Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
July 31, 2026
Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:
Bill Number: HB 4592
Description: Prohibits retailers from refusing to accept cash payments up to $500 dollars, or posting signage that cash is not accepted, with reasonable exceptions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2028
Bill Number: HB 4612
Description: Restricts assisted living facilities to making referrals to licensed home care services providers and requires IDPH to develop an associated public safety announcement.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4614
Description: Ensures that changes in guardianship for youth already in care under the Department of Children and Family Services are thoroughly evaluated to protect the best interests of the child.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4639
Description: Grants juvenile courts the flexibility to consider restorative justice and community mediation alternatives to traditional sentencing for juvenile delinquency cases.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4643
Description: Categorizes intentional failure to report to the DHS Office of the Inspector General hotline as a material obstruction of an investigation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4654
Description: Requires human trafficking notice posting in public restrooms at roadside rest areas.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4676
Description: Strengthens protections for seniors and disabled persons by allowing earlier law enforcement intervention in suspected cases of abuse.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4687
Description: Repeals the Education Loan Default Act which limits state agencies from the employment or contracting of people who are in default on their student loans.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4698
Description: Requires healthcare facilities to inform patients during preventative visits that they may incur additional fees if problems which require additional evaluation are discussed.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4700
Description: Adds assisted living and shared housing facilities in the definition of long-term care facility to require mandated abuse reporting at these facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4714
Description: Cleans up language regarding the Children’s Mental Health Partnership.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4725
Description: Amends the Attorney General Act expanding the investigative authority of the Attorney General’s Worker Protection Unit (WPU) for wage, workplace safety, and fair employment violations.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4749
Description: Enables the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to immediately rescind a nursing license if the Department determines that the educational qualifications were fraudulently obtained.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4788
Description: Requires the use of breasted and non-breasted manikins during cardiopulmonary resuscitation school trainings.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4793
Description: Authorizes pharmacists to use professional judgement to add missing ancillary devices or durable medical equipment to a prescription.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4829
Description: Repeals provisions establishing a lab certification committee.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4842
Description: Strengthens confidentiality protections for peer support counseling and critical incident stress management sessions involving first responders.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4843
Description: Makes changes to the Vehicle Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4844
Description: Requires employers to compensate employees at the employee’s regular rate of pay for time that the employee serves on jury duty.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4859
Description: Allows school districts to implement a share table policy for unopened food or beverage items available to students at no cost.
Action: Signed
Effective: August 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4862
Description: Requires school districts to develop a procedure that commits to supporting employee mental health in the workplace.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4867
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to expand eligible vehicles that may use green oscillating lights in highway work.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4934
Description: Creates the Sickle Cell Awareness Decal and the Sickle Cell Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4941
Description: Specifies eligibility requirements to access funds from the Underground Storage Tank Fund for removing older tanks.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4943
Description: Amends the Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law regarding telecommunications wire.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 4979
Description: Illinois Board of Higher Education omnibus that makes clean-up changes to the Board of Higher Education Act and each public university’s acts.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 4982
Description: Requires pharmacies to post a poster advertising the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline number, the Poison Control helpline number, and the 2-1-1 hotline.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5099
Description: Adds the Illinois Department of Early Childhood as an agency who can conduct criminal background investigations.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately, except that Section 15 takes effect July 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5135
Description: Decouples state adult education funding from federal rules and regulations through the Public Community College Act and clarifies existing language of this act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5167
Description: Expands township property maintenance notice requirements by allowing the required 7-day notice to be served by certified mail, by personal service, or by posting the notice on the property.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5181
Description: Cleans up and removes outdated language from various sections of Illinois code based on recommendations from the Budgeting for Results (BFR) Commission.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5193
Description: Allows EMS personnel to transport patients under the influence of drugs or alcohol to a mental health facility instead of an emergency department.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5204
Description: Updates the structure and administration of the Early Learning Council.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5269
Description: Makes technical changes to the Guardianship and Advocacy Act and Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code to support operational efficiencies of the agency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5310
Description: Standardizes the timeline and procedures for transferring juvenile court cases between Illinois counties to ensure continuous court oversight.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5317
Description: Allows access to state funds to remediate orphan leaking underground storage tanks.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5379
Description: Repeals Public Act 103-653, which authorized the Adjutant General, on behalf of the State of Illinois and the Department of Military Affairs to convey certain real property in Franklin County, Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5435
Description: Requires that licensed clinical social workers receive a degree prior to fulfilling required supervised clinical professional experience hours, changes supervised clinical professional experience requirements for undergraduate social work degrees from three years to 3,000 hours and allows the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to grant waivers or extensions for professional experience requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5439
Description: Strengthens existing statute and clarifies allowable uses of wild game dealer permits and includes technical changes to provisions relating to landowner permits.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5446
Description: Allows volunteer fire departments to hire paid part-time employees.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 5471
Description: Changes the Community-Integrated Living Arrangement licensure period from 3 years to 2 years.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5494
Description: Empowers the Illinois Department of Public Health to make changes to stroke care regulations through administrative rulemaking.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5541
Description: Amends the Environmental Protection Act regarding permits for small organic waste composting operations.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5542
Description: Amends the Park District Code authorizing park district boards to waive unpaid debts owed when a property is disconnected from the park district via ordinance.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: HB 5580
Description: Ensures the Illinois State Police are utilizing the CODIS database to notify investigative agencies if a consistent DNA profile has been identified during an investigation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 2762
Description: Requires insurance to cover seizure detection devices starting in 2029 and preeclampsia biomarker testing starting in 2028.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 2790
Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Public Health to maintain and promote a statewide tobacco quitline for Illinois residents.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3087
Description: Increases the maximum duration of a conditional swimming facility license issued by the Department of Public Health.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3116
Description: Eases permit requirements for transport of bees, hives or bee equipment.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3152
Description: Changes the terminology on traps in the Wildlife Code to replace “leghold” with “foothold” and increases the allowable width of these traps by 1 inch (from 7 ½ to 8 ½).
