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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB0021

Introduced
1/13/25  
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Defines "hospital worker" as any person who receives an hourly wage, directly or indirectly via a subcontractor, from a hospital licensed under the Act. In provisions concerning limitations on mandated overtime and requiring rest periods for nurses, replaces "nurse" with "hospital worker". Requires additional hospital staffing information to be reported to the Department of Public Health, including any and all staffing matrices, staffing metrics, and underlying materials used to determine the metrics. Provides that the Department shall produce an annual report based on staffing disclosures and make recommendations for minimum staffing standards for hospital workers in each hospital unit. Requires hospitals to conduct a competency validation for each hospital worker hired, as a condition of employment, within the first month of employment and at no cost to the new hire. Provides that each hospital worker's competency validation must be submitted to the Department within 2 weeks after the hospital worker's start date. Establishes ongoing verification requirements for each hospital worker, and requires hospitals to submit a list of all competent employees currently employed at the end of each calendar year. Requires the Department to maintain, and make available to the public, a registry of all competent employees, including the hospital worker's name, address, contact information, and current employer. Provides that hospital employers that fail to comply with the competency validations requirements shall receive a fine equal to 0.1% of annual revenue reported during the most recently completed fiscal year each day until the hospital complies. Sets forth provisions concerning a hospital's requirements regarding assignment despite objection forms, a resolution process under the Department for assignment despite objection for certain hospital workers, and a fine for hospitals that fail to honor the assignment despite objection process. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB0015

Introduced
1/13/25  
Amends the Franchise Tax and License Fee Amnesty Act of 2007. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HJRCA0005

Introduced
1/14/25  
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Removes the requirement for each Legislative District to be divided into two Representative Districts. Modifies provisions concerning legislative redistricting. Provides specified requirements for each Legislative District, Representative District, and Congressional District for redistricting purposes. Replaces the current method of legislative redistricting. Provides for the creation of a sixteen-member commission, appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the most senior Supreme Court Justice of a different political party, in accordance with specified criteria. Requires the commission to adopt and file with the Secretary of State redistricting plans for Legislative, Representative, and Congressional Districts following a series of public hearings by August 1 of the year following a federal decennial census. Permits the public to submit redistricting plans during the redistricting process for consideration by the Commission. Specifies that, if a redistricting plan is not adopted by August 1 of the year following a federal decennial census, then a seventeenth member shall be appointed to the commission and redistricting plans shall be filed by September 1. Adds provisions concerning the membership of the commission and budgetary matters related to the commission. Effective upon being declared adopted and applicable to redistricting beginning in 2031 and to the election of General Assembly members beginning in 2032.
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Illinois House Bill HB1323

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amends the Bond Authorization Act. Provides that the authority of a public corporation to levy taxes in connection with the payment of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness ceases upon the maturity date of the bond or other evidence of indebtedness or upon the discharge of the debt, whichever comes first. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1327

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
3/12/26  
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that the Board of Trustees of Community College District No. 510 shall change the name of the Allied Health & Nursing Center at South Suburban College to the Frank M. Zuccarelli Allied Health Center.
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Illinois House Bill HB1316

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
3/19/25  
Engrossed
4/9/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Refer
4/23/25  
Report Pass
5/1/25  
Enrolled
5/22/25  
Chaptered
8/15/25  
Reinserts the contents of the bill, but provides that the principal or principal's designee (rather than the principal or principal's designee in coordination with the local law enforcement agency) shall attempt to contact (rather than meet with) the student's parent or guardian to ensure the student does not have access to a firearm. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1314

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
2/11/26  
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. In provisions requiring governmental entities to adopt ordinances or resolutions regulating specified ethical concerns, provides that a governmental entity may create an ethics commission to satisfy the requirements.
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Illinois House Bill HB1329

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
2/11/26  
Report Pass
2/25/26  
Engrossed
4/8/26  
Refer
4/10/26  
Refer
4/22/26  
Amends the Co-Responder Pilot Program Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Adds the McHenry County Sheriff's Office to the offices to which the Division is applicable and requires the Office to establish a co-responder unit no later than 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act and hire specified personnel. Makes conforming changes, including in the Counties Code. Provides that, along with the duties described elsewhere in the Division, the unit's social workers are responsible for following up with victims (rather than conducting follow-up visits for victims) who may benefit from mental or behavioral health services.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1320

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that each Department shall restore, within 18 months after closure, the site of a facility operated by the Department to its original condition before the facility was built if the facility is closed and no longer is maintained as a facility. Provides that the cost of the restoration of the site shall be paid by the Department that operated the facility.
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Illinois House Bill HB1324

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit in the amount of $500 for a taxpayer who serves as a full-time police officer, firefighter, or rescue worker during the taxable year. Effective immediately.
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Illinois House Bill HB1322

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Amends the Gas Use Tax Law. Exempts certain business enterprises from taxation under the Act. Amends the Gas Revenue Tax Act. Provides that the definition of "gross receipts" does not include consideration received from certain business enterprises. Amends the Electricity Excise Tax Law. Provides that the tax under the Act is not imposed with respect to any use by the purchaser in the process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or for retail sale or lease. Effective immediately.
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Illinois House Bill HB1326

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Amends the Property Tax Code. Creates a homestead exemption for certain property located in Cook County that has been used as a qualified taxpayer's principal dwelling place for at least 5 continuous years as of January 1 of the taxable year. Provides that the aggregate amount of property taxes levied against that property in any taxable year may not exceed $5,000. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2025-2026 Regular Session

Illinois House Bill HB1321

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that no taxing district may hold more than 150% of the previous levy year's property tax collections in cash or cash-equivalent assets. Provides that excess amounts shall be refunded to taxpayers. Effective immediately.
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Illinois House Bill HB1315

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Amends the Wildlife Code. In provisions concerning special deer, turkey, and combination hunting licenses, provides that one or more of the following shall constitute evidence of land ownership: a current property tax bill for the property showing that the hunter is the owner of the property; a current income tax return filed with the Department of Revenue by the hunter showing that the hunter is the owner of the property; or a current Conservation Reserve Program credit award from the United States Department of Agriculture, naming the individual hunter as the credit awardee.
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Illinois House Bill HB1325

Introduced
1/14/25  
Refer
1/28/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
3/21/25  
Refer
3/12/26  
Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Creates the South Suburban Trauma Center Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Specifies that certain toll surcharges are to be deposited in the Fund and used for a suburban trauma center to be situated on the border between Calumet City and the Village of Dolton. Describes additional duties of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board regarding the establishment of a south suburban trauma center. Amends the Toll Highway Act. Imposes a toll surcharge at a specific toll plaza. Amends the State Finance Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.