Illinois Representative Sonya Harper [D] | House

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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...
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2024-04-19
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB4917Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child tax credit in an amount equal to the product of a specified credit amount multiplied by the number of qualifying children of the taxpayer. Effective immediately.
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4910Engross
50%
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...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
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...
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2024-04-19
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB4155Intro
25%
Creates the Agricultural Drought and Climate Resilience Office Act. Establishes the Agricultural Drought and Climate Resilience Office. Provides that the Office may provide voluntary technical assistance, nonregulatory programs, and incentives, inclu...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Abdelnasser Rashid
ILHB5757Intro
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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2024-04-19
To House Appropriations-General Service Committee
ILHB5407Engross
50%
Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. In provisions concerning the Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program, provides that grants shall be awarded to applicant school districts based on the percentage of students experie...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5433Engross
50%
Creates the Prairie Lawns Act. Establishes the Prairie Lawns Program, which requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide assistance for installing pollinator-friendly native plants in residential lawns to protect and support native species...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
ILHB2161Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is the public policy of the State to prevent discrimination based on family responsibilities in employment. Defines "family responsibilities" as an employee's actual or perceived provision of car...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anna Moeller
ILHB5395Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with changes that include the following. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Protection Act. In the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act, p...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5417Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Deletes references to the role of HIV Treatment Innovation Coordinator. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an individual or group policy of accident and health...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5431Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the County Department of Corrections Law, the Health Care Violence Prevention Act, and the County Jail Act to replace use of "prisoner" with "committed person"...
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2024-04-19
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-000-000
ILHB0056Engross
50%
Creates the Farmer Restoration Program Act. Creates the Farmer Restoration Program Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used for the purposes of the program. Sets forth the responsibilities of the Department of Agriculture, including the a...
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2024-04-19
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 066-038-000
ILHB5277Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to establish a program through which the Secretary shall award grants to eligible entities for projects that facilitate...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB1855Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Forestry Development Act. In a provision regarding a forest development cost share program under the Department of Natural Resources, provides that cost share payments shall not exceed the amount appropriated for such purposes. Pr...
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2024-04-19
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 105-000-000
ILHB5373Engross
50%
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that decisions regarding the treatment of patients experiencing chronic pain shall be made by the prescriber with dispensing by the pharmacist in accordance with the corresponding responsibility...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4781Intro
25%
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Kinship in Demand (KIND) Act. Provides that the KIND Act creates the statutory vision and authority for the Department of Children and Family Services to execute a kin-first approach to servi...
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2024-04-19
To House Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
ILHB4475Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the bill, as amended by House Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivered, issued, or r...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Matt Hanson
ILHB5610Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes all instances of "electric corporation" to "electric utility". Provides that an electric utility that operates within the State shall allow customers seeking energiza...
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2024-04-19
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Nicholas K. Smith
ILHB4846Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Further amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act to define the term "goal". Removes provisions from the introduced bill providing that no Sta...
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2024-04-19
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Yolonda Morris
ILHB4469Intro
25%
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act to include in the definition of "petitioner" an intimate partner. Amends the Protective Orders Article of the Code of Criminal Procedures of 1963 and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that,...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3373Intro
25%
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that notwithstanding to the contrary, any provision of the Code, the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, or the Habeas Corpus Article or the relief from judgments...
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2024-04-18
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2385Intro
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 after January 1, 2024 shall provide coverage for a colonoscopy determine...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Emanuel "Chris" Welch
ILHB4295Engross
50%
Amends the Task Force on Missing and Murdered Chicago Women Act. Provides that 2 officers of the Chicago Police Department shall be nominated by the Chicago Police Superintendent or the Superintendent's designee to the Task Force on Missing and Murde...
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2024-04-18
Placed on Calendar Order of First Reading April 30, 2024
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
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
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
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...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5296Engross
50%
Creates the Homeowners' Native Landscaping Act. Provides that an association shall not prohibit any resident or owner from planting or growing Illinois native species on the resident's or owner's lawn, with certain requirements. Provides for an Assoc...
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2024-04-18
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed 072-037-000
ILHB5282Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following change. Changes the effective date to January 1, 2026 (instead of January 1, 2025).
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4360Engross
50%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals provisions relating to the higher education supplier diversity report and race and gender wage reports and moves those provisions, with cha...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments 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
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...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
ILHB4045Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code and the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that an individual who is not a citizen but is legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law is authorized to apply for the position of firefighter,...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Robert "Bob" Rita
ILHB5052Intro
25%
Amends the Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Good Food Purchasing Law. Repeals provisions regarding procurement goals for local farm or food products. Provides that, no later than one year after the effe...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB5386Intro
25%
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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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Yolonda Morris
ILHB5452Intro
25%
Amends the Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act. Provides that all higher education institutions shall include in the comprehensive policy concerning sexual violence, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking, information about h...
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2024-04-18
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Kevin John Olickal
ILHB5295Engross
50%
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 shall provide coverage for medically necessary hormonal and non-hormonal the...
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2024-04-18
To Senate Assignments Committee
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
ILHB4611Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurer shall not, with regard to any motor vehicle liability insurance practice, (i) unfairly discriminate based on age, race, color, national or ethnic origin, immigration or citizenship status, ...
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2024-04-18
Removed Co-Sponsor Rep. Maurice A. West, II
ILHB4645Engross
50%
Amends the State Designations Act. Provides that the soybean is designated as the official State bean of the State of Illinois.
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2024-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4921Engross
50%
Amends the Home Equity Assurance Act. In provisions authoring a governing commission with no less than $4,000,000 in its guarantee fund to establish a Low Interest Home Improvement Loan Program, provides that the loan may be used for repair or mainte...
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2024-04-17
To Senate Assignments Committee
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 ...
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2024-04-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHR0606Intro
25%
Declares March 12, 2024 as "Equal Pay Day". Encourages the citizens of this State to learn about the pay gap that women experience in society and to learn about these various dates that bring attention to the pay gap that specific groups experience.
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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Sue Scherer
ILHB5451Intro
25%
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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2024-04-15
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Cyril Nichols
ILHB0545Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Medical Assistance Article.
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2024-04-12
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Aaron M. Ortiz
ILHB5542Intro
25%
Amends the Property Tax Code. In provisions concerning charitable exemptions granted to limited liability companies, removes a requirement that the limited liability company must be a disregarded entity for federal and Illinois income tax purposes.
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2024-04-12
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Michael J. Kelly
ILHR0690PassMourns the death of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.
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2024-04-11
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lance Yednock
ILHR0453PassUrges support for the Family Roots Genealogy Pilot Program as it provides African American descendants of enslaved individuals the opportunity to trace their roots back to their ancestral homelands, to reconnect with their ancestral heritage, and to ...
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2024-04-10
Resolution Adopted
ILHB3499Intro
25%
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, dispensing organizations and cultivation centers must have at least 40% of ancillary services required for their operation, including accounting, j...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3243Intro
25%
Creates the Basic Systems Repair Program Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and administer a Basic Systems Repair Program that provides free repairs to correct electrical, plumbing, heating, limited structural and carpentry, ...
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2024-04-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
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