COVER STORY
Legislative Recap
I’m very pleased that a number of bills I sponsored in the spring session successfully passed both chambers and are now headed to the Governor for his signature. I’m proud to join my colleagues in the General Assembly in passing new laws that support public education, protect reproductive rights, prevent gun violence and expand access to healthcare, but there’s always something special about seeing my own bills passed into law.
- HB1123 – Requires school report cards for students with disabilities to include information about the student’s progress toward graduation.
- HB 1555 – Clarifies a guardian ad litem’s responsibility to interview the child and submit written reports in family law cases involving child custody and parenting time.
- HB 2102 – Requires applicants’ fingerprints to be checked against the FBI registry for a national criminal record search before they can be included in the Health Care Worker Registry.
- HB 2861 – Requires DCFS to prepare a written report within 30 days after a child is placed in a residential treatment program, and requires a court hearing to consider the report within 20 days of filing.
- HB 3097– Improves Department of Labor’s ability to enforce safety standards at amusement parks and carnivals.
- HB 3301 – Includes independent contractors in the reporting requirements of the Department of Employment Security’s New Hire registry.
- SB 1804 – Allows certain refrigerants to be allowed for use as long as any equipment containing the refrigerant is installed in accordance to safety standards.
- SB 1909 – Prohibits crisis pregnancy centers from using deceptive practices to interfere with anyone seeking to access emergency contraception or abortion care.
- SB 2208 – Requires public universities to grant students full credit for courses in their major subjects that those students completed at Illinois community colleges.