Illinois Representative Terra Costa Howard [D]

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ILHB4884Intro
25%
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that if guardianship is necessary and the petition for guardianship is filed by a person, corporation, nonprofit organization, or other entity with no legally recognized relationship to the alleged person with...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 8:00 am]

House Floor Amendment No. 2 Referred to Rules Committee
ILHB5047Intro
25%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that a license under the Act shall be automatically granted to an individual who has graduated from an approved program of professional nursing education or an approved program of practical nursing education, a...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 10:00 am]
To House Health Care Licenses Committee
ILHB3141Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish a maximum acceptable Global Warming Potential (GWP) standard for State purchases of vehicles, applianc...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm]

House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Energy & Environment Committee
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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2024-03-27
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Joyce Mason
ILHB4475Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Strengthening Mental Health and Substance Use Parity Act. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan ...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 4 @ 10:30 am]
To House Mental Health & Addiction Committee
ILHB4240Intro
25%
Amends the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Restores language concerning how the terms of elected commissioners are to be determined for a forest preserve district having boundaries that are coextensive with the boundaries of a county having a...
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2024-03-27
To House Ethics & Elections Committee
ILHB5046Intro
25%
Amends the Psychiatry Practice Incentive Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall establish a Collaborative Care Demonstration Grant program and set criteria for the program. Provides that the Director of Public Health may establish a...
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2024-03-27
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 8:30 am]
To House Human Services Committee
ILHB5060Intro
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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2024-03-26
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4112Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits may be issued, amended, delivered, or renewed in this State on o...
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2024-03-26
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Elizabeth "Lisa" Hernandez
ILHB5395Intro
25%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Health Care Consumer Access and Protection Act. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that, unless prohibite...
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2024-03-26
Balanced Budget Note Filed
ILHB4249Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, expands the definition of "access" to means the right to inspect and copy the clinical and other records of a participant or resident, regardless of ...
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2024-03-25
Added Chief Co-Sponsor Rep. Yolonda Morris
ILHB3991Intro
25%
Appropriates $35,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the New Arrival Student Grant Program. Effective July 1, 2023.
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2024-03-25
To House Approp-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
ILHB4677Intro
25%
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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2024-03-25
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB4623Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who is convicted of obscene depiction of a purported child is ineligible to receive a school bus driver permit. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that "child pornography" includes the ...
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2024-03-25
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB4737Intro
25%
Amends the Governmental Joint Purchasing Act. Provides that a governmental unit may purchase a supply or service that is available on contracts from multiple contractors if the governmental unit determines that the selected contract best meets the go...
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2024-03-22
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5045Intro
25%
Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for Collaborative Care Demonstration Grants, as defined in the Psychiatry Practice Incentive Act, and related expenses. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-22
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHR0628Intro
25%
Declares June 9, 2024 as Race Amity Day. Invites communities across the United States of America to join in introspection and reflection on the beauty and richness of the diverse peoples of this great nation while reaching out with a spirit of amity ...
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2024-03-22
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
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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2024-03-22
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5313Intro
25%
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Provides that a network plan shall, at least annually, audit (instead of audit periodically) at least 25% of its provider directories for accuracy, make any corrections necessary, and retain documenta...
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2024-03-22
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
ILHB4504Intro
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 before December 31, 2025 that provides coverage for prescription drugs m...
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2024-03-22
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Terra Costa Howard
ILHR0460Intro
25%
Declares February of 2024 as Turner Syndrome Awareness Month. Urges increased funding for Turner Syndrome research and support. Urges health care professionals, public schools, educators, and the public to become more familiar with Turner Syndrome in...
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2024-03-21
Placed on Calendar Order of Resolutions
ILHB4449Intro
25%
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In a provision concerning law enforcement assistance for child protective investigators when responding to a high-risk report of child abuse or neglect, provides that when assistance is not availab...
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2024-03-21
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB5574Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that, if a unit of local government has adopted and implemented a road improvement impact fee by ordinance or resolution and repeals the ordinance or resolution, the collected fees, along with any accrued in...
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2024-03-21
[Hearing: Apr 4 @ 10:00 am]

