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    "title": "Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action",
    "modified_at": "2026-06-26 21:14:59",
    "published_at": "2026-06-26 21:15:00",
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    "body": "<p>Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:</p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 45</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Amends the Sale Price Act to make digital coupons accessible in other formats.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective:</strong> January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 1700</p><p><strong>Description: </strong>Makes technical changes to the Clean and Reliable Grid Affordability Act.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 3460</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Sets rules for apprenticeship registrations and establishes structured apprenticeship requirements for licensees under the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, Hair Braiding, and Nail Technology Act.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective:</strong> January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 3564</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires transparency for rental fees assessed by landlords and prohibits or limits certain rental-related fines and fees.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027, pursuant to HB 5234.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 3595</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Modernizes references from &ldquo;day care&rdquo; to &ldquo;early care and education,&rdquo; allows IDEC to tie background checks to the individual instead of the provider, and streamlines license exemption structure and application requirements to provide consistent licensing decisions and reduce delays.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>July 1, 2026 </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4206</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Establishes a process for charities to claim assets when named as beneficiaries of non-probate instruments.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4217</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Grants statewide public defenders the ability to represent their clients in summary suspension or revocation hearings arising from the same arrest.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4235</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Ensures those individuals committed to the Illinois Department of Corrections and their correspondents are not charged any fee, surcharge, or cost for mail and scanning services exceeding the standard postage rate.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4247</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Authorizes school coaches and athletic trainers to administer asthma medication, epinephrine injectors, opioid antagonists, and oxygen.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4255</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Expands the list of animals not allowed to participate in traveling animal acts in Illinois.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective:</strong> July 1, 2026</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4277</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Expands eligibility for notary applicants for appointments and commission as noted by the Secretary of State.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4361</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Amends the Illinois Counties Code to require county building inspectors to meet minimum professional qualification standards beginning January 1, 2027.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective:</strong> January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4420</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Defines &ldquo;public media produced at a state-supported institution of higher learning&rdquo; to ensure that materials published at an institution are not subject to prior review by an institutional official and that produced public media do not represent the institution.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027 </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4421</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Repeals Section 20-115 of the Illinois State University Law.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4461</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Prohibits hospitals from filing a lien on a patient&rsquo;s primary residence for unpaid medical debt.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4464</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Prohibits insurers from requiring dental care providers to accept payment from the insurer via credit card or electronic funds transfer.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4472</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Establishes the Blue Envelope Program at the statewide level.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4514</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Modifies forum requirements for public utility rate increase hearings.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4517</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Extends electronic audio and/or video monitoring rights to include consenting residents living in assisted living and shared housing establishments.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4533</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Allows customers who transmit money internationally to make a voluntary donation to the Illinois DREAM Fund.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4541 </p><p><strong>Description: </strong>Clarifies that overpayments to government entities are considered unclaimed property, streamlining how people can recover excess fees and taxes.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4560</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Amends the State Treasurer Act to clarify the Treasurer&rsquo;s authority to recover State funds.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4575</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Widens the filing period for trustee elections for the Chicago Teachers&rsquo; Pension Fund</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4606</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Allows IDHS to develop the statewide infrastructure for newborn home visiting services.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>July 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4620</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires DHS to provide service recipients with information about the Scott Bennett ABLE Program.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4695</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Makes several changes to the Crematory Regulation Act.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4702</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Beginning 18 months after the effective date of the bill, requires all diapers sold or distributed in Illinois to be labeled with an ingredients list.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4747</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Delays implementation of the DHS direct support professional credential pilot program to FY28.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4754</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires private educational lenders to include additional data about default rates and loans originated with a cosigner in the reports that they submit to IDFPR.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4770</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Modernizes the Illinois Credit Union Act, allowing credit unions, among other updates, to establish relationships with third-party providers of digital asset services.