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Voted to pass House Bill 4725. Before suing over worker protections, the attorney general must investigate and may demand records and sworn answers, inspect workplaces and copy job records, and interview workers there. Courts handle challenges and inspection warrants; employers may block closed areas without a warrant, and collected material is exempt from public-records law. The Illinois Senate passed it 43-14, and it became law.

May 20, 2026Supports Labor Rights

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Voted to pass the Senate version of House Bill 4379. It requires adult changing tables, upkeep, disability-access floor space, and clear restroom signs in certain new private public buildings built on or after January 1, 2029, including schools designed for 1,500 or more students but not stadiums. The Senate passed it 46-12; the House agreed, and it became law.

May 31, 2026Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 1519. Senate Bill 1519 covers what happens when a school sends a student to the police. Districts must report those referrals. A school district and its local police must also have a written agreement setting out how the two work together. The Senate passed it 37-17, and it became law.

April 9, 2025Supports Civil Rights

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Voted to pass House Bill 4725. Before suing over worker protections, the attorney general must investigate and may demand records and sworn answers, inspect workplaces and copy job records, and interview workers there. Courts handle challenges and inspection warrants; employers may block closed areas without a warrant, and collected material is exempt from public-records law. The Illinois Senate passed it 43-14, and it became law.

May 20, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 714. Senate Bill 714 covers car insurance. A company may not raise a renewal premium by more than 10% unless it tells the customer at least 30 days ahead. The state also gains power to review car insurance rates. The defensive driving class that earns a discount drops from eight classroom hours to four. The Senate passed it 42-14, and it became law.

May 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 4273. House Bill 4273 covers home fire insurance. A company may not raise a renewal premium by more than 10% unless it tells the customer at least 60 days ahead. The state also gains power to review these rates, which may not be too high, too low, or unfairly applied. The Senate passed it 43-14, and it became law.

May 13, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against House Bill 5024. Government and federal immigration detention centers cannot operate or be built within 1,500 feet of a school, day care, cemetery, park, forest preserve, public housing, home, or place of worship, whatever address they use. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-17, and it became law.

June 1, 2026

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Voted against accepting the House version of Senate Bill 3465. Senate Bill 3465 sets sanitary requirements for construction sites, including menstrual hygiene products. Sites must meet them within six months after the law takes effect. The Senate agreed to that version 45-13, and it became law.

May 31, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4304. House Bill 4304 set rules for public colleges. Each campus must work to keep its classrooms free of unlawful bias and harassment. Its conduct rules must not turn on the views a student holds, and it must say how disabled students ask for help. A campus may not unlawfully limit a student's right to speak, publish, or gather. The Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 31, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4571. Counties over 750,000 but under 2 million people, plus executive-led counties over 650,000, may buy land, offer grants or loans, and transfer property below market price for affordable housing. They may choose buyers or renters and fund related infrastructure; covered housing may serve households earning up to 140% of the area's middle income. The Illinois Senate passed it 44-14, and it became law.

May 31, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5492. House Bill 5492 covers health plans renewed or issued on or after January 1, 2028. They must pay for up to a six-month supply of prescribed hormone therapy, handed out at one time, along with the supplies needed to take it. The Senate passed it 38-19, and it became law.

May 30, 2026

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Voted against the Senate version of House Bill 5093. It widened in-state college tuition and state aid, excluded people whose temporary visa bars plans to live permanently in the United States, and delayed university changes to 2027-2028. The Senate passed it 38-19; the House agreed, and it became law.

May 30, 2026

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Voted against the Senate version of House Bill 5295. It requires electronic health networks to segregate coded abortion and gender-dysphoria health records and block out-of-state sharing, except for technical support, quality assurance, payment operations, or with patient consent, and lets patients sue. The Senate passed it 38-19; the House agreed, and it became law effective July 1, 2027.

May 30, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4966. House Bill 4966 is called the SECURE Act. It covers children in the care of the state child welfare agency. The agency must guard any record that would show a child's sexual orientation and limit who inside the agency may see it. Each child's case plan must be built around who that child is. The Senate passed it 35-19, and it became law.

May 29, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4758. Job ads may require a driver's license only when driving is essential and needed for the business, and the ad must briefly explain why. This final bill covers ads only; lawmakers removed an earlier ban on rejecting or discriminating against applicants without a license before either chamber voted. The Illinois Senate passed it 41-15, and it became law.

May 29, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 3751. House Bill 3751 added employment social enterprises to the work of the state's Office of Economic Equity and Empowerment. These are businesses that exist to hire and train people who face serious barriers to work, and the office must now help them. The Senate passed it 40-19, and it became law.

May 28, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4418. One year after the law starts, the state must control plastic pellets and other factory-stage plastic in stormwater through pollution plans or similar practices. It must add those rules to federal water-pollution permits for covered factories. The Illinois Senate passed it 44-13, and it became law.

