Illinois Senator Christopher Belt [D]

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ILSB3805Intro
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Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Creates the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment. Provides that the Office shall assist minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, businesses owned...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-12
To Senate Licensed Activities Committee
ILSB3669Intro
25%
Creates the Wetlands and Small Streams Protection Act to restore protections for wetlands and small streams that were formerly protected from pollution and destruction by the Clean Water Act. Provides provisions concerning: exemptions; wetlands delin...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-12
To Senate Assignments 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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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3530Intro
25%
Appropriates $8,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to State Board of Education for a grant to YouthBuild Illinois. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-11
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
ILSB2209Intro
25%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the State Board of Education shall award grants of up to $5,000 per school site on a competitive basis to eligible school districts, regional superintendents of schools,...
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2024-04-10
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Cristina Castro
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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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3274Intro
25%
Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3846Intro
25%
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of the Lottery for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, as follows: Other State Funds $3,289,738,800.
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2024-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
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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2024-04-10
To Senate Revenue Committee
ILSB2663Intro
25%
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that upon the filing of a petition by a reputable person or by the alleged person with a disability himself or on its own motion, the court may adjudge a person to be a person with a disability, but only if it...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2006Intro
25%
Amends the evidence-based funding provisions of the School Code. Provides that the Minimum Funding Level is equal to $550,000,000 (instead of $350,000,000). Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB2040Intro
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Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the Minority Teachers of Illinois scholarship program. Provides that any money appropriated to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for scholarship awards for a particular acade...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB2636Intro
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for a person who is a resident of a supportive living facility, the State shall pay an amount in addition to the minimum monthly personal needs allowance authorized ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3586Intro
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Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation or any county may, as a part of the cost of construction, make a payment not to exceed the maximum funding permitted under the Uniform Relocation Assistance Program (rat...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILSB3698Intro
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Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Provides that funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may be used for equipment, installation, service, and maintenance of the ca...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILSB2791Intro
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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, 2025 shall be awarded to businesses with 50 ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations Committee
ILSB3441Intro
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Creates the Safety Moratorium on Carbon Dioxide Pipelines Act. Establishes a temporary statewide moratorium on construction of carbon dioxide pipelines until certain studies at the federal and State levels are conducted. Details requirements for the ...
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2024-04-04
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2236Engross
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Amends the School Boards Article of the School Code. Removes the repeal date for the short-term substitute teacher training program. Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning short-term substitute teacher lice...
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2024-04-02
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School Committee
ILSB3226Intro
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Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Agency for grants to Community Resource Healing Centers (CHRC)for their operational expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-25
To Senate Appropriations - Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee
ILSB1294Intro
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Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that a person is eligible for a diaper allowance in the amount of $70 per month per eligible child if all of the following conditions are met: (1) the person's household income is at or below 100%...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0803PassDeclares March of 2024 as Kidney Month.
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2024-03-22
Resolution Adopted
ILSB3329Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child tax credit in an amount equal to the product of a specified credit amount multiplied by the number of qualifying children of the taxpayer. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3509Intro
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Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1391Intro
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Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Modifies factors used by a municipality to determine if an area is a blighted area or a conservation area to be included in the area of a redevelopment project area...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1444Intro
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for dependents of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount of the credit is $700 per qualified dependent of the taxpayer. Provides that the maximum amount shall be reduced by $24 ...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3754Intro
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Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes changes to "brownfield site photovoltaic project" definition. Deletes provision that requires the Agency to develop a method to optimize procurement of the renewable energy credits from proposed utility-sca...
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2024-03-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0840PassMourns the death of Billie Jean Miller.
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2024-03-14
Resolution Adopted
ILSB3424Intro
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Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that "hospital worker" means any person who receives an hourly wage directly or indirectly via a subcontractor by a hospital licensed under the Act. Replaces references to "nurse" with "hospital worker". Pr...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2940Intro
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-03-14
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
ILSB3108Intro
25%
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 S...
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2024-03-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0552Intro
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Expresses strong support for the initiative to reprogram USDA funds allocated to Puerto Rico toward purchasing locally grown items in Puerto Rico. Urges the United States Congress to endorse and implement this initiative in recognition of its potenti...
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2024-03-07
To Senate Agriculture Committee
ILSB2593Intro
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Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the salary (exclusive of any other compensation or benefits) of a county treasurer who is elected or appointed after the effective date of the amendatory Act in a county shall not be less than 80% of the salary...
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2024-03-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3707Intro
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Creates the Municipal Economic Relief and Revenue Task Force Act. Creates the Task Force to study and evaluate methods of providing economic relief to municipalities, particularly those that are financially distressed, and to explore new revenue stre...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3708Intro
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Amends the General Provisions and State Employee Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, with regard to persons subject to the Tier 2 provisions, a security employee of the Department of Human Services, a security employee of the Depart...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3706Intro
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Amends the Sports Wagering Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, beginning with July 2024, the Illinois Gaming Board shall certify to the State Comptroller the amount of tax revenues collected in the month from sports wageri...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3797Intro
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Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall follow specified requirements of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act regarding the administration of cultivation center agent identificati...
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2024-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3423Intro
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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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2024-02-08
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3375Engross
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Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the provision of the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code that a prisoner shows cause by identifying an objective factor that impeded his or her ability to raise a specific claim dur...
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2024-02-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1627Intro
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Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2024, the person's adjusted taxable estate shall not include the value of the decedent's ownership interest in qualified farm...
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2024-02-01
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0641PassMourns the death of Wade R. Bivins of East Carondelet.
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2024-01-17
Resolution Adopted
ILSB0689Engross
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Creates the Chicago Board of Education District Act. Divides the City of Chicago into 10 districts and 20 subdistricts for the purposes of identifying persons who will serve on the Chicago Board of Education. Amends the School Code. Provides that, by...
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2024-01-10
Placed on Calendar Order of Concurrence House Amendment(s) 1, 2 - January 10, 2024
ILHB3713Engross
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Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board shall require all school districts to supply all active classroom instructors, all school staff and administration, and district leadership with an educatio...
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2023-12-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2499Engross
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Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Repeals the Electrologist Licensing Act on January 1, 2029 (rather than January 1, 2024). Amends the Electrologist Licensing Act. Provides that all applicants and licensees shall: (1) provide a valid physical address...
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2023-12-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1559PassAmends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that from January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2027, the Department of Agriculture shall not make the application available for transporting organization licenses. Provides that entities awarded a tr...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0578
ILSB0385PassReinserts, from House Amendment No. 1, the authorization for the State of Illinois to deliver certain real property to the City of Venice, with specified conditions, for $1. Amends the Capital Development Board Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0573
ILSR0471PassCongratulates the Ainad Shriners of East St. Louis on Ainad Temple serving as its headquarters for the past 100 years. Wishes the organization continued success in the next century.
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2023-11-09
Resolution Adopted
ILSB1515VetoReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Removes a provision prohibiting an employer from voluntarily enrolling in the E-Verify program or a similar Electronic Emplo...
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2023-11-08
Total Veto Stands
ILSR0551Intro
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Urges the United States Congress to take immediate action to clarify and amend the U.S. tax code to prevent the misuse of Puerto Rican tax incentives. Urges any amendments to the tax code to preserve the original intent of promoting economic growth i...
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2023-11-07
To Senate Assignments Committee
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