Ignorance of the law is no excuse remember.
Bill Number: SB2697
- Description: Requires insurance and Medicaid coverage of genetic cancer screening and testing for high-risk patients.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025.
Bill Number: HB2154
- Description: Counties, townships, and municipalities may not require a permit for non-residential battery-charged fences under conditions specified in the act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4175
- Description: Prohibits the use of corporal and physical punishment in all Illinois schools, with exceptions for specific restraints to prevent a student from imminent self-harm or harm to others.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4447
- Description: Creates the Motor Vehicle Dealer Protection Act which prevents fraudulent warranty scams by protecting the intellectual property of vehicle dealerships.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4467
- Description: Strengthens IDPH oversight of mobile home parks.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4634
- Description: Repeals the Universal Telephone Service Assistance Program.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5574
- Description: Directs funds from repealed fee ordinances of DuPage County into a dedicated transportation account.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0275
- Description: Requires the Secretary of State to offer applicants the option to be issued an 8-year driver’s license, beginning no later than July 1, 2027.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0508
- Description: Clarifies an employee’s rights in the event of an E-Verify no match.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0859
- Description: Adds the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment, an existing bureau, to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity administrative code.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1102
- Description: Allows Shelby County to form and control a volunteer rescue squad.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2617
- Description: Allows counties without local health departments to contract with one in an adjacent county, among other technical changes.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2743
- Description: Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act to provide recommendations on addressing a variety of water-related issues.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2764
- Description: Requires businesses to provide notice to their customers at least 3 days before an automatic renewal clause goes into effect after a free trial period of 15 days or more.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2781
- Description: Creates the Healthy Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant fund to allow DNR to make grants for the purpose of forest, prairie, and other landscape management, development, maintenance, and study to mitigate climate change impacts.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2850
- Description: Changes compensation for members of River Conservancy Districts.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2938
- Description: Allows mosquito abatement districts to annex additional territory as long as certain requirements are met, including the passage of an ordinance.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3202
- Description: Allows a county or municipality to prepare a bicycle transportation plan.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3203
- Description: Prohibits insurers from denying coverage for lifesaving inhalers and establishes a cap of $25 for a 30-day inhaler supply.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3207
- Description: Provides that a day care center may operate for 24 hours or longer and may provide care for a child for a period of up to 12 hours if the parent or guardian of the child is employed in a position that requires regularly scheduled shifts and a 10-hour period elapses between day care visits.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3211
- Description: Allows an individual previously licensed to practice as a marriage and family therapist in another US jurisdiction for at least 30 months in the last 5 years to receive licensure in Illinois by only submitting verification of licensure in the other state.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3232
- Description: Codifies a provision regarding relinquished or abandoned infants who are left at hospitals to mirror the practice that already applies to both fire and police departments.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3239
- Description: Eliminates the Health and Hazardous Substances Coordinating Council to streamline a DPH reporting process.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3277
- Description: Requires DPH to develop mandatory protocols and best practices for providing the necessary medical guidance for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Illinois.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3279
- Description: Finalizes the closure of the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago that ceased operations in 1973 and has been in the process of decommissioning since 1994.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3284
- Description: Adds clarifying language to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3285
- Description: Creates reasonable re-sentencing rules for survivors of domestic abuse and gender-based violence who previously took plea deals during their initial sentencing.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3297
- Description: Expands the eligibility criteria for the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program by lowering the age of eligibility from 21 years to 18 years of age.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3318
- Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for all FDA-approved treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease, medications prescribed to slow Alzheimer’s Disease progression, and diagnostic testing necessary for physicians to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. Coverage begins July 1, 2025.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3350
- Description: Allows DHS to establish and authorize programs for dispensing and distributing fentanyl test strips.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3378
- Description: Eliminates an unnecessary requirement for the Department of Public Health to provide printed informational materials to schools for meningitis, which has been a mandatory vaccination for school children since 2015.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3389
- Description: Raises the voting threshold for the CMAP Board to take any action from simple majority to 4/5ths, except for voting on contracts and other circumstances, and removes an outdated requirement for CMAP to create a Wastewater Committee that would otherwise make policy recommendations to IEPA.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3405
- Description: Allows counties to use their transportation funds to pay for rides for people who need to go to “problem-solving courts” with programs that help people with substance use disorder, mental health issues, and/or veterans.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3406
- Description: Requires the Rules of the Road publication to include information about transporting hazardous materials.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3407
- Description: Eliminates certain requirements for deer meat processors and unclaimed processed meat to expand charitable donations to those in need.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3421
- Description: Amends the Illinois Power of Attorney Act to clarify where it is reasonable for a third party to refuse to honor a power of attorney for property.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3430
- Description: Requires HFS to develop and maintain a comprehensive informational guide on its website explaining the Medicaid 5-year look-back period as it applies to eligibility for long-term care coverage under the medical assistance program on or after July 1, 2025.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3434
- Description: Authorizes the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security to adopt rulemaking authority for state funded grant programs managed by the agency.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3460
- Description: Makes updates to the requirements for rental agreements for self-storage units.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3471
- Description: Permits the Secretary of State to issue license plates free of charge to individuals whose plates have been stolen.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3599
- Description: Requires insurers to cover medically necessary mobile integrated health care services (provided by on-site EMS personnel) for frequent utilizers of emergency hospital care, with the goal of preventing patients from needing to go in and out of the hospital.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB0255
- Description: Amends the Illinois Veteran, Youth, and Young Adult Conservation Jobs Act to establish the Youth and Young Adult Conservation Education pilot program.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB0277
- Description: Grants driver’s license holders more notice time before required court appearances that may result in a potential suspension of their license for failure to appear before the court.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB1837
- Description: Amends the Environmental Protection Act with regards to burning landscape waste.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2161
- Description: Makes it a civil rights violation for an employer to discriminate or harass based on an employee’s family responsibilities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2323
