Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 655)
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2795
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
3/15/24
Creates the Safe Patient Limits Act. Provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered nurse in specified situations. Provides that nothing shall preclude a facility from assigning fewer patients to a registered nurse than the limits provided in the Act. Provides that the maximum patient assignments may not be exceeded, regardless of the use and application of any patient acuity system. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt rules governing the implementation and administration of the Act. Provides that all facilities shall adopt written policies and procedures for the training and orientation of nursing staff and that no registered nurse shall be assigned to a nursing unit or clinical area unless that nurse has, among other things, demonstrated competence in providing care in that area. Provides requirements for the Act's implementation. Establishes recordkeeping requirements. Provides rights and protections for nurses. Contains a severability provision and other provisions. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital shall not mandate that a registered professional nurse delegate nursing interventions. Makes changes concerning staffing plans. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Requires the exercise of professional judgment by a direct care registered professional nurse in the performance of his or her scope of practice to be provided in the exclusive interests of the patient. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Compact does not supersede existing State labor laws. Provides that the State may not share with or disclose to the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators or any other state any of the contents of a nationwide criminal history records check conducted for the purpose of multistate licensure under the Nurse Licensure Compact.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2796
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
5/3/24
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a prosecution for aggravated domestic battery, felony domestic battery, or felony violation of an order of protection may be commenced within 5 (rather than 3) years after the commission of the offense.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2797
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services, in conjunction with the State Employees Retirement System, shall enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced administrator to establish and conduct a State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify retirees who are eligible for Medicare, but not enrolled in Medicare, and to assist those retirees in enrolling in Social Security and Medicare. Provides further duties and requirements for the program. Amends the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced administrator to establish and conduct a Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify Medicaid recipients who could benefit from Social Security Disability Insurance representation that could provide them with income and ultimately Medicare benefits. Provides further duties and requirements for the program. Sets forth reporting requirements. Effective January 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2798
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
2/7/24
Engrossed
4/12/24
Refer
4/15/24
Refer
4/24/24
Report Pass
5/8/24
Enrolled
5/15/24
Chaptered
7/1/24
Passed
7/1/24
Authorizes the People of the State of Illinois to release specified property located in Monroe County from all dedication and easement rights and interest acquired for highway purposes for the sum of $2,700. Authorizes the People of the State of Illinois to release or restore any rights of easements of access, crossing, light, air, and view from, to, and over specified property in Kane County for $152,835. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2799
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
3/13/24
Engrossed
4/10/24
Refer
4/11/24
Refer
4/15/24
Report Pass
5/1/24
Enrolled
5/15/24
Chaptered
7/1/24
Passed
7/1/24
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Open Meetings Act. In the definition of "public body", provides that "public body" does not include the regional interagency fatality review teams and the Illinois Fatality Review Team Advisory Council established under the Adult Protective Services Act. Removes a provision that exempts from the Act's open meetings requirement those meetings of the Illinois Fatality Review Team Advisory Council and regional interagency fatality review teams concerning a review of an elderly adult's death from suspected, alleged, or substantiated abuse or neglect. Further amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Expands the definition of "abuse" to mean subjecting an eligible adult to an environment which creates a likelihood of harm to the eligible adult's health, physical and emotional well-being, or welfare. Makes changes to provisions concerning multi-disciplinary teams; face-to-face assessments conducted by provider agencies regarding reports of alleged or suspected abuse, abandonment, neglect, or financial exploitation; procedures on how to evaluate reports of self-neglect; final investigative reports; eligibility screenings for self-neglect; and other matters.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2800
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Refer
5/3/24
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider shall receive a per-claim add-on payment of $95 per treatment. Defines "certified home dialysis provider" to mean an end stage renal disease facility that (i) provides dialysis treatment or dialysis training to caregivers or individuals with end stage renal disease and (ii) has been approved to provide dialysis home training support services by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Effective January 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2801
