Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
July 19, 2024
CHICAGO—Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:
Bill Number: HB0340
Description: Amends the School Code. Requires school districts to provide the date when written materials used to determine a child’s eligibility for special education or related services will be made available to the parent or guardian.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB1672
Description: Authorizes the Department of Military Affairs to convey the West Frankfort Armory to the City of West Frankfort.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB1742
Description: Allows the Regional Transportation Authority and the Service Boards to donate rolling stock and equipment to Illinois museums and not-for-profits.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2232
Description: Amends the Property Tax Code to clarify requirements for refunds ordered by the Property Tax Appeal Board.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB2472
Description: Requires a clinical peer to review any adverse determinations made by an insurer.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3241
Description: Expands the requirements of the Sentencing Policy Advisory Council to identify discriminatory practices in sentencing across the State and make recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB3886
Description: Requires IDPH to develop and implement a crisis standards of care plan to provide support to health care facilities in situations where local medical resources are overwhelmed. Makes associated changes.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4055
Description: Prohibits prior authorizations for drug therapies for the treatment of hereditary bleeding disorders approved by the FDA.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB4108
Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue Air Force Combat Action Medal license plates to a resident who was awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4118
Description: Requires each electric and gas utility serving more than 500,000 customers to implement a Disconnection Protection Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4125
Description: Amends the Property Tax Code to provide that for certificates of error involving a common area assessment at $1 in counties with 3,000,000 inhabitants or more, a statute of limitations does not apply.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4141
Description: Reinserts an eligibility category for energy assistance from DCEO.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4169
Description: Allows issuance of Navy Club Decals by an Illinois Chapter of the Navy Club.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4170
Description: Creates a process for the issuance of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers special licenses plates by Secretary of State.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4251
Description: Makes a technical change to the Electronic Wills and Remote Witness Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4255
Description: Allows tow vehicles and other specified vehicles to use green oscillating flashing lights at the scene of a crash or disablement.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4264
Description: Provides that nonprofit organizations that receive menstrual products and reasonably inspect them and find them to be usable are not held liable in civil actions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4271
Description: Lowers the age of consent of blood typing services to 17, so long as the blood donation is voluntary.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4346
Description: Cleans up outdated provisions of the Illinois Act on the Aging.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4351
Description: Makes changes to the requirements for service of process in Cook County.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4359
Description: Amends the Fire Protection District Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4365
Description: Allows issuance of Defense Superior Service plates.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4498
Description: Technical clean up to the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4570
Description: Allows professionals already licensed as a barber teacher, cosmetology teacher, esthetics teacher, or nail technology teacher for at least 3 years to use their previously earned education credits to fulfill the same requirements to be a teacher in the other professions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4581
Description: Provides if a student who is 18 with no legal guardian is placed residentially outside of the school district in which the student's parent lives and the placement is funded by a state agency or through private insurance, then the resident district is the school district in which the parent lives.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4589
Description: Requires recyclable metal dealers to keep and maintain records of the vehicle identification number of any vehicle from which the catalytic converter was removed.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4590
Description: Allows an animal shelter or control facility to waive the adoption fee for a dog or cat if the adopter is a veteran.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4661
Description: Amends the Public Utilities Act regarding the use of an electric utilities’ infrastructure for the provision of broadband and voice over internet protocol services.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4711
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4719
Description: Amends the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program Act. Specifies that a retirement plan that exempts an employer from the Act must be a qualified retirement plan and clarifies the types of retirement plans that qualify an employer for an exemption.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4727
Description: Waives costs for up to four new birth certificates or a search for a birth record when the request is made by the Office of the State Guardian to the Office of the State Registrar of Vital Records in Springfield, IL.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4738
Description: Allows the Board of Higher Education to issue a cease and desist order to any school operating without the required permit of approval and impose a civil penalty.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4751
Description: Clarifies information that must be made publicly available in Public School Carbon Free Assessment reports.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5022
Description: Clarifies that APRNs in specialized mental health rehabilitation facilities can fulfill the requirement of a weekly visit to the facility and that the medical director can visit the facility at least monthly.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5047
Description: Allows licensed APRNs, nurse midwives, nurse specialists, or nurse practitioners the full authority to practice while waiting for approval of their license by IDFPR for 6 months.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5059
Description: Creates a pre-license practice allowance for individuals enrolled in a specialty or residency training program for dentistry as they await their license approval if the individual applied for a general dental license or a temporary training license.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5084