- Description: Creates the Uniform Statewide Crime Statistic Task Force.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2363
- Description: Bans the sale, distribution and manufacture of a screw or bayonet base compact fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2026; and a pin-base compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2027.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2385
- Description: Requires insurers to cover all medically necessary colonoscopies beginning January 1, 2026.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3446
- Description: Provides that a school district’s expenditure of Base Funding Minimum and Evidence-Based Funding received from the State shall be published on the State Board’s website.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3773
- Description: Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act protect employees from discrimination from the use of AI in the workplace, and ensures employers are transparent about their use of AI for employment-related decisions.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB4059
- Description: Requires DCFS to offer day care licensing orientations at least twice annually in each legislative district to help educate facilities about the licensing process.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4180
- Description: Requires insurance coverage for molecular breast imagery (MBI) or MRIs of breast tissue when medically necessary.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB4206
- Description: Allows tenants to pay landlords through cash or a paper check to avoid transaction fees.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4276
- Description: Establishes new consumer protection measures for life care facilities in Illinois.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4350
- Description: Creates the Child Abuse Notice Act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4357
- Description: Outlines required criteria for a medical spa to perform non-ablative laser hair removal without a doctor on-site.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4460
- Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for joint mental health therapy services for any Illinois State Police Officer or members of self-insured fire protection districts and any spouse or partner of the officer who resides with the officer.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4500
- Description: Retitles current criminal weapon possession charges in statute to provide more transparency and accurately reflect the nature of those crimes committed.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4592
- Description: Allows the SOS to issue mobile ID cards and driver’s licenses.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4768
- Description: Creates the Landlord Retaliation Act, outlining protections for tenants and prohibited actions by landlords when tenants attempt to resolve an issue.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4789
- Description: Prohibits dental carriers from subsequently denying claims for procedures that were subject to prior authorization and approved unless a certain set of factors is met.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4804
- Description: Allows public water distribution entities to use customer contact information to notify customers of any disruptions in public water distribution systems.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4819
- Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Corrections to build and maintain lactation specific rooms for employees in each department facility.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4875
- Description: Prohibits the use of digital replicas created by generative artificial intelligence in certain content without authorization of the recording individual.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4911
- Description: Allows gym membership contracts to be cancelled over the phone, online, or via email.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4966
- Description: Allows the SOS to issue more expansive specialty plates to motorcycles.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB508
- Description: Allows health care facilities to be compensated by a nurse agency for any expenses, fines, or damages incurred related to the nurse agency’s negligence.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5087
- Description: Allows for physical therapy services to be delivered via telehealth.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5097
- Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to include a haircare plan during case review outlining the necessary training and resources needed to ensure each child receives culturally competent haircare.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5189
- Description: Provides measures to protect the personal information of train crew members involved in fatal incidents.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5288
- Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue special 100 Club of IL plates.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5324
- Description: Creates Reporting requirements for the Illinois Labor Relations Board and changes to Unfair Labor Practice schedule.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2625
- Description: Prohibits certain retail establishments from displaying alcohol-infused products or co-branded alcoholic beverages immediately near similar products or products marketed towards youth and requires specific signage when displaying these products.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2628
- Description: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that all State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2641
- Description: Requires every insurer to demonstrate to the Department of Insurance that each in-network hospital has at least one radiologist, pathologist, anesthesiologist, and ER physician as a preferred provider.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2643
- Description: Sets requirements for inspections of funeral homes.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2644
- Description: Establishes a statewide registry containing Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Forms (POLST), describing preferred medical treatment.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2662
- Description: Prohibits manufacturers from marketing e-cigarettes that are likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher or other person to mistake the electronic cigarette for a product that is not a tobacco product.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2667
- Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue Illinois UTSA/Midwest Tennis Foundation Youth Tennis plate decals.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2737
- Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for licensed mental health professionals providing services to veterans or first responders.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2740
- Description: Requires condominiums to provide accessible parking spaces for tenants with disabilities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2744
- Description: Amends coverage requirements for vaccine administration fees for individual and group health insurance plans and managed care plans.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2770
- Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for those employed in construction.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2779
- Description: Requires counties to provide indemnification to physicians conducting autopsies in cases of unintentional misconduct.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2876
- Description: Creates the Large Event Facilities Act, requiring event facilities to compost organic waste and transfer recyclable materials to recycling facilities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2918
- Description: A police officer cannot be discharged for a mental or physical disability that is the basis for their benefits application under the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2919
- Description: Establishes parameters in which foreclosed property may be sold online.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2959
- Description: Allows qualified family members to have an identification card or driver license marked as a Gold Star family member. Provides free admission to public museums to any individual with a form of identification displaying their Gold Star status.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3081
- Description: Requires each public university to provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in Illinois with the university’s undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3112
- Description: Makes it easier for the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board to meet and vote on administrative rules affecting those facilities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3136
- Description: Removes a finding of positive toxicology in an infant as evidence of neglect or abuse. Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force to address the treatment needs of infants with prenatal substance exposure.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3173
- Description: Allows counties to lease, license, or grant access to infrastructure they own or control, such as fiber optic cables, to public or private entities to help expedite the delivery of broadband services.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3182
- Description: Requires hospitals in Illinois to notify the pregnant individual (referred to as the gestational parent) of their right to receive a special certificate in the event of a stillbirth, which is the loss of a pregnancy after 20 weeks of gestation. Outlines the process for requesting the certificate.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: July 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3201
