Illinois Senator Ram Villivalam [D]

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ILSR0868Intro
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Encourages the utilization of small, diverse, and veteran-owned firms, as M/WBE and DBE programs have demonstrated success in promoting economic opportunity, equity and access. Supports federal DBE standards and programs to ensure the success of the ...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Transportation Committee
ILSR0883Intro
25%
Declares June 7, 2024 as Global Gandhi Youth Mission Day.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Human Rights Committee
ILHB4141Engross
50%
Amends the Energy Assistance Act. In a provision concerning energy assistance payments for qualifying applicants who are not the customer of record of an energy provider, who receive housing assistance under a rent subsidy or housing voucher program,...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4365Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the Secretary of State to issue special registration plates designated as Defense Superior Service plates or Defense Distinguished Service plates to residents of the State.
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2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3779Engross
50%
Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act and the Good Samaritan Act. Provides that a licensed clinical social worker or licensed social worker may possess and administer opioid antagonists. Makes conforming changes. Provides that ...
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2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3775Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the driver of a vehicle that is in any manner involved in any of the following types of crashes within the State shall, if no police officer is present, give notice of the crash by the fastest available...
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2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3511Intro
25%
Creates the Let America Read Act. Provides that an entity or an entity's staff with oversight over the books, instructional materials, or curriculum used in a public school may not refuse to approve or prohibit the use of books, instructional materia...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4261Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Act on Aging. Provides that all records containing resident, participant, and complainant information collected by the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program are confidential and shall not be disclosed outside of the program without a l...
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2024-04-16
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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2024-04-16
Added as Co-Sponsor Sen. Ram Villivalam
ILSB2864Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the names of the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, unlawful use of weapons by felons or persons in the custody of the Department of Corrections facilities, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, being an arm...
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2024-04-16
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB1966Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, for a person who is a resident in a facility licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act for whom payments are made under the Article throughout a month and who is det...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2702Engross
50%
Amends the Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act. Provides that "fire sprinkler inspector" means an individual who is qualified to perform routine inspection or testing of fire sprinkler systems and who is exclusively employed by a single fire spri...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2675Engross
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Amends the School Construction Law. In provisions concerning early childhood construction grants, removes a provision that specifies that grants made in fiscal year 2024 may be made only to public school districts. Provides that a not-for-profit earl...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1763Intro
25%
Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Increases by 20% hospital reimbursement rates for dates of service on and after January 1, 2024, for specified services, including, but not limited to: inpatient general...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2689Engross
50%
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. By June 1, 2025, requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the State Educator Preparation and Licensure Board, to establish, by rule, a Montessori education endorsement to be...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2819Engross
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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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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB1321Intro
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...
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2024-04-15
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB3389Engross
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Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that concurrence of four-fifths of the Board members of the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning in office is necessary for the Board to take any action, except ...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3771Engross
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Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to grants for exonerated persons. Provides that a grant applicant need not be a resident of this State at the time of enrollment. Provides that, beginning no later than the 2025-2026 aca...
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2024-04-15
To House Higher Education Committee
ILSB3451Engross
50%
Amends the Transportation Cooperation Act of 1971, the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Bi-State Development Agency Act, and the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that a railroad passeng...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2660Engross
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Amends the Massage Licensing Act. Requires a prosecuting attorney to provide notice to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation of the licensed massage therapist's name, address, practice address, and license number and a copy of the c...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILSB2023Intro
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Amends the Election Code. For specified applications, change of address forms, or recertifications of a driver's license or State identification card, provides that the application, form, or recertification shall serve as a dual-purpose application w...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3358Intro
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Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Creates the distillery shipper's license. Provides that a distillery shipper's license shall allow a person with an Illinois distiller license, a craft distiller license, a class 1 craft distiller license, or cl...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3467Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Practice Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning the educational requirements for licensure as a speech-language pathology assistant. Effective January 1, 2025.
