Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 423)
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1718
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
6/2/25
Creates the Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday Act. Provides that no sales tax shall be imposed on eligible merchandise purchased by any individual or entity in the State of Illinois during the sales tax holiday period. Provides that the sales tax holiday period is the period beginning at 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in August and ending at 11:59 p.m. on the following Sunday. Provides that "sales tax" means the taxes imposed under the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1719
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
6/2/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that a unit of local government required to store public records under the Act may satisfy the requirements of the Act by storing the public records in an electronic form.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1720
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Public Building Commission Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the short title.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1721
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Public Funds Investment Act. Provides that any public agency may invest any public funds in broad-based index funds that track the performance of a large group of stocks picked to represent the broader market.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1722
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Chicago Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act (Article 20 of the Code) is adopted and made a part of the Chicago Firefighter Article, but only with respect to a person who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, is entitled under the Chicago Firefighter Article to begin receiving a retirement annuity or survivor's annuity and who elects to proceed under the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1723
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/20/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
4/29/25
Enrolled
5/20/25
Chaptered
8/1/25
Passed
8/1/25
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that no person shall conduct a carbon sequestration activity within a sequestration facility that overlies, underlies, or passes through a sole-source aquifer. Specifies that this provisions does not deprive the Environmental Protection Agency of the authority to deny a carbon sequestration permit. Defines "sole-source aquifer".
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1724
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1725
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Chicago Police and Chicago Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Tier 2 monthly retirement annuity shall be increased on the January 1 occurring either on or after (i) the attainment of age 55 (instead of age 60) or (ii) the first anniversary of the annuity start date, whichever is later. Provides that each annual increase shall be calculated at 3% (instead of 3% or one-half the annual unadjusted percentage increase in the consumer price index-u, whichever is less) of the originally granted retirement annuity. In a provision specifying an annuity reduction factor for each year a retiring Tier 2 policeman or fireman is under the age of 55, provides that the retirement annuity of a policeman or fireman who is retiring after attaining age 50 with 20 or more years of service shall not be reduced. Makes a conforming change. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1726
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a Tier 2 investigator for the Department of the Lottery is entitled to an annuity under the alternative retirement annuity provisions only if the person has withdrawn from service with not less than 20 years of eligible creditable service and has attained age 55. Authorizes an investigator for the Department of the Lottery to establish eligible creditable service under the alternative retirement annuity provisions. Provides that a specified educational requirement for persons employed by the Department of Juvenile Justice shall no longer determine eligibility to earn eligible creditable service under the alternative retirement annuity provisions and authorizes the conversion of service credit to eligible creditable service. Establishes a deferred retirement option plan for certain police officers, firefighters, sheriff's law enforcement employees, and deputy sheriffs in the Cook County Police Department who are otherwise eligible to retire under which a participant may continue in active service for up to 5 years while having his or her retirement pension paid into a special account. Provides that the election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan must be made before January 1, 2030. Provides that the Retirement Systems Reciprocal Act (Article 20 of the Code) is adopted and made a part of the Downstate Police, Downstate Firefighter, Chicago Police, and Chicago Firefighter Articles. In the Chicago Teacher Article of the Code, makes changes to how days of validated service are computed. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1727
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Creates the Ground-Based Sparkler Purchaser Excise Tax Act. Imposes a tax, beginning July 1, 2025, upon purchasers for the privilege of using ground-based sparklers and not for the purpose of resale at the rate of 6% of the purchase price of ground-based sparklers. Prohibits certain retail combinations or bundles. Requires every retailer required to collect the tax to apply to the Department of Revenue for a certificate of registration. Provides that any retailer required to collect the tax shall be liable to the Department for the tax, whether the tax has been collected, and any such tax shall constitute a debt to the State. Provides for the making of returns. Provides that from the revenue collected, the Department shall pay 25% into the Fireman's Annuity and Benefit Fund, 25% into the Firefighters' Pension Investment Fund, and 50% into the General Revenue Fund. Provides for recordkeeping requirements. Establishes penalties for violations of the Act. Provides that the Department shall have full power to administer and enforce the Act. Allows for the arrest of any person who violates the Act, the search of any place of business to inspect all ground-based sparklers, and the seizure of any ground based-sparklers without a warrant. Sets forth hearing requirements after seizure. Allows the Department to adopt rules. Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois. Allows a municipality to prohibit the sale and use of ground-based sparklers on public property. Prohibits ground-based sparklers from being sold to a person under the age of 18 years. Amends the Pyrotechnic Use Act. Prohibits ground-based sparklers from being sold to a person under the age of 18 years. Effective July 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1728
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Makes it a violation of the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Act to unlawfully discriminate using credit score and history, including insufficient credit history. Limits these provisions to landlord and tenant agreements only.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1729
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction in an amount equal to any strike benefits paid to the taxpayer during the taxable year by a labor organization, union, or similar entity during a strike, work stoppage, or labor dispute. Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that, if an individual's unemployment is due to a stoppage of work that exists because of a labor dispute, then the individual is ineligible for benefits for a period of not more than one week. Provides that, after the expiration of that one week period, the individual shall be eligible for benefits. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1730
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
6/2/25
Creates the Music Incubator Rebate Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall administer a music incubator rebate program under which the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall provide to the operators of eligible music venues and to eligible music festival promoters a full or partial rebate of the retailers' occupation taxes paid by those operators or eligible music festival promoters on the sale of beer and wine on the premises of the eligible music venue or at the location of the qualified music festival as part of the qualified music festival. Provides that moneys shall be paid from the Music Incubator Fund. Contains provisions creating the Music Incubator Fund. Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1731
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county board may, by ordinance, establish standards for noise pollution in the unincorporated areas of the county. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB1732
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
4/11/25
Creates the Journalism Preservation Act. Provides that specified online platforms shall track and record, on a monthly basis, the total number of times the online platform's websites link to, display, or present a digital journalism provider's news articles, works of journalism, or other content that are displayed or presented to Illinois residents and remit a journalism usage fee payment to each digital journalism provider who has satisfied specific requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning notice requirements; fee payments; calculation of fees; arbitration; non-retaliation; funding for journalists and support staff; reporting requirements; preservation of rights; and severability.