Illinois Senator Michael Halpin [D] | Senate

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ILSB2879Engross
50%
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Changes the requirement for competitive bidding for fire protection district contracts to contracts over $30,000 (currently, over $20,000).
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2024-04-25
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To House Police & Fire 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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2024-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILSB2764Engross
50%
Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that any person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation that sells or offers to sell any products or services to a consumer pursuant to a contract that includes a free gift or a trial period...
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2024-04-25
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection Committee
ILSB2637Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2027, a person or entity shall not manufacture, sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale a food product for human consumption that contains brominated vege...
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2024-04-24
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3132Engross
50%
Amends the Regional Superintendent of Schools Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning high school equivalency testing. Amends the Postsecondary and Workforce Readiness Act. Removes provisions concerning funding transitional mathematics i...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee
ILSB2682Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the Act name to the Increasing Representation of Women in Technology Working Group Act (rather than the Increasing Representation of Women in Technology Task Force Ac...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To House Small Business, Tech Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Committee
ILSB0331Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the introduced bill but removes provisions requiring the governing board of each public university and community college district to pay contractors their daily, regular rate of pay and benefits if a campus is closed due to ...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Higher Education Committee
ILSB3696Engross
50%
Amends the Uniform Commercial Code to adopt changes recommended by the Uniform Law Commission with respect to the addition of a Controllable Electronic Records Article and transitional provisions and the amendment of other provisions of the Code. Mak...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Financial Institutions and Licensing Committee
ILSB3353Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1. Provides that the Community-Based Corrections Task Force shall study and develop innovative ways to introduce community-based corrections and rehabilitation into the State's c...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 2 @ 9:00 am]
To House Restorative Justice Committee
ILSB3284Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Removes language providing that no maintenance shall accrue while a party is imprisoned for failure to comply with the court's order for the payment of the maintenance. Adds criteria for d...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 9:00 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil Committee
ILSB3460Engross
50%
Amends the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Provides that a rental agreement may be delivered and accepted by electronic mail. Provides that if the occupant does not sign a written rental agreement that the owner has tendered to the occupant, the o...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 9:00 am]
To House Judiciary - Civil 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
ILSB2933Engross
50%
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a consumer reporting agency: (1) to make, create, or furnish any consumer report or credit report containing, i...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Consumer Protection Committee
ILSB3156Engross
50%
Reinserts the contents of the bill as introduced with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the data on teacher experience and education for a teacher who teaches a combination of courses. Makes changes to provisions concerning school couns...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Elementary & Secondary Education: Administration, Licensing & Charter School Committee
ILSB3608Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Adds language providing that the Capital Development Board shall coordinate with local utilities regarding utility connection requirements and procedures applicable to State facilities. Provides that t...
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2024-04-24
To House Executive Committee
ILSB3652Engross
50%
Creates the Summary of Rights for Safer Homes Act. Requires the Department of Human Rights to create a summary form advising tenants who have suffered domestic violence or sexual violence of the rights that they have under Illinois law that provide p...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 10:00 am]
To House Housing 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
ILSB2850Engross
50%
Amends the River Conservancy Districts Act. Provides that a member of a board may not receive more than $6,000 per annum (instead of $3,000 per annum). Provides that at its discretion, a board may adjust the compensation amounts for inflation as dete...
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2024-04-24
To House Executive 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
ILSB2737Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. Provides that any covenant not to compete or covenant not to solicit entered into after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall not be enforceable with respect to the provision of mental health services...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce 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
ILSB2665Engross
50%
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that, if a quorum of the members of the public body is physically present, a majority of the public body may allow a member of that body to attend the meeting by other means if the member is prevented from physi...
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2024-04-24
To House Executive Committee
ILSB3559Intro
25%
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a facility shall not take any retaliatory action against a resident of the facility because the resident (1) complains, discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor, a public body, or any other p...
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2024-04-24
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Julie A. Morrison
ILSB2781Engross
50%
Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and we...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Energy & Environment 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
ILSB2751Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Requires a veteran or caregiver to provide proof of veteran status and attest to the fact that the improvements to the residence are required to accommodate the veteran's dis...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Veterans' Affairs 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
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
ILSB2573Engross
50%
Amends the Accident and Health Article of the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual plan of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Ac...
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2024-04-24
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]
To House Insurance 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
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
ILSB3764Intro
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...
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2024-04-24
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services 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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2024-04-23
To Senate Revenue Committee
ILSB0172Intro
25%
Creates the Endow Illinois Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who provide an endowment gift to a permanent endowment fund during the taxable year and receive a certificate of receipt fo...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB1996Engross
50%
Amends the Child Labor Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-19
[Hearing: May 1 @ 2:00 pm]

Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILSB2681Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the use of an electronic tracking device to determine the location or movement of a person is a Class 4 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor) if the violation results in physical injury to the vict...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3273Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for an amount equal to the amount included in the taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income that is attributable to student loan repayment assistance received by the taxpayer during the taxable y...
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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
ILSB3457Intro
25%
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Provides an exception for vendors to receive payment by non-electronic means. Provides that outstanding liabilities as of June 30, payable from appropriations which have otherwise expired and interest penalties payab...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3325Intro
25%
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
ILSB2787Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Local Library Act and the Public Library District Act of 1991. Requires competitive bidding for contracts in excess of $35,000 (rather than $25,000) for specified improvements and equipment purchases.
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0455Intro
25%
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the State Board of Education.
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2024-04-19
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
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
ILSB0378Engross
50%
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. 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 Children and Family Services ...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3241Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Makes changes concerning the powers and duties of the Illinois State Museum. Repeals a provision which specifies that the Board of the Illinois State Museum is the governing board for the State Museum. ...
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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
ILSB3301Intro
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.
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2024-04-17
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Patrick J. Joyce
ILSB3727Intro
25%
Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act. Defines terms. Provides that no person, including a pharmaceutical manufacturer, may deny, restrict, prohibit, condition, or otherwise interfere with, either directly or indirectly, the acquisiti...
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2024-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3332Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In a provision requiring the Department on Aging to require an annual audit from all personal assistant and home care aide vendors contracting with the Department, provides that the annual audit shall assure that...
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2024-04-17
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3399Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and servic...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
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