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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3772Intro
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Creates the Progressive Design-Build Pilot Program Act. Provides that the Capital Development Board may elect to use the progressive design-build delivery method. Provides that "progressive design-build delivery method" means a project delivery proce...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3620Intro
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Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Deletes the definition of "transportation agency". Modifies the definition of "proposer". Provides that a responsible public entity may not receive unsolicited proposals for a project. De...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB2925Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person who is qualified to register to vote, who currently holds an authentic Illinois driver's license or State identification card issued by the Secretary of State, and who is not making any application for...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3093Intro
25%
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that, if any licensee authorized to sell alcoholic liquor at retail has had the renewal of his or her certificate of registration denied by the Department of Revenu...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Liquor Committee
ILSB3383Intro
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Amends the Election Code. Provides that the county board or board of election commissioners may use public school buildings as polling places only if a school board or a local school council approves the use of that school. Provides that, if the coun...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB2729Intro
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Creates the Government Contract Retainage Act. Defines terms, including that "retainage" means a portion of money withheld from the payment of a contract for a specified period of time to ensure that a contractor or subcontractor finishes a construct...
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2024-04-12
Rule 2-10 Third Reading Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB3712Intro
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Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that proposals or bids submitted by engineering consultants in response to requests for proposal or other competitive bidding requests by the Department of Transportation or the Illinois Toll Highway Au...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3774Intro
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Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a public body may hold a closed session to consider the minutes (instead of discussion of minutes) of meetings lawfully closed under the Act, whether for purposes of approval by the body of the minutes or s...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Government Operations Committee
ILSB3798Intro
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Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Provides that each year, at least 30 days prior to the beginning of the responsible public entity's fiscal year, the responsible public entity shall submit to the General Assembly a descr...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Procurement Committee
ILSB3736Intro
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Amends the Election Code. For specified applications, change of address forms, or recertifications of a driver's license or State identification card, provides that the application, form, or recertification shall serve as a dual-purpose application w...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Elections Committee
ILSB3737Intro
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Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Internet-based system for determining the validity of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card shall include a written notice, in both English and Spanish, of a firearm owner's obligat...
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2024-04-12
To Senate Firearms Committee
ILSB3669Intro
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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
ILSB0461Engross
50%
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois. Makes changes to the provisions concerning the in-state tuition charge to require that, beginning on July 1, 2026, an individual, other than an individual who has a no...
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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3558Engross
50%
Amends the Transportation Benefits Program Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to any covered employee working in the construction industry who is covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement. Defines "construction industry".
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2024-04-11
Third Reading - Passed; 046-010-000
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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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILSB3923Intro
25%
Appropriates $52,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for financial assistance and administrative costs associated with the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity Act. Appropriates $4,000,000 from ...
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2024-04-10
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB2404Intro
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Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Provides that, in determining whether an individual is an Illinois resident, if the individual enrolls or attains credits at a public or private...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB1796Intro
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning the child care assistance program, provides that beginning in State Fiscal Year 2024, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 250% of the then-current federal poverty level f...
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2024-04-05
Rule 2-10 Committee Deadline Established As May 3, 2024
ILSB2800Intro
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider shall receive a per-claim add-on ...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services Committee
ILSB3462Intro
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Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Illinois Guaranteed Income Law. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Establishes the Guaranteed Income Implementation Board within the Department of Human Services to: (i) evaluate th...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services 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
ILSB3466Intro
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision concerning payments to nursing facilities to increase compensation for certified nursing assistants (CNA), removes language requiring the Department of Healthcare a...
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2024-04-05
To Senate Appropriations - Health and Human Services 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
ILSR0825Intro
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Urges CDOT and IDOT to transform Du Sable Lake Shore Drive into a true boulevard and to be creative and forward-thinking in their redesign of Du Sable Lake Shore Drive, to incorporate safe and efficient multimodal transportation throughout Du Sable L...
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2024-04-03
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
ILHB3418Engross
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Creates the Securing All Futures through Equitable Reinvestment (SAFER) Communities Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a program to award grants to Navigators for specified purposes, including wage rei...
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2024-03-22
To Senate Assignments Committee
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