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3207
Description: Cleans up outdated references to various DHS boards and commissions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3224
Description: Changes the name of the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired to the Illinois School for the Blind.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3272
Description: Grants an exemption from the Procurement Code for the retainment of technical and policy experts for Renewable Energy Access Plans.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3275
Description: Requires IDOT to conduct Road Safety Assessments.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3291
Description: Amends the Clerks of Courts Act to create a will depository system in circuit clerks’ offices.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3314
Description: Requires the Board of Higher Education to compile and make available to the public a report that has the number of credit hours taught by full-time and part-time faculty, organized by institution, degree, and certificate program of all institutions of higher learning.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3329
Description: Makes technical changes to Public Act 103-1065, Karina’s Law, to ensure current state law is properly enforced.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3333
Description: Allows individuals held in county jails prior to trial to earn sentence credits toward their future prison sentences by participating in rehabilitative and work programs.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3361
Description: Requires nonpublic schools to give a reassurance to not adopt or enforce a policy that prohibits hairstyles related to a student’s religious beliefs.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3379
Description: Authorizes the Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to convey a nonexclusive easement in Knox County to the co-trustees of a family trust.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3385
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code, allowing the Illinois Secretary of State to issue registration plates for the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 150 and establish the Sweeney Classic Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3422
Description: Clarifies the prioritization criteria for grants issued under The Healthy Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3434
Description: Defines “community day services” within the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act and the Community Services Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3445
Description: Allows the delegation of certain tasks in kidney dialysis centers.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3487
Description: Lowers the minimum age thresholds that hospitals use to identify patients for vaccination under their immunization policies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3508
Description: Makes various changes to streamline the work of the Department of Insurance.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3509
Description: Clarifies an existing insurance coverage mandate for biomarker testing.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2028
Bill Number: SB 3517
Description: Regulates how reimbursement rates are set for out-of-network ground ambulance service providers who contract with a unit of local government.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3524
Description: Updates the Illinois Child Support Guidelines in line with the recently completed review by the Illinois Child Support Advisory Committee.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3527
Description: Provides that a community association shall not take legal action to collect unpaid assessments until it adopts a written policy governing the collection of unpaid assessments.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3545
Description: Authorizes pretrial services agencies to share defendant fingerprints and arrest data with the Illinois State Police to improve criminal record accuracy.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3597
Description: Makes several updates and changes within the Illinois State Police Civil Administrative Code to aide in modernizing their statutory authority and missions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3608
Description: Makes changes to attorney appointments to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3632
Description: Repeals the Surgical Institute for Children Act which established an institute that no longer exists.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3644
Description: Amends the Rooftop Safety for First Responders Act to require municipalities with a population of 500,000 or more inhabitants to complete, every two years, a survey of buildings within their jurisdiction that have skylights or other openings located on low-sloped roofs.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3706
Description: Grants adult descendants of deceased adoptees the right to petition the court for the appointment of a confidential intermediary to assist in securing records in an adoption file.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3720
Description: Creates a process for students attending a public university to transmit earned credits back to the student’s former community college for conferral of an associate degree.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3722
Description: Updates statute to reference the new Department of Human Services Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3774
Description: Clarifies that a truant minor cannot be administratively withdrawn for nonattendance and requires school districts to make at least 3 attempts of notifying a guardian of their intent to administratively withdraw a student.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3777
Description: Codifies the right to bring charges of discrimination under the disparate impact theory of discrimination to Employment, Financial Credit, and Public Accommodation articles of the Illinois Human Rights Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: June 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3896
Description: Amends the Wholesale Drug Distribution Licensing Act to define virtual wholesale distributors and establishes licensing criteria and an application process for virtual wholesale distributors.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3897
Description: Extends the sunsets of various professional regulation acts that were previously scheduled to sunset January 1, 2027 to January 1, 2032.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 3917
Description: Codifies current Illinois Environment Protection Agency sampling requirements for PFAS in wastewater and biosolids.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 3951
Description: Allows local governments to place blue pavement markings to denote the location of fire hydrants or water supplies near certain roads.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 4010
Description: Revises the interest rate on optional service credit purchases for years worked as a teacher or administrator in a private institution recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 4038
Description: Prohibits recording, livestreaming, or photographing victims or witnesses inside courthouses without consent or judicial authorization.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
Bill Number: SB 4041
Description: Requires Midway and O’Hare airports to conduct periodic noise studies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2027
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