Illinois Representative Terra Costa Howard [D] | House

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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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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
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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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5380Intro
25%
Creates the Parental Digital Choice Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as Sammy's Law. Provides that, before August 1, 2025, or within 30 days after a service becomes a large social media platform after August 1, 2025, a large social media...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5551Intro
25%
Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Provides that for licensure as a managing broker, the person must personally take and pass a written examination on Illinois specific real estate brokerage laws authorized by the Department of Financial and...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4776Intro
25%
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a minor found to be guilty may be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice if the minor is at least 14 (rather than 13) years and under 20 years of age, provided that the commitment to the D...
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2024-04-19
To House Rules Committee
ILHB0305Engross
50%
Amends the Trustees of Schools Article of the School Code. Provides that within 3 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, all remaining Class II county school units shall, by proper resolution, withdraw from the jurisdiction and authori...
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2024-04-19
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB5270Intro
25%
Creates the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact Act. Provides that the State of Illinois ratifies and approves the Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact. Provides that the purpose of the Compact is to facilitate interstate practice of Occupationa...
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2024-04-16
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
ILHR0690PassMourns the death of Cook County Clerk Karen Yarbrough.
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2024-04-11
Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Lance Yednock
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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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
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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2024-04-10
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services 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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2024-04-10
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3904Intro
25%
Creates the Local Official Vacancy Posting Act. Provides that a unit of local government shall post every elected official vacancy on its website, if the full-time staff of the municipality maintain the website, and the county clerk shall also post t...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2620Intro
25%
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Changes the definition of "recurrent requester" to mean a person who, in the 12 months immediately preceding the request, has submitted to the same public body (i) a minimum of 40 (instead of 50) requests for re...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
ILHB4434Intro
25%
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Compact does not supe...
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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
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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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-05
To House Rules Committee
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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2024-04-05
To House Rules 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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2024-04-03
To House Appropriations-Health & Human Services Committee
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
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
ILHR0602PassCongratulates the National Conference of State Legislatures on its upcoming 50th anniversary and commends the organization for its superb leadership and commitment to the legislative institution.
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2024-02-20
Resolution Adopted
ILHB5384Intro
25%
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Provides for the employment of resident attendants in establishments licensed under the Act. Provides that a resident attendant shall assist the residents of a licensed establishment with: (i) eating...
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2024-02-09
To House Rules Committee
ILHB5091Intro
25%
Amends the Water Commission Act of 1985. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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2024-02-08
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3588Engross
50%
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill but transfers functions in the Act from the Illinois State Police to the University of Illinois. Provides that the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois shall contract with a not-for-profit co...
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2024-02-02
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHB4316Intro
25%
Appropriates $50,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to Naperville Community Television. Effective July 1, 2024.
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2024-01-31
To House Appropriations-General Service 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
ILHB1568Intro
25%
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that the public right to access and use navigable waters includes all rights recognized by State or federal law, including the rights set forth in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the federal nav...
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2024-01-16
To House Rules Committee
ILHB0676Engross
50%
Amends the Counties Code. In the provision that the county board of any county may, by ordinance, regulate or prohibit within unincorporated areas the discharge of firearms in any residential area where such discharge is likely to subject residents o...
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2023-10-27
To Senate Assignments Committee
ILHR0457PassCongratulates Paul W. Friedrichs on his retirement as executive director of the Lombard Park District. Thanks him for his decades of service to the Lombard Park District, the Village of Lombard, and the parks and recreation profession.
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2023-10-25
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
ILHB2718Intro
25%
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that rates for homemaker services shall be increased to $29.64 beginning July 1, 2023 to sustain a minimum wage of $18 per hour for direct service workers. Requires rates in subsequent State fiscal years...
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2023-10-03
To House Rules Committee
ILHB3603Intro
25%
Amends the Protect Health Data Privacy Act. Provides that a regulated entity shall disclose and maintain a health data privacy policy that, in plain language, clearly and conspicuously disclosures specified information. Provides that a regulated enti...
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2023-08-17
To House Rules Committee
ILHB2222PassAmends the Illinois Antitrust Act. Provides that documentary material, transcripts of oral testimony, or answers to interrogatories obtained in an investigation of a violation of the Act may be used by the Attorney General in any administrative or ju...
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2023-08-15
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0526
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
ILHB0218PassAmends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for any firearm industry member, through the sale, manufacturing, importing, or marketing of a firearm-related prod...
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2023-08-14
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0559
ILHB1378PassReinserts the contents of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Changes references from "iGROW scholarship" to "iGROW tech scholarship". Makes changes concerning definitions, the scholarship amount awarded, the signed agreement, repayment, a...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0519
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
ILHB2847PassReinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Creates the Mental Health and Wellness Act (rather than the Mental Health Equity Access and Prevention Act). In provisions concerning coverage of no-cost mental health preven...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0535
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
ILHB1286PassAmends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, any multiple-occupancy restroom may be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom and designated for use by any person of any gender. Requires...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0518
ILHB0301PassAmends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act with respect to the AIM HIGH Grant Pilot Program. Removes language referring to the program as a pilot program. Requires each participating public university to indicate that grants under the program...
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2023-08-11
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0516
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
ILHB2102PassAmends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. In provisions concerning a health care employer or long-term care facility hiring individuals convicted of committing or attempting to commit various specified offenses, adds substantially equivalen...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0428
ILHB1571PassReinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill. Deletes the changes made to the Vital Records Act. Removes references to the terms "bylaws" and "by-laws". In the Cemetery Protection Act: Requires the rules and regulations to be made publicly availabl...
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2023-08-04
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0421
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