Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1726
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the amount required to be paid under protest for the 2026 or 2027 tax year. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1727
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that benefit or annuity payments to a member or participant in a retirement system or pension fund shall be suspended if the member or participant is indicted or charged by information with a felony and the board of the retirement system or pension fund determines that the felony relates to or arises out of or in connection with his or her service as a member or participant of the retirement system or pension fund. Provides that if the member or participant is not convicted of that felony, payment of the benefit or annuity shall resume and the retirement system or pension fund shall pay to the member or participant the amount of the suspended annuity or benefit payments with interest. Provides that if the member or participant is convicted of that felony, the suspended annuity or benefit payments shall not be paid to the member or participant. Provides that the amendatory Act applies without regard to whether the member or participant first became a member or participant of a retirement system or pension fund before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1728
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the long-time occupant homestead exemption applies in all counties beginning with taxable year 2026. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1729
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Creates the Reinvest in Future Technical Careers Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall award income tax credits to taxpayers who make authorized contributions to scholarship granting organizations for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students who attend technical academies. Sets forth limitations with respect to the aggregate amount of credits awarded by the Department of Revenue under the program in a calendar year and the amount of credits awarded to an individual taxpayer. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to make conforming changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1730
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Stop Spoofing Law. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for a telecommunications carrier, in connection with any telecommunications service or voice over Internet protocol service, to transmit through any caller identification service misleading or inaccurate caller identification information. Provides that the Attorney General shall create and maintain a website that allows persons in the State who were transmitted misleading or inaccurate caller identification information through a telecommunications service or voice over Internet protocol service to report the incident to the Attorney General. Provides that the Attorney General shall use the information collected on the website to enforce the provision. Sets forth exceptions to the provision.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1731
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Estate Tax Inflation Law. Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2026, if a valid election has been made under the Internal Revenue Code allowing a person to take into account a federal deceased spousal unused exclusion amount for the purposes of calculating the person's federal estate tax, then the person's Illinois exclusion amount shall include the Illinois deceased spousal unused exclusion amount for the deceased spouse with respect to whom the federal election was made. Provides that the exclusion amount used to calculate the decedent's Illinois estate tax shall be increased each year by the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index. Provides that, for the purpose of calculating the Illinois Estate Tax, the State Death Tax Credit shall be calculated only on the portion of the decedent's adjusted taxable estate that exceeds the decedent's Illinois exclusion amount. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1732
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Stop Underage Vaping Law. Amends the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Persons under 21 Years of Age and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act. Provides that a person under 21 years of age may not possess any tobacco product, electronic cigarette, or alternative nicotine product. Provides that a violation is a petty offense. Provides that for the first offense in a 24-month period, the person shall be fined $200; for the second offense in a 24-month period, the person shall be fined $400; for the third offense in a 24-month period, the person shall be fined $600; and for the fourth or subsequent offense in a 24-month period, the person shall be fined $800. Provides that for the purposes of this provision, the 24-month period shall begin with the person's first violation of the Act. Provides for distribution of the fines for violations.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1733
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Estate Tax Threshold Fix Law. Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2026 and prior to January 1, 2028, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under the Internal Revenue Code (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2026, the exclusion amount shall be the greater of (i) the applicable exclusion amount calculated under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) the exclusion amount amount that would have been calculated under the Internal Revenue Code if the decedent had died in calendar year 2027. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1734
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Electoral College Equity Law. Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall be chosen by congressional district. Provides that 2 electors at large shall cast their ballot for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate that received the highest number of votes in the State.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1735
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by federal law, any person who is not a citizen of the United States and who knowingly registers to vote or knowingly votes in an election, including a municipal election, shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by federal law, any person who knowingly registers a person to vote who is not a citizen of the United States shall be guilty of a Class 3 felony. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1736
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code to add the Joliet Regional Port District to the list of entities permitted to participate in the Fund as participating instrumentalities. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1737
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/18/25
Refer
4/11/25
Creates the Broadband Deployment Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the use of existing electric easements and public road rights-of-way by a broadband provider to install, maintain, and use broadband infrastructure to provide broadband service. Provides that no additional compensation is required for the installation and maintenance of broadband infrastructure within an easement for electricity or along an existing public road right-of-way. Provides notice requirements for a specified entity that intends to provide broadband infrastructure for broadband services pursuant to an agreement to use existing or subsequently acquired utility easements. Sets forth provisions concerning a private right of action and damages for a property owner who is challenging the broadband provider's right to use an easement for broadband services or infrastructure. Requires coordination with the relevant local governmental unit to minimize potential future relocations. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1738
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Requires a bar to offer for sale or provide to the bar's customers drug testing devices at a cost not to exceed a reasonable amount based on the wholesale cost of the devices or free of charge. Provides that the owner or owners of a bar shall not be held liable, either criminally or civilly, for a defective test or inaccurate test result, including a false positive or false negative test result. Requires the owner or owners of a bar to ensure that all testing devices offered to customers have not exceeded their expiration date or recommended period of use, according to the product label or product packaging or as otherwise recommended by the manufacturer. Requires the Illinois Liquor Control Commission to post on its website information about the requirements, including, but not limited to, the signage that is required to be posted and the types of drug testing devices that are required to be available. Authorizes rulemaking.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1739
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Adds provisions concerning the licensing of denturists by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, including qualifications, applications, examinations, and the creation of the Board of Denture Technology. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1740
Introduced
1/24/25
Refer
1/28/25
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that, if a request for public records for officer-worn body camera recorded audio or video is received by a public body, the public body shall either comply with or deny the request within 15 business days (rather than 5 days) after its receipt of the request. Allows an extension to the time to respond to a request for officer-worn body camera recorded audio or video to 15 business days (rather than 5 business days).