Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 9, 2024 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ CONTACT: Gov.Press@illinois.gov
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 9, 2024 ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ CONTACT: Gov.Press@illinois.gov

Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:

Bill Number: SB2697

Description: Requires insurance and Medicaid coverage of genetic cancer screening and testing for high-risk patients.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025.

 

Bill Number: HB2154

Description: Counties, townships, and municipalities may not require a permit for non-residential battery-charged fences under conditions specified in the act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4175

Description: Prohibits the use of corporal and physical punishment in all Illinois schools, with exceptions for specific restraints to prevent a student from imminent self-harm or harm to others.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4426

Description: Provides that the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984 is repealed on January 1, 2030, rather than January 1, 2025, and makes other changes to the application requirements.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4447

Description: Creates the Motor Vehicle Dealer Protection Act which prevents fraudulent warranty scams by protecting the intellectual property of vehicle dealerships.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4467

Description: Strengthens IDPH oversight of mobile home parks.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4491

Description: Requires DCFS to adopt rules to allow a qualified early childhood teacher who has been employed by the facility continuously for at least 24 months to replace the director for the first or last hour of the workday.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4634

Description: Repeals the Universal Telephone Service Assistance Program.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5057

Description: Removes provision that no candidate shall be allowed to student teach or serve as the teacher of record until he or she has passed the applicable content area test.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5574

Description: Directs funds from repealed fee ordinances of DuPage County into a dedicated transportation account.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0275

Description: Requires the Secretary of State to offer applicants the option to be issued an 8-year driver’s license, beginning no later than July 1, 2027.

Action: Signed

Effective: ​ January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0464

Description: Grants the North Chicago School District the ability to make school renovations without going to referendum.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0508

Description: Clarifies an employee’s rights in the event of an E-Verify no match.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0693

Description: Updates provisions of the IL Waterway Ports Commission Act to help the commission operate more efficiently.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0859

Description: Adds the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment, an existing bureau, to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity administrative code.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB1102

Description: Allows Shelby County to form and control a volunteer rescue squad.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2285

Description: Creates a new penalty for individuals who manufacture, market, or install a counterfeit airbag in any vehicle.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2024

 

Bill Number: SB2617

Description: Allows counties without local health departments to contract with one in an adjacent county, among other technical changes.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2690

Description: Provides that each public institution of higher education shall pay on behalf of a refugee or reimburse a refugee for payment of any transcript evaluation fees that are required by the public institution of higher education to be paid during the admission process.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2743

Description: Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act to provide recommendations on addressing a variety of water-related issues.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2764

Description: Requires businesses to provide notice to their customers at least 3 days before an automatic renewal clause goes into effect after a free trial period of 15 days or more.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2781

Description: Creates the Healthy Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant fund to allow DNR to make grants for the purpose of forest, prairie, and other landscape management, development, maintenance, and study to mitigate climate change impacts.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2850

Description: Changes compensation for members of River Conservancy Districts.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2936

Description: Provides that the abatement for property located in an area of urban decay also applies to newly remodeled single-family or duplex residential dwelling units, rather than just newly constructed units.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2938

Description: Allows mosquito abatement districts to annex additional territory as long as certain requirements are met, including the passage of an ordinance.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3138

Description: Expands the Department of Children and Family Services annual scholarship program to now allow recipients the ability to use additional funds to pay for living expenses while pursuing their certificate or degree.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3151

Description: Provides that the course instruction on special hazards existing at and required safety and driving precautions that must be observed at highway construction and maintenance zones shall include worker safety in highway construction and maintenance zones.

Action: Signed

Effective: August 1, 2024

 

Bill Number: SB3164

Description: Provides that the term "diagnostic and screening purposes" includes to determine eligibility for advanced academic programs, as defined in the Gifted and Talented Children and Children Eligible for Accelerated Placement Article of the Code.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3202

Description: Allows a county or municipality to prepare a bicycle transportation plan.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3203

Description: Prohibits insurers from denying coverage for lifesaving inhalers and establishes a cap of $25 for a 30-day inhaler supply.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3207

Description: Provides that a day care center may operate for 24 hours or longer and may provide care for a child for a period of up to 12 hours if the parent or guardian of the child is employed in a position that requires regularly scheduled shifts and a 10-hour period elapses between day care visits.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3209

Description: Removes a requirement that limited liability companies must be a disregarded entity for income tax purposes concerning charitable exemptions.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3211