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4896</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Creates a limited legal pathway for tenants in common to obtain full title to a property when someone dies without a will.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4948</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Creates an Intelligent Speed Assistance Program.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2028</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 4977</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires hospitals to develop comprehensive interventions to prevent and control all pathogens of epidemiological concerns.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5047</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Adds the Long-Term Care Ombudsman in the list of individuals who must receive a notification when a long-term care facility intends to voluntarily close.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5070</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Prohibits the Illinois Pollution Control Board from adopting federal environmental rules that are less stringent than current state regulations.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5093</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Modifies in-state tuition requirements by allowing students who attend an Illinois high school for at least three years to receive in-state tuition regardless of if the student had established residency outside of Illinois prior to enrolling.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5148</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Expands requirements for prescribers to check the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number: </strong>HB 5166 </p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Creates a dissolution procedure for drainage and sanitary districts.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5234</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Delays the effective date of HB 3564 to January 1, 2027.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5285</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Establishes an interest-bearing fund dedicated to supporting the ongoing monitoring, surveillance, and maintenance of the Sheffield Low-Level Radioactive Waste disposal site and its surrounding buffer zone in Sheffield, Illinois.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5290</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Makes changes to the Sales Finance Agency Act to eliminate outdated and inconsistent language and makes other changes to update license application fees for sales finance agencies.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5316</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Grants IEMA-OHS the authority to enter both public and private property to collect environmental samples in response to disasters that could cause radioactive contamination.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5364</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Allows the HFS Inspector General to maintain jurisdiction over programs moving from IDHS to IDEC.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5376</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Updates the Illinois Insurance Code regarding the Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5384</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Amends the Currency Exchange Act, the Sales Finance Agency Act, the Debt Management Service Act, the Consumer Installment Loan Act, the Debt Settlement Consumer Protection Act, the Safety Deposit License Act, and the Payday Loan Reform Act to add language to set forth any fees in the various acts to be amended by rule.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5390</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires the Illinois Attorney General to adopt provisions for a uniform financial assistance form for hospital use.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5411</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Allows certified veterinary technicians to administer the rabies vaccine.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5480</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Updates the mandatory reporting standard for fire and hazardous material incidents from the older National Fire Incident Reporting System to the new National Emergency Response Information System.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> HB 5551</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Makes a series of changes to finance provisions of the School Code pertaining to annual retention bonuses, tuition reimbursements for youth-in-care, Equalized Assessed Value adjustments, and the Illinois Teaching Excellence Grant Program</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 454</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Exempts Minor League Baseball (MiLB) players who are under contract and compensated pursuant to the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) from Illinois Minimum Wage Law.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 2713</p><p><strong>Description: </strong>Establishes stricter reporting procedures for violence perpetrated against healthcare providers in emergency care settings.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 2859</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Designates a railroad trestle bridge along the Kickapoo Rail Trail in the Kickapoo State Recreation Area as the Senator Scott Bennett Memorial Bridge</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 2899<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<strong>Description:</strong> Expands insurance coverage for speech-language disorder rehabilitative services.<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<strong>Action:</strong> Signed<br>\u200b<br>\u200b<strong>Effective: </strong>July 1, 2026, except Sections 5 and 10, which are effective January 1, 2028.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 3205</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Extends the work of the Illinois Insurance Guarantee Fund.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 3223</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Requires pharmacies to post a notice with a QR code informing patients of the ability to sign up for medication recalls via the FDA website.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>January 1, 2027</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 3295</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Expands insurance coverage for durable medical equipment</p><p>for insurance plans beginning on or after January 1, 2028, </p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective:</strong> Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 3645</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Makes several changes to the Regulatory Sunset Act.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 3815</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Amends the Illinois Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, prohibiting health insurance companies from denying coverage because of past-due premiums from a prior policy.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately</p><p> </p><p><strong>Bill Number:</strong> SB 4006</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> Enhances homeowner insurance protections for consumers facing the worsening impacts of climate change.</p><p><strong>Action:</strong> Signed</p><p><strong>Effective: </strong>Immediately, expect for provisions on flood coverage notice, which are effective January 1, 2027.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style=\"text-align: center\">###</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>",
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