Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
August 7, 2026
Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:
Bill Number: HB 1441
Description: Extends the expiration dates for Tax Increment Financing districts in various municipalities.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1810
Description: Creates the Equitable Access to Education, Employment, and Training for Incarcerated Individuals with Disabilities Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 2371
Description: Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act to place guardrails around the federal 340B drug program.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 3275
Description: Requires all school head coaches or chief sponsors of an interscholastic athletic activity to obtain training in CPR, first aid, and an AED.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3393
Description: Strengthens protections for child victims of sexual abuse during court proceedings.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3408
Description: Directs the Illinois State Board of Education to publish website resources to support school districts in teaching literacy to color-vision-deficient learners and requires color discrimination tests as part of the vision screening services.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3454
Description: Amends various acts to change references from “epinephrine injector” to “epinephrine delivery system” to clear a pathway for the usage of non-injectable epinephrine delivery systems such as nasal sprays.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3659
Description: Extends the retroactive eligibility period for a Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MRWD) disability benefit from 30 days to 60 days before the application date.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3711
Description: Requires licensed health professionals to report incidents of sexual and intimate conduct to the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation (IDFPR) or a designated hospital administrator.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 3751
Description: Adds employment social enterprises to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law in sections providing for the responsibilities of the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4091
Description: Establishes specific procedures and probationary conditions for youth repeat gun offenders.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4160
Description: Establishes the right to appraisals for resolving disputes related to vehicle total loss settlements.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4304
Description: Establishes the Higher Education Student Support and Academic Freedom Act to protect the constitutional and academic rights of students in higher education institutions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4327
Description: Requires the Department of Insurance to conduct a comprehensive study of how 340B covered entities and pharmaceutical manufacturers participate in the 340B Drug Discount Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4365
Description: Changes the name of the Metro East Sanitary District to the Metro East Flood Prevention District.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4379
Description: Requires certain buildings constructed after January 1, 2029, to provide adult changing stations that comply with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
Action: Signed
Effective: June 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4418
Description: Requires the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to develop Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) requirements or best practices specifically to control plastic pellet pollution from stormwater runoff.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4587
Description: Authorizes licensed day care centers to hire an Interim Conditional Child Care Director for a period of 12 months who is in the process of completing educational requirements to become a director.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4665
Description: Expands the data the Illinois Department of Corrections is required to publish on its website regarding end-of-life healthcare within its facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4741
Description: Expands domestic violence protections by ensuring courts cannot deny protective orders based on a person's age or incarceration status.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4758
Description: Prohibits employers from requiring job applicants to have a driver’s license unless driving is an essential part of the job.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4826
Description: Prohibits IDFPR licensees from receiving continuing education credit towards the renewal of a license if the course promotes prohibited practices or services.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4868
Description: Requires nursing home facilities to notify the Department of Public Health of any incidents or accidents that result in serious physical harm to a resident or cause a resident to seek immediate medical attention.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4909
Description: Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Pension Code to allow eligible employees to contribute to both Taft-Hartley employer retirement plans and an IMRF pension.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4949
Description: Creates a framework for Family Justice Centers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4953
Description: Allows prescription drug manufacturers and wholesale distributors to make deliveries to a health care entity licensed to receive prescription drugs, in addition to the business address of a licensee, unless the delivery contains a controlled substance.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5000
Description: Removes a repeal date to allow the Attorney General to maintain an expanded ability to review healthcare mergers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5001
Description: Expands insurance coverage for mammograms to patients under the age of 35 when a health care provider determines that it is clinically appropriate in line with evidence-based clinical guidelines.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2028
Bill Number: HB 5020
Description: Raises the minimum age for certain Extended Jurisdiction Juvenile prosecutions from age 13 to 15.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5021
Description: Modernizes The Ginseng Harvesting Act to strengthen enforcement, prevent illegal harvesting, and promote sustainable use of wild ginseng.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5024
Description: Amends the Illinois Municipal Code to prohibit immigration centers in residential spaces.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5081
Description: Allows local governments to reduce speed limits by local ordinance and without engineering studies on certain roads to specific speeds, with restrictions on speed camera operations.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately, except for a provision allowing municipalities to request that IDOT conduct an engineering study within that local government’s boundaries. This provision takes effect January 1, 2027.
Bill Number: HB 5090
Description: Creates the Transportation Network Driver Labor Relations Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5107
Description: Requires school districts to consider the use of a mobile panic alert system in the development of school emergency and crisis response plans by the 2028-2029 school year.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5136
Description: Consolidates references to license suspensions and revocations within various sections of the Fish and Aquatic Life Code into a single chapter.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5187
Description: Amends the membership and operations of the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5228
Description: Amends provisions pertaining to the Worker’s Compensation Commission.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5284
Description: Creates the Illinois Menopause Equity and Care Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027, with the insurance related portions going into effect January 1, 2028.