- Description: Requires law enforcement and correctional officers to go through training on autism-informed responses, as well as best procedures and techniques when engaging with individuals with autism.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5408
- Description: Prohibits drivers from stopping or parking their vehicles on shoulders of highways within a one-half mile radius of the eastern entrance to the Chicago O’Hare airport.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB1168
- Description: Prohibits an individual’s DNA profile from being entered into any DNA database if their profile was collected due to the individual being a victim of a crime.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4934
- Description: If remains over 100 years old are identified as belonging to a veteran, the Department of Natural Resources will allow a veterans’ organization to place a marker to designate the grave.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5357
- Description: Requires insurance companies to provide homeowners insurance applicants coverage information for loss caused by a sewer backup or overflow from a sump pump.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5371
- Description: Omnibus of Illinois Human Rights Act changes to further enhance and clarify civil rights protections under Illinois law.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5405
- Description: Requires any state entity or hospital funded by the National Institutes of Health to adopt policies and practices that promote the inclusion of underrepresented demographic groups in clinical trials.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5450
- Description: Amends Sec. 15-158.3 removing subsection (b), (d), and (e) the requirement for IBHE jointly with GOMB to prepare the annual report of accumulation of ending sick leave for higher education employees under the retirement system.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5488
- Description: Creates the Legacy Tree Program Task Force to generate recommendations for the creation of a statewide legacy tree recognition program.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5561
- Description: Prohibits employers from taking retaliatory action against whistleblowers.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5596
- Description: Exempts day care homes and group day care homes serving children of military personnel from DCFS licensing if located on a military base or government property.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5655
- Description: Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy to allow a student who is a member of the National Guard of any state, the District of Columbia, a commonwealth, or a territory of the United States or any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States to submit classwork and complete any other class assignments missed due to the student participating in a drill required as a member of the National Guard or the reserve component.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0426
- Description: Grants the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) and Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) the ability to transfer emerging adults who qualify to earn their high school diplomas to a IDJJ facility so that they can receive those education services from IDJJ’s school district.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0461
- Description: Expands eligibility for in state tuition at Illinois universities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0694
- Description: Modernizes storage techniques of county recordings and establishes fee changes.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0839
- Description: Makes updates to the Environmental Protection Act and the Paint Stewardship Act to clarify processes for managing and recycling postconsumer paint.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1087
- Description: Establishes a public health campaign to be created by the Department of Public Health to inform the public about the threat of mold and modernizes various provisions of the Mold Remediation Registration Act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1089
- Description: Requires state-owned buildings to install and maintain at least one public adult changing station.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1479
- Description: Strengthens and clarifies the Department of Insurance’s market conduct examination processes.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2442
- Description: Prohibits hospitals from billing uninsured patients whose income is below 138% of federal poverty guidelines if they qualify for free care under the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act. Requires hospitals to provide the patient with information on insurance they may qualify for.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2960
- Description: Bans small and single plastic bottles in hotels with 50 rooms or more starting July 1, 2025. Then beginning January 1, 2026, any hotel regardless the size cannot provide small and single use plastic bottles.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2968
- Description: Makes technical changes to the Equity and Racial Justice Act (ERJA) to allow for more accurate statistical data on participants in programs administered by state agencies.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3081
- Description: Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year each public university shall provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in this State with the university’s undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy and, if such a policy exists, any application or forms necessary to apply for a fee waiver as part of the university’s transfer admissions process.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3098
- Description: Prohibits e-cigarettes from being ordered or purchased online or by mail by any individual under the age of 21 in Illinois, excluding tobacco distributors or retailers.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3208
- Description: Requires employers to maintain copies of pay stubs for 3 years after the date of payment and imposes a civil penalty on employers who fail to provide a pay stub to a current or former employee.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3219
- Description: Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may provide grants for equipment upgrades for farmer-owned grocery stores or markets.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3235
- Description: Enables the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to hire a consultant to conduct a study to look at disparities in lending and access to financial products and services.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3288
- Description: Updates the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (MHDDCA) to facilitate HIPAA-permissible sharing of information for research purposes to, ultimately, better serve patients facing mental health issues.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3305
- Description: Amends the insurance code to require coverage for treatments to address serious jaw injuries caused by accidents or diseases beginning January 1, 2026.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3310
- Description: Extends the time limit for filing charges of civil rights violations with the Department of Human Rights from 300 days to 2 years from the date of the alleged violation.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3314
- Description: Clarifies that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall promulgate rules regarding the refinancing of consumer legal funding agreements
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3342
- Description: Creates the Pesticide Application on Rights-of-Way Notification Act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3343
- Description: Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (“RUUPA”) to address virtual currency liquidation while also authorizing the Treasurer’s Office to pay custodial fees for securities and virtual currency.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3349
- Description: Provides that 6 units of credit shall be required to achieve State Global Scholar Certification (instead of not specifying how many units of credit are required). Provides for global collaboration or (instead of and) dialogue.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3351
- Description: Grants elderly parents of adult children with disabilities the right to live in larger subsidized housing units with more than one bedroom.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3418
- Description: Allows non-residents to serve as highway commissioners and clerks in smaller townships and road districts and allows contracting with neighboring districts when no qualified resident candidates are available.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3448
- Description: Requires the State Emergency Response Commission to provide and maintain a Tier II reporting system for Tier II chemicals.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3467
- Description: Clarifies licensing requirements for speech language pathologists.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3481
- Description: Establishes registration requirements for sites that store used EV batteries and requires rulemaking to address safe storage of used EV batteries.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3501
- Description: Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act to require specific conditions for luminaries purchased by the State on land owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3513
- Description: Allows attorneys and judges and their employees to renew their appointment as a notary public without taking additional classes or examinations.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3529
