Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 579)
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1655
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/14/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
4/19/24
Creates the Counseling Compact Act. Provides that the State of Illinois enters into the Counseling Compact. Specifies that the Compact's purpose is to facilitate interstate practice of licensed professional counselors with the goal of improving public access to professional counseling services. Contains other provisions relating to state participation in the Compact. Sets out provisions concerning the privilege to practice, obtaining a new home state license, active duty military personnel, telehealth, adverse actions, Counseling Compact Commission, data systems, rulemaking, oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement. Contains other provisions concerning the Commission, the Compact, and the procedures governing participating in and construction of the Compact. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1656
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/14/23
Refer
3/10/23
Creates the Internet Gaming Act. Authorizes an Internet gaming operator to offer Internet gaming in accordance with the provisions of the Act. Provides that Internet gaming shall only be offered by an Internet gaming license or an Internet management services provider that has contracted with an Internet gaming licensee. Provides that an internet gaming licensee shall offer no more than 3 individually branded Internet gaming skins. Provides that an Internet management services provider may conduct Internet gaming on its own Internet gaming platform pursuant to the agreement between the provider and an Internet gaming licensee and in accordance with the rules of the Board and the provisions of the Act. Includes provisions for: requirements of an Internet gaming platform; Internet waging accounts; license requirements; age verification, location, and responsible gaming; diversity goals in procurement and spending by Internet gaming licensees; acceptance of out-of-state wagers; and limitations on home rule units. Provides that a 15% privilege tax is imposed on Internet gaming to be deposited into the State Gaming Fund. Authorizes the adoption of emergency rules to implement the Act and makes conforming changes in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1657
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/14/23
Refer
3/10/23
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning the child care assistance program, requires the Department of Human Services to establish a semimonthly payment schedule for child care providers that have a purchase of service contract with the Department or a subcontractor of the Department. Provides that under the payment schedule, a child care provider shall receive payment on the 1st and 16th of each month for any child care services provided to a family approved for child care assistance. Provides that if payment is not made by the scheduled payment date, a child care provider may submit a written request for payment in a form and manner prescribed by the Department for the amount owed plus the amount of any financial losses or costs the child care provider incurred due to the nonpayment. Provides that a child care provider must submit the request-for-payment form to the Department within 3 months after the date of the nonpayment. Provides that any request-for-payment form submitted after the 3-month period shall not be processed for payment. Requires the Department to oversee the implementation of the semimonthly payment schedule and to receive and process all request-for-payment forms submitted by child care providers. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to apply to monthly co-payments owed by a family under the child care assistance program.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1658
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Removes provisions concerning conditions that the Business Investment Committee shall determine exist in order for the Committee to make its recommendation that an Applicant's application for a Credit should or should not be accepted. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1659
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the School Code. Provides that school districts may regulate and restrict access to public restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and other similar places on the basis of biological sex and may also adopt a policy that provides for gender neutral or alternative facilities for students, staff, and members of the public, as the school district deems appropriate. Provides that school districts are not required to: (1) adopt a policy that restricts or regulates access to public restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and other similar places on the basis of biological sex; (2) adopt a policy that includes the facilitation of gender neutral or alternative facilities for students, staff, and members of the public; (3) limit access by a minor accompanied by an adult guardian of the opposite sex into a specified facility appropriate for the adult guardian; (4) prohibit a person with disabilities from using a specified facility appropriate to the biological sex of either the person with disabilities or of an adult caretaker providing assistance; (5) prohibit access to these facilities by custodial staff, school staff, or other persons in an emergency situation; or (6) alter their current policies on access to public restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and other similar places.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1660
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
3/10/23
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to wages paid to all laborers, workers, and mechanics employed by or on behalf of public body for work performed on a public works project with a total cost of $20,000 or less if the public body notifies the Department of Labor of each project for which the waiver is used within 60 days before commencing the project. Provides that the Department shall make available a form with which public bodies may make this notification. Provides that the Department shall submit an annual report detailing the number of projects for which the waiver was used in the preceding year, the total number of employees engaged in those projects, the total cost of those projects without using prevailing wage standards, the total cost of those projects using prevailing wage standards, and any other information the Department deems appropriate. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1661
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Restricts a tow truck operator from allowing passengers to occupy the trailer, semitrailer, farm wagon, or any other vehicle being carried by a flatbed tow truck upon a public highway, unless: (i) the number of people that need to be transported exceeds the seating capacity of the tow truck or a person needing to be transported has a disability that limits that person's ability to enter the tow truck;(ii) there is a way for the passenger in the carried vehicle to immediately communicate, either verbally, audibly, or visually, with the tow truck operator in case of an emergency; and (iii) if the passenger is under 16 years of age, the passenger is accompanied by an adult riding in the same vehicle. Requires that no passenger of a carried vehicle may exit the carried vehicle, ride outside of the passenger compartment of the carried vehicle, or exhibit dangerous or distracting behaviors while the carried vehicle is upon a public highway.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1662
