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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2240
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Election Code. Provides that an applicant for voter registration shall provide a valid and unexpired driver's license; social security card; public aid identification card; utility bill; lease or contract for a residence; civic, union, or professional association membership card; United States passport; or any other form of identification or documentation issued by the federal, State, or unit of local government that contains the applicant's residential address. Provides that the affidavits required for voter registration include additional affirmations concerning the residency of the applicant.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2241
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a candidate seeking election to an office for which candidates of political parties are nominated by caucus who is a participant in the caucus and who has signed a petition of another established political party, a new political party, or an independent candidate is ineligible to be listed on the ballot at that general or consolidated election as a candidate of the political party holding the caucus. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Township Code. Provides that no participant shall be able to participate or vote at any township or multi-township caucus if the person signed a petition for a candidate of another established political party, a new political party, or an independent candidate at anytime during the 12 months before the caucus.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2242
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, the Board of Elections is responsible for the regulation and oversight of all private, nongovernmental funds from an organization or an individual that are given or distributed to an election authority for the election authority to use. Provides that an election authority may not apply for or request in some other manner any private, nongovernmental funding from any source, but, rather, the Board may seek and apply for private, nongovernmental grants and donations to secure funds that will be distributed to election authorities to assist the election authorities in carrying out duties related to official day-to-day operations and the administration of elections within the election authorities' respective jurisdictions. Provides that the Board shall deposit moneys received into the Election Authority Support Fund and shall publish notices of funds available to election authorities in the State. Provides that funds distributed to election authorities must be directly proportional to the total population residing within the jurisdiction of the selected election authority during the first round of applications, and, if any money is left over after the first round, funds may be distributed in a nonproportional manner to those applicants in the second round. Requires rules to be adopted by the Board, and contains other regulations and restrictions relating to funds granted to or received by the Board. Amends the State Finance Act to establish the Election Authority Support Fund. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2243
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Election Code. In provisions requiring election authorities to automatically register a voter, requires the election authority to act within 90 days of receipt of information from the National Change of Address database. Requires county clerks and the Board of Election Commissioners to complete verifications of voter registrations after a consolidated election in an odd-numbered year but before the first day of candidate circulation for candidate filing for the following primary election in an even-numbered year (rather than at least once in every 2 years). Requires the county clerks and the Board of Election Commissioners to certify to the State Board of Elections that the verification has been conducted and completed within 30 days of completion of the verification. Requires the State Board of Elections to establish training materials and guidelines for judges of elections to be incorporated into the training course established by an election authority. Requires an election authority with a public website to ensure that its vote by mail processing procedures are published on its public website and accessible to the public no less than 120 days before a general election, a general primary election, or a consolidated election. Provides that vote by mail ballots received after the election are subject to audit by the State Board of Elections and provides the auditing guidelines. Provides that the State central committee chair of each established political party shall be given prior written notice of the time and place of the random selection procedure and may be represented at the procedure. Provides that if tally sheets to be delivered to the office of the county clerk by judges of elections are delayed more than 5 hours after the closing of the polls, the designated judges from each of the 2 major political parties shall subscribe to a written affidavit explaining the delay. Requires the county clerk to keep any affidavits for one year and allows certified copies to be used as evidence in all courts, proceedings, and election contests. Requires the affidavits to also appear on an election authority's post on its website along with the number of uncounted votes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2244
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Adds exceptions to unlicensed practice. Provides that a license is not required under the Code for an organ procurement organization or its authorized representative to transport a deceased human body if the organ procurement organization meets certain requirements. Provides that any organ procurement organization or its authorized representative that transports a deceased human body under the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall employ or contract with a funeral director licensed in this State to supervise and train its authorized representative prior to transporting the deceased human body and must comply with all other applicable rules, regulations, and laws. Provides that the provisions concerning exceptions to unlicensed practice shall not apply to a non-transplant anatomical donation organization.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2245
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that for the calendar year beginning January 1, 2026, and each calendar year thereafter, a nursing facility must spend at least 90% of its adjusted total revenue on resident care and other resident-related costs, as defined. Requires each nursing facility to provide as part of its financial reporting information necessary for the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to administer and enforce the provisions of the amendatory Act. Provides that such information shall be subject to audit provisions and comply with any applicable uniform standards under the Code. Provides that all non-allowable costs, related party adjustments, or compensation to owners reported shall be excluded from the calculation of the amount spent on resident care and other resident-related costs. Requires 25% of costs associated with contract nursing staff to be deducted from the amount spent on resident care and other resident-related costs. Provides that for the calendar year beginning January 1, 2027, and each calendar year thereafter, the Department shall use the required financial reporting submissions to determine whether each nursing facility has met the minimum resident care percent requirement. Provides that if a facility has not met the minimum resident care percent requirement, the amount defined by the facility's total adjusted revenue shall be treated as a vendor overpayment. Requires the Department to recover the full amount of any vendor overpayment by reducing future payments, requiring direct payment to the Department, or any other method permitted under the Code. Requires the Department to adopt rules.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2246
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the assessed value of residential property in any general assessment year shall not exceed the assessed value of the property in the last general assessment year multiplied by one plus the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month calendar year immediately preceding the general assessment year for which the reassessment is conducted. Provides that the limitation does not apply if the increase in assessment is attributable to an addition, improvement, or modification to the property. Preempts the power of home rule units to tax. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2247
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