- Description: Repeals an unnecessary requirement for DPH to distribute a pertussis vaccine pamphlet because similar information is already required to be provided to patients, parents or guardians by Federal law in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3538
- Description: Requires certain health insurance plans to cover mental health counseling for first responders beginning June 1, 2025.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3550
- Description: Updates the Financial Institutions Code to remove antiquated language and provisions and to align the Code with other related statutes.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3551
- Description: Establishes regulations of shared appreciation mortgage products.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3566
- Description: Requires landfills in counties with a population over 250,000 to provide facilities for cleaning mud, gravel, waste, and other materials from the wheels and undercarriages of trucks exiting the landfill site, and requires trucks use those facilities before exiting.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3571
- Description: Provides that a school district shall require a school to have present at the school during the school day and during a school-sponsored extracurricular activity at least one automated external defibrillator and one or more trained AED users.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3601
- Description: Repeals outdated language requiring registration of hazardous waste underground storage tanks by May 8, 1986.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3615
- Description: Permits the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice to hold the “trust funds” for youth in custody in non-interest-bearing accounts so long as the accounts would not accrue a minimum of $1 in interest.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3622
- Description: Amends the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council Act to allow the Council to recommend the removal from the National Register of Historic Places a bridge that meets specific criteria.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3631
- Description: Allows the Department of Transportation to work with more accurate GIS data and aligns Illinois with federal best practices for geographical data reporting.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3046
- Description: Allows the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules allowing the use of treated wastewater for potable use and allows treated municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works to be used for irrigation with a permit.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3521
- Description: Requires leadership at all hospital affiliates, not just a hospital’s main campus, to report allegations of abuse to IDPH within 24 hours and follow the same reporting protocol required of hospitals.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4623
- Description: Clarifies that Illinois’ child pornography laws apply to images and videos created by Artificial Intelligence technology.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4660
- Description: Mandates subcontractors to notify owners of payment claims through certified mail.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4757
- Description: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a poster highlighting member benefits, services, and protections that the Illinois Department of Labor shall post on their website.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4926
- Description: Prohibits a landlord from charging a prospective tenant a fee to access a tenant screening report if the tenant provides a reusable tenant screening report that meets certain criteria.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4942
- Description: Provides that county coroners must report suspicious levels of fentanyl found in official toxicology reports of the deceased to relevant local law enforcement agencies.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5643
- Description: Requires private insurance and Medicaid coverage of at-home, urine-based pregnancy tests.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0536
- Description: Amends the Public Funds Investment Act. Provides that a public agency may adopt an ordinance or resolution to allow for investment of public funds in instruments that are not specifically listed as authorized investments.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0860
- Description: Allows individuals with mental health or developmental disabilities living in care facilities to administer certain medications themselves if deemed independent by a nurse trainer.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1779
- Description: Creates a certified medication aide program at the Illinois Department of Public Health for long term care facilities.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2682
- Description: Creates the Increasing Representation of Women in Technology Task Force.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3116
- Description: Requires IDPH, ISP and ILETSB to develop a training program for first responders to access and use life-saving medical information stored in cell phones during emergencies.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3362
- Description: Amends the Retailers’ Occupation Tax Act to align definitions with the Use Tax Act and impose the Retailers’ Occupation Tax on retailers maintaining a place of business in this State.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3592
- Description: Creates transparency requirements for the sales of local media outlets and creates a journalism scholarship program at ISAC.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3661
- Description: Expands background checks to include all employees of Comprehensive Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs).
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3691
- Description: Requires the Department on Aging to provide family caregiver support services in compliance with federal requirements.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3696
- Description: Makes various updates to the Uniform Commercial Code.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3713
- Description: Increases accessibility to the Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Program.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: The provisions changing Sections 2, 2.5, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, and 10.1 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act take effect January 1, 2025. This Section and the provisions changing Sections 4.1 and 18.5 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 take effect upon becoming law.
Bill Number: SB3716
- Description: Removes duplicative Lake Michigan water testing and surveying requirements.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3740
- Description: Seeks to modernize and ensure consistency in Real Estate License Act of 2000.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025, however, the sections impacting the Recovery Fund and the collection of fees, fines and penalties into the Real Estate Administration fund were effective upon signing in August, 2024.
Bill Number: SB3751
- Description: Creates a 22-25 person Health Outcomes Review Board, housed at IDPH, to annually review and report data to “promote equitable health care outcomes, decrease health care costs, and ensure quality health care for all.”
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3753
- Description: Allows DHS to impose progressive sanctions on mental health and developmental disability providers that fail to comply with requirements the Department has issued by rule, contract, or policy.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3763
- Description: Repeals a DPH reporting requirement for Reye’s Syndrome, a medical condition that hasn’t been reported in Illinois in over 25 years.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3767
- Description: Permits applicants from foreign countries to apply for licensure by endorsement under the design profession practice acts.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3768
- Description: Requires the State Board of Education to maintain, operate, or contract the operation of the Philip J. Rock Center for eligible deafblind persons of all ages.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3771
- Description: Allows Illinois Student Assistance Commission grants to exonerated persons to be awarded to qualified dependents.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3775
- Description: Requires drivers in Illinois to require notice to law enforcement when involved in a crash with circumstances specified in the act and amends the responsibilities of the DUI Prevention and Education Commission.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3779
- Description: Authorizes social workers to possess and administer opioid antagonists, such as naloxone, after receiving training.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3793
- Description: Changes the minimum membership number for a Community Action Board from 15 to 9 individuals.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3807
- Description: Amends the Build Illinois Act by raising the cash limit of the minority, veteran, female, or disability act not exceeding $2,000,000.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3426
- Description: Makes changes to the Motor Fuel Tax Law to amend the method for calculating percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the purpose of annual adjustment in the tax rate and makes a clarification to the sales tax exemption for certain aircraft materials.
- Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2765
- Bill Number: SB2697
Description: Requires insurance and Medicaid coverage of genetic cancer screening and testing for high-risk patients.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025.
