Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
August 9, 2024
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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Description: Provides that the Illinois Certified Shorthand Reporters Act of 1984 is repealed on January 1, 2030, rather than January 1, 2025, and makes other changes to the application requirements.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Description: Directs funds from repealed fee ordinances of DuPage County into a dedicated transportation account.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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