply ...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB2770Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. Provides that a covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit is void and illegal with respect to individuals employed in construction, regardless of whether an individual is covered by a collective bar...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILSB2979Engross
50%
Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Defines "electronic signature" as an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. Provides...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 9:00 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil 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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB2943Intro
25%
Appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for grants to community learning centers under the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. Effective immediately.
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2024-04-24
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB3646Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Provides that a park district, not-for-profit youth club, or municipal parks and recreation department may allow a minor 14 years of age or older to...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILSB3768Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Changes references of "deaf-blind" to "deafblind". Provides that the Philip J. Rock Center and School shall service eligible students between the ages...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILSB3077Engross
50%
Creates the Local Food Infrastructure Grant Act. Requires the Department of Agriculture to develop and administer a Local Food Infrastructure Grant Program to enhance local food processing, aggregation, and distribution within the State through the a...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Agriculture & Conservation Committee
ILSB2653Intro
25%
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, 2026 shall meet specified educational, certification, or experiential requirements. Provides ...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2639Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that, for a group policy of accident and health insurance that provides pregnancy related benefits (rather than providing coverage for more than 25 employees that pr...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB3136Engross
50%
Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force Act. Provides that it is the General Assembly's intent to require a coordinated, public health, and service-integrated response by various agencies within the State's health and child welfar...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
ILSB2643Engross
50%
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Defines "chain of custody record" and "uniquely identified". Provides that the examination to qualify as an embalmer or funeral director shall embrace the subject of identification rules and ...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILSB0001Engross
50%
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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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 10:00 am]
To House Child Care Accessibility & Early Childhood Education Committee
ILSB3479Engross
50%
Amends provisions of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act concerning deceptive practices targeting veterans and military members. Changes the definition of "veteran or military benefits services" to any services offered or provided...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 9:00 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILSB2641Engross
50%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Provides that an insurer providing a network plan must file with the Director of Insurance a description of the process for monitoring health plan beneficiaries' timely in-network access to physician ...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB2654Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that personal medicine and health care devices, including hearing instruments; social security cards; passbooks; and higher education textbooks and study materials shall not be subject to a lien. Provides th...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 10:00 am]
To House Transportation: Vehicles & Safety Committee
ILSB3538Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, if a municipality or county, including a home rule municipality or county, is a self-insurer for purposes of providing health insurance coverage for its employees, the insurance...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILSB2234Intro
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Creates the Consumer Protections for Small Business Act. Sets forth provisions concerning licensure requirements for persons providing commercial financing; applicability of the Act; applying for licensing under the Act; license application and issua...
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2024-04-23
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Michael E. Hastings
ILSB3699Intro
25%
Amends the State Finance Act. In provisions concerning the State Aviation Program Fund, provides that grant moneys in excess of $30,000,000 shall be distributed by the Department of Transportation to airports for capital development purposes for proj...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Revenue Committee
ILSB2604Intro
25%
Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act, the Civil No Contact Order Act, and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Requires, upon the request of a petitioner, the clerk of the circuit court to send a certified copy of a stalking no contact ord...
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2024-04-23
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB2944Intro
25%
Appropriates $5,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for a grant to Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, USA for program and operating expenses for youth-development based sports initiatives. Effe...
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2024-04-22
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILSB3649Intro
25%
Creates the Worker Freedom of Speech Act. Provides that an employer or the employer's agent, representative, or designee may not discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize, threaten to discharge, discipline, or otherwise penalize, or take any adver...
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2024-04-22
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Christopher Belt
ILSB1441Intro
25%
Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for a real estate broker or salesman, because of a c...
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2024-04-19
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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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3325Intro
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Amends the Right of Publicity Act. Grants additional enforcement rights and remedies to recording artists. Provides for the liability of any person who materially contributes to, induces, or otherwise facilitates a violation of a specified provision ...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2930Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the aggregated demographic information of the corporation's directors and officers shall be accessible on the corporation's publicly available website for at le...
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2024-04-19
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Economic Opportunity & Equity 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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2024-04-19
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB3665Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers shall cover all services for pregnancy, postpartum, and newborn care that are rendered by perinatal doulas or licensed certified professional midwives, including home births, home visits, and...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Insurance Committee
ILSB3630Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to the parent or guardian of a child at the center of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Childr...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2535Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Creates the Youth Nonviolent Crimes Resource Program. Provides that the Criminal Justice Information Authority shall provide resources to people under the age of 18 who have committed a nonviolent...
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2024-04-19
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
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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2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILSB3423Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Prisoner Review Board shall be the authority for setting conditions for mandatory supervised release under specified provisions and determining whether a violation of those conditions warrant ...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
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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2024-04-18
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House State Government Administration Committee
ILSB2633Intro
25%
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act to include in the definition of "petitioner" an intimate partner. Amends the Protective Orders Article of the Code of Criminal Procedures of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that,...
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2024-04-17
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB1478Engross
50%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Creates the Due Process for Youth Oversight Commission (Commission) to oversee the creation and implementation of a youth's statutory right to counsel in abuse and neglect proceedings conducted in accordan...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1763Intro
25%
Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Increases by 20% hospital reimbursement rates for dates of service on and after January 1, 2024, for specified services, including, but not limited to: inpatient general...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
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