Description: Eliminates extraneous reporting concerning the WIC program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5085
Description: Updates EMS education requirements to allow for online and out-of-region training options and allows paramedics with 3 years of experience to teach high school EMT classes with oversight.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5094
Description: Creates the Workforce Direct Care Expansion Act with the purpose of alleviating administrative burden on behavioral health professionals, encouraging communication and coordination, and attraction and retention of the workforce.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5095
Description: Requires a nursing home to inform a resident whose Medicare benefits are ending prior to the full 100-day benefit period that their benefits are expiring within 5 days.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5104
Description: Extends provisions providing duty death and disability benefits to the family of a Chicago police officer or Chicago firefighter who died due to COVID by moving the end date from June 30, 2021 to January 31, 2022.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5128
Description: Allows elected officials, including county sheriffs, to serve on the Emergency Telephone System Board.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5138
Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Transportation to make available traffic and environmental studies on road construction projects to units of local government.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5218
Description: Requires IDPH to adopt rules to implement a new requirement that there be no restrictions on which CNA candidates may take the certification exam in Spanish instead of English.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5224
Description: Defines an "adult" as 18 years or older for adoption purposes and provides the same transfer or parental rights as there would be with a child adoption.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5238
Description: Requires the installation of weather radios in newly installed manufactured homes and promotes regular maintenance of safety devices in mobile home communities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5247
Description: Grants City of Elmhurst the authority to seize a property via eminent domain for a road project.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5256
Description: Expands on the definition of “disability” as written in the Personnel Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5258
Description: Requires any group or individual plan to make dependent coverage available to a parent or stepparent if they meet the federal definition of qualifying relative.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5282
Description: Requires insurance coverage of medically necessary treatment of a mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorder or condition for all individuals who have experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth to the same extent and cost-sharing as for any other covered condition.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB5285
Description: Clarifies the status of certain special probation programs so that employers, landlords, and others know participation and completion of these diversion programs is not a felony conviction.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5295
Description: Requires insurance coverage of hormone therapy due to menopause.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB5296
Description: Creates the Homeowners’ Native Landscaping Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5317
Description: Extends the deadline by one year for dental care providers and insurers to transition to electronic billing and coverage checks aligning with HIPAA requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5325
Description: Amends various parts of the Illinois Vehicle Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5349
Description: Allows the Illinois Department of Transportation to deposit into an escrow account any revenue generated from leasing rolling stock to other states.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5353
Description: Amends the professional acts for social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists and creates portability of professional licenses held by active servicemembers and their spouse assigned to duty in Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5354
Description: Makes changes to the Customized Employment Pilot Program to align with Federal guidelines.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5369
Description: Provides that a public community college district shall accept up to 30 credit hours transferred from an institution approved by the Illinois Community College Board if a student has completed a masonry program at that institution.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5370
Description: Amends Illinois’ “move over law,” commonly referred to as Scott’s Law, by including provisions requiring drivers to reduce speeds in and around emergency scenes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5412
Description: Amends the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act ("REV Illinois Act") and the Manufacturing Illinois Chips for Real Opportunity Act ("MICRO Act"). Provides that failure to report certain data may result in ineligibility for certain tax incentives.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5418
Description: Expands eligibility for school maintenance project grants.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5429
Description: Establishes a detailed process for IDPH review and approval of architectural designs of proposed construction projects in assisted living and shared housing facilities, including specific timelines, fees, and inspection requirements to ensure safety and standardization.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5457
Description: Provides for accommodations for testing for certain professional licenses and prevents license denial or disciplinary action based solely on immigration status or an immigration violation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5459
Description: Allows municipal wastewater agencies, water reclamation districts, and sanitary districts to request and receive water usage data from public utilities that provide drinking water.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5465
Description: Creates a process for child victims of trafficking to have their juvenile records expunged or sealed because of any criminal acts they were forced to take part in while being abused.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5493
Description: Makes technical cleanup to the Insurance Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately, except that the changes to Sections 356r, 356s, 356z.3, and 367a of the Illinois Insurance Code and Section 4.5-1 of the Health Maintenance Organization Act take effect January 1, 2025.
Bill Number: HB5502
Description: Makes clear that condominium sales cannot be stopped for any discriminatory or unlawful purpose.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
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