Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 474)
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2480
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Creates the Illinois African American Commission Act, the Illinois Asian American Commission Act, and the Illinois Latino Commission Act. Establishes a new Illinois African American Commission, Illinois Latino Commission, and Illinois Asian American Commission. Provides that the purpose of these Commissions is to be an independent voice for their communities, represent community priorities, and advocate for policies, programs, and services that promote greater equity and inclusion in State government. Repeals the African American Family Commission Act, the Latino Family Commission Act, and the Asian American Family Commission Act.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2481
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the State Finance Act. Removes provisions repealing the Capital Development Board Revolving Fund. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2482
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Public Community College Act. Allows the board of trustees of a community college district to establish and offer a baccalaureate degree program and confer a bachelor's degree if the board of trustees and the program meet specified conditions. Provides for an application for approval from the Illinois Community College Board. Sets forth community college requirements and prohibitions for establishing a baccalaureate degree program. Provides that a community college district that offers a baccalaureate degree program shall submit an annual report to the Illinois Community College Board. Sets forth what that report shall include. Provides for a statewide evaluation of a baccalaureate degree program.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2483
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. In provisions regarding the Access and Functional Needs Advisory Committee, provides that the Advisory Committee shall comply with all provisions of the Open Meetings Act except that the Advisory Committee is exempt from the provisions that specifically require a quorum of members of a public body to be physically present at the location of an open meeting. Allows Advisory Committee members to attend meetings of the Access and Functional Needs Advisory Committee remotely by video or audio conference with all attending members counting toward a quorum, provided there is at least one member in physical attendance at the publicly posted physical location of the meeting.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2484
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
4/11/25
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Transportation, in consultation and collaboration with the Department of Central Management Services and the Capital Development Board, to develop one or more standards for State purchases of appliances, concrete, asphalt, steel, and other building materials, subject to appropriation or the award of grant funding for this purpose. Provides that in developing these standards, the establishment of a maximum acceptable Global Warming Potential standard, as well as ways to promote and facilitate the use of life cycle assessments and environmental product declarations, shall be considered when considering bids for State-funded infrastructure projects.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2485
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Creates the Developmental Promise Program to remove barriers to enrollment, academic persistence, and certificate or degree completion for students who need to complete developmental coursework. Provides that, beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, each institution of higher education in the State shall provide financial assistance to a qualifying student for the remaining balance of the student's total cost of attendance in excess of the amount of any private, State, or federal financial assistance received by the qualifying student during the first 132 semester credit hours or 198 quarter credit hours that the qualifying student is enrolled in the Developmental Assistance Program. Sets forth requirements for qualified students to receive the remaining balance of financial assistance. Requires the Illinois Student Assistance Commission and institutions of higher learning to adopt rules and policies for the administration of the Program.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2486
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Creates the Metropolitan Mobility Authority Act, and establishes the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Provides that the Chicago Transit Authority, the Commuter Rail Division and the Suburban Bus Division of the Regional Transportation Authority, and the Regional Transportation Authority are consolidated into the Metropolitan Mobility Authority and the Service Boards are abolished, instead creating the Suburban Bus Operating Division, Commuter Rail Operating Division, and the Chicago Transit Operating Division. Reinserts, reorganizes, and changes some provisions from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act and the Regional Transportation Authority Act into the new Act and repeals those Acts. Includes provisions about the operation of the Metropolitan Mobility Authority. Creates the Equitable Transit-Supportive Development Act. Establishes the Office of Transit-Oriented Development. Provides that the Office and the Fund are to aid transit-supportive development near high-quality transit by providing specified funding to municipalities that have adopted the standards in the transit support overlay district for that area or that have adopted zoning and other changes that the Office determines have benefits greater than or equal to such a District, including transit support overlay districts. Includes provisions relating to Office standards, procedures, and reports. Creates the Zero-Emission Vehicle Act. Provides that all on-road vehicles purchased or leased by a governmental unit on or after January 1, 2029 must be a manufactured zero-emission vehicle, repowered zero-emission vehicle, manufactured near zero-emission vehicle, or repowered near zero-emission vehicle. Provides that on and after January 1, 2034, all on-road vehicles purchased or leased by a governmental unit must be a manufactured zero-emission vehicle or repowered zero-emission vehicle. Provides that, by January 1, 2049, all on-road vehicles operated by a governmental unit must be a manufactured or repowered zero-emission vehicle. Sets forth provisions implementing the Act, including requiring the Department of Central Management Services to adopt certain rules. Amends various Acts, Laws, and Codes to make conforming changes for the new Acts and to make other changes. Provides that some provisions are effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2487
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
5/7/25
Enrolled
5/31/25
Chaptered
8/15/25
Passed
8/15/25
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Makes it discretionary rather than mandatory that the Department of Human Rights conduct a fact-finding conference. Provides that the amendatory applies to charges pending or filed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2488
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that the Department-set daily time limits for hunting wild turkey shall be the same for youths and adults and shall begin no later than sunrise and end no earlier than sunset. Provides that unfilled Wild Turkey Hunting Permits from one season may be carried over to any other wild turkey season in the same year. Requires the Department to adopt rules to implement the amendatory Act.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2489