Description: Allows an individual previously licensed to practice as a marriage and family therapist in another US jurisdiction for at least 30 months in the last 5 years to receive licensure in Illinois by only submitting verification of licensure in the other state.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3232

Description: Codifies a provision regarding relinquished or abandoned infants who are left at hospitals to mirror the practice that already applies to both fire and police departments.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3237

Description: This would require special calculations/considerations for schools that are on ISBE's 2004-2006 School Construction Grant lists.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3239

Description: Eliminates the Health and Hazardous Substances Coordinating Council to streamline a DPH reporting process.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3275

Description: Paper revenue stamps shall be phased out by December 31, 2025 and replaced by an electronic revenue stamp or another alternative.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3277

Description: Requires DPH to develop mandatory protocols and best practices for providing the necessary medical guidance for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Illinois.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3279

Description: Finalizes the closure of the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago that ceased operations in 1973 and has been in the process of decommissioning since 1994.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3284

Description: Adds clarifying language to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3285

Description: Creates reasonable re-sentencing rules for survivors of domestic abuse and gender-based violence who previously took plea deals during their initial sentencing.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3297

Description: Expands the eligibility criteria for the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program by lowering the age of eligibility from 21 years to 18 years of age.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3318

Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for all FDA-approved treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease, medications prescribed to slow Alzheimer’s Disease progression, and diagnostic testing necessary for physicians to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. Coverage begins July 1, 2025.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3350

Description: Allows DHS to establish and authorize programs for dispensing and distributing fentanyl test strips.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3353

Description: Creates the Community-Based Corrections Task Force Act aimed at working towards integrating better community-based corrections practices in Illinois.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3367

Description: Amends the Children and Family Services Act to require the Department of Children and Family Services to adopt rules regarding the referral of Title IV-E foster care maintenance cases to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for child support enforcement services under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3378

Description: Eliminates an unnecessary requirement for the Department of Public Health to provide printed informational materials to schools for meningitis, which has been a mandatory vaccination for school children since 2015.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3389

Description: Raises the voting threshold for the CMAP Board to take any action from simple majority to 4/5ths, except for voting on contracts and other circumstances, and removes an outdated requirement for CMAP to create a Wastewater Committee that would otherwise make policy recommendations to IEPA.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3405

Description: Allows counties to use their transportation funds to pay for rides for people who need to go to "problem-solving courts” with programs that help people with substance use disorder, mental health issues, and/or veterans.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3406

Description: Requires the Rules of the Road publication to include information about transporting hazardous materials.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3407

Description: Eliminates certain requirements for deer meat processors and unclaimed processed meat to expand charitable donations to those in need.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3420

Description: Creates the Prohibition of Unfair Service Agreements Act, defining and banning misleading and overly burdensome contracts.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3421

Description: Amends the Illinois Power of Attorney Act to clarify where it is reasonable for a third party to refuse to honor a power of attorney for property.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3429

Description: Territory within and on the border of a sanitary district can be disconnected if there are no outstanding debts, via an ordinance or resolution by both the sanitary district and the local government or another sanitary district where the territory is located.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3430

Description: Requires HFS to develop and maintain a comprehensive informational guide on its website explaining the Medicaid 5-year look-back period as it applies to eligibility for long-term care coverage under the medical assistance program on or after July 1, 2025.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3432

Description: Extends deadlines for DHS, ISBE, and ICCB to implement the direct support professional credential pilot program.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3434

Description: Authorizes the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security to adopt rulemaking authority for state funded grant programs managed by the agency.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3452

Description: Provides that tobacco product taxpayers with a two-year continuous compliance record are exempt from the bond requirements of the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3455

Description: Provides that the Department of Revenue, in consultation with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, shall conduct a study to evaluate the property tax system in the State.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3460

Description: Makes updates to the requirements for rental agreements for self-storage units.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3471

Description: Permits the Secretary of State to issue license plates free of charge to individuals whose plates have been stolen.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3506

Description: Makes changes to the Environmental Protection Act related to Clean Air Act Permit Program operating permits.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3599

Description: Requires insurers to cover medically necessary mobile integrated health care services (provided by on-site EMS personnel) for frequent utilizers of emergency hospital care, with the goal of preventing patients from needing to go in and out of the hospital.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3650

Description: Makes clarifying changes to the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3687

Description: Makes technical updates to the Illinois Credit Union Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB0255

Description: Amends the Illinois Veteran, Youth, and Young Adult Conservation Jobs Act to establish the Youth and Young Adult Conservation Education pilot program.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB0277