Bill Number: HB2154
Description: Counties, townships, and municipalities may not require a permit for non-residential battery-charged fences under conditions specified in the act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4175
Description: Prohibits the use of corporal and physical punishment in all Illinois schools, with exceptions for specific restraints to prevent a student from imminent self-harm or harm to others.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4447
Description: Creates the Motor Vehicle Dealer Protection Act which prevents fraudulent warranty scams by protecting the intellectual property of vehicle dealerships.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4467
Description: Strengthens IDPH oversight of mobile home parks.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4634
Description: Repeals the Universal Telephone Service Assistance Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5574
Description: Directs funds from repealed fee ordinances of DuPage County into a dedicated transportation account.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0275
Description: Requires the Secretary of State to offer applicants the option to be issued an 8-year driver’s license, beginning no later than July 1, 2027.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0508
Description: Clarifies an employee’s rights in the event of an E-Verify no match.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0859
Description: Adds the Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment, an existing bureau, to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity administrative code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1102
Description: Allows Shelby County to form and control a volunteer rescue squad.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2617
Description: Allows counties without local health departments to contract with one in an adjacent county, among other technical changes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2743
Description: Creates the Water Plan Task Force Act to provide recommendations on addressing a variety of water-related issues.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2764
Description: Requires businesses to provide notice to their customers at least 3 days before an automatic renewal clause goes into effect after a free trial period of 15 days or more.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2781
Description: Creates the Healthy Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant fund to allow DNR to make grants for the purpose of forest, prairie, and other landscape management, development, maintenance, and study to mitigate climate change impacts.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2850
Description: Changes compensation for members of River Conservancy Districts.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2938
Description: Allows mosquito abatement districts to annex additional territory as long as certain requirements are met, including the passage of an ordinance.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3202
Description: Allows a county or municipality to prepare a bicycle transportation plan.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3203
Description: Prohibits insurers from denying coverage for lifesaving inhalers and establishes a cap of $25 for a 30-day inhaler supply.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3207
Description: Provides that a day care center may operate for 24 hours or longer and may provide care for a child for a period of up to 12 hours if the parent or guardian of the child is employed in a position that requires regularly scheduled shifts and a 10-hour period elapses between day care visits.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3211
Description: Allows an individual previously licensed to practice as a marriage and family therapist in another US jurisdiction for at least 30 months in the last 5 years to receive licensure in Illinois by only submitting verification of licensure in the other state.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3232
Description: Codifies a provision regarding relinquished or abandoned infants who are left at hospitals to mirror the practice that already applies to both fire and police departments.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3239
Description: Eliminates the Health and Hazardous Substances Coordinating Council to streamline a DPH reporting process.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3277
Description: Requires DPH to develop mandatory protocols and best practices for providing the necessary medical guidance for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3279
Description: Finalizes the closure of the Kerr-McGee Rare Earths Facility in West Chicago that ceased operations in 1973 and has been in the process of decommissioning since 1994.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3284
Description: Adds clarifying language to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3285
Description: Creates reasonable re-sentencing rules for survivors of domestic abuse and gender-based violence who previously took plea deals during their initial sentencing.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3297
Description: Expands the eligibility criteria for the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program by lowering the age of eligibility from 21 years to 18 years of age.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3318
Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for all FDA-approved treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease, medications prescribed to slow Alzheimer’s Disease progression, and diagnostic testing necessary for physicians to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. Coverage begins July 1, 2025.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3350
Description: Allows DHS to establish and authorize programs for dispensing and distributing fentanyl test strips.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3378
Description: Eliminates an unnecessary requirement for the Department of Public Health to provide printed informational materials to schools for meningitis, which has been a mandatory vaccination for school children since 2015.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3389
Description: Raises the voting threshold for the CMAP Board to take any action from simple majority to 4/5ths, except for voting on contracts and other circumstances, and removes an outdated requirement for CMAP to create a Wastewater Committee that would otherwise make policy recommendations to IEPA.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3405
Description: Allows counties to use their transportation funds to pay for rides for people who need to go to “problem-solving courts” with programs that help people with substance use disorder, mental health issues, and/or veterans.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3406
Description: Requires the Rules of the Road publication to include information about transporting hazardous materials.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3407
Description: Eliminates certain requirements for deer meat processors and unclaimed processed meat to expand charitable donations to those in need.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3421
Description: Amends the Illinois Power of Attorney Act to clarify where it is reasonable for a third party to refuse to honor a power of attorney for property.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3430
Description: Requires HFS to develop and maintain a comprehensive informational guide on its website explaining the Medicaid 5-year look-back period as it applies to eligibility for long-term care coverage under the medical assistance program on or after July 1, 2025.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3434
Description: Authorizes the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security to adopt rulemaking authority for state funded grant programs managed by the agency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3460
Description: Makes updates to the requirements for rental agreements for self-storage units.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3471
Description: Permits the Secretary of State to issue license plates free of charge to individuals whose plates have been stolen.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3599
Description: Requires insurers to cover medically necessary mobile integrated health care services (provided by on-site EMS personnel) for frequent utilizers of emergency hospital care, with the goal of preventing patients from needing to go in and out of the hospital.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB0255
Description: Amends the Illinois Veteran, Youth, and Young Adult Conservation Jobs Act to establish the Youth and Young Adult Conservation Education pilot program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB0277
Description: Grants driver’s license holders more notice time before required court appearances that may result in a potential suspension of their license for failure to appear before the court.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB1837
Description: Amends the Environmental Protection Act with regards to burning landscape waste.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2161
Description: Makes it a civil rights violation for an employer to discriminate or harass based on an employee’s family responsibilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2323
Description: Creates the Uniform Statewide Crime Statistic Task Force.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2363
Description: Bans the sale, distribution and manufacture of a screw or bayonet base compact fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2026; and a pin-base compact fluorescent lamp or a linear fluorescent lamp on and after January 1, 2027.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB2385
