Illinois Representative Robert Rita [D]

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ILHB5819Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Demonstrations Law. Replaces all references to the principal law enforcement officer for the area with references to the sheriff of the county where the march, assembly, meeting, parade, or gathering on roadways originates....
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2024-04-19
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...
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2024-04-18
To House Property Tax Committee
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 ...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0625Intro
25%
Declares April 1 through April 6, 2024 as Black Farmers Week in the State of Illinois. Encourages the people of Illinois and their representatives in government to learn about the history of Black farming communities and the contributions made by Afr...
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2024-04-18
[Hearing: Apr 30 @ 3:00 pm]

Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB4919Intro
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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2024-04-18
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services 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.
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2024-04-16
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHR0506Intro
25%
Urges the passage of important policies to better support family caregivers, particularly by enacting policies that: (1) provide increased funding for Illinois' Community Care Program, Home Delivered Meals, the Illinois Family Caregiver Act, Illinois...
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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Stephanie A. Kifowit
ILHB5234Intro
25%
Creates the Transmission Efficiency and Cooperation Law within the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an incumbent electric transmission owner has the right to construct, own, and maintain an electric transmission line approved in a transmission pla...
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2024-04-15
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5812Intro
25%
Amends the Police Officers' Pension Investment Fund and the Firefighters' Investment Fund Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that meetings of committees of the board may be conducted by audio or video conference, without the physical pre...
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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5766Intro
25%
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Prohibits, until February 1, 2027, the Chicago Board of Education from closing any attendance center within the school district that has selective admission requirements that are approved...
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2024-04-12
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1241Intro
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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2024-04-11
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0690PassMourns the death of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.
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2024-04-11
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lance Yednock
ILHB2683Intro
25%
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1288Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, taxpayers of income-producing property shall submit income and expense data annually to the chief county assessment officer on or before July 1 of each year....
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3678Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for individual taxpayers who participate in an apprenticeship program during the taxable year. Provides that the credit is equal to the unreimbursed expenses incurred by the taxpayer to...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3164Intro
25%
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that an elected or appointed member of a public body of a township may satisfy specified training requirements of the Act by participating in a course of training sponsored or conducted by an organization that r...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5515Intro
25%
Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Provides that the tax imposed on receivers of motor fuel applies until January 1, 2040 (currently, January 1, 2025). Amends the Environmental Impact Fee Law. Extends the repeal of the Environmental Impact Fee Law until ...
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2024-04-05
To House Sales, Amusement & Other Taxes Committee
ILHB4211Intro
25%
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides for the licensure of consolidated transport centers. Specifies requirements for consolidated transport centers, including operating documents, security plans, facility requirements, plant monitorin...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5286Intro
25%
Amends the Electric Vehicle Rebate Act. Provides that the term "electric vehicle" means a vehicle that is exclusively powered by and refueled by electricity, is plugged in to charge, and is legally permitted to drive on all public roadways, including...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4644Intro
25%
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a person shall not distribute, or enter into an agreement with another person to distribute, materially deceptive media if: (1) the person knows the media falsely represents a depicted individual; (2) the distr...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3418Engross
50%
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
ILSB2213Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. Defines "online booking platform". Provides that the purchase price shall not include any charges added to the purchase price by an operator to comp...
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2024-03-20
House Floor Amendment No. 3 Rules Refers to Revenue & Finance Committee
ILSB2315Engross
50%
Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section granting a homestead exemption to veterans with disabilities, provides that property that is used as a qualified residence by a veteran who was a member of the United States Armed Forces during World War II ...
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2024-03-14
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5779Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Removes language providing that no employee of the Illinois Racing Board, within a period of one year immediately preceding employment, shall have been employed or received compensation or fees for servic...
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2024-03-14
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1054Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2024 that provides coverage for prescription drugs shall require that a cove...
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2024-02-09
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5068Intro
25%
Creates the Low Carbon Fuel Standards Program Act. Establishes the Low Carbon Standards Program to be administered by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Provides that the Program shall establish declining carbon intensity standards, expres...
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2024-02-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB1116Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the amount transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund. Effective immediately.
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2024-01-26
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly
ILHB3257Engross
50%
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that no person may sell, offer for sale, barter, or give away as a pet or novelty any hermit crab or goldfish that has been dyed, colored, or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color. Provides t...