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a retired member of the General Assembly or retired executive branch constitutional officer who receives a felony conviction that relates to any transactions carried out as part of the retired member's or retired executive branch constitutional officer's official duties shall not be issued license plates bearing the appropriate wording or abbreviations indicating that the holder is a retired member of the General Assembly or retired executive branch constitutional officer or the office held.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1663
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Provides that neither house of the General Assembly shall consider or take a vote on any legislation between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., on any day of the week during any regular or special session of the General Assembly, unless approved by the leaders of each of the caucuses of that house. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1664
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
3/10/23
Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Provides that for an individual licensed under the Act, 24 hours of continuing education credits are required for every 2-year licensing period. Provides specified credit requirements for the 24-hour continuing education requirement. Provides that continuing education credit hours shall not be required to be completed in person. Effective October 1, 2024.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1665
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Report Pass
3/8/23
Engrossed
3/23/23
Refer
3/23/23
Refer
4/11/23
Report Pass
4/19/23
Enrolled
5/19/23
Chaptered
8/4/23
Passed
8/4/23
Amends the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act. Provides that a hospital subject to the Act shall disregard household income received through participation in a guaranteed income program reported by an uninsured patient who applies for financial assistance. Defines "guaranteed income program" to mean a publicly or privately funded program that provides one-time or recurring unconditional cash transfers or payments, or gifts to individuals or households, for a defined number of months or years for the purposes of reducing poverty, promoting economic mobility, or increasing the financial stability of Illinois residents. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for purposes of determining eligibility and the amount of assistance under the Code, the Department of Human Services and local governmental units shall exclude from consideration any financial assistance, including cash transfers or gifts, that is provided to a person through a guaranteed income program (rather than the Department of Human Services and local governmental units shall exclude from consideration, for a period of no more than 60 months, any financial assistance, including wages, cash transfers, or gifts, that is provided to a person who is enrolled in a program or research project that is not funded with general revenue funds and that is intended to investigate the impacts of policies or programs designed to reduce poverty, promote social mobility, or increase financial stability for Illinois residents if there is an explicit plan to collect data and evaluate the program or initiative that is developed prior to participants in the study being enrolled in the program and if a research team has been identified to oversee the evaluation). Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1666
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
3/10/23
Refer
3/15/24
Refer
3/15/24
Refer
3/15/24
Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Thermal Energy Network and Jobs Acts. Sets forth a statement of legislative findings and intent. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Defines "thermal energy" and "thermal energy network". Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall initiate a proceeding within 3 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act to support the development of thermal energy networks. Specifies the matters the Commission shall consider in such proceeding. Provides that the Commission shall adopt rules within 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act to do specified tasks. Provides for procedures for submittal of proposed pilot thermal energy network projects with the Commission. Provides that each gas, electric, or combination gas and utility corporation shall report to the Commission, on a quarterly basis and until completion of the pilot thermal energy network project, the status of each project. Provides that any thermal energy network created shall demonstrate that the gas, electric, or combination gas and electric corporation has entered into a labor peace agreement with a bona fide labor organization of jurisdiction that is actively engaged in representing gas and electric corporation employees. Makes corresponding changes to the Act and the Illinois Power Agency Act. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1667
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Amends the Minimum Wage Law and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that wages recovered by the Department of Labor shall be deposited into the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund, from which the Department shall disburse the sums owed to the employee or employees. Provides that the Department shall conduct a good faith search to find all employees for whom it has recovered unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, or as soon as is practical, and each July 1 thereafter, the Department may direct the State Comptroller and State Treasurer to transfer up to 15% of the balance of the moneys due to employees who cannot be located and that have been held by the Department in the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund for 3 or more years from the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund to the Wage Theft Enforcement Fund. Makes other changes. Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1668
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/21/23
Appropriates $2,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Children and Family Services for grants to assist the Court Appointed Special Advocates of Cook County in its efforts to advocate for timely placement of children in permanent, safe, stable homes. Effective July 1, 2023.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1669
Introduced
2/8/23
Refer
2/8/23
Refer
2/28/23
Report Pass
3/10/23
Refer
3/31/23
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Deletes from the definition of "delinquent minor" that the minor violated or attempted to violate any federal law and that a minor may meet the definition of "delinquent minor" regardless of where the act occurred. Makes conforming changes in Sections concerning venue and exclusive jurisdiction.