Description: Requires insurers to cover all medically necessary colonoscopies beginning January 1, 2026.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3446
Description: Provides that a school district’s expenditure of Base Funding Minimum and Evidence-Based Funding received from the State shall be published on the State Board’s website.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3773
Description: Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act protect employees from discrimination from the use of AI in the workplace, and ensures employers are transparent about their use of AI for employment-related decisions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB4059
Description: Requires DCFS to offer day care licensing orientations at least twice annually in each legislative district to help educate facilities about the licensing process.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4180
Description: Requires insurance coverage for molecular breast imagery (MBI) or MRIs of breast tissue when medically necessary.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2026
Bill Number: HB4206
Description: Allows tenants to pay landlords through cash or a paper check to avoid transaction fees.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4276
Description: Establishes new consumer protection measures for life care facilities in Illinois.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4350
Description: Creates the Child Abuse Notice Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4357
Description: Outlines required criteria for a medical spa to perform non-ablative laser hair removal without a doctor on-site.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4460
Description: Requires the State Employees Group Insurance Program to provide coverage for joint mental health therapy services for any Illinois State Police Officer or members of self-insured fire protection districts and any spouse or partner of the officer who resides with the officer.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4500
Description: Retitles current criminal weapon possession charges in statute to provide more transparency and accurately reflect the nature of those crimes committed.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4592
Description: Allows the SOS to issue mobile ID cards and driver’s licenses.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4768
Description: Creates the Landlord Retaliation Act, outlining protections for tenants and prohibited actions by landlords when tenants attempt to resolve an issue.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4789
Description: Prohibits dental carriers from subsequently denying claims for procedures that were subject to prior authorization and approved unless a certain set of factors is met.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4804
Description: Allows public water distribution entities to use customer contact information to notify customers of any disruptions in public water distribution systems.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4819
Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Corrections to build and maintain lactation specific rooms for employees in each department facility.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4875
Description: Prohibits the use of digital replicas created by generative artificial intelligence in certain content without authorization of the recording individual.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4911
Description: Allows gym membership contracts to be cancelled over the phone, online, or via email.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4966
Description: Allows the SOS to issue more expansive specialty plates to motorcycles.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB508
Description: Allows health care facilities to be compensated by a nurse agency for any expenses, fines, or damages incurred related to the nurse agency’s negligence.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5087
Description: Allows for physical therapy services to be delivered via telehealth.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5097
Description: Requires the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to include a haircare plan during case review outlining the necessary training and resources needed to ensure each child receives culturally competent haircare.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5189
Description: Provides measures to protect the personal information of train crew members involved in fatal incidents.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5288
Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue special 100 Club of IL plates.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5324
Description: Creates Reporting requirements for the Illinois Labor Relations Board and changes to Unfair Labor Practice schedule.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2625
Description: Prohibits certain retail establishments from displaying alcohol-infused products or co-branded alcoholic beverages immediately near similar products or products marketed towards youth and requires specific signage when displaying these products.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2628
Description: Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Requires the Department of Natural Resources to ensure that all State agencies comply with the National Flood Insurance Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2641
Description: Requires every insurer to demonstrate to the Department of Insurance that each in-network hospital has at least one radiologist, pathologist, anesthesiologist, and ER physician as a preferred provider.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2643
Description: Sets requirements for inspections of funeral homes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2644
Description: Establishes a statewide registry containing Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment Forms (POLST), describing preferred medical treatment.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2662
Description: Prohibits manufacturers from marketing e-cigarettes that are likely to cause a parent, legal guardian, teacher or other person to mistake the electronic cigarette for a product that is not a tobacco product.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2667
Description: Allows the Secretary of State to issue Illinois UTSA/Midwest Tennis Foundation Youth Tennis plate decals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2737
Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for licensed mental health professionals providing services to veterans or first responders.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2740
Description: Requires condominiums to provide accessible parking spaces for tenants with disabilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2744
Description: Amends coverage requirements for vaccine administration fees for individual and group health insurance plans and managed care plans.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2770
Description: Prohibits covenants not to compete and covenants not to solicit for those employed in construction.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2779
Description: Requires counties to provide indemnification to physicians conducting autopsies in cases of unintentional misconduct.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2876
Description: Creates the Large Event Facilities Act, requiring event facilities to compost organic waste and transfer recyclable materials to recycling facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2918
Description: A police officer cannot be discharged for a mental or physical disability that is the basis for their benefits application under the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2919
Description: Establishes parameters in which foreclosed property may be sold online.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2959
Description: Allows qualified family members to have an identification card or driver license marked as a Gold Star family member. Provides free admission to public museums to any individual with a form of identification displaying their Gold Star status.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3081
Description: Requires each public university to provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in Illinois with the university’s undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3112
Description: Makes it easier for the Long-Term Care Facility Advisory Board to meet and vote on administrative rules affecting those facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3136
Description: Removes a finding of positive toxicology in an infant as evidence of neglect or abuse. Creates the Family Recovery Plans Implementation Task Force to address the treatment needs of infants with prenatal substance exposure.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3173
Description: Allows counties to lease, license, or grant access to infrastructure they own or control, such as fiber optic cables, to public or private entities to help expedite the delivery of broadband services.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3182
Description: Requires hospitals in Illinois to notify the pregnant individual (referred to as the gestational parent) of their right to receive a special certificate in the event of a stillbirth, which is the loss of a pregnancy after 20 weeks of gestation. Outlines the process for requesting the certificate.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3201
Description: Requires law enforcement and correctional officers to go through training on autism-informed responses, as well as best procedures and techniques when engaging with individuals with autism.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5408