Description: Grants driver’s license holders more notice time before required court appearances that may result in a potential suspension of their license for failure to appear before the court.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB0305

Description: Replaces remaining 90 township school boards of trustees with representatives from the districts school boards.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB0478

Description: Conveys the Midway Flight Facility from the Department of Military Affairs to the City of Chicago for $1.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB1377

Description: Creates a residential new construction homestead exemption for specific properties in counties with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants or other specified counties.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB1837

Description: Amends the Environmental Protection Act with regards to burning landscape waste.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB2161

Description: Makes it a civil rights violation for an employer to discriminate or harass based on an employee’s family responsibilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB2323

Description: Creates the Uniform Statewide Crime Statistic Task Force.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB2363

Description: Bans the sale, distribution and manufacture of a screw or bayonet base compact fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2026; and a pin-base compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2027.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB2385

Description: Requires insurers to cover all medically necessary colonoscopies beginning January 1, 2026.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB3446

Description: Provides that a school district's expenditure of Base Funding Minimum and Evidence-Based Funding received from the State shall be published on the State Board’s website.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB3773

Description: Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act protect employees from discrimination from the use of AI in the workplace, and ensures employers are transparent about their use of AI for employment-related decisions.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2026

 

Bill Number: HB4059

Description: Requires DCFS to offer day care licensing orientations at least twice annually in each legislative district to help educate facilities about the licensing process.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4180

Description: Requires insurance coverage for molecular breast imagery (MBI) or MRIs of breast tissue when medically necessary.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2026

 

Bill Number: HB4206

Description: Allows tenants to pay landlords through cash or a paper check to avoid transaction fees.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4219

Description: Provides that the Comprehensive Health Education Program shall include instructional on the use and abuse of fentanyl. Curricula developed in the major educational area of alcohol and drug use and abuse shall be age and developmentally appropriate.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4276

Description: Establishes new consumer protection measures for life care facilities in Illinois.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4350

Description: Creates the Child Abuse Notice Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4357

Description: Outlines required criteria for a medical spa to perform non-ablative laser hair removal without a doctor on-site.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4367

Description: Clarifies that an insurance business transfer should not create a guaranty fund coverage where none originally existed.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4460

Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for joint mental health therapy services for any Illinois State Police Officer or members of self-insured fire protection districts and any spouse or partner of the officer who resides with the officer.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4500

Description: Retitles current criminal weapon possession charges in statute to provide more transparency and accurately reflect the nature of those crimes committed.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4588

Description: Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act to repeal the Risk Retention Companies Article on January 1, 2057.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4592

Description: Allows the SOS to issue mobile ID cards and driver’s licenses.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4762

Description: Creates protections for performers and other individuals from wrongful use of Artificial Intelligence voice or melody replicas.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4768

Description: Creates the Landlord Retaliation Act, outlining protections for tenants and prohibited actions by landlords when tenants attempt to resolve an issue.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4789

Description: Prohibits dental carriers from subsequently denying claims for procedures that were subject to prior authorization and approved unless a certain set of factors is met.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4804

Description: Allows public water distribution entities to use customer contact information to notify customers of any disruptions in public water distribution systems.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4819

Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Corrections to build and maintain lactation specific rooms for employees in each department facility.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4838

Description: Makes changes regarding the powers and duties of the Illinois State Museum (ISM) board and society.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4875

Description: Prohibits the use of digital replicas created by generative artificial intelligence in certain content without authorization of the recording individual.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4895

Description: Require Illinois public high schools to providing learning opportunities on the impacts of climate change and solutions for addressing the crisis.

Action: Signed

Effective: July 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4911

Description: Allows gym membership contracts to be cancelled over the phone, online, or via email.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4925

Description: Prohibits motorcycle distributors from coercing a motorcycle dealer into constructing improvements at a substantial cost to the dealer.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4966

Description: Allows the SOS to issue more expansive specialty plates to motorcycles.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5000

Description: Strengthens catheter care requirements for assisted living facilities and shared housing establishments.

Action: Signed

Effective: July 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5028

Description: Allows State agencies to make opioid antagonists available at a location where its employees work if the State agency trains employees in the use and administration of the opioid antagonists.

