Jason Bunting

Joined as a co-sponsor of a bill proposing to undo the greenhouse-gas changes made by Illinois' 2021 clean-energy law and to delete the legal definition of clean energy (House Bill 4050).

September 9, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Introduced a bill letting Illinois counties keep older local zoning rules for wind and solar farms, undoing limits the state set in 2023 (House Bill 1201).

January 9, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted to pass Senate Bill 2972. Senate Bill 2972 requires liability insurance for a motorboat over 10 horsepower, a boat longer than 21 feet, or a personal watercraft. The coverage must at least match the minimum Illinois requires for cars. The owner or operator must show proof of insurance when an officer asks. The House passed it 80-22, and it became law.

May 21, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Introduced House Bill 1200, proposing a recruitment division and Back-the-Badge program inside the state police training board to help agencies hire and keep officers. The bill stayed in the Rules Committee.

January 9, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted to pass House Bill 4339. Every district with grades 9 through 12 must give eligible graduating students a chance to register to vote. The Illinois House passed it 77-24, and it became law.

April 8, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted to pass House Bill 4514. House Bill 4514 applies when an electric, gas, water, or sewer utility asks to raise rates across the board. The utility must tell customers they may ask for a public forum on the increase. A customer makes that request in writing to the Illinois Commerce Commission. The House passed it 81-22, and it became law.

April 17, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Co-sponsored a law requiring a state commission to publish a report listing the extra charges electric utilities add to residential bills beyond delivery and supply. The governor signed it on July 9, 2026 (Public Act 104-0541).

April 8, 2026Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted to pass House Bill 2987. House Bill 2987 required every warehouse in Illinois to write a tornado safety plan and update it each year. Copies go to the local fire department and emergency agency. Warehouses built after the law took effect must be designed to protect life in a tornado at least as well as the building code demands for other extreme weather, and county and city building inspectors must hold a national certification. The House passed it 83-28, later agreed to a Senate wording change 99-15, and it became law.

May 20, 2025Supports Corporate Accountability

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 75-39, and it became law.

June 1, 2026

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Voted no on accepting the Senate's rewrite of House Bill 5090. The House agreed anyway, 83-28, and the bill became law as Public Act 104-0788. On the session's last night the Senate deleted the bill's construction-purchasing text. It put a rideshare labor act in its place. That law lets rideshare drivers organize and bargain as a group with the companies. The state labor board must certify one group to speak for all covered drivers. Covered companies must bargain with that group and follow new unfair-practice rules. Each rideshare trip starting in Illinois now carries a fee paid into a new driver support fund. The House had passed the earlier construction version 101-1 in April 2026.

June 1, 2026

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Voted against the House version of Senate Bill 3777. It bars job, credit, and public-place rules that unfairly harm protected groups, including citizenship, family duties, work permission, arrest records, and conviction records. A business may defend a needed job rule, but a complainant can show a less discriminatory option; the House passed it 72-38, the Senate agreed, and it became law.

June 1, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3222. Senate Bill 3222 created the Illinois Hemp Act. Nobody may make, sell, or hand out hemp products in Illinois without the required license. The state may order recalls and impose penalties, and a violation also counts as an unlawful practice under the consumer fraud law. The House passed it 77-31, and it became law.

May 31, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 75-40, and it became law.

May 31, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3772. For air-pollution construction permits sought on or after January 1, 2027 by sources in areas flagged for unfair pollution burdens, the state must notify the community, weigh whether emissions can be cut, and decide whether more air modeling is needed. It must also weigh the applicant's past record of environmental violations before issuing a permit. It creates an Environmental Justice Office and officer inside the state environmental agency. The Illinois House passed it 73-39, and it became law.

May 30, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3565. Senate Bill 3565 lets a township use its public aid money to run food banks and food pantries. It may also give in-kind help with basic needs to people who are poor, homeless, or otherwise in need. The House passed it 73-35, and it became law.

May 29, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of House Bill 3409. House Bill 3409 created the Chemicals in Cosmetic Products Act. From July 1, 2028, it bans making or selling a cosmetic that contains listed chemicals put in on purpose. A product made to meet the law but holding an unavoidable trace of a banned chemical is exempt. The House agreed to that version 74-38, and it became law.

May 29, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 2762. Senate Bill 2762 covers health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2029. They must pay for a seizure detection device when a doctor prescribes one. The device chosen must fit the person's own situation and medical needs, decided with their doctor. The House passed it 82-25, and it became law.

May 29, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 4025. Senate Bill 4025 covers replacing lead water pipes. A landowner must let the water utility onto the property to replace a lead or galvanized service line when the utility offers to do it free. That duty used to apply only in Chicago and now applies across the state. The House passed it 83-29, and it became law.

May 28, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of House Bill 5284. House Bill 5284 covers health insurance plans in Illinois. They must pay for hormone and non-hormone treatment for menopause and the years leading up to it, when a provider says the treatment is medically needed. The House agreed to that version 78-33, and it became law.

May 28, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3020. Senate Bill 3020 rewrote what counts as harassment under the state's domestic violence law and its protective order law. It also defined what the word electronic means in those laws. The House passed it 91-23, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against 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 House passed it 71-37, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 4006. Senate Bill 4006 covers home insurance and climate risk. An insurer must tell the policyholder in writing whether flood coverage is available. Companies covered by a new climate risk article must also disclose the climate risks they carry. The House passed it 78-32, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3037. Senate Bill 3037 is the Dark Sky Act. It limits how much light from an outdoor fixture may spill past the property it lights. The limit sits in the state energy code that applies to commercial buildings. The House passed it 75-36, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against 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 House passed it 70-38, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 72-38, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 76-27, and it became law.

May 27, 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 House passed it 73-38, and it became law.

May 27, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 4041. Senate Bill 4041 covers airport noise. No later than December 31, 2030, and every five years after that, an airport sponsor must prepare a noise contour study for each covered airport and post it for the public. The House passed it 71-24, and it became law.

May 22, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3917. Senate Bill 3917 requires testing for PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, under state water pollution permits. Every major sewage treatment plant, public or private, must regularly test what flows in, what flows out, and its sludge, and every other major industrial discharger must test what flows out. Sludge or biosolids may not be spread on land under a state permit unless they are tested for PFAS too. The House passed it 64-34, and it became law.

May 22, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 1743. Senate Bill 1743 removed a rule that barred a psychologist with prescribing authority from writing prescriptions for patients over 65 years old. Those psychologists still work under a written agreement with a supervising physician. That requirement did not change. The House passed it 67-31, and it became law.

May 22, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 2914. It changes the written warning a school board must give a tenured teacher before dismissal charges. The warning must spell out the misconduct to be fixed, the teacher may answer it in person or in writing before the board votes, and the teacher or union may take it to binding arbitration. The House passed it 83-25, and it became law.

May 21, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3066. Senate Bill 3066 created the Service Appointment Fairness Act, covering appointments people book for services. Breaking its rules counts as an unlawful practice under the state consumer fraud law, and carries that law's penalties and enforcement. The House passed it 70-40, and it became law.

May 21, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 3314. Senate Bill 3314 requires a yearly public report on who teaches at Illinois public colleges. Starting in September 2028, the report must show how many credit hours full-time faculty teach, so students can see how courses are staffed. The House passed it 83-28, and it became law.

May 21, 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 House passed it 72-34, and it became law.

May 21, 2026

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Voted against the House 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. The House passed it 72-18; the Senate later added schools designed for 1,500 or more students, excluded stadiums, and that version became law.

April 17, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4491. Police officers, firefighters and paramedics hurt in the line of duty, and