Description: Prohibits drivers from stopping or parking their vehicles on shoulders of highways within a one-half mile radius of the eastern entrance to the Chicago O’Hare airport.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB1168
Description: Prohibits an individual’s DNA profile from being entered into any DNA database if their profile was collected due to the individual being a victim of a crime.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4934
Description: If remains over 100 years old are identified as belonging to a veteran, the Department of Natural Resources will allow a veterans’ organization to place a marker to designate the grave.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5357
Description: Requires insurance companies to provide homeowners insurance applicants coverage information for loss caused by a sewer backup or overflow from a sump pump.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5371
Description: Omnibus of Illinois Human Rights Act changes to further enhance and clarify civil rights protections under Illinois law.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5405
Description: Requires any state entity or hospital funded by the National Institutes of Health to adopt policies and practices that promote the inclusion of underrepresented demographic groups in clinical trials.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5450
Description: Amends Sec. 15-158.3 removing subsection (b), (d), and (e) the requirement for IBHE jointly with GOMB to prepare the annual report of accumulation of ending sick leave for higher education employees under the retirement system.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5488
Description: Creates the Legacy Tree Program Task Force to generate recommendations for the creation of a statewide legacy tree recognition program.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5561
Description: Prohibits employers from taking retaliatory action against whistleblowers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5596
Description: Exempts day care homes and group day care homes serving children of military personnel from DCFS licensing if located on a military base or government property.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5655
Description: Provides that the governing board of each public institution of higher education shall adopt a policy to allow a student who is a member of the National Guard of any state, the District of Columbia, a commonwealth, or a territory of the United States or any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States to submit classwork and complete any other class assignments missed due to the student participating in a drill required as a member of the National Guard or the reserve component.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0426
Description: Grants the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) and Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) the ability to transfer emerging adults who qualify to earn their high school diplomas to a IDJJ facility so that they can receive those education services from IDJJ’s school district.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0461
Description: Expands eligibility for in state tuition at Illinois universities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0694
Description: Modernizes storage techniques of county recordings and establishes fee changes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0839
Description: Makes updates to the Environmental Protection Act and the Paint Stewardship Act to clarify processes for managing and recycling postconsumer paint.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1087
Description: Establishes a public health campaign to be created by the Department of Public Health to inform the public about the threat of mold and modernizes various provisions of the Mold Remediation Registration Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1089
Description: Requires state-owned buildings to install and maintain at least one public adult changing station.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1479
Description: Strengthens and clarifies the Department of Insurance’s market conduct examination processes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2442
Description: Prohibits hospitals from billing uninsured patients whose income is below 138% of federal poverty guidelines if they qualify for free care under the Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act. Requires hospitals to provide the patient with information on insurance they may qualify for.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2960
Description: Bans small and single plastic bottles in hotels with 50 rooms or more starting July 1, 2025. Then beginning January 1, 2026, any hotel regardless the size cannot provide small and single use plastic bottles.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2968
Description: Makes technical changes to the Equity and Racial Justice Act (ERJA) to allow for more accurate statistical data on participants in programs administered by state agencies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3081
Description: Provides that, beginning with the 2025-2026 academic year each public university shall provide all Illinois students transferring from a public community college in this State with the university’s undergraduate transfer admissions application fee waiver policy and, if such a policy exists, any application or forms necessary to apply for a fee waiver as part of the university’s transfer admissions process.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3098
Description: Prohibits e-cigarettes from being ordered or purchased online or by mail by any individual under the age of 21 in Illinois, excluding tobacco distributors or retailers.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3208
Description: Requires employers to maintain copies of pay stubs for 3 years after the date of payment and imposes a civil penalty on employers who fail to provide a pay stub to a current or former employee.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3219
Description: Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may provide grants for equipment upgrades for farmer-owned grocery stores or markets.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3235
Description: Enables the Commission on Equity and Inclusion to hire a consultant to conduct a study to look at disparities in lending and access to financial products and services.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3288
Description: Updates the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act (MHDDCA) to facilitate HIPAA-permissible sharing of information for research purposes to, ultimately, better serve patients facing mental health issues.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3305
Description: Amends the insurance code to require coverage for treatments to address serious jaw injuries caused by accidents or diseases beginning January 1, 2026.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3310
Description: Extends the time limit for filing charges of civil rights violations with the Department of Human Rights from 300 days to 2 years from the date of the alleged violation.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3314
Description: Clarifies that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall promulgate rules regarding the refinancing of consumer legal funding agreements
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3342
Description: Creates the Pesticide Application on Rights-of-Way Notification Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3343
Description: Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act (“RUUPA”) to address virtual currency liquidation while also authorizing the Treasurer’s Office to pay custodial fees for securities and virtual currency.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3349
Description: Provides that 6 units of credit shall be required to achieve State Global Scholar Certification (instead of not specifying how many units of credit are required). Provides for global collaboration or (instead of and) dialogue.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3351
Description: Grants elderly parents of adult children with disabilities the right to live in larger subsidized housing units with more than one bedroom.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3418
Description: Allows non-residents to serve as highway commissioners and clerks in smaller townships and road districts and allows contracting with neighboring districts when no qualified resident candidates are available.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3448
Description: Requires the State Emergency Response Commission to provide and maintain a Tier II reporting system for Tier II chemicals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3467
Description: Clarifies licensing requirements for speech language pathologists.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3481
Description: Establishes registration requirements for sites that store used EV batteries and requires rulemaking to address safe storage of used EV batteries.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3501
Description: Creates the Responsible Outdoor Lighting Control Act to require specific conditions for luminaries purchased by the State on land owned or managed by the Department of Natural Resources.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3513
Description: Allows attorneys and judges and their employees to renew their appointment as a notary public without taking additional classes or examinations.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3529