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Amends the Airport Authorities Act. Provides that, in airport authorities having a population of not more than 500,000, the compensation for services of any commissioner shall not exceed $300 (rather than $150) in any one month for services within the corporate limits of the authority or within a distance of 50 miles from the corporate limits of the authority. Provides that, in airport authorities having a population of more than 500,000, the compensation for services of any commissioner shall not exceed the sum of $25,000 (rather than $10,000) per annum.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2802
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that by paying specified required contributions, an employee who was laid off but returned to any State employment may establish creditable service for the period of the layoff, provided that (1) the applicant applies for the creditable service within 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, (2) the applicant does not receive credit for that period under any other provision of the Code, (3) at the time of the layoff, the applicant is not in an initial probationary status consistent with the rules of the Department of Central Management Services, and (4) the total amount of creditable service established by the applicant does not exceed 3 years. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2803
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
3/14/24
Engrossed
4/10/24
Refer
4/12/24
Refer
4/24/24
Report Pass
5/2/24
Enrolled
5/15/24
Chaptered
8/6/24
Passed
8/6/24
Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Sets forth procedures for the Secretary of State to issue a standard Illinois Identification Card to a person committed to the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a Federal Bureau of Prisons facility located in Illinois, or a county jail or county department of corrections (rather than the Department of Corrections or Department of Juvenile Justice). Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2804
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
1/31/24
Report Pass
4/18/24
Engrossed
5/2/24
Refer
5/3/24
Refer
5/13/24
Report Pass
5/20/24
Enrolled
5/26/24
Chaptered
8/9/24
Passed
8/9/24
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, after consulting with affected State agencies, the Department of Central Management Services may adopt rules to facilitate electronic filing and rules governing practice and procedure in administrative hearings. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2805
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
2/28/24
Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that if the petitioner for a firearms restraining order, domestic violence order of protection, or civil no contact order is a law enforcement officer or agent of a law enforcement officer, the petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency in which the officer is employed on all public records concerning the petition and not the individually named officer or agent who filed the petition. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2806
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Defines a "basic training candidate" to mean a person enrolled in basic training school who is not a full-time or part-time law enforcement officer. Requires the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to select and certify schools within the State of Illinois for the purpose of providing basic training for basic training candidates and to create curriculum and minimum basic training requirements for basic training candidates.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2807
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
4/19/24
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that any minor 15 years of age or older arrested or taken into custody under the Act for aggravated vehicular hijacking shall be detained in an authorized detention facility until a detention or shelter care hearing is held to determine if there is probable cause to believe that the minor is a delinquent minor and: (1) secure custody is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection of the minor or of the person or property of another; (2) the minor is likely to flee the jurisdiction of the court; or (3) the minor was taken into custody under a warrant. Provides that if the court makes that determination, the minor shall continue to be held until the disposition of an adjudicatory hearing under the Delinquent Minors Article of the Act.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2808
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
4/19/24
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that, with certain exceptions in cases of reckless homicide involving the death of 2 or more persons as part of a single course of conduct, in cases involving reckless homicide in which the defendant: (1) was driving at a speed of more than 20 miles per hour in excess of the posted speed limit or (2) failed or refused to comply with a traffic control aide or device engaged in traffic control, the penalty is a Class 2 felony, for which a person, if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be sentenced to a term of not less than 3 years and not more than 14 years. Provides that in cases involving reckless homicide in which the offense was committed as a result of the defendant driving while the defendant's driver's license, permit, or privilege to operate a motor vehicle was suspended or revoked and the defendant caused the deaths of 2 or more persons as part of a single course of conduct, the penalty for reckless homicide is a Class 2 felony, for which a person, if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be sentenced to a term of not less than 6 years and not more than 28 years.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2809
Introduced
1/17/24
Refer
1/17/24
Refer
2/28/24
Refer
4/19/24
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the court shall sentence the defendant to a term of natural life imprisonment for first degree murder if the defendant, at the time of the commission of the murder, had attained the age of 18, and is found guilty of the first degree murder of a child under the age of 5 who is determined by the court, upon testimony of a physician, to have died from abusive head trauma caused by the defendant. Provides that "abusive head trauma" includes shaken baby syndrome. Defines "abusive head trauma" and shaken baby syndrome".