May 28, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5095. It lets people choose male, female, or X on a state ID, driver's license, or permit, replacing male, female, or non-binary choices. Changing an issued card requires a gender form, which the Secretary of State cannot reveal without a court order. The Illinois Senate passed it 38-19, and it became law.

May 21, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4277. House Bill 4277 covers people applying to be a notary public. Someone with a felony conviction may apply once they have finished everything their sentence required and 10 years have passed since then. The Senate passed it 36-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4217. House Bill 4217 lets a public defender who already represents someone in a criminal case also represent that person in the driver's license suspension case that grew out of the same arrest. The Senate passed it 43-15, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4420. House Bill 4420 covered news and other media produced at state colleges and universities. It made that media a public forum for the employees who produce it. School officials may no longer review the content before it is published. The Senate passed it 39-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4788. House Bill 4788 covered the CPR training high schools must teach. Starting in the 2029-2030 school year, that training must use manikins with breasts as well as manikins without them. Schools may meet this by adding chest covers to manikins they already own. The Senate passed it 43-13, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4862. House Bill 4862 required every school board to adopt a written procedure supporting school employees' mental health by January 1, 2028. It must include a way for staff to give feedback and a yearly notice telling staff what help is available. The Senate passed it 43-15, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4639. House Bill 4639 changed the Juvenile Court Act. A judge, and not only the State's Attorney, may set up community mediation programs for young people accused of a crime. Before sentencing, a judge may require those involved to consider a restorative practice where one is available. The Senate passed it 39-18, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4577. House Bill 4577 wrote into law what play-based learning in kindergarten means. It covers both play a teacher sets up and leads toward a learning goal, and play a child chooses in a room the teacher arranged for the same purpose. The Senate passed it 45-13, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4533. House Bill 4533 covered companies licensed to send money out of the country. Each must offer every customer sending money abroad the chance to make a voluntary donation to the Illinois DREAM Fund, which pays for college scholarships for the children of immigrants. The Senate passed it 39-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4834. It removes testosterone, mifepristone, misoprostol, GnRH medicines, and estrogen from the state prescription-tracking program. The state must erase all testosterone prescription records by January 1, 2027, and stop creating or keeping new ones. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5390. A House amendment cut the bill down before either chamber voted, so the law now makes only two changes: hospitals must use a single financial-assistance application form written by the Attorney General, and an approval for financial assistance stays valid at least 12 months. The earlier language on immigration status, uninsured discounts, public-insurance requirements, appeal rights, and preferred-language notices was dropped. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4844. Employers with more than 25 workers must pay regular wages during jury duty; employers with 25 or fewer are exempt. The Illinois Senate passed it 35-20, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against the Senate version of Senate Bill 3777. It made rules that cause a discriminatory effect a civil-rights violation in jobs, credit, and public places, even without discriminatory intent. The Senate passed it 38-20; the House later added a narrower proof test and named citizenship, family duties, work permission, arrest records, and conviction records, and that version became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3341. It lets any minor consent to birth control without anyone else's approval and gives the minor adult legal authority for that care. Prescription birth control must be requested from a licensed doctor, advanced-practice nurse, physician assistant, or pharmacist acting under pharmacy law. The Illinois Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 20, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4397. House Bill 4397 raised the training a person needs to work as a school psychologist. Starting July 1, 2027, that means an approved graduate degree of at least 60 semester hours and 1,200 hours of supervised practice. At least 600 of those hours must be in a school. The Senate passed it 46-12, and it became law.

May 19, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4461. Hospitals and medical-debt judgments cannot place a lien, a legal claim for payment, on a patient's main home. The debt and other collection methods remain valid. The Illinois Senate passed it 46-12, and it became law.

May 19, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4456. State regulators may approve low-income discounts covering an entire home gas or electric bill; utilities over 100,000 customers without a valid discount must propose one within 30 days. Regulators must seek maximum government energy aid, and customers fund the discount through a fixed charge rather than usage. The Illinois Senate passed it 42-17, and it became law.

May 19, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5316. House Bill 5316 lets the state emergency management agency go onto public and private land to take samples of soil, water, and air. It may do this after a disaster or other incident that spreads radioactive material, or threatens to. The Senate passed it 44-13, and it became law.

May 14, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3487. Hospitals must replace vaccine age cutoffs with clinical eligibility, offer flu shots from September 1 through April 1, and offer pneumonia shots at admission or discharge. They must follow current state or federal advice, using state rules when federal advice sharply departs from evidence-based practice. The Illinois Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against accepting the House version of Senate Bill 25. Senate Bill 25 is Illinois' 2025 energy law. City and cooperative electric utilities must now plan their power supply in the open, with public meetings. The law also expands battery storage, rooftop solar rights, and electric car charging. And it changes how the state reviews utility plans and rates. The Senate agreed to that version 37-22, and it became law.