Action: Signed

Effective: July 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5086

Description: Allows health care facilities to be compensated by a nurse agency for any expenses, fines, or damages incurred related to the nurse agency’s negligence.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5087

Description: Allows for physical therapy services to be delivered via telehealth.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5097

Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to include a haircare plan during case review outlining the necessary training and resources needed to ensure each child receives culturally competent haircare.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5135

Description: Allows removal of abnormal skin growths to be completed by various practices, including acupuncturists, athletic trainers, and cosmetologists, pending completion of a DFPR certification course.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5189

Description: Provides measures to protect the personal information of train crew members involved in fatal incidents.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5190

Description: Provides that any funds allocated to a county that are not obligated within 48 months shall be considered lapsed funds and reappropriated in the same fund and makes other changes.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5276

Description: Provides that the student's transition plan shall include consideration of the student's assistive technology needs both while the student is participating in transition-related activities and in post-school activities. The plan shall also include consideration of the availability and accessibility of appropriate assistive technology devices and services.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5288

Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue special 100 Club of IL plates.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5324

Description: Creates Reporting requirements for the Illinois Labor Relations Board and changes to Unfair Labor Practice schedule.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5344

Description: Extends the deadline by which a behavior analyst must be licensed to practice and the deadline by which business organizations must restructure to offer behavior analysis services.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2625

Description: Prohibits certain retail establishments from displaying alcohol-infused products or co-branded alcoholic beverages immediately near similar products or products marketed towards youth and requires specific signage when displaying these products.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2628

Description: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that all State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2641

Description: Requires every insurer to demonstrate to the Department of Insurance that each in-network hospital has at least one radiologist, pathologist, anesthesiologist, and ER physician as a preferred provider.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2643

Description: Sets requirements for inspections of funeral homes.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2644

Description: Establishes a statewide registry containing Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Forms (POLST), describing preferred medical treatment.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2658

Description: Requires the Department of Public Health and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide all newborns with screening tests for the presence of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2662

Description: Prohibits manufacturers from marketing e-cigarettes that are likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher or other person to mistake the electronic cigarette for a product that is not a tobacco product.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2667

Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue Illinois UTSA/Midwest Tennis Foundation Youth Tennis plate decals.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2737

Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for licensed mental health professionals providing services to veterans or first responders.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2740

Description: Requires condominiums to provide accessible parking spaces for tenants with disabilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2744

Description: Amends coverage requirements for vaccine administration fees for individual and group health insurance plans and managed care plans.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2770

Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for those employed in construction.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2779

Description: Requires counties to provide indemnification to physicians conducting autopsies in cases of unintentional misconduct.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2876

Description: Creates the Large Event Facilities Act, requiring event facilities to compost organic waste and transfer recyclable materials to recycling facilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2918

Description: A police officer cannot be discharged for a mental or physical disability that is the basis for their benefits application under the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2919

Description: Establishes parameters in which foreclosed property may be sold online.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2959

Description: Allows qualified family members to have an identification card or driver license marked as a Gold Star family member. Provides free admission to public museums to any individual with a form of identification displaying their Gold Star status.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3081

Description: Requires each public university to provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in Illinois with the university's undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3112

Description: Makes it easier for the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board to meet and vote on administrative rules affecting those facilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3136

Description: Removes a finding of positive toxicology in an infant as evidence of neglect or abuse. Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force to address the treatment needs of infants with prenatal substance exposure.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3137

Description: Requires licensed facilities under the Substance Use Disorder Act or mental health or developmental disability facilities to provide notice of the death of a patient occurring in the facility to the patient’s personal representative.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3173

Description: Allows counties to lease, license, or grant access to infrastructure they own or control, such as fiber optic cables, to public or private entities to help expedite the delivery of broadband services.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3182

Description: Requires hospitals in Illinois to notify the pregnant individual (referred to as the gestational parent) of their right to receive a special certificate in the event of a stillbirth, which is the loss of a pregnancy after 20 weeks of gestation. Outlines the process for requesting the certificate.

Action: Signed

Effective: July 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3201

Description: Requires law enforcement and correctional officers to go through training on autism-informed responses, as well as best procedures and techniques when engaging with individuals with autism.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5408

Description: Prohibits drivers from stopping or parking their vehicles on shoulders of highways within a one-half mile radius of the eastern entrance to the Chicago O’Hare airport.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB1168

Description: Prohibits an individual’s DNA profile from being entered into any DNA database if their profile was collected due to the individual being a victim of a crime.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4758

Description: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to annually report the number of youth in care who are erroneously placed in temporary living settings.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4934

Description: If remains over 100 years old are identified as belonging to a veteran, the Department of Natural Resources will allow a veterans' organization to place a marker to designate the grave.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5357

Description: Requires insurance companies to provide homeowners insurance applicants coverage information for loss caused by a sewer backup or overflow from a sump pump.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5371

