Gov. Pritzker Takes Bill Action
August 2, 2024
Today, Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:
Bill Number: HB0307
Description: Expands opportunities for student-athletes to receive compensation in Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB0778
Description: Requires IDFPR to establish guidelines for qualifications to give limited licensing for international medical graduate students.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2601
Description: Modifies the rules regulating the custom slaughter of meat products in Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3763
Description: Allows employees to request bargaining contracts, policies, handbooks, press releases, discrimination reports, or any similar documents about the employee.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4409
Description: Grants Adult Redeploy Illinois more flexibility in funding allocation through its grant awards and adds two new memberships positions to its Oversight Board.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4813
Description: The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology, rather than the Department of Human Services, shall review electronic accessibility standards for state entities.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4848
Description: Requires vehicles that transport garbage to be covered to prevent windblown trash.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4863
Description: Authorizes the conveyance of property from the Department of Military Affairs to the City of Aurora.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4874
Description: Regarding opioid prescriptions, provides that a pharmacist may not refuse to fill a valid prescription solely because it is not prescribed electronically.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4891
Description: Prohibits dentists from arranging for or establishing third party financing for a patient, among other associated changes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4899
Description: Eliminates a fee paid by local health departments to IDPH in connection with the licensure of a hospice program or home health agency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4902
Description: Requires that a vendor or learning partner approved to support a school's continuous improvement plan related to English language arts must adhere to the comprehensive literacy plan for the State developed by ISBE.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4903
Description: The State Board of Education shall, in consultation with the Department of Public Health, compile resources for schools relating to indoor air quality in schools.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4921
Description: Establishes the Low Interest Home Improvement Loan Program that provides funds to be used to repair or prevent damages to a residence due to natural disasters.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4939
Description: Clarifies the definition of publication in the state library act to reduce cost and space of physical document storage.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB4954
Description: Amends the Coal Mining Act. Requires coal producing mines to maintain fully equipped mine rescue teams, based out of State mine rescue stations.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4961
Description: Requires notice be given to interested parties when a hearing for the appointment of a successor guardian is set.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4993
Description: Requires the local registrar of a district to send a copy of a death certificate to the deceased’s county of residence if the individual dies outside their county of residence.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5232
Description: Amends the deadline for when the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity must complete a personal care products industry supplier disparity study from December 31, 2022 to December 31, 2027.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5250
Description: Among other changes, allows districts to waive a course or unit instruction requirement if completion of it is a graduation requirement, and the district has determined that the student has demonstrated competency in the content.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB5407
Description: Amends the Education for Homeless Children Act. In provisions concerning the Education of Homeless Children and Youth State Grant Program, provides that grants shall be awarded to applicant school districts based on the percentage of students experiencing homelessness in an applicant school district (instead of to applicant school districts).
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5431
Description: Codifies nutrition and restraint protections for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals in all Illinois Department of Corrections facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5640
Description: Provides that whenever there is a reference in any Act to "armed forces", "armed forces of the United States", "U.S. Armed Forces", "United States Armed Forces", or "uniformed services", these terms shall be construed to include the United States Space Force.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0056
Description: Allows 65- to 75-year-olds to purchase a Medicare supplement policy with the same issuer or any affiliate authorized to do business in the State during their open enrollment period.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: SB0086
Description: Amends the Know Before You Owe Private Education Loan Act. Requires information regarding student loans be provided to cosigners as well as borrowers.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB0331
Description: Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college district to pay employees and contractors their daily, regular rate of pay and benefits if a campus is closed due to a city, county, or State declaration of a winter weather emergency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0691
Description: Amends the county code to allow any joint regional planning commission to acquire property through gift, legacy or purchase under a twenty-year installment contract.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0773
Description: Requires group policy insurance to cover IVF services and annual menopause visits beginning January 1, 2026.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately.
Bill Number: SB0857
Description: Gives the IDHS OIG authority to conduct reviews of facilities and agencies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2573
Description: Requires insurance coverage for wigs or scalp prostheses worn due to hair loss caused by alopecia, chemotherapy, or radiation treatment beginning January 1, 2025.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately.