Bill Number: HB 5309
Description: Removes designation of the Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) as a migratory bird from The Wildlife Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2028
Bill Number: HB 5321
Description: Allows school districts to provide salary advancement to teachers for the completion of continuing education coursework.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5387
Description: Extends the sunset dates for various occupational health care licensing acts under the Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5449
Description: Requires homeowners associations to provide a website for unit owners that includes information about board meetings.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5460
Description: Renames an existing scholarship program to the School Social Work Scholarship to clarify eligibility and allow the scholarship to be used to assist social work professionals becoming school social workers with tuition and fees at public and private not-for-profit institutions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5470
Description: Makes various technical changes to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to remove outdated language and change reporting deadlines from January 1 to January 31.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5474
Description: Sets allowable color temperatures for lights purchased and installed on land managed or owned by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) at 2,700 Kelvin.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5487
Description: Amends the Attorney Act to establish regulations for law firms owned, operated, or controlled by persons not licensed as attorneys.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5489
Description: Grants law enforcement officers more flexibility when responding to cases involving juvenile domestic battery.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5552
Description: Illinois State Board of Education’s annual school code clean-up making various changes to streamline and amend School Code provisions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5574
Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) to create educational and outreach materials about the PACE program and creates a PACE Advisory Board.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 0343
Description: Allows Cook County and Calumet City to utilize quick-take proceedings for certain property for 2 years.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 2696
Description: Grants the Village of Hoffman Estate quick take powers for a road construction project.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 2735
Description: Allows the City of North Chicago to utilize quick-take proceedings for 1 year after the passage of the bill.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 2771
Description: Requires public libraries, higher education institutions, assisted living facilities, nursing homes, hospitals, licensed day cares, and the Department of Corrections to display contact information for the 988 national suicide prevention lifeline.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 2784
Description: Adjusts the number and distribution of judges in the 6th, 7th, and 19th Circuits to align with caseload needs.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 2802
Description: Increases the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) death benefit payout from $3,000 to $8,000.
Action: Signed
Effective: Effective immediately, though the benefit increase is effective January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 2824
Description: Updates provisions on the Illinois Vehicle code regarding medical examination report requirements for driver instructor applicants.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 2945
Description: Creates the OSF Children’s Hospital of Illinois decal and the OSF Children’s Hospital Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3037
Description: Requires the Capital Development Board (CDB) to create a stretch energy code for outdoor lighting standards.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3070
Description: Allows high schoolers to take two years of approved Career and Technical Education coursework as an alternative to the required two years of a foreign language.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3076
Description: Requires public entities to provide certain employees with health insurance continuation while they are on paid injury leave, and provides certain local law enforcement disability and illness benefits from line-of-duty injuries.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3107
Description: Allows the Village of Oak Park to utilize quick-take proceedings for certain properties for 2 years.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3208
Description: Updates the definition of “implements of husbandry.”
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3290
Description: Allows motorcycle dealers to offer rider safety classes with oversight from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3322
Description: Clarifies the timelines that the Department of Human Services must follow when handling an objection to a Controlled Substance rescheduling decision.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3398
Description: Authorizes surrogate decision-makers to access the medical records of an incapacitated patient to aid in healthcare decision-making when no guardian, health care agent, or other legal representation exists.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3449
Description: Updates the Illinois Identification Card Act to improve the administration of mobile identification cards
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3533
Description: Directs the State Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities and the Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children to suggest best practices for addressing the educational and related needs of twice-exceptional students and allows school boards to adopt policies addressing advanced abilities of these students.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3565
Description: Allows township food pantries to distribute assistance to people who are ineligible for Medicaid.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3661
Description: Establishes the Federal Aid Disaster Fund as a dedicated trust fund in the State treasury.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3688
Description: Requires education on perimenopause and menopause recognition and management be included in the curriculum for medical professionals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3766
Description: Allows the supervised clinical portion of an approved certified nursing assistant training program to be performed on site at an assisted living facility or an affiliated site approved by the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3772
Description: Codifies air construction permitting requirements for major facilities in environmental justice areas.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3798
Description: Amends the Community Emergency Services and Support Act to strengthen implementation efforts.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3880
Description: Clarifies that individuals with substance use disorders can receive specialized case management services as part of probation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3942
Description: Improves transparency and will ensure better support for youth involved in the state’s juvenile justice system.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
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