Description: Repeals an unnecessary requirement for DPH to distribute a pertussis vaccine pamphlet because similar information is already required to be provided to patients, parents or guardians by Federal law in the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3538
Description: Requires certain health insurance plans to cover mental health counseling for first responders beginning June 1, 2025.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3550
Description: Updates the Financial Institutions Code to remove antiquated language and provisions and to align the Code with other related statutes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3551
Description: Establishes regulations of shared appreciation mortgage products.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3566
Description: Requires landfills in counties with a population over 250,000 to provide facilities for cleaning mud, gravel, waste, and other materials from the wheels and undercarriages of trucks exiting the landfill site, and requires trucks use those facilities before exiting.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3571
Description: Provides that a school district shall require a school to have present at the school during the school day and during a school-sponsored extracurricular activity at least one automated external defibrillator and one or more trained AED users.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3601
Description: Repeals outdated language requiring registration of hazardous waste underground storage tanks by May 8, 1986.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3615
Description: Permits the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice to hold the “trust funds” for youth in custody in non-interest-bearing accounts so long as the accounts would not accrue a minimum of $1 in interest.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3622
Description: Amends the Illinois Historic Sites Advisory Council Act to allow the Council to recommend the removal from the National Register of Historic Places a bridge that meets specific criteria.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3631
Description: Allows the Department of Transportation to work with more accurate GIS data and aligns Illinois with federal best practices for geographical data reporting.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3046
Description: Allows the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules allowing the use of treated wastewater for potable use and allows treated municipal wastewater from a publicly owned treatment works to be used for irrigation with a permit.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB3521
Description: Requires leadership at all hospital affiliates, not just a hospital’s main campus, to report allegations of abuse to IDPH within 24 hours and follow the same reporting protocol required of hospitals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4623
Description: Clarifies that Illinois’ child pornography laws apply to images and videos created by Artificial Intelligence technology.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4660
Description: Mandates subcontractors to notify owners of payment claims through certified mail.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4757
Description: Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to create a poster highlighting member benefits, services, and protections that the Illinois Department of Labor shall post on their website.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4926
Description: Prohibits a landlord from charging a prospective tenant a fee to access a tenant screening report if the tenant provides a reusable tenant screening report that meets certain criteria.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB4942
Description: Provides that county coroners must report suspicious levels of fentanyl found in official toxicology reports of the deceased to relevant local law enforcement agencies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: HB5643
Description: Requires private insurance and Medicaid coverage of at-home, urine-based pregnancy tests.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0536
Description: Amends the Public Funds Investment Act. Provides that a public agency may adopt an ordinance or resolution to allow for investment of public funds in instruments that are not specifically listed as authorized investments.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB0860
Description: Allows individuals with mental health or developmental disabilities living in care facilities to administer certain medications themselves if deemed independent by a nurse trainer.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB1779
Description: Creates a certified medication aide program at the Illinois Department of Public Health for long term care facilities.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2682
Description: Creates the Increasing Representation of Women in Technology Task Force.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3116
Description: Requires IDPH, ISP and ILETSB to develop a training program for first responders to access and use life-saving medical information stored in cell phones during emergencies.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3362
Description: Amends the Retailers’ Occupation Tax Act to align definitions with the Use Tax Act and impose the Retailers’ Occupation Tax on retailers maintaining a place of business in this State.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3592
Description: Creates transparency requirements for the sales of local media outlets and creates a journalism scholarship program at ISAC.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3661
Description: Expands background checks to include all employees of Comprehensive Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs).
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3691
Description: Requires the Department on Aging to provide family caregiver support services in compliance with federal requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3696
Description: Makes various updates to the Uniform Commercial Code.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3713
Description: Increases accessibility to the Illinois Crime Victims Compensation Program.
Action: Signed
Effective: The provisions changing Sections 2, 2.5, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, and 10.1 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act take effect January 1, 2025. This Section and the provisions changing Sections 4.1 and 18.5 of the Crime Victims Compensation Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 take effect upon becoming law.
Bill Number: SB3716
Description: Removes duplicative Lake Michigan water testing and surveying requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3740
Description: Seeks to modernize and ensure consistency in Real Estate License Act of 2000.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025, however, the sections impacting the Recovery Fund and the collection of fees, fines and penalties into the Real Estate Administration fund were effective upon signing in August, 2024.
Bill Number: SB3751
Description: Creates a 22-25 person Health Outcomes Review Board, housed at IDPH, to annually review and report data to “promote equitable health care outcomes, decrease health care costs, and ensure quality health care for all.”
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3753
Description: Allows DHS to impose progressive sanctions on mental health and developmental disability providers that fail to comply with requirements the Department has issued by rule, contract, or policy.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3763
Description: Repeals a DPH reporting requirement for Reye’s Syndrome, a medical condition that hasn’t been reported in Illinois in over 25 years.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3767
Description: Permits applicants from foreign countries to apply for licensure by endorsement under the design profession practice acts.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3768
Description: Requires the State Board of Education to maintain, operate, or contract the operation of the Philip J. Rock Center for eligible deafblind persons of all ages.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3771
Description: Allows Illinois Student Assistance Commission grants to exonerated persons to be awarded to qualified dependents.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3775
Description: Requires drivers in Illinois to require notice to law enforcement when involved in a crash with circumstances specified in the act and amends the responsibilities of the DUI Prevention and Education Commission.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3779
Description: Authorizes social workers to possess and administer opioid antagonists, such as naloxone, after receiving training.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3793
Description: Changes the minimum membership number for a Community Action Board from 15 to 9 individuals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3807
Description: Amends the Build Illinois Act by raising the cash limit of the minority, veteran, female, or disability act not exceeding $2,000,000.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB3426
Description: Makes changes to the Motor Fuel Tax Law to amend the method for calculating percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the purpose of annual adjustment in the tax rate and makes a clarification to the sales tax exemption for certain aircraft materials.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025
Bill Number: SB2765
Description: Clarifies statutes related to limited liability companies and piercing the corporate veil.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2025Description: Clarifies statutes related to limited liability companies and piercing the corporate veil. - Action: Signed
- Effective: January 1, 2025