October 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3564. House Bill 3564 limits the fees a landlord may charge a renter. Every required fee must appear in the listing and on the first page of the lease, or the renter does not owe it. Application and background check fees are capped at $50 unless the landlord bills a documented higher third-party cost, and fees for lease renewals, after-hours repair calls, and pest control the renter did not cause are banned. Owner-occupied buildings with six or fewer units are exempt. The Senate passed it 39-16, and it became law.

October 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1312. It lets people sue immigration officers who knowingly violate constitutional rights, while allowing qualified immunity, a defense shielding officials in some cases; it also protects court visitors and workers who report violations. Hospitals need immigration-enforcement policies, colleges cannot expose or misuse immigration status, and day cares need valid ID plus a signed court warrant, order, or subpoena before admitting immigration officers. The Illinois Senate passed it 40-18, and it became law.

October 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1836. The Clean Slate Act creates automatic sealing for eligible criminal records, adds city-rule and low-level Class C misdemeanor records, widens eligibility, and changes waiting rules. It also eases limits after some later felonies, removes a negative drug-test requirement, and makes reporting groups fix missing or wrong arrest and case-result data. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-17, and it became law.

October 29, 2025

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Voted against accepting the House version of Senate Bill 2319. Senate Bill 2319 created the Digital Asset Kiosks Act. An operator of a crypto cash machine must register with the state, keep to limits on what a customer may be charged and may trade, give clear warnings and receipts, and report where each machine sits. Parts of the act end if the state's broader digital asset law takes effect. The Senate agreed to that version 39-18, and it became law.

June 1, 2025

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Voted against accepting the House version of Senate Bill 1797. Senate Bill 1797 created the Digital Assets and Consumer Protection Act. A company that holds or trades digital assets such as cryptocurrency for people in Illinois must register with the state and follow consumer protection rules. People who only write software or help run a network are not covered. The Senate agreed to that version 41-15, and it became law.

June 1, 2025

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Voted against the House version of Senate Bill 2437. It requires doula access within six months and covers certain foreign-born crime victims, pregnancy choline, mental-health drug reports, and certified family caregivers for nursing-type work. The Senate had passed a doula-only version 56-0 in April; it accepted this larger Medicaid package 36-19, and it became law.

June 1, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3363. House Bill 3363 created a State Public Defender Commission and started Illinois toward a statewide Office of the State Public Defender. The commission's first job is to work out what that office would cost and where the money would come from. The Senate passed it 36-19, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the House version of Senate Bill 1859. Senate Bill 1859 created a Climate Displacement Task Force. It studies how flooding, heat, and other climate damage push people out of their homes in Illinois, and what the state should do about it. Members serve without pay, and the task force ends on December 31, 2028. The Senate agreed to that version 40-16, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3247. Public schools cannot deny education, programs, or parent activities because of a child or parent's real or believed citizenship or immigration status, including through policies with that effect. Schools need compliance rules and entry-review steps for law officers by July 1, 2026; people may sue within two years, and a court may award actual damages for a willful violation. The Illinois Senate passed it 32-20, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1373. Police must trace a gun that was illegally held or used, found at a crime scene, linked to a crime, or found abandoned, lost, or thrown away to learn its source and past owners. They must use the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives eTrace system and share trace reports with other Illinois police agencies that also share their data. The Illinois Senate passed it 43-11, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3709. House Bill 3709 covers student health services at public colleges and universities. Each must give enrolled students access to health care workers who can prescribe and hand out birth control, and also to health care workers who can prescribe medication abortion. A campus with a pharmacy must make both available on campus. The Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 460 in the Illinois Senate. The bill widened a state law that gives college aid to Illinois residents who cannot get federal aid. That group includes students without lawful permanent residence and transgender students blocked for not registering for selective service. It added student aid offered by city and county governments to what those students may seek. It also barred extra caps on their Monetary Award Program grants, the state's main college grant. The Senate passed it 34-18 and it became Public Act 104-164, effective January 1, 2026.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2436. In counties over 3,000,000 people, public defenders may handle immigration cases arising or heard in the county and cases for county residents heard elsewhere, not only cases in county immigration courts. County boards keep their power to approve representation beyond those limits. The Illinois Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2568. It gives children equal parentage rights regardless of their parents' marriage, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, assisted reproduction, or surrogacy. It widens who may sign parentage papers, changes genetic-testing rules, sets surrogacy-agreement and statewide filing rules, and creates a simpler adoption process for assisted reproduction. The Illinois Senate passed it 36-19, and it became law.