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2024-01-09
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILSB0584PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides that, upon request by an owners licensee and upon a showing of good cause by the owners licensee, the Illinois Gaming Board shall ex...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0574
ILHB2473PassAmends the Public Utilities Act. Makes changes concerning the circumstances under which construction may commence on nuclear power plants and nuclear power reactors. Removes the definition of "high-level nuclear waste". Amends the Nuclear Safety Law ...
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2023-12-08
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0569
ILSB0690PassAmends the Property Tax Code, the Community Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, the Counties Code, and the Community Mental Health Act. In provisions validating certain tax levies for community mental health boards, makes such provi...
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2023-11-17
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0565
ILHR0497Intro
25%
Recognizes the week of November 13-19, 2023 as National Apprenticeship Week.
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2023-11-09
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4222Intro
25%
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that each licensed establishment, licensed fraternal establishment, licensed veterans establishment, licensed truck stop establishment, or licensed large truck stop establishment shall notify the Illinois Gaming ...
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2023-11-07
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2547Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes that include the following. Removes a provision establishing a civil penalty for failing to disclose a quota. Provides that each employer shall establish, maintain, and preserve for 3 years...
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2023-11-06
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4148Engross
50%
Creates the Legislative Employee Labor Relations Act. Authorizes legislative employees to bargain collectively through the representatives of their choosing on questions of wages, hours, and other conditions of employment. Specifies that the General ...
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2023-10-26
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0395PassRecognizes and celebrates the birthdate of the late Gene "Coach Ping" Pingatore on October 25, 2023. Remembers the legacy he created and the many lives he touched during his lifetime.
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2023-10-25
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kelly M. Cassidy
ILHR0384PassMourns the death of Ellen Brown-Dixon of Chicago.
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2023-10-24
Resolution Adopted
ILHB2051Intro
25%
Creates the Hydrogen Fuel Replacement Tax Credit Act. Creates an income tax credit for eligible taxpayers in an amount equal to $1 per kilogram of eligible zero-carbon hydrogen used by the eligible taxpayer during the tax year for which a credit is s...
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2023-10-04
To House Rules Committee
ILSB0850PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with changes. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may designate an area as a food desert even if the area does not meet the qualifications set forth in the engrossed bill as...
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2023-08-18
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0561
ILHB2317PassAmends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Provides that except as otherwise provided in the Code, for sport fishing devices or spearing devices, any resident of Illinois who is 16 years of age or older who has not purchased a resident fishing license in...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0528
ILHB3743PassAuthorizes the Director of Central Management Services to execute and deliver to the Tinley Park - Park District a quit claim deed, quit claim bill of sale, and any ancillary documents, for $1, to specified real property, subject to specified conditi...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0544
ILHB2231PassFurther amends the Transportation Network Providers Act. Extends the Act's repeal date from September 1, 2023 to September 1, 2028. Provides that a provision which specifies that TNCs and TNC drivers are not common carriers, contract carriers, or mot...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0527
ILHB2443PassAmends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Act must provide coverage ...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0530
ILHB1595PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that an individual interviewed or investigated by an EMS Director or the Department of Public Health shall have the right to a union representative or legal counsel ...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0521
ILSB1462PassAmends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides that to be eligible for an occupational license, an applicant must not have been convicted of a felony offense, a violation of specified laws, or a similar statute of any other jurisdiction if the applicant ...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0550
ILHB2189PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Creates the Access to Affordable Insulin Act. Provides that the Department of Insurance shall offer a discount program that allows participants to purchase insulin at a discou...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0429
ILHB3516PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Removes provisions concerning the donation of bone marrow.
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0450
ILHB3677PassAmends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall by administrative rule provide for the automatic renewal of a fishing license upon the request of the applicant. Provides that, except as otherwise provide...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0456
ILSB1787PassReinserts the contents of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Makes changes concerning the functions and membership of the council. Specifies that the expense reimbursement is subject to the rules of the appropriate travel control board. P...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0497
ILSB2288PassAmends the Illinois Articulation Initiative Act. Provides that all public institutions shall submit and maintain up to 4 core courses in each of the Illinois Articulation Initiative majors (instead of all public institutions shall maintain up to 4 co...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0469
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