Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0016
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2026, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code, including any deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0017
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department of Central Management Services, in conjunction with the 5 State-funded retirement systems, may enter into a contract with an administrator to establish and conduct a State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify relevant individuals eligible for Medicare but not enrolled in Medicare, and to assist those individuals with enrolling in Social Security and Medicare. Provides that the State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program shall conduct an annual audit of the State health benefits program for everyone covered under the State Employees Group Insurance Program, the Teachers' Retirement Insurance Program, and the College Insurance Program for the purpose of identifying participants and their dependents who are eligible for Medicare under federal law and shall also ensure that those annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors, or dependents who are eligible for Medicare are enrolled in Medicare with Medicare as their primary health care benefits coverage and the State Health Benefits Program being the secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage. Provides that the State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program shall assist any annuitant, retiree, benefit recipient, survivor or their dependents who becomes disabled, and is not enrolled in Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare, with enrolling in and obtaining Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits. Provides that the administrator of the State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program shall provide the Department, the 5 State-funded retirement systems, and the General Assembly with an annual report. Effective January 1, 2026.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0018
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police has authority to deny an application for or to revoke and seize a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued under the Act if the Illinois State Police finds that the applicant or the person to whom the card was issued is or was at the time of issuance a person who has been convicted of misdemeanor stalking in another jurisdiction or a similar misdemeanor offense in another jurisdiction.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0019
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Requires a person to have a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued in his or her own name by the Illinois State Police in order to acquire or possess a flamethrower. Exempts certain military, law enforcement, and other specified persons. Defines flamethrower. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony to deliver a flamethrower to a person, incidental to a sale, without withholding delivery of the flamethrower for at least 72 hours after application for its purchase has been made.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0020
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Election Code. Provides that any person appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate shall be affiliated with the same political party as the person vacating the office if the person vacating the office was elected as a member of an established political party that is still in existence at the time of appointment. Provides that the appointee shall establish his or her political party affiliation by his or her record of voting in party primary elections or by holding or having held an office in a political party organization before appointment. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0021
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Freedom of Information Act and the Local Records Act. In the definition provisions of those Acts, defines the term "junk mail" and specifies that the term "public record" does not include junk mail.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0022
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/23/25
Refer
5/20/25
Report Pass
5/28/25
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. In provisions concerning ordinances used to implement plans for the present and future development or redevelopment of a municipality, provides that developer donations and impact fees contemplated in implementing ordinances may include amounts to pay for the costs of constructing a new school building if the necessity of the new school building is specifically and uniquely attributed to the development or subdivision and the affected school district certifies the necessity and costs.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0023
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Defines the terms "bona fide emergency" and "exigent circumstances". Provides that, if a quorum of the members of a public body is physically present at a meeting, a majority of the public body may allow a member of that body to attend the meeting by other means if the member is prevented from physically attending because of, among other things, exigent circumstances concerning a family member (rather than because of, among other things, a family or other emergency). Makes technical changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0024
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
Refer
4/14/25
Refer
4/23/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Enrolled
5/22/25
Amends the Home Repair and Remodeling Act. Provides that, if a home repair and remodeling contract that is subject to the Act contains a provision allowing attorney's fees to be awarded to any party to the contract, then, notwithstanding any terms in the contract to the contrary, that provision shall be deemed and construed to permit the award of reasonable attorney's fees to all parties to the contract. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0025
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Provides that an administrative law judge is not liable for an injury that allegedly is caused by any decision made by the administrative law judge as part of the administrative law judge's quasi-judicial duties.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0026
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that an open or closed meeting subject to the Act may be conducted by audio or video conference, without the physical presence of a quorum of the members, if the National Weather Service has determined that all or part of the jurisdiction of the public body is located within an area that is subject to a severe weather alert on the day of the meeting. Makes conforming changes. Makes other technical changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0027
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In provisions concerning volunteer emergency workers, provides that, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, "volunteer emergency worker" also includes a community policing volunteer, a volunteer auxiliary police officer, or a volunteer auxiliary deputy. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0028
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
4/8/25
Refer
4/10/25
Refer
4/23/25
Report Pass
5/1/25
Enrolled
5/22/25
Creates the Illinois Receivership Act. Creates a process in which a person is appointed by the court as the court's agent under the court's direction to take possession of, manage and, if authorized by the Act or court order, transfer, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of receivership property. Provides criteria for a court to provide notice and opportunity for a hearing as appropriate before the court can issue an order under the Act. Applies to real property and any personal property related to or used in operating the real property, personal property and fixtures, and other business assets such as corporations, limited liability companies and trusts among other things. Provides that this Act does not apply to (i) an interest in real property improved by one to six dwelling units with some exceptions; (ii) a receiver that is a governmental unit or an individual acting in an official capacity on behalf of the governmental unit unless the unit elects for this Act to apply; and (iii) a receiver appointed under the Illinois Mortgage Foreclosure Law. Defines terms. Provides for the powers and duties of a receiver, disqualification of a receiver, the status of a receiver as lien holder, duties of an owner, powers of the court in managing a receivership, and defenses and immunities of a receiver. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0029
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Creates the Uniform Special Deposits Act. Provides that the Act applies to a special deposit under an account agreement that states the intention of the parties to establish a special deposit, regardless of whether a party to the account agreement or a transaction related to the special deposit, or the special deposit itself, has a reasonable relation to the State. Provides that a special deposit must serve at least one permissible purpose stated in the account agreement from the time the special deposit is created in the account agreement until termination of the special deposit. Provides that, unless the account agreement provides otherwise, a bank is obligated to pay a beneficiary if there are sufficient actually and finally collected funds in the balance of the special deposit. Provides that a court may enjoin a bank from paying a depositor or beneficiary only if payment would constitute a material fraud or facilitate a material fraud with respect to a special deposit.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB0030
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. Changes the short title to the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act. Makes changes to the Act that were recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in 2014, including: adding definitions for "electronic", "organization", "record", and "sign"; providing that a presumption of insolvency imposes on the party against which the presumption is directed the burden of proving that the nonexistence of insolvency is more probable than its existence; removing language providing that a partnership is insolvent if the sum of the partnership's debts is greater than the aggregate, at a fair valuation, of all of the partnership's assets and the sum of the excess of the value of each general partner's nonpartnership assets over the partner's nonpartnership debts; providing that a creditor making a claim for relief has the burden of proving the elements of the claim for relief by a preponderance of the evidence; adding rules to determine the burden of proving matters regarding defenses, liability, and the protection of transferees or obligees; adding rules to determine a debtor's location; providing that a series organization and each protected series of the organization is a separate person, even if for other purposes a protected series is not a person separate from the organization of other protected series of the organization; how the Act relates to the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act; and other changes. Makes conforming changes in the Illinois Insurance Code and the Illinois Trust Code.