May 29, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2425. A life insurer cannot deny, limit, end, or charge more for final-expense coverage only because someone has a felony conviction. The insurer need not cover someone currently jailed or imprisoned for a felony. The Illinois Senate passed it 36-18, and it became law.

May 29, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 453. It extends Illinois's fast-track rules for a newly certified public employee union's first contract to every size of bargaining unit, not only units of fewer than 35 workers. The parties must start bargaining within 10 days of a request and can seek mediation after 90 days. Police, firefighters and security staff are not covered. The Senate passed it 39-16, and it became law.

May 28, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3248. House Bill 3248 covers health plans issued or renewed after January 1, 2027. They must pay for laser hair removal when a doctor prescribes it as medically necessary care. The rule does not reach plans that serve people on Medicaid. The Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1430. House Bill 1430 let the State Treasurer make, buy, and service loans that refinance student debt. It also took away the Treasurer's power to use income share agreements, under which a student promises a share of future pay instead of repaying a set amount. The Senate passed it 46-12, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2419. House Bill 2419 changed how local officials decide where a waste facility may be built. They must weigh traffic pollution from the site. They must also weigh how the site's pollution would add to pollution already there, and how that combined load would fall on nearby communities. The Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2397. House Bill 2397, the Eddie Thomas Act, made the Department of Corrections publish a yearly report on hospice and end-of-life care in state prisons. The report must cover who received that care, how many people in custody died, and what staff were available to provide it. The Senate passed it 33-19, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3489. It lets pharmacists assess, advise, and provide all birth control, including emergency birth control, instead of only hormonal products. The state Medicaid program must cover pharmacists' patient-care services for these products. The Illinois Senate passed it 41-16, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2726. House Bill 2726 gave the Department of Natural Resources the power to use rewilding as a way to conserve land. Rewilding can include returning land to its natural state and bringing back native species, including top predators and species other wildlife depend on. The Senate passed it 39-16, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1859. House Bill 1859 said a community college course must be taught by a qualified faculty member. Artificial intelligence cannot be the only source of instruction. Faculty may still use artificial intelligence to help with their teaching. The Senate passed it 46-12, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1083. It rewrites marriage and property laws with gender-neutral words. It also waives recording fees for a quitclaim deed, a document transferring property rights, when the same person uses it only to show a legal name change. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-18, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2517. Health professionals need at least one hour of training about hidden bias to renew a license. Starting July 1, 2026, maternal-care professionals must also learn health risks faced by racial and ethnic groups with high maternal death rates. The Illinois Senate passed it 44-12, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1189. It makes Illinois wage rules apply to federally funded construction run by an Illinois public body when the Illinois local wage is at least the matching federal wage. The Illinois Senate passed it 40-18, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1976. It stops state agencies from weakening worker-pay or coal-mine safety rules below federal protections in place on April 28, 2025, unless a later state law allows it. It also orders Illinois to replace revoked federal workplace-safety rules, allows lawsuits and penalties, and lets the labor director copy a federal rule as it stood before repeal or change. The Illinois Senate passed it 38-19, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 191. Starting July 1, 2031, each seat in a newly bought school bus must have a working lap-and-shoulder belt meeting federal rules; leased and out-of-state activity buses are exempt. Schools, districts, and bus companies do not have to ensure belts are fastened correctly or teach riders to use them. The Illinois Senate passed it 39-13, and it became law.

April 30, 2025

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Voted against the Senate version of Senate Bill 405. It said public school counseling may serve every student regardless of citizenship status. The Senate passed it 38-18; the House later made that duty required, the Senate agreed, and the required version became law.

April 30, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 19. Senate Bill 19 changed how the Prisoner Review Board treats crime victims. A person who holds a protective order against a parole candidate may submit a victim statement, and the Board must publish how its process works. The Attorney General must also review whether victims and witnesses are told about hearings in time. The Senate passed it 32-22, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 8. It requires owners to lock a gun when a minor, at-risk person, or person banned from having guns may reach it, with exceptions for carrying, self-defense, or illegal entry. Penalties are up to $500, $1,000 if someone gets the gun, and $10,000 if it causes harm or a crime; lost or stolen guns must be reported within 48 hours instead of 72. The Illinois Senate passed it 33-19, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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Voted against the Senate version of Senate Bill 2339. It limited extra E-Verify checks, protected workers responding to federal ID mismatches, and added Labor Department enforcement, civil fines, private lawsuits, and a minor criminal penalty. The Senate passed it 35-21; the House later removed the E-Verify limits and criminal penalty, and that narrower version became law.

April 10, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 2164. It raises the required fee for employers that underpay workers and makes a final Labor Department order a state debt enforceable like a court judgment. Monthly damages and daily penalties keep growing until the order becomes that debt. The Illinois Senate passed it 37-19, and it became law.

April 9, 2025

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