Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1021
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, a park district police officer, code enforcement officer, or any official or employee of a park district with the authority to issue citations may not ticket an individual or group or arrest an individual for setting live traps to capture animals with the intention of rescuing those animals. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1022
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board shall adopt rules to establish an annual basic training program schedule that provides for the monthly enrollment of recruits into basic training schools. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1023
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the State Finance Act. Increases the percentage of moneys that are transferred from the Cannabis Regulation Fund to the Local Government Distributive Fund. Provides that moneys allocated to counties under those provisions shall be directed to a fund under the control of the Sheriff. Effective July 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1024
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Creates the Prohibition of Closed-Door Tax Increases Act. Provides that a unit of local government may not increase a levied tax without authorization by referendum of the electors of the unit of local government. Provides that a referendum to increase a levied tax must include a sunset clause on which the tax increase authorized by the referendum measure shall expire. Provides that, if an increase in a levied tax is intended to generate a cash flow to service a debt, the increase must sunset no later than the date that the debt is scheduled to be paid off, and, if an increase in a levied tax is intended to generate a cash flow that will be spent for purposes other than debt service, the increase must sunset no later than 10 years after the date on which the tax increase begins. Provides that, to the extent the Act conflicts with any other provision of law, the Act controls. Provides that nothing in the Act infringes upon the right of a unit of local government to impose or increase nontax fines or fees. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall adopt rules to enforce the Act. Limits concurrent exercise of home rule taxing powers.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1025
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, except for the powers to tax, to impose fees, and to incur debt, non-home rule municipalities shall exercise all of the powers provided to home rule units under Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, subject to the limitations set forth in that Section. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1026
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Secretary of State Act. Provides that the Office of the Secretary of State shall install and maintain electronic monitoring devices at each entrance to the State Capitol Complex and shall install and maintain safety call boxes around the State Capitol Complex. Provides that any video or audio recording created or maintained under the provision is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Defines terms. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make a conforming change.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1027
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for taxable year 2025 and thereafter, the homestead exemption for veterans with disabilities carries over to the benefit of a deceased veteran's remarried surviving spouse as long as the surviving spouse holds the legal or beneficial title to the property and permanently resides on the property (currently, the surviving spouse is not eligible for the exemption if the spouse remarries). Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1028
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends, repeals, and reenacts various Acts. Restores the statutes to the form in which they existed before their amendment by Public Acts 101-652, 102-28, and 102-1104. Makes other technical changes. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1029
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Repeals the Illinois TRUST Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Illinois Identification Card Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1030
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In the offense of aggravated battery based on the status of the victim, includes the battery of a health care worker: (1) performing his or her official duties; (2) battered to prevent performance of his or her official duties; or (3) battered in retaliation for performing his or her official duties. Deletes provision that a person commits aggravated battery when, in committing a battery, other than by discharge of a firearm, he or she knows the individual battered to be a nurse while in the performance of his or her duties as a nurse. Provides that a violation is a Class 2 felony. Defines "health care worker".
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1031
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a person, after receiving a warning not to approach from a first responder who is engaged in the lawful performance of a legal duty, to violate the warning and approach or remain within 14 feet of the first responder with the intent to: (1) interrupt, disrupt, hinder, impede, or interfere with the first responder's ability to perform the first responder's duty; (2) threaten the first responder with physical harm; or (3) harass the first responder by interfering with the first responder performing the first responder's duty. Provides that a violation is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "first responder" and "harass".
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1032
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who is justified in the use of force, including deadly force, does not have a duty to retreat. Provides that a person who is justified in the use of force, including the use of force that is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm, is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of force justified under these provisions (rather than have an affirmative defense to a criminal prosecution). Defines "criminal prosecution" to include charging or prosecuting the defendant.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1033
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Counties Code. Restores certain provisions of the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code concerning citizenship of employees of a sheriff's department and police officer applicants to the form in which they existed before their amendment by Public Act 103-357. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1034
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Repeals the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statutes do not apply to or affect any person carrying a concealed pistol, revolver, or handgun and the person has been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card under the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois House Bill HB1035
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Provides that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall adopt rules pertaining to expedient and efficient processing of grants awarded to public safety agencies though the State's awarding agencies, including those awards provided through the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Provides that the rules pertaining to the issuance of awards to public safety agencies shall include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) in accordance with the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act, continued uniform administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements for State and federal pass-through awards to non-federal public safety entities; (2) an application process for public safety agencies that proceeds to process applicants, upon the receipt of their application on a first-come, first-serve basis; and (3) an award process that proceeds on a chronological case-by-case basis where a public safety agency's award is processed with no delay upon that agency's completion of all requirements, including the application process, reporting requirements, monitoring, and all other considerations and regulations as required under the Act. Provides that the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit and the Office of the State Comptroller shall consider and determine revised factors when determining permanent or temporary cease payments, the garnishment of funds, or any other action by a State agency to hinder receipt of an award by a public safety agency recipient or subrecipient. Provides that those factors shall be disseminated to all State agencies that award grants to public safety agencies. Effective immediately.