Description: Omnibus of Illinois Human Rights Act changes to further enhance and clarify civil rights protections under Illinois law.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5405

Description: Requires any state entity or hospital funded by the National Institutes of Health to adopt policies and practices that promote the inclusion of underrepresented demographic groups in clinical trials.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5450

Description: Amends Sec. 15-158.3 removing subsection (b), (d), and (e) the requirement for IBHE jointly with GOMB to prepare the annual report of accumulation of ending sick leave for higher education employes under the retirement system.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5488

Description: Creates the Legacy Tree Program Task Force to generate recommendations for the creation of a statewide legacy tree recognition program.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5561

Description: Prohibits employers from taking retaliatory action against whistleblowers.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5596

Description: Exempts day care homes and group day care homes serving children of military personnel from DCFS licensing if located on a military base or government property.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5655

Description: Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy to allow a student who is a member of the National Guard of any state, the District of Columbia, a commonwealth, or a territory of the United States or any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States to submit classwork and complete any other class assignments missed due to the student participating in a drill required as a member of the National Guard or the reserve component.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0381

Description: Requires Central Management Services to assess surplus property and report specific findings in a report submitted in every odd-numbered year.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0426

Description: Grants the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) and Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) the ability to transfer emerging adults who qualify to earn their high school diplomas to a IDJJ facility so that they can receive those education services from IDJJ’s school district.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0461

Description: Expands eligibility for in state tuition at Illinois universities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0462

Description: Prohibits universities from considering legacy status or donor relation in admissions.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0647

Description: Amends various Acts within the authority of IDHS to reflect updated DEI language.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0694

Description: Modernizes storage techniques of county recordings and establishes fee changes.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0726

Description: Makes several changes to further enhance children’s behavioral health supports across state systems.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0774

Description: Requires IDPH to create certified medication aide programs in assisted living facilities and allows a certified medication aide to administer medications under the supervision of a registered nurse.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0839

Description: Makes updates to the Environmental Protection Act and the Paint Stewardship Act to clarify processes for managing and recycling postconsumer paint.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0856

Description: Allows for Department of Children and Family Services investigators to elect to have their office or work address listed on their driver license or SOS issued state ID, instead of the applicant’s residence or mailing address.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0898

Description: Requires certain vehicle owners in the state of Illinois to have an Illinois certificate of title.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0951

Description: Allows for the City of Marengo to have quick take powers for two years to extend water and sanitary services for the I-90 Route 23 Corridor.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB1087

Description: Establishes a public health campaign to be created by the Department of Public Health to inform the public about the threat of mold and modernizes various provisions of the Mold Remediation Registration Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB1089

Description: Requires state-owned buildings to install and maintain at least one public adult changing station.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB1400

Description: Amends the School Code. Requires ISBE, in consultation with stakeholders, to develop guidance for school bus safety procedures, as well as the re-engagement of students who are suspended, expelled, or returning from an alternative school setting by July 1, 2025. It further requires that school districts must make reasonable efforts to provide ongoing professional development to all school personnel on trauma-responsive learning environments. Makes other changes.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB1479

Description: Strengthens and clarifies the Department of Insurance’s market conduct examination processes.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2442

Description: Prohibits hospitals from billing uninsured patients whose income is below 138% of federal poverty guidelines if they qualify for free care under the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act. Requires hospitals to provide the patient with information on insurance they may qualify for.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2586

Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules to provide for the sale and manufacturing of clear aligners to patients in the State of Illinois and adds a section on teledentistry to the Illinois Dental Practice Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2907

Description: Creates the Job Training and Workforce Development Transparency Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall compile a report concerning all State and federally funded job training and workforce development programs in this State.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2960

Description: Bans small and single plastic bottles in hotels with 50 rooms or more starting July 1, 2025. Then beginning January 1, 2026, any hotel regardless the size cannot provide small and single use plastic bottles.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2968

Description: Makes technical changes to the Equity and Racial Justice Act (ERJA) to allow for more accurate statistical data on participants in programs administered by state agencies.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3081

Description: Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year each public university shall provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in this State with the university's undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy and, if such a policy exists, any application or forms necessary to apply for a fee waiver as part of the university's transfer admissions process.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3098

Description: Prohibits e-cigarettes from being ordered or purchased online or by mail by any individual under the age of 21 in Illinois, excluding tobacco distributors or retailers.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3132