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 the introduced bill with the following changes. Makes changes to the accreditation standards of low-speed electric bicycles, personal e-mobility devices, and traction batteries for low-speed electric bicycles and personal e-mobility devices. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to: (1) assemble or recondition a traction battery using cells removed from used lithium-ion batteries; or (2) sell or offer for sale a lithium-ion traction battery that uses cells removed from used lithium-ion batteries. Provides that a violation of any of the provisions of the Act is an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes changes to definitions. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to make conforming changes. Effective January 1, 2026.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2248
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Innovations for Transportation Infrastructure Act. Provides that the Department of Transportation or the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority may use the design-build project delivery method for transportation facilities if the capital costs for transportation facilities delivered utilizing the design-build project delivery method or Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method or Alternative Technical Concepts in a design-bid-build project delivery method do not for transportation facilities delivered by the Department, exceed the value of 20% of the projects annually programmed in (rather than $400 million of contracts awarded during) the Department's multi-year highway improvement program on an annual basis (rather than for any 5-year period). Removes language that provides that notwithstanding any other law, and as authority supplemental to its existing powers, the Department may use the Construction Manager/General Contractor project delivery method for up to 2 transportation facilities per year. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2249
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Provides that any student with an individualized education program or any child with a disability who has not been removed from the regular education environment shall receive educational services at the local building that the child would attend if the child did not require special education services.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2250
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the School Code. Provides that the transportation of pupils, and reimbursement thereof, in school districts is in relation to pupils attending prekindergarten through grade 12.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2251
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Changes the Public Accommodations and Financial Credit Articles to prohibit discrimination on the basis of citizenship, primary language, or immigration status that includes discrimination against a person because of the person's actual or perceived characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any particular characteristic or characteristics within the listed categories. "Citizenship" means the status of being: (i) a born U.S. citizen; (ii) a naturalized U.S. citizen; or (iii) a U.S. national. "Immigration status" means citizenship of some country other than the United States, including stateless persons, and the specific authority, or lack thereof, to reside in or otherwise to be present in the United States. "Primary language" means a person's preferred language for communication. Provides that it is not a civil rights violation to verify immigration status or any discrimination based upon verified immigration status if required by federal law. Nothing in the Act may be construed to require the provision of services or documents in a language other than English beyond that which is otherwise required by other provisions of federal, State, or local law. Provides that a civil rights violation for a violation of Articles 4 and 5 may include statutory damages of 3 times the amount of actual damages sustained or $8,000, whichever is the greater.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2252
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Appropriates $18,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security for deposit into the IEMA State Projects Fund for grants and operational expenses associated with the administration of Illinois’ Not-For-Profit Security Grant Program. Effective July 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2253
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
5/8/25
Refer
5/9/25
Refer
5/13/25
Report Pass
5/21/25
Enrolled
5/28/25
Chaptered
8/15/25
Passed
8/15/25
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Transportation to consult with all Class 1 and short line railroads and relevant businesses engaged in the railroad industry in preparation of the State Rail Plan. Creates the Freight Rail Transportation Coordinating Committee. Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Authorizes an authorized representative to sign the disclosure with knowledge of the information required by the disclosure. Authorizes disclosure by providing a copy of the most recent proxy statement or other official corporate document filed in the previous calendar year with the Securities and Exchange Commission or similar federal regulatory body. Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Allows a party authorized to take property to file a complaint in circuit court if the owner agrees on the compensation to be paid but (i) is unable to convey clear title or provide all required documents to convey title or comply with any State or federal legal requirements to complete an acquisition by agreement; or (ii) the acquiring agency does not receive needed documents to enable processing of or the issuance of a warrant for the payment of compensation to the property owner. Provides that for property being acquired by the Department of Transportation under the Illinois Highway Code, the Illinois Commerce Commission shall issue its final order within 6 months after the date that the petition is filed unless the Commission extends the period for issuing a final order. Provides that the Commission may extend the 6-month period for issuing a final order for up to an additional 3-month period on its own motion or on a petition filed with good cause by any party. Provides that the Commission may grant such an extension for good cause. Provides that if the Commission extends the period for issuing a final order, then the schedule for the proceeding may not be further extended beyond the 3-month period, and the Commission shall issue its final order within the extension period. Authorizes the Commission to have the power to establish an expedited schedule for making its determination on a petition filed by the Department in less than 6 months if it finds that the public interest requires the setting of an expedited schedule. Allows notice to property owners to be sent, in addition to the United States Postal Service, by a designated private delivery service as defined by the Internal Revenue Service if the service provides the same function as certified mail with return receipt, or the letter is personally served. The Department of Transportation shall report to the General Assembly no later than January 31 of each year the number of cases filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission under this Article during the previous year and the length of time taken, in months, to issue each final order during the previous calendar year. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2254
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly reside within 250 (rather than 500) feet of a school building or the real property comprising any school that persons under the age of 18 attend, a playground, child care institution, day care center, part day child care facility, (deletes day care home and group day care home) or a facility providing programs or services exclusively directed toward persons under 18 years of age. Provides that nothing in these provisions prohibits a person subject to these provisions from residing within 250 feet of a school building or the real property comprising any school that persons under 18 attend, a playground, child care institution, day care center, part day care child care facility, or a facility providing programs or services exclusively directed toward person under 18 years of age if the property was established as his or her current address of registration prior to the date that entity was opened, or if the entity must obtain a license in order to provide programs or services, the date that the license was issued. Provides that once a current property is established as the site of registration, nothing in these provisions prohibits a person subject to these provisions from continuing to reside at the property if the person's floor or unit number changes. Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act and the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act. Deletes provisions that a person required to register under the respective Act who lacks a fixed residence must report weekly, in person, to the appropriate law enforcement agency where the registrant is located. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.