Declares May 7, 2025 as Illinois Bacon Day and invites all Illinoisans to thank a pig farmer by enjoying some delicious slices of bacon.

Amends and reenacts provisions of the Civil Practice Article of the Code of Civil Procedure concerning actions on account of bodily injury or death or physical damage to property based on negligence or product liability based on strict tort liability. Provides that the court shall not instruct the jury of the consequence of any findings of fault of any plaintiff or defendant under specified provisions of the Code. Deletes language providing that the court shall instruct the jury in writing that the defendant shall be found not liable if the jury finds that the contributory fault of the plaintiff is more than 50% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought. In the Section concerning joint liability, deletes language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendant except the plaintiff's employer, is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the total fault attributable to the plaintiff, the defendants sued by the plaintiff, and any third party defendants except the plaintiff's employer, is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Adds language providing that: any defendant whose fault is less than 25% of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is severally liable for non-medical damages; and any defendant whose fault is 25% or greater of the proximate cause of the injury or damage for which recovery is sought by the plaintiff is jointly and severally liable for non-medical damages. Contains applicability provisions.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the prohibition on the recovery of punitive damages in a legal malpractice action includes damages sought as compensatory damages which were assessed against the legal malpractice plaintiff or failed to be obtained by the legal malpractice plaintiff.

Congratulates Terry McKeown on his retirement as a board member of the Bloomingdale School District 13 Board of Education. Thanks him for his service to the community and its students.

Congratulates Tamara Peterson on her retirement as a board member of the Bloomingdale School District 13 Board of Education. Thanks her for her service to the community and its students.

Mourns the passing of Earlona Mae Looby of Springfield.

Declares March 5, 2025 as Rare Disease Day in the State of Illinois in order to raise awareness of rare diseases, support individuals and families who struggle with rare diseases, bring attention to the need for research and funding to support the discovery and development of therapies designed to treat and potentially cure rare diseases, and support the continued work of the Illinois Rare Disease Commission.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a multifunction school-activity bus may additionally be used for transportation to a college, university, student job site developed through a partnership with the school, a college or career fair, or an experience that the school determines will contribute to a student's college or career readiness. Amends the School Code to make conforming changes and to provide that a student in any of grades 7 through 12 (instead of grades 9 through 12) may be transported in a multifunction school-activity bus for specified purposes.

Mourns the passing of James "Jim" Goshorn of Gurnee, formerly of Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Mourns the passing of soul singer-songwriter Jerry Butler of Chicago.

Congratulates Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1337 of Mount Prospect on its 100th anniversary.

Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for Statewide 211. Effective July 1, 2025.

Mourns the death of Dr. Richard J. Martwick IV.

Appropriates $5,000,000 to the LEARN 9 Campus Waukegan for facility renovation. Effective July 1, 2025.

Mourns the death of Donald W. "Don" Irish.