Description: Provides that the Illinois Student Assistance Commission shall be covered (instead of the State Scholarship Commission). Provides that the executive director, directors, deputy directors, managing directors, chiefs, and attorneys of each higher education agency are exempt from being covered by the State Universities Civil Service System.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3155

Description: Excludes the three-year reporting period that includes March 13, 2020, to January 1, 2024 from recapture of the Angel Investment Credit where a taxpayer failed to maintain minimum employment threshold in Illinois.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3208

Description: Requires employers to maintain copies of pay stubs for 3 years after the date of payment and imposes a civil penalty on employers who fail to provide a pay stub to a current or former employee.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3216

Description: Allows alcoholic liquors to be delivered and sold or dispensed at properties under the jurisdiction of the State Treasurer under certain conditions specified in the act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3219

Description: Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may provide grants for equipment upgrades for farmer-owned grocery stores or markets.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3235

Description: Enables the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to hire a consultant to conduct a study to look at disparities in lending and access to financial products and services.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3282

Description: Requires participants of the Direct Pay Permit Program to verify purchases and correct tax rates to the Illinois Department of Revenue.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3288

Description: Updates the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (MHDDCA) to facilitate HIPAA-permissible sharing of information for research purposes to, ultimately, better serve patients facing mental health issues.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3302

Description: Allows alcoholic liquors to be delivered to and sold at the building located at 305 West Grove St. in Poplar Grove, Illinois that is owned and operated by North Boone Fire District #3 under conditions specified within the act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3305

Description: Amends the insurance code to require coverage for treatments to address serious jaw injuries caused by accidents or diseases beginning January 1, 2026.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3310

Description: Extends the time limit for filing charges of civil rights violations with the Department of Human Rights from 300 days to 2 years from the date of the alleged violation.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3314

Description: Clarifies that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall promulgate rules regarding the refinancing of consumer legal funding agreements

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3342

Description: Creates the Pesticide Application on Rights-of-Way Notification Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3343

Description: Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (“RUUPA”) to address virtual currency liquidation while also authorizing the Treasurer’s Office to pay custodial fees for securities and virtual currency.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3348

Description: Allows Union Ridge School District 86 an exception to bond out to $35m if certain conditions are met. Monticello district has an exemption already.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3349

Description: Provides that 6 units of credit shall be required to achieve State Global Scholar Certification (instead of not specifying how many units of credit are required). Provides for global collaboration or (instead of and) dialogue.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3351

Description: Grants elderly parents of adult children with disabilities the right to live in larger subsidized housing units with more than one bedroom.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3402

Description: Allows counties to take over ambulance services from fire protection districts.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3418

Description: Allows non-residents to serve as highway commissioners and clerks in smaller townships and road districts and allows contracting with neighboring districts when no qualified resident candidates are available.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3448

Description: Requires the State Emergency Response Commission to provide and maintain a Tier II reporting system for Tier II chemicals.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3467

Description: Clarifies licensing requirements for speech language pathologists.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3481

Description: Establishes registration requirements for sites that store used EV batteries and requires rulemaking to address safe storage of used EV batteries.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3501

Description: Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act to require specific conditions for luminaries purchased by the State on land owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3513

Description: Allows attorneys and judges and their employees to renew their appointment as a notary public without taking additional classes or examinations.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3529

Description: Repeals an unnecessary requirement for DPH to distribute a pertussis vaccine pamphlet because similar information is already required to be provided to patients, parents or guardians by Federal law in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3538

Description: Requires certain health insurance plans to cover mental health counseling for first responders beginning June 1, 2025.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3547

Description: Deletes a now outdated medical recommendation, "clinical breast exam," from Department of Public Health educational materials regarding breast cancer screenings.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3548

Description: Expands the trauma care system in Illinois by creating new levels of trauma centers and acute injury stabilization centers, while ensuring coordination and quality of care.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3550

Description: Updates the Financial Institutions Code to remove antiquated language and provisions and to align the Code with other related statutes.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3551

Description: Establishes regulations of shared appreciation mortgage products.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3566

Description: Requires landfills in counties with a population over 250,000 to provide facilities for cleaning mud, gravel, waste, and other materials from the wheels and undercarriages of trucks exiting the landfill site, and requires trucks use those facilities before exiting.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3567

Description: Requires notices by a taxing district of raising tax levies by more than five percent to be conspicuously posted for a minimum of thirty days.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3571

Description: Provides that a school district shall require a school to have present at the school during the school day and during a school-sponsored extracurricular activity at least one automated external defibrillator and one or more trained AED users.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3601

Description: Repeals outdated language requiring registration of hazardous waste underground storage tanks by May 8, 1986.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3615

Description: Permits the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice to hold the "trust funds" for youth in custody in non-interest-bearing accounts so long as the accounts would not accrue a minimum of $1 in interest.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3617

Description: Allows the Illinois Department of Revenue to design and implement a data match system with financial institutions.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3622

Description: Amends the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council Act to allow the Council to recommend the removal from the National Register of Historic Places a bridge that meets specific criteria.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3631

Description: Allows the Department of Transportation to work with more accurate GIS data and aligns Illinois with federal best practices for geographical data reporting.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB1855

Description: Amends the Illinois Forestry Development Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to submit an annual report to the General Assembly on the implementation of the Illinois Forestry Development Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB3046

Description: Allows the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules allowing the use of treated wastewater for potable use and allows treated municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works to be used for irrigation with a permit.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB3521

Description: Requires leadership at all hospital affiliates, not just a hospital’s main campus, to report allegations of abuse to IDPH within 24 hours and follow the same reporting protocol required of hospitals.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4179

Description: Allows emergency service districts to raise levies.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4261

Description: Creates the Creative Economy Taskforce at DCEO and provides for membership. Extends dates for reports and meetings for several commissions adjust reporting requirements.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4471

Description: Removes the January 1, 2025 repealer date for the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB4623

Description: Clarifies that Illinois’ child pornography laws apply to images and videos created by Artificial Intelligence technology.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4660

Description: Mandates subcontractors to notify owners of payment claims through certified mail.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4757

Description: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a poster highlighting member benefits, services, and protections that the Illinois Department of Labor shall post on their website.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4926

Description: Prohibits a landlord from charging a prospective tenant a fee to access a tenant screening report if the tenant provides a reusable tenant screening report that meets certain criteria.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB4942

Description: Provides that county coroners must report suspicious levels of fentanyl found in official toxicology reports of the deceased to relevant local law enforcement agencies.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: HB5078

Description: Authorizes the Director of Central Management Services to transfer a parcel of land specified property in the bill to the Tinley Park - Park District for $1.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5496

Description: Allows Illinois Department of Transportation to review, with the option to accept, unsolicited proposals for a public-private partnership to build a South Suburban Airport. Provides that IDOT may enter into direct, sole-source negotiations with potential private airport development teams for the development, financing, building, operating, and maintaining of the airport.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5511

Description: 2024 Illinois Procurement Code Omnibus.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5513

Description: Creates the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report Internal Control Unit at the Governor’s Office of Management and Budget.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: HB5643

Description: Requires private insurance and Medicaid coverage of at-home, urine-based pregnancy tests.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0317

Description: Extends the ability of county treasurers to notify those leasing properties owned by governmental entities of delinquent property taxes to all Illinois counties.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0536

Description: Amends the Public Funds Investment Act. Provides that a public agency may adopt an ordinance or resolution to allow for investment of public funds in instruments that are not specifically listed as authorized investments.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB0692

Description: Creates the Task Force on Interjurisdictional Industrial Zoning Impacts to study State and local zoning laws and policies related to large industrial developments.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB0860

Description: Allows individuals with mental health or developmental disabilities living in care facilities to administer certain medications themselves if deemed independent by a nurse trainer.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB1779

Description: Creates a certified medication aide program at the Illinois Department of Public Health for long term care facilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB1960

Description: Introduces comprehensive regulations for low-speed electric scooters.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2682

Description: Creates the Increasing Representation of Women in Technology Task Force.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2804

Description: Amends the Civil Administrative Code CMS Law to provide rulemaking authority for CMS Administrative hearings relative to process and procedures and e-filing.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB2849

Description: Allows a unit of local government to adopt reasonable rules for private party use of airspace for unmanned aircraft that is above public property under specific circumstances.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3116

Description: Requires IDPH, ISP and ILETSB to develop a training program for first responders to access and use life-saving medical information stored in cell phones during emergencies.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3238

Description: Changes numerous references to Central Management Services throughout statute to Commission on Equity and Inclusion to reflect current responsibilities.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3362

Description: Amends the Retailers’ Occupation Tax Act to align definitions with the Use Tax Act and impose the Retailers’ Occupation Tax on retailers maintaining a place of business in this State.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3412

Description: Replaces the current money transmission statute with a model law modernizing the regulation of money transmitters in Illinois.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediate except that the changes to the Transmitters of Money Act take effect January 1, 2026.

