Illinois Representative LaShawn Ford [D] | House

Filter View [Reset All]
Syndicate content
StanceStateBillStatusSummary/TitleLast Actionsort icon
ILHB0046Intro
25%
Creates the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Anthony Gay Law. Provides that a committed person may not be placed in isolated confinement for more than 10 consecutive days. Provides that a committed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4219Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning fentanyl education, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, provides that in at least one unit in the State-required health courses for grades 6 through 8 a school district shall provide instruction,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 10:00 am]

Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4951Intro
25%
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that at least 55% of the special event permit fees collected by the Chicago Park District on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act must be used for capital, construction, or programming purposes at ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Cities & Villages Committee; 011-004-000
ILHB5491Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. The Secretary of State shall adopt rules to reimburse an applicant's registration fees for the 2023 registration year in which an applicant received a citation for expired registration as a result of a misprinted reg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
ILHB4728Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to implement a Child Care Collaboration Program by no later than July 1, 2024 to facilitate high quality collaborative programming between child care and other ear...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5008Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Provides that a local school council shall have and exercise the power and duty to contract with the Chicago Police Department to have police officers or school resource officers on schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5003Intro
25%
Appropriates $6,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for a grant to the Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago for costs associated with funding equitable mortgage lending, homeownership rehabilitation and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5450Engross
50%
Amends the State Universities Retirement System Article of the Illinois Pension Code. With respect to a Section concerning reports on cost reduction, removes provisions requiring that on or before November 15th of each year, the Board of Higher Educa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Debbie Meyers-Martin
ILHB5602Engross
50%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Designates the twenty-first day of February of each year as John Lewis Day, to be observed throughout the State as a day to remember the accomplishments of the civil rights icon and to honor his legacy and de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Mary Gill
ILHB4910Intro
25%
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the month of October of each year is designated as Domestic Violence Awareness Month to be observed throughout the State as a month set apart to promote awareness of domestic violence and to sup...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
ILHB5057Intro
25%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall establish a content area test for applicants seeking a State license to teach in any of grades kindergarten through 8. Provides that the test s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4596Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that an employee covered by federal regulations concerning airline flight crew employees shall be deemed to work 40 hours in each work week for the purpose of the ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5455Intro
25%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board may allow one member representing the Board of Higher Education and one member representing the Illinois Community College Boar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
ILHB4504Intro
25%
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
ILHB5417Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Establishes the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator to be housed within the Department. Provides that the Department shall create and fill the Coordinator role within 6 months after the effective d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4895Intro
25%
Amends the Courses of Study Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall require a unit of instruction addressing climate change in either a required science class or a required s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 10:00 am]

Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4189Intro
25%
Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government that has submitted a distressed location project as defined by Department of Natural Resources rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 100% for the acqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 10:00 am]
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB4171Intro
25%
Creates the United States Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Memorial Highway Act. Designates the portion of Interstate 80 that is located in the State of Illinois as the United States Marine Corps Semper Fidelis Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5395Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Consumer Access and Protection Act. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that, unless prohibite...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 10:30 am]

House Floor Amendment No. 4 Rules Refers to Human Services Committee
ILHB5432Intro
25%
Amends the Counties Code and Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a county or municipality may not adopt, enforce, or implement an ordinance, resolution, policy, program, or other regulation affecting a tenancy that (1) imposes or threatens to impo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5653Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Reenacts a provision concerning the Veterans' Service-Related Ailments Task Force repealed by Public Act 102-417. Changes the name of the Veterans' Service-Related Ailments Task Force to the Veterans' S...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 109-000-000
ILHB5537Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Removes an exception for skilled and intermediate long-term care facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act from providing a Safety Net Impact Statement as part of its general review criter...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 109-000-000
ILHB5643Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. 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, 2026 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 9:00 am]

Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicole La Ha
ILHB5354Engross
50%
Amends the Customized Employment for Individuals with Disabilities Act. Changes the name of the Customized Employment Pilot Program to the Customized Employment Demonstration Program. Provides that the program shall consist of components consistent w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 113-000-000
ILHB4806Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, for community-based providers serving persons with intellectual/developmental disabilities, subject to federal approval of any relevant Waiver Amendment, the r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB0305Intro
25%
Amends the Private Business and Vocational Schools Act of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Jackie Haas
ILHB4813Engross
50%
Amends the Information Technology Accessibility Act. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology (currently, the Department of Human Services) shall review certain accessibility standards. Removes a specific reference to the Department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5011Intro
25%
Amends the Governmental Account Audit Act. In provisions requiring an annual audit by a governmental unit to be performed of all the accounts and funds of the governmental unit, provides that township accounts and funds audited under the provisions d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 11:00 am]

Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB2838Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 academic year, the Department of Human Services shall establish and administer the Behavioral Health Scholarship Program for the p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 11:30 am]

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
ILHB4753Intro
25%
Creates the Homicide Victims' Families' Rights Act. Provides for the review of the case file of open unresolved murders. Defines "open unresolved murder" as any criminal activity in which death occurred more than 3 years prior to the date of the appl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
[Hearing: Apr 18 @ 9:00 am]

Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4754Intro
25%
Amends the Uniform Crime Reporting Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency shall publish monthly on its website, and submit to the Illinois State Police in a form, manner, and frequency as required by the Illinois State Police, the following info...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
ILHB5527Engross
50%
Amends the County Department of Corrections Division of the Counties Code, the Unified Code of Corrections, and the County Jail Act. Provides that, upon the release of a prisoner or committed person from a county correctional institution, county jail...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. La Shawn K. Ford
ILHB5467Engross
50%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that when the victim is under 18 years of age at the time of the offense, a prosecution for involuntary servitude, involuntary sexual servitude of a minor, or trafficking in persons and related offenses may ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
ILHB4872Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality shall receive a waiver from paying a required match to a State grant of State moneys if the municipality meets all the other requirements needed for approval of the grant and submits do...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4934Engross
50%
Amends the Cemetery Protection Act. Defines "veteran" and "veterans' organization". Provides that if a veterans' organization has identified human remains of a veteran that are more than 100 years old and wishes to have a marker placed to designate t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5640Engross
50%
Amends the Statute on Statutes. Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 110-000-000
ILHB4757Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Provides that the Department of Veterans Affairs shall create, and the Department of Labor shall make available, at no cost, a veterans and service members' benefits, services, and protections poster. R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Norine K. Hammond
ILHB5371Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of its employees by the employer's nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Immigration & Human Rights Committee; 010-000-000
ILHB5495Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Illinois State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Division of Criminal Investigation shall cooperate and liaise wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-17
Held on Calendar Order of Second Reading - Short Debate
ILHB3538Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a veteran may submit an application for the homestead exemptions for veterans with disabilities to the chief county assessment officer with respect to a specific property before the veteran purchases the pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5306Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the computation of taxes related to minority and other specific priority population owned business in the State. Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Sets forth provisions concern...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1287Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that owners of income-producing properties shall file physical descriptions of their properties with the chief county assessor in the form and format determined by the chief county assessor. Effective immediatel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To House Property Tax Committee
ILHB4823Intro
25%
Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for local health protection grants for health protection programs. Effective July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4623Intro
25%
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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5789Intro
25%
Appropriates the amount of $709,500 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Forest Preserve District of Cook County for the administration and operation of Greencorps Chicago and Forest ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHJR0055Intro
25%
Designates Route 31 in Batavia from Main Street south to Mooseheart Road as the "SSG Robert D. Herreid Memorial Highway".
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
ILHB4108Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue Air Force Combat Action Medal license plates to a resident who was awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal. Makes other conforming changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHJR0054Intro
25%
Designates Route 31 in Aurora from Sullivan Road to Ashland Avenue as the "PFC Wayne W. Hill Jr. Memorial Highway".
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
ILHJR0056Intro
25%
Designates Route 59 in West Chicago from Route 38 to Route 64 as the "SFC Theodore A. Katsoolias Memorial Highway".
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
ILHJR0053Intro
25%
Designates Route 25 in Aurora from Sullivan Road to Ashland Avenue as the "SFC Ogden N. Thompson Memorial Highway".
[Detail][Text][Discuss]
2024-04-16
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sharon Chung
Syndicate content
feedback