Illinois Senator Kimberly Lightford [D]

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ILHB3606Engross
50%
Reinserts provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Changes reference to "penalty" to "damages" in provision concerning the Council's enforcement procedures and a provision concerning remedies or sanctions for vendors failing to make good faith...
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1502Intro
25%
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that a person who has been convicted of a felony is qualified to act as an executor if: (i) the testator names that person as an executor and expressly acknowledges in the will that the testator is aware that ...
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1775Intro
25%
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1779Engross
50%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Changes the name of the Medication Aide Pilot Program to the Medication Aide Program. Makes conforming changes. Provides that to be approved as a qualified facility under the program (instead of for the duration of the ...
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2023-04-28
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3421Engross
50%
Amends the Commission on Equity and Inclusion Act. Provides that the Commission on Equity and Inclusion shall collect and publish on its websites all relevant supplier diversity reports submitted to any State agency to provide a comprehensive review ...
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB3147Engross
50%
Creates the Literary and Justice for All Act. Provides that the State Board of Education shall adopt and make available to school districts a rubric by which districts may evaluate curricula and select and implement core reading instruction programs,...
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2023-04-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2246Intro
25%
Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to any subject of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Children and Family Services consults with and relies upon the opinion of a medically trained professional as to wheth...
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2023-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0157Intro
25%
Amends the Public Construction Bond Act. Provides that public construction bonds are required only for those public work construction contracts that are valued over $5,000,000. Authorizes any official, board, commission, agent of the State, or any po...
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2023-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1873Intro
25%
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the fee for a coroner's or medical examiner's permit to cremate a human body is $100 (rather than $50). Effective immediately.
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2023-03-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1812Intro
25%
Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Provides that a public officer, employee, board, or representative of a governmental unit may not ban or otherwise prohibit a book from being available for reading or circulation by members of the ...
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2023-03-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2073Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Provides that, except for parole review of persons under the age of 21 at the time of the commission of an offense, no person serving a term of natural life impr...
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2023-03-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1392Intro
25%
Creates the Digital Forgeries Act. Provides that an individual depicted in a digital forgery has a cause of action against any person who, without the consent of the depicted individual, knowingly distributes a digital forgery, creates a digital forg...
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2023-03-31
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0100Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2025, a retail establishment may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene ...
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2023-03-30
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB2872Engross
50%
Reinserts the content of the bill, but changes the date for the State Board of Education to develop and adopt a comprehensive literacy plan from on or before October 1, 2023 to January 31, 2024. Effective immediately.
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2023-03-28
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0052PassCongratulates Audrey Soglin on her retirement, commends her many years of service to the educators of Illinois, and wishes her good luck in all her future endeavors.
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2023-03-10
Resolution Adopted
ILSB1500Intro
25%
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Repeals the Collateral Recovery Act on January 1, 2032 (instead of January 1, 2027). Amends the Collateral Recovery Act. Makes changes to the findings and purposes provisions. Defines "hazardous material" and "person...
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2023-03-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1234Intro
25%
Creates the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program Act. Requires the Department of Employment Security to establish and administer a Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program that provides family and medical leave insurance benefits to eligible ...
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2023-03-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2245Intro
25%
Creates the Literary and Justice for All Act. Provides that the State Board of Education shall adopt and make available to school districts a rubric by which districts may evaluate curricula and select and implement evidence-based, culturally inclusi...
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2023-03-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0097PassMourns the death of Edward M. "Ed" Hogan.
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2023-03-10
Resolution Adopted
ILSB2244Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. With respect to the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program, removes language that provides that the State Board of Education may distribute an amount not to exceed 2% of the moneys appropriated for the Program for the purpose...
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2023-03-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1266Intro
25%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Instead of requiring consumer education to be taught and studied, provides that beginning with pupils entering the 9th grade in the 2024-2025 school year, pupils in the public schools in grade 1...
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2023-03-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0037PassDeclares February 28, 2023 as Black Women's History Day in the State of Illinois to honor the accomplishments, power, beauty, courage, intelligence, ingenuity, stewardship, and leadership of Black women. Encourages all Illinoisans and their families ...
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2023-02-28
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Mike Simmons
ILSB2157Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Specifies that the rate of reimbursement for inpatient psychiatric services for safety-net hospitals shall be no less than $800 per day.
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2023-02-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0074Intro
25%
Declares February 5 through February 11, 2023 as Burn Awareness Week. Urges all government agencies, fire, life safety, and health care organizations, communications media, and the people of Illinois to observe this week with the appropriate ceremoni...
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2023-02-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1401Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Adds certain data that must be included in school report cards prepared by the State Superintendent of Education. In provisions concerning school social workers, school nurses, school counselors, school psychologists, and spee...
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2023-02-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSR0005Intro
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Declares February 28, 2023 as Black Women's History Day in the State of Illinois to honor the accomplishments, power, beauty, courage, intelligence, ingenuity, stewardship, and leadership of Black women. Encourages all Illinoisans and their families ...
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2023-01-12
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHJR0002PassRESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, January 12, 2023, the House of Representatives stands adjourned ...
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2023-01-12
Adopted Both Houses
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