House Floor Amendment No. 1 Rules Refers to Counties & Townships Committee
ILHB5086Intro
25%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that when a health care facility is found liable for an injury to a patient or resident because of a negligent act performed by a nurse or certified nurse aide employed, assigned, or referred by the nurse agenc...
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2024-03-21
House Floor Amendment No. 2 Recommends Be Adopted Judiciary - Civil Committee; 010-004-000
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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2024-03-21
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4426Intro
25%
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Provides that the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984 is repealed on January 1, 2030 (rather than January 1, 2025). Amends the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984. Provides that all appl...
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2024-03-21
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Anne Stava-Murray
ILHB5371Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that an employer is responsible for harassment and sexual harassment of its employees by the employer's nonmanagerial and nonsupervisory employees, nonemployees, and third parties only if the employer be...
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2024-03-21
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Barbara Hernandez
ILHB5406Intro
25%
Amends the Interscholastic Athletic Organization Act. Provides that, for the benefit of the physical and mental health of athletes, beginning in the 2024-2025 school year, all practices, games, or contests by a State high school athletic program or t...
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2024-03-21
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly
ILHB4806Intro
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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2024-03-21
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services 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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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 3 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Labor & Commerce Committee
ILHR0640Intro
25%
Declares March of 2024 as Nutrition Month.
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 4 @ 8:30 am]
To House Public Health Committee
ILHB4875Intro
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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2024-03-20
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Hoan Huynh
ILHB4855Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administration Code of Illinois. Requires (instead of allows) the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to accept payment by credit card for any fee, fine, or other charg...
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2024-03-20
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Ryan Spain
ILHB3791Intro
25%
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that nothing in the Act prohibits a forest preserve district from prohibiting persons from carrying a firearm into any botanic garden, campground, aquatic center, grounds of an aquatic center, boat lau...
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2024-03-20
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB4739Intro
25%
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that in order to give providers more time to prepare for and implement changes to the Medicaid Mental Health Fee Schedule and to ensure that the quality and delivery of b...
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2024-03-20
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
ILHB5561Intro
25%
Amends the Whistleblower Act. Changes the definitions of "employer" and "employee". Defines "adverse employment action", "public body", "retaliatory action", and "supervisor". Provides that an employer may not take retaliatory action against an emplo...
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2024-03-20
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Laura Faver Dias
ILHB5518Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that "State-regulated health plan" means any health insurance plan issued by an insurer regulated by the State or health insurance plan operated and administered by the State, including, but not limited to...
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2024-03-14
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB5038Intro
25%
Amends the State Records Act, the Secretary of State Merit Employment Code, the State Library Act, the Illinois Literacy Act, the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act, the Illinois Vehicle Code,...
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2024-03-12
To House Executive Committee
ILSB0064Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Provides that the definition of "sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, notice, figure painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or other thing, which i...
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2024-03-07
House Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion Held in Executive
ILHB4601Intro
25%
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for costs associated with the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program Act. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-03-07
To House Appropriations-Higher Education Committee
ILHB4643Intro
25%
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. In a provision requiring the Department of Human Service' Division of Mental Health to implement a direct support professional credential pilot program, delays the pilot prog...
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2024-03-07
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4462Intro
25%
Amends the Minors Requiring Authoritative Intervention Article of the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that no minor shall be sheltered in a temporary living arrangement for more than 48 hours (rather than 21 business days.)
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2024-03-06
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Adoption & Child Welfare Committee
ILHB4758Intro
25%
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions requiring the Department of Children and Family Services to submit annual reports to the General Assembly regarding youth in care waiting for placement or psychiatric hospitalization, expands...
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2024-03-06
Placed on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
ILHB4567Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Includes in offense of threatening a public official or human service provider, threatening a library employee. Provides that the threat to a public official, human service provider, or library employee includes a th...
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2024-03-06
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB5065Intro
25%
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the Public Act may be referred to as the Safe Firearm Storage Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave a firearm outside of that person's immediate possession or control (rathe...
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2024-03-06
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 4:00 pm]
To House Judiciary - Criminal Committee
ILHB4718Intro
25%
Authorizes the Director of Natural Resources to execute and deliver a quitclaim deed to the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation for specified real property located in DeKalb County, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
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2024-03-05
To House Executive Committee
ILHB4922Intro
25%
Amends various Acts concerning children's mental health. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before October 1, 2024, the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Children's Behavioral Health Transformation Team, the Office of the Go...
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2024-03-05
[Hearing: Apr 4 @ 10:30 am]
To House Mental Health & Addiction Committee
ILHB0793Intro
25%
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in partnership with other specified State agencies, to eliminate on July 1, 2027 the use of active or pending 14(c) certificates authorized under the federal Fair...
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2024-03-04
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4941Intro
25%
Amends the Title Insurance Act. Provides for the licensure of title insurance agents (instead of registration of title insurance agents by title insurance companies). Makes changes in the definition of "financial interest". Defines "core title agent ...
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2024-02-28
[Hearing: Apr 2 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Insurance Committee
ILHB2565Intro
25%
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that internal (also known as female) and male condoms, incontinence products, diapers, and baby wipes shall be taxed by the State at a rate of 1% (currently, 6.25%). Provides that the net revenue fro...
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2024-02-26
To House Rules Committee
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