Bill Number: SB2601
Description: Requires landlords to disclose to every potential tenant if a property is located in a high-risk flooding area.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2626
Description: Creates the Rehabilitation Expungement Streamlining and Empowerment for Transition Act to allow for a defendant’s counsel to pre-file expungement petitions 61 days before their case is dismissed.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB2654
Description: Provides enhanced consumer protections for victims of vehicle theft who have had their cars towed or impounded.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2660
Description: Requires a chaperone to be present during all patient encounters with a massage therapist charged with a sexual assault-related crime and enhances IDFPR oversight in such instances.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB2672
Description: Requires insurance companies to cover brand-name prescription drugs in situations where the generic version or a therapeutically equivalent drug is unavailable due to a shortage.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: SB2675
Description: Allows not-for-profit early childhood entities renting space from other not-for-profits to be eligible for early childhood construction grants.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB2683
Description: Prohibits and defines electronic stalking as using any electronic tracking system or acquiring tracking information to determine a targeted person's location, moment, or travel patterns.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2702
Description: Defines a fire sprinkler inspector as one who is employed by a single contractor at a time.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2715
Description: Modifies the Illinois Act on the Aging to clarify release of ombudsman resident records allowed under limited circumstances.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2731
Description: Extends the sunset for the Genetic Counselor Licensing Act to 2030.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2872
Description: Allows school districts to provide relaxation activities to students.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2934
Description: Strengthens existing laws by explicitly stating that consent or permission from the hazing victim does not absolve perpetrators from prosecution for hazing.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2935
Description: Gives mobile homeowners the right of first refusal to join together and purchase their mobile home park when the owner of a mobile home park decides to sell it.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2957
Description: Amends the Act on the Aging to include language specifying state ombudsmen access to facility incident reports.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2976
Description: Amends the Historic Preservation Act. Creates the State Historic Preservation Board, 9-person board that advises the Department of Natural Resources on the preservation, management, acquisition, and deaccession of historic properties. Amends the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council act. Renames, and makes changes to the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately. Section 10 takes effect January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2979
Description: Expands the definition of written release to include electronic signatures and would make multiple violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) a single violation if committed against one individual, who would be entitled to one recovery at most.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB2980
Description: Eliminates the public notification process when a childcare institution, maternity center, or group home licensed by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services undergoes a change in the age of children served or a change in the area of the facility used by children.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2987
Description: Requires that training for school board members include a topic of improving student outcomes.
Action: Signed
Effective: June 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3077
Description: Creates the Local Food Infrastructure Grant Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB3091
Description: Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to convey by quitclaim deed specified land in Will County to the Forest Preserve District of Will County.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB3110
Description: Provides that if a vacancy on a regional board of school trustees occurs in a single county educational service region, then the vacancy may be filled by a person who is a resident of a congressional township not represented on the board.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB3111
Description: Requires DPH to renew 2-year assisted living facility licenses (instead of reviewing and approving a facility’s application for a 2-year license renewal) as long as the facility has met certain requirements. Removes a provision that would allow DPH to renew a facility’s license for longer than 2 years at the facility’s request.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB3115
Description: Requires nursing homes changing ownership to submit a plan to DPH on how they’ll work together to ensure a smooth transition.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3130
Description: Department of Insurance initiative with several technical cleanups of the State Based Marketplace.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately, except that changes to Sections 3, 5, 10, and 25 of the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act take effect January 1, 2025.
Bill Number: SB3133
Description: Amends the State Treasurer Act to allow savers with a Bright Start or Bright Directions account to roll over any funds that were not used for college or trade school into a Roth IRA for the beneficiary, as authorized by federal law.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3134
Description: Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act to give the Illinois Department of Public Health authority to suspend a licensee statewide if the licensee is charged with a crime while performing their official duties and poses a safety threat to the public.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB3156
Description: ISBE’s annual School Code clean-up proposal, which moves up the reporting date for the Teacher Performance Assessment Task Force to October 31 instead of August 1, 2024.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
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