 

Bill Number: SB3563

Description: Extends Tax Increment Financing (TIF) authorization for; Village of Franklin Park, City of Jacksonville, City of Prophetstown, City of Ottawa, City of Salem, Village of Malta, City of Highland, City of Chicago, City of Des Plaines, City of Sullivan, and City of Oak Forest.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3581

Description: Makes changes to the enrollment reporting data date for public universities and community college districts to submit to IBHE and ICCB by the 11th day after the start of the school year.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3592

Description: Creates transparency requirements for the sales of local media outlets and creates a journalism scholarship program at ISAC.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3594

Description: Provides that if, in a given academic year, a public institution does not have an equivalent major, lower-division courses, or both that align with the major panel's descriptors and course approval criteria, then the public institution shall be considered to be compliant with those provisions for that academic year, as determined by the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board, in coordination with the director of the Illinois Articulation Initiative.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3597

Description: Creates the Climate Bank Loan Financing Act to allow governmental units to borrow money from the Illinois Finance Authority for circumstances specified within the Act.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3652

Description: Requires a summary of existing housing protections afforded to survivors of domestic or sexual violence to appear on page 1 of each residential lease to increase awareness of those rights.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2026

 

Bill Number: SB3661

Description: Expands background checks to include all employees of Comprehensive Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs).

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3686

Description: Requires producers of portable and medium-format batteries to participate in and fund a stewardship program, managed by the IEPA, for the collection, transportation, and recycling of those batteries.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately, except that Section 90 takes effect on January 1, 2028.

 

Bill Number: SB3691

Description: Requires the Department on Aging to provide family caregiver support services in compliance with federal requirements.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3696

Description: Makes various updates to the Uniform Commercial Code.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3713

Description: Increases accessibility to the Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Program.

Action: Signed

Effective: The provisions changing Sections 2, 2.5, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, and 10.1 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act take effect January 1, 2025. This Section and the provisions changing Sections 4.1 and 18.5 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 take effect upon becoming law.

 

Bill Number: SB3716

Description: Removes duplicative Lake Michigan water testing and surveying requirements.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3740

Description: Seeks to modernize and ensure consistency in Real Estate License Act of 2000.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025, however, the sections impacting the Recovery Fund and the collection of fees, fines and penalties into the Real Estate Administration fund are effective immediately.

 

Bill Number: SB3741

Description: Prohibits managed care, individual and group health insurance plans from using prior authorization to limit doses of medication used to treat substance use disorder, eliminating another frequent barrier to addiction treatment.

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3751

Description: Creates a 22-25 person Health Outcomes Review Board, housed at IDPH, to annually review and report data to “promote equitable health care outcomes, decrease health care costs, and ensure quality health care for all.”

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3753

Description: Allows DHS to impose progressive sanctions on mental health and developmental disability providers that fail to comply with requirements the Department has issued by rule, contract, or policy.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3763

Description: Repeals a DPH reporting requirement for Reye’s Syndrome, a medical condition that hasn’t been reported in Illinois in over 25 years.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3767

Description: Permits applicants from foreign countries to apply for licensure by endorsement under the design profession practice acts.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3768

Description: Requires the State Board of Education to maintain, operate, or contract the operation of the Philip J. Rock Center for eligible deafblind persons of all ages.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3771

Description: Allows Illinois Student Assistance Commission grants to exonerated persons to be awarded to qualified dependents.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3775

Description: Requires drivers in Illinois to require notice to law enforcement when involved in a crash with circumstances specified in the act and amends the responsibilities of the DUI Prevention and Education Commission.

Action: Signed

Effective: ​ January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3779

Description: Authorizes social workers to possess and administer opioid antagonists, such as naloxone, after receiving training.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3784

Description: Makes changes to various existing laws that currently refer to “sexually transmitted diseases.” The new language simply changes references to “diseases” to “infections.”

Action: Signed

Effective: Immediately

 

Bill Number: SB3793

Description: Changes the minimum membership number for a Community Action Board from 15 to 9 individuals.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3807

Description: Amends the Build Illinois Act by raising the cash limit of the minority, veteran, female, or disability act not exceeding $2,000,000.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB3426

Description: Makes changes to the Motor Fuel Tax Law to amend the method for calculating percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the purpose of annual adjustment in the tax rate and makes a clarification to the sales tax exemption for certain aircraft materials.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

 

Bill Number: SB2765

Description: Clarifies statutes related to limited liability companies and piercing the corporate veil.

Action: Signed

Effective: January 1, 2025

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