Illinois Senator Paul Faraci [D]

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ILSB3318Engross
50%
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for all FDA-approved treatments or medications prescribed to slow the progression of Alzheimer's Disease or another relat...
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2024-05-07
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILSB0691Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. In provisions about the powers of a joint regional planning commission as it relates to real property, makes the provisions applicable to regional planning commissions (rather than joint regional planning commissions). Remov...
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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-07
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5142Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 with changes. Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that coverage for abortion care may not impose any deductible, coinsurance, waiting period, or other cost-shar...
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2024-05-07
To Senate Insurance 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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2024-05-06
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton
ILSB2644Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Requires the Secretary of State to establish the Advance Directive Registry by January 1, 2027 (rather than January 1, 2026). Directs the...
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2024-05-06
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
ILSB3649Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that an employer shall be assessed a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation of the Act. Provides that, upon a reasonable belief that an employer covered by the A...
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2024-05-06
To House Rules 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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2024-05-06
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Sara Feigenholtz
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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2024-05-06
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-06
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-06
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-06
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-06
Added Alternate Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
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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2024-05-06
Placed on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3473Engross
50%
Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education, in coordination with the Department of Public Health, shall develop type 1 diabetes informational materials for parents and guardians of students. Provides that the informational mat...
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2024-05-06
[Hearing: May 8 @ 9:00 am]

House Floor Amendment No. 2 Rules Refers to Elementary & Secondary Education: School Curriculum & Policies Committee
ILSB0219Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that by June 30, 2026 the Department of Human Services shall select from the Prioritization of the Urgency of Need of Services (PUNS) database no fewer than 3,600 pe...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2236Engross
50%
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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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1800Intro
25%
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a Fleet Electrification Incentive Program to promote the use of electric trucks by fleet owners by offering a voucher of $200,000 per electric Class 6 ...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3539Intro
25%
Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include an election judge or a short-term worker hired to oversee and facilitate elections.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Paid Leave Committee
ILSB3808Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit in an amount equal to 10% of the manufacturing capital expenditures incurred by the taxpayer during the taxable year or, if the taxpayer is located in a rural or economically challenged...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3703Intro
25%
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Provides that, subject to appropriation, beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall establish a nursing student stipend program to reimburse eligibl...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3702Intro
25%
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that in addition to other provisions, State employees of public institutions of higher learning classified as faculty (including tenure system and nontenure system), and those not eligible...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Government Operations Committee
ILSB2898Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Removes a provision providing that if the determination is made that a standardbred stallion is not owned by a resident of the State of Illinois or that a transfer of ownership is a subterfuge to qualify ...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Gaming, Wagering, and Racing Committee
ILSB3490Intro
25%
Creates the Caregiver Repayment Program Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to develop and implement, by January 1, 2025, a Caregiver Repayment Program that shall provide payments to caregivers of children with severe medical needs who are...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3814Intro
25%
Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for costs associated with the Crop Insurance Rebate Initiative to provide incentives for at least 500,000 acres of eligible land. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2908Intro
25%
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as Sami's Law. Amends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that the owner or operator of each public building and State-owned building shall install and maintain in that building at least one adul...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Government Operations 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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3459Intro
25%
Appropriates funds from the General Revenue Fund to the governing board of each public university for personal services and the related costs of increasing the wage rates of university personnel employed in positions covered under the State Universit...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Appropriations Education Committee
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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2629Intro
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...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2222Intro
25%
Amends the State Board of Education Article of the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2023-2024 school year, all internships for school social workers must be paid internships. Provides that subject to appropriation, the State Board of Ed...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3686Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Creates the Portable and Medium-Format Battery Stewardship Act (rather than the Portable Battery Stewardship Act). Requires those who sell, offer for sale, or distribute (rat...
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2024-05-03
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules 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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3441Intro
25%
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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2024-05-03
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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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3395Intro
25%
Creates the Music and Musicians Tax Credit and Jobs Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may award credits to qualified music companies. Creates the Music Education Scholarship Act. Provides that the Board of Higher ...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3455Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Provides that the Department of Revenue may determine the scope of the historical data necessary to complete the study, but in no event shall the scope or time period be less than the 10 most recent ta...
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2024-05-03
[Hearing: May 9 @ 8:00 am]
To House Revenue & Finance 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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2024-05-03
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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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0426Engross
50%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Juvenile Justice may establish and offer emerging adult programs for persons at least 18 years of age and under 22 years of age who are committed to the Department of Corrections...
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2024-05-03
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0467Intro
25%
Amends the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-05-03
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 10, 2024
ILHB4677Engross
50%
Creates the Illinois Caregiver Assistance and Resource Portal Act. Requires the Department on Aging, in consultation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, to b...
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2024-05-03
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILHB5495Engross
50%
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...
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2024-05-03
[Hearing: May 8 @ 2:00 pm]
To Senate State Government 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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2024-05-02
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
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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2024-05-02
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2819Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989. Removes the 5-year cap an applicant has to successfully complete all examinations required by rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation.
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2024-05-02
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB2984Intro
25%
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-05-02
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3111Engross
50%
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Provides that a license that is valid for a period of 2 years shall be issued to a licensee upon application for renewal if certain criteria have been met by the licensee (now, the applicant must not...
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2024-05-02
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILSB3807Engross
50%
Amends the Build Illinois Act. Provides that the amount of small business loans made to minority persons, veterans, females, or persons with a disability under the Act shall not exceed $2,000,000 (rather than $400,000) or 50% of the business project ...
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2024-05-02
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
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