All Bills - Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3001
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Creates the Freedom from COVID-19 Vaccination for State Employees Act. Provides that no individual shall be required to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment with a State agency. Provides that no State employee may be disciplined, discharged, or demoted for failing to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination. Defines "appointee", "COVID-19 vaccination", "employee", "State agency", and "State employee". Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3002
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/16/23
Refer
5/19/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
5/19/23
Creates the Department of Children and Family Services Independent Ombudsperson Act. Establishes the Department of Children and Family Services Ombudsperson Bureau as a separate bureau within the Department of Children and Family Services (Department). Requires the Governor to appoint a Bureau Director within 30 days after the effective date of the Act. Provides that the Governor shall appoint a successor Bureau Director within 30 days after a vacancy occurs in the position of the Bureau Director. Provides that the Bureau Director may employ technical experts and other employees to carry out the purposes of the Act, but shall not hire a person to serve as an Ombudsperson who has been employed by the Department during the preceding year. Provides that the Ombudsperson may receive, investigate, and attempt to resolve complaints that the Department or a foster parent: (1) violated a specific law, rule, or Department written policy; or (2) endangered the health or safety of any person. Provides that at the conclusion of an investigation of a complaint, the Ombudsperson shall report the Ombudsperson's findings to the complainant. Requires the Ombudsperson to create a monthly report that includes a summary of the findings of all substantiated complaints. Contains provisions authorizing the Ombudsperson to conduct investigations of alleged violations of Department policy and rules at any Department facility; to make recommendations for changes to Department policies or practices; to report evidence of a crime to law enforcement; and other powers and duties of the Ombudsperson. Requires the Department to provide the Ombudsperson with timely access to Department records and facilities relevant to a complaint or investigation. Grants the Bureau rulemaking authority. Requires the Director of the Bureau to prepare annual reports on its operations. Makes it a Class A misdemeanor to obstruct an Ombudsperson in the performance of the Ombudsperson's duties.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3003
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the research and development credit by providing that the increase in research and development activities shall be based on an increase over 50% of the average of the qualifying expenditures for each year in the base period (instead of 100% of the average of the qualifying expenditures for each year in the base period). Provides that the research and development credit applies on a permanent basis. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3004
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/16/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
3/10/23
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Pension Code. Provides for a Deferred Retirement Option Plan, under which a firefighter who is at least age 50 with 20 years of service may continue in active service for up to 3 years while having his or her retirement pension paid into a special account, to be distributed to the firefighter upon retirement. Bases the retirement pension on the firefighter's service and salary at the time of joining the DROP plan. Requires termination of service at the end of the DROP plan participation period. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3005
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Burial Rights Act. Provides that contracts between cemetery authorities and cemetery workers' associations prohibiting in any manner dedications of monuments or headstones, family visitations, or visitations to veterans memorials on Sundays or legal holidays shall be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. Makes conforming changes.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3006
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission's annual report to the Governor.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3007
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prisoner records maintained by the Department of Corrections.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3008
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3009
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Restores certain provisions of Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 concerning cash bail to the form in which they existed before their amendment by Public Act 101-652 by amendment or reenactment. Amends the Statute on Statutes to provide that whenever there is a reference in any Act to the term "pretrial release", "denial of pretrial release", "conditions of pretrial release", or "violations of the conditions of pretrial release", the terms shall be construed to mean "bail", "denial of bail", "conditions of bail", or "forfeiture of bail" respectively. Provides that if the defendant is acquitted, the court shall order 100% of the defendant's bail deposit returned to the defendant or to the defendant's designee by an assignment executed at the time the bail amount is deposited. Deletes a provision that in no event shall the amount retained by the clerk of the court as bail bond costs be less than $5 and deletes in counties with a population of 3,000,000 or more in no event shall the amount retained by the clerk of the court as bail bond costs exceed $100. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3010
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/16/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
2/28/23
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
4/5/24
Refer
2/14/24
Refer
4/5/24
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Increases penalties by one class for unlawful use of weapons when a person knowingly: (1) carries or possesses in any vehicle or concealed on or about his or her person except when on his or her land or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm; or (2) carries or possesses on or about his or her person, upon any public street, alley, or other public lands within the corporate limits of a municipality except when an invitee in or on the public street, alley, or other public lands, for the purpose of the display of the weapon or the lawful commerce in weapons, or except when on his or her land or in his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or on the land or in the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's permission, any pistol, revolver, stun gun, taser, or other firearm. Provides that a first offense of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon committed with a firearm by a person 18 years of age or older where certain factors exist is a Class 3 felony (rather than a Class 4 felony), for which the person shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 2 years and not more than 5 years. Increases the penalty by one class for unlawful possession of firearms. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3011
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission's annual report to the Governor.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3012
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3013
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/16/23
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the maximum equalized assessed valuation for the homestead exemption for veterans with disabilities shall be adjusted each year by the cumulative percentage increase or decrease reported in the All-Transactions House Price Index for Illinois. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3014
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/23/23
Refer
2/16/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
2/23/23
Refer
3/10/23
Creates the Vacancy Fraud Act. Provides that the board of review in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants has the power to review complaints of vacancy fraud related to property in that county. Provides that a property owner, or the agent of a property owner, commits vacancy fraud when he or she knowingly makes one or more false statements or representations to a chief county assessment officer, the board of review, or any other trier of fact, for the purpose of obtaining an enhanced vacancy reduction. Provides that an enhanced vacancy reduction means an enhanced abatement of taxes or a reduction in property taxes by a chief county assessment officer, the board of review, or a taxing district, based on full or partial vacancy of the property, under an ordinance of the county or taxing district, a resolution of the county or taxing district, or a policy of the county or taxing district. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB3015
Introduced
2/16/23
Introduced
2/16/23
Refer
2/23/23
Refer
2/16/23
Refer
5/19/23
Refer
2/23/23
Refer
5/19/23
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the rates paid at the county level to licensed day care homes and licensed group day care homes by the Department of Children and Family Services shall match the rates paid at the county level to licensed day care centers.