Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 455)
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2195
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Defines "organic waste". Provides that no person shall conduct an organic waste composting operation, other than a landscape waste composting operation, without an Agency permit. Exempts from this permitting requirement: (1) persons conducting an organic waste composting operation that (i) has no more than 25 cubic yards of source-separated organic waste, composting additives, composting material, or end-product compost on-site at any one time and (ii) is not engaging in commercial activity and (2) persons conducting an organic waste composting operation that meets certain siting and operational requirements.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2196
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
4/1/25
Refer
6/2/25
Creates the Powering Up Illinois Act. Defines terms. Sets forth findings. Requires an electric utility that operates within the State to (i) upgrade the State's electrical distribution systems as needed and in time to achieve the State's decarbonization goals, and implement federal, State, regional, and local air quality and decarbonization standards, plans, and regulations, (ii) conduct sufficient advance planning, engineering, and construction of increased distribution of system capacity by advance ordering transformers and other needed equipment so that customers can be energized without substantial delay, (iii) promptly energize new customers, including by ensuring that new housing, new businesses, and new charging for light-duty, medium-duty, and heavy-duty vehicles and off-road vehicles, vessels, trains, and equipment can be used without delay caused by a failure of the utility to implement energization projects, (iv) promptly upgrade service when needed by customers, (v) allow customers seeking energization to choose an optional flexible connection agreement, which shall provide a tariffed, voluntary utility offering that requires customers to agree to specified service levels as a requirement of energization or interconnection through the use of demand response technology that limits the net import and export of electricity at the point of common coupling to remain within the rated capacity limits of a customer's existing service connection or distribution circuit, either on a permanent basis or to allow for immediate project operations before service or distribution system upgrades are completed, and (vi) recruit, train, and retain an adequately sized and qualified workforce to carry out the planning, engineering, and construction of electrical distribution systems needed to promptly serve customers seeking energization and service upgrades without sacrificing other necessary activities of the workforce. Sets forth provisions concerning: the staffing of an electrification team; electric utility requirements; recovery of costs; and safety standards. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2197
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Arsonist Registry Act, the Sex Offender Registration Act, and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police, or any other law enforcement or registering agency, shall not impose a fee for registration on any person subject to those Acts.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2198
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, subject to appropriation, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create a small business financing program to provide low-interest financing to small businesses that secure State contracts to assist with the fulfilment of those contracts. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall, in consultation with State agencies, develop a scorecard for the assessment of bids from businesses that have annual gross sales of less than $15,000,000 as evidenced by the federal income tax return of the business. Makes changes in provisions concerning the advertisement of bids to small businesses.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2199
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency may submit a request for a waiver of training requirements to the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board for a full-time or a part-time law enforcement officer whose certification has become inactive if the officer has at least 2 years of patrol experience after attaining certification (rather than any officer whose certification has become inactive). Provides that within 10 days (rather than 7 days) of receiving a request for a waiver, the Board shall notify the law enforcement officer and the chief administrator of the law enforcement officer's employing agency, whether the request has been granted, denied, or if the Board will take additional time for information.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2200
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for the purposes of assessment, property registered in perpetuity with the register of areas under the Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act is considered to be encumbered by a public easement and shall be depreciated to a level at which its value is $5 per acre, and any improvement, dwelling, or other appurtenant structure present on that land shall be valued at 33 1/3% of its fair cash value. Provides that a conservation right on land preserving a habitat for plant and animal species that are native to Illinois (currently, State or federal endangered or threatened species or federal candidate species) is considered to provide a demonstrated public benefit. Provides that a conservation right on land located adjacent to a park, conservation area, nature preserve, or other land or water area that is publicly owned or otherwise permanently protected for conservation purposes is considered to provide a demonstrated public benefit if the conservation right on that land furthers the conservation purposes of the adjacent protected area. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2201
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
4/10/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
5/6/25
Enrolled
5/31/25
Chaptered
8/15/25
Passed
8/15/25
Reinserts the provisions of House Amendment No. 1, except deletes or changes various data collection elements.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2202
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
4/8/25
Refer
6/2/25
Creates the Academic Freedom of Expression Act. Prohibits a public institution of higher education or private institution of higher education from making or enforcing a rule subjecting a student to disciplinary sanctions solely on the basis of conduct that is speech or other communication that, when engaged in outside the campus or facility of the institution, is protected from governmental restriction by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Allows a student enrolled in a private postsecondary institution at the time that the institution has made or enforced any rule violating the Act to commence a civil action to obtain appropriate injunctive and declaratory relief as determined by the court. Sets forth exceptions. Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Grants the following powers to the Board of Higher Education: the power to adopt policies protecting academic freedom of speech; the power to support the Illinois Community College Board in developing its academic freedom of speech policies; and the power to establish and enforce rules requiring private institutions of higher education to develop and implement plans related to academic freedom of speech within a reasonable deadline. Amends the Public Community College Act. Grants the following power to the Illinois Community College Board: the power to create and enforce rules which ensure that all faculty members are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their subject where such freedom shall be extended within the confines of the course outcomes, degree or program requirements, and accreditation requirements; and the power to create and enforce rules which ensure that faculty members and students are entitled to full freedom in research and in the publication of the results.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2203