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Creates the virtual power plant program. Defines terms. Provides that, within 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory provisions, each electric utility serving more than 300,000 customers as of January 1, 2025 shall propose one or more tariffs applicable to demand response technologies. Sets forth requirements for the content of the tariffs. Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall approve or approve with modifications the tariffs filed by each utility within 240 days of filing. Provides that, not more than 6 months after 2 full delivery years of operation of the tariffs, the Commission shall issue a report to the General Assembly assessing the value and efficacy of the demand response virtual power plant program, including proposals for expansions or modifications. Provides that the Commission shall implement the amendatory provisions in a complementary manner with other virtual power plant programs under the Commission's jurisdiction in order to make the programs available to utility customers compatible for the benefit of the electric grid and to enhance electric service reliability. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2490
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amends the Illinois Gambling Act. Provides that, if the Illinois Gaming Board is otherwise authorized to issue licenses to conduct Internet gaming, the Board shall not issue a license if the applicant or any of its affiliates is knowingly accepting, directly or indirectly, revenue that is derived from (i) any jurisdiction on the Black List of Money Laundering Countries, as established by the Financial Action Task Force, or (ii) any jurisdiction designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism. Provides that, if at any time during licensure, the Board determines that the licensee or any of its affiliates is knowingly accepting, directly or indirectly, revenue that is derived from any jurisdiction on the Black List of Money Laundering Countries, as established by the Financial Action Task Force, or any jurisdiction designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terrorism, then the Board shall impose a penalty of license revocation if it determines, after notice and an opportunity for hearing, that it would further the public interest to discontinue such operations of the interactive gaming licensee. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2491
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
6/2/25
Amends the Energy Efficient Building Act. In provisions concerning the Illinois Stretch Energy Code, changes the date by which the Capital Development Board shall create and adopt a stretch energy code with a site energy index no greater than 40% of the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code from December 31, 2025 to December 31, 2026. Changes the date that the Board shall create and adopt a stretch energy code with a site energy index that is no greater than 33% of the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code from no later than December 31, 2028 to no later than December 31, 2029. Changes the date by which the Board shall create and adopt a stretch energy code with a site energy index no greater than 25% of the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code from no later than December 31, 2031 to no later than December 31, 2032.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2492
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
4/23/25
Enrolled
5/22/25
Chaptered
8/1/25
Passed
8/1/25
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. In provisions concerning the necessity for the licensure of dentists, provides that, if an applicant neglects, fails without an approved excuse, or refuses to take the next available examination offered for licensure under the Act, the fee paid by the applicant shall be forfeited to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the application shall expire (rather than shall be denied). In provisions concerning the required examination for licensure as a dentist and provisions concerning the required examination for dental hygienists, provides that, if an applicant fails to pass an examination for licensure under the Act within 3 years after filing an application, the application shall expire 3 years after the date the application was filed (rather than shall be denied). In provisions concerning persons who are licensed to practice dentistry in another state, provides that, if an applicant for substantial equivalence does not complete the application process in 3 years, the applicant's application shall expire 3 years after the date of submission of the application (rather than shall be denied). In provisions concerning third-party financing for dental services, provides that "agent of a dentist" means a person or company that is permitted, authorized, or contracted to act on behalf of a dentist or dental office (instead of on behalf of or with a dentist or dental office). Provides that the changes to the Regulatory Sunset Act are effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2493
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
5/7/25
Enrolled
6/1/25
Chaptered
8/15/25
Passed
8/15/25
Amends the Electric Supplier Act. Provides that the amendatory provisions may be referred to as the Electrical Service Broadband Deployment and Access Law. Defines terms. Provides that a broadband grant recipient, subject to the recipient's broadband grant, may access and use (i) any existing electric easement held or controlled by the broadband grant recipient or (ii) any other existing electric easement contingent upon an agreement with the easement holder or controller for the delivery of such broadband service by such broadband grant recipient. Sets forth provisions concerning notice and the procedures for the landowner to claim just compensation. Provides that, conditional upon acquiring the proper agreement or permit with the highway right-of-way controller or holder, a broadband grant recipient may install, maintain, and use broadband infrastructure below ground along a highway right-of-way within the grant service area. Sets forth provisions concerning labor standards and protection, including requiring the payment of prevailing wages and benefits to workers. Provides that the rights and obligations of broadband project grant recipients and landowners set forth in the amendatory provisions do not apply on and after January 1, 2030. Amends the Broadband Infrastructure Advancement Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, when evaluating grant applications for the deployment of broadband network, must consider the expediency with which a project can be completed and broadband Internet access service delivered. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session
Illinois Senate Bill SB2494
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/19/25
Engrossed
4/9/25
Refer
4/9/25
Refer
4/17/25
Report Pass
4/23/25
Enrolled
5/22/25
Chaptered
8/1/25
Passed
8/1/25
Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Changes the repeal date of the Illinois Athletic Trainers Practice Act from January 1, 2026 to January 1, 2031. Amends the Illinois Athletic Trainers Practice Act. Defines "email address of record". Adds provisions concerning address of record and email address of record. Replaces certain pronouns with the nouns to which the pronouns refer. Provides that all substance-related violations shall mandate an automatic substance abuse assessment. Makes changes in provisions concerning the administration of the Act; qualifications for licensure; restoration of expired licenses; grounds for discipline; investigations, notice and hearing; subpoenas and oaths; motions for rehearing; hearing officer appointment; and certifications of record and costs. Repeals provisions concerning the Illinois Board of Athletic Trainers; the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation's roster of licensees; the findings of the Board; and persons practicing on January 1, 2006 (the effective date of Public Act 94-246). Makes conforming and other changes. Provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act are effective immediately.