Pritzker signs dozens of bills into law
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 [July 31, 2021]
By Brett Rowland
(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
signed dozens of bills Friday afternoon, including the following:
Bill Number: HB 26
Description: Establishes new internet accessibility requirements for
school districts to ensure that all students with disabilities can fully
participate in any curriculum content delivered online.
Action: Signed
Effective: August 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 88
Description: Addresses existing inequities impacting communities of
color by expanding eligibility for the Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) program to individuals with a drug felony conviction.
Action: Signed
Effective: Three months after becoming law
Bill Number: HB 117
Description: Requires employers of 25 and more people to participate in
the Illinois Secure Choice Savings Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 633
Description: Allows Illinois residents to maintain a vegetable garden on
private property.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 679
Description: Aligns the power of attorney for healthcare with the
declaration of mental health treatment.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 704
Description: Allows a surrogate decision maker to use the findings of a
licensed out-of-state physician or healthcare provider in end-of-life
decisions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 714
Description: For the examination of health care records, expands the
definition of a "health care practitioner" to include any therapist or
counselor.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 734
Description: Allows a civil no contact order to become permanent at the
request of a victim, if there is a conviction for criminal sexual
assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse or
aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 739
Description: Allows health care professionals to provide prescription
antibiotic drugs for the treatment of trichomoniasis to the sexual
partner(s) of individuals infected with trichomoniasis without physical
examination.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 741
Description: Updates provisions relating to the Bright Start and Bright
Directions College Savings Programs.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 796
Description: Adds the University of Illinois to the Public University
Uniform Admission Pilot Program starting with the 2022-2023 academic
year.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 809
Description: Clarifies that the Joint Labor and Management Committee (JLMC)
is not required to operate a community outreach program, maintain a
master register of eligible candidates, or contract with a testing
agency to establish or operate a program or register for full-time
firefighter placements.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 814
Description: Allows the court to deposit money from a ward’s estate into
a qualified tuition program under 529 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 835
Description: Streamlines how funds are distributed within the Lawyers’
Assistance Program Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022, except that the provisions amending the
State Finance Act take effect July 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 842
Description: Clarifies the assessment of fees under the Adult
Guardianship Article of the Probate Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 862
Description: Creates a seven-year statute of limitation on unpaid fines
from municipal ordinance violations.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1068
Description: Facilitates a pathway to permanent guardianship for
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services youth, based on the
best interests of the child.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1158
Description: Expands the number of members that serve on a Chicago
Public Schools local school council from 13 to 15 voting members by
adding 2 full-time student members beginning with the 2021-2022 school
year.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1162
Description: Inserts the word opioid as part of the instruction, study,
and discussion on effective methods for the prevention and avoidance of
drugs and the dangers of opioid and substance abuse in the school code.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1710
Description: Alters the requirements for the Superintendent of the
Illinois School for the Deaf and the Superintendent of the Illinois
School for the Visually Impaired.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1719
Description: Amends various articles of the school code to replace the
terms "school guidance counselor" and "guidance counselor" with the term
"school counselor".
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1742
Description: A victim of non-consensual contact may provide a written
statement to a family member obtain a no contact order.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 1746
Description: Requires school boards to appoint at least 1 employee to
act as a liaison for students in the legal custody of Department of
Children and Family Services and to ensure proper communications are
made to the Department’s Office of Education and Transition Services.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1760
Description: Requires 50% of an Open Space Lands Acquisition and
Development grant to be paid to the local government at the time of the
grant award and allows a grantee to opt out of the advance payment.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1776
Description: Requires Department of Children and Family Services to pay
a per diem rate for inpatient psychiatric stays at a hospital with
pediatric or adolescent impatient psychiatric units beyond medical
necessity.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1777
Description: Makes revisions regarding how the City of Chicago covers
costs related to injury of police and firemen.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1779
Description: Requires individual and group health plans to cover
bio-marker testing.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 1785
Description: Requires a school board to hold at least three public
hearings prior to closing a school building unless the building has been
deemed unsafe by a licensed entity.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1803
Description: States that all monies deposited under the Unlicensed
Practice, Violation, Civil Penalty section of the Collection Agency Act
shall be deposited into the Financial Institution Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1805
Description: Permanently establishes the Call4Calm text line to connect
individuals to mental health support in their area.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 1931
Description: Adds use or disposal of surplus real estate by a
municipality to the definition of an industrial project.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 3025
Description: Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services
to provide reimbursement for epilepsy services via telehealth.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 3882
Description: Expands the definition of police vehicle to include
watercraft, recreational off-highway vehicle, all-terrain vehicle and
aircraft.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks at a news conference
on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020.
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Bill Number: SB 673
Description: Expands the definition of ‘restorative measures’ in the
School Code by stipulating that it also means increasing student
accountability if the incident of bullying is based on religion, race,
ethnicity, or any other category that is identified in the Illinois
Human Rights Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 692
Description: Creates the Coal Tar Sealant Disclosure Act. Addresses
pavement sealants, but does not apply to sealants used for roofing
applications
Effective: January 1, 2023
Bill Number: SB 695
Description: Extends by 5 years the current sunset date (from December
31, 2021, to December 2026) for the Illinois EPA’s “fast-track”
rulemaking authority to adopt regulations under the federal Clean Air
Act (CAA).
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 701
Description: Expands the definition of abuse under the Adult Protective
Services Act, requires the Department on Aging to offer a
trauma-informed training program, and a demonstration project to create
an assessment tool to identify at-risk seniors.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 755
Description: Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to
make contact information available for a youth’s court appointed
guardian ad litem, if a youth-in-care, current foster parent/caregiver,
or caseworker requests it.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 765
Description: Allows the program administrator of the First Time Weapon
Offender Program to be appointed by the Chief Judge of each Judicial
Circuit.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 820
Description: Cleans up language in the School Code based on changes that
were adopted as part of the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus’ Education
and Workforce Equity Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 915
Description: Makes various changes to state parks designations.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 919
Description: Adds 4 members the Broadband Advisory Council to represent
underrepresented and ethnically diverse communities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1056
Description: Makes numerous technical changes to the Illinois Pension
Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022. Certain changes to the Illinois Pension Code
and the changes to the State Mandates Act are effective immediately.
Bill Number: SB 1566
Description: Adds whether a person is pregnant or the parent of an
infant to the list of factors that should be considered when withholding
or minimizing an imprisonment sentence.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1588
Description: Makes changes for travel insurance under the Illinois
Insurance Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: 90 days after signed
Bill Number: SB 1611
Description: Allows the Secretary of State to accept electronic
signatures for documents.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1638
Description: Requires all public universities to provide a report to
students containing relevant, independent, and accurate data related to
the student's major and the occupational outlook of that field of study.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1650
Description: Extends the deadline to file a claim for benefits for a
line of duty death.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 1656
Description: Adds the Mass Animal Mortality Event (MAME) amendment to
the Dead Animal Disposal Act (DADA). Defines a MAME as an event in which
large numbers of animals die or are at an increased risk of mortality
due to disease, natural disaster, or any other non-disease related
event.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1657
Description: Establishes continuing education requirements for persons
registered to install, service, recondition, or repair a weighing or
measuring device used in trade or commerce.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1658
Description: Updates the requirements of sealing on weights and
measures.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1675
Description: Amends language relating to automatic enrollment of
employees into the State Employees Deferred Compensation Plan.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2021
Bill Number: SB 1677
Description: Allow no-contact orders to also prohibit contact through
electronic communication.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1681
Description: Includes probation officers, as law enforcement officers
for line of duty compensation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1723
Description: Amends the Illinois Public Accounting Act to improve the
exam process
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1730
Description: Requires public corporations to report the self-identified
sexual orientation and self-identified gender identity of its directors.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1753
Description: Requires surplus line insurance providers to show efforts
to include all variable provisions of the master policy.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1765
Description: Requires each state agency to increase diversity through
interview panels and reporting.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1771
Description: Expands Health Worker Background Checks to include
Department of Corrections employees.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 1780
Description: Requires a mobile park owner to provide water to each
household for 3 days, instead of 5, if a water supply is disrupted. This
requirement does not apply if the disruption of water service originates
from factors that are outside the control of the mobile home park
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1786
Description: Requires the Department of Human Services to create and
maintain a post-secondary mental health database and resource page.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 1790
Description: Requires the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation to publish on its website information concerning the process
for requesting a rehearing and the process for restoring a license after
the successful completion of a term of probation, suspension, or
revocation of a license for physicians and chiropractors licensed under
the Medical Practice Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1795
Description: Clarifies that the statutory fiduciary duties a member owes
to a member-managed company and its other members do not limit any
fiduciary duties owed at common law.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 1799
Description: Provides that general assistance funds are explicitly
included in existing provisions prohibiting accumulation of township
funds that exceed an amount equal to or greater than 2.5 times the
annual average expenditure of the previous three fiscal years.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately |