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
4/11/25
Creates the Preventing Algorithmic Discrimination Act. Provides that, on or before January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, a deployer of an automated decision tool shall perform an impact assessment for any automated decision tool the deployer uses or designs, codes, or produces that includes specified information. Provides that a deployer shall, at or before the time an automated decision tool is used to make a consequential decision, notify any natural person who is the subject of the consequential decision that an automated decision tool is being used to make, or be a controlling factor in making, the consequential decision and provide specified information. Provides that a deployer shall establish, document, implement, and maintain a governance program that contains reasonable administrative and technical safeguards to map, measure, manage, and govern the reasonably foreseeable risks of algorithmic discrimination associated with the use or intended use of an automated decision tool. Provides that, within 60 days after completing an impact assessment required by the Act, a deployer shall provide the impact assessment to the Attorney General. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to make conforming changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2204
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for dates of service starting July 1, 2025, reimbursement calculations and direct payment for services provided by facilities licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act are the responsibility of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services instead of the Department of Human Services. Requires appropriations for the facilities licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act to be shifted from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Provides that nothing shall prohibit the Department of Healthcare and Family Services from paying more than the rates specified in the Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to work with the Department of Human Services to study and review the reimbursement calculations and direct payments for facilities licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act and for facilities licensed under the MC/DD Act. Effective July 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2205
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. In a provision concerning the conditions for payment from the Underground Storage Tank Fund, provides that, in the case of any approved plan and budget for which payment is being sought, the Environmental Protection Agency shall make a payment determination within 120 days of receipt of both the complete application for payment and the report documenting completion of the activities approved in the plan, whichever is received later (rather than within 120 days after receipt of the application). Provides that, for underground storage tank releases reported before June 8, 2010, an owner or operator may access the Underground Storage Tank Fund for costs that are associated with an Agency-approved plan and that are incurred after the effective date of the amendatory Act after application of a $10,000 deductible (now, other deductibles are owed in some circumstances). Provides that the deductible shall be reduced by any deductible amount applied to costs incurred before the effective date of the amendatory Act.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2206
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law. Creates the Kankakee and Iroquois Counties Floodwater Mitigation Commission. Provides that the Commission shall: study floodplain policies and actions in neighboring states and counties and the impact on Kankakee and Iroquois Counties; identify and evaluate critical flooding and drainage issues and needs in Kankakee and Iroquois Counties; and make recommendations on how best to address flooding and drainage issues in Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. Sets forth provisions concerning membership of the Commission. Provides that members of the Commission shall not receive compensation. Requires the Commission to meet at least quarterly at the call of the chair and to file a report with the Governor and General Assembly by January 1, 2027 on its recommendations for flooding and drainage control in Kankakee and Iroquois Counties. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to provide administrative support to the Commission. Dissolves the Commission after the report has been filed.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2207
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
3/21/25
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Defines "health care professional" as a person licensed or registered by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Medical Practice Act of 1987, Nurse Practice Act, Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987, and Respiratory Care Practice Act or a person licensed or registered by the Department of Public Health under the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that, for license or registration renewals occurring on or after January 1, 2026, a health care professional who has continuing education requirements shall complete at least a one-hour course in training on the recognition and reporting of human trafficking. Provides rulemaking abilities for the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Amends the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Provides that any person, institution, or agency participating in the making of a report, providing information or records related to a report, assessment, or services, or participating in the investigation of a report under the Act in good faith, or taking photographs or x-rays as a result of an authorized assessment, shall have immunity from any civil, criminal or other liability in any civil, criminal or other proceeding brought in consequence of making such report or assessment or on account of submitting or otherwise disclosing such photographs or x-rays to any agency designated to receive reports of alleged or suspected human trafficking. Provides that any person, institution, or agency authorized by the Department to provide assessment, intervention, or administrative services under the Act shall, in the good faith performance of those services, have immunity from any civil, criminal or other liability in any civil, criminal, or other proceeding brought as a consequence of the performance of those services. Provides that, for the purposes of any civil, criminal, or other proceeding, the good faith of any person required to report, permitted to report, or participating in an investigation of a report of alleged or suspected human trafficking shall be presumed.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2208
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person shall not drive or be in actual physical control of any vehicle within the State while the alcohol concentration in the person's blood, other bodily substance, or breath is .04 or more for one year after the person's first conviction if the person is convicted with an alcohol concentration of .15 or more, or for 5 years after the person's second or subsequent conviction with an alcohol concentration of .15 or more.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2209
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall restore, within 18 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the site of any warden's homes provided for the chief administrative officer or warden of the Pontiac Correctional Center that have been deemed by the Department of Corrections to be in a state of disrepair that renders them unsafe to be used as residences to their original condition before the homes were built. Provides that the cost of the site restoration required under these provisions shall be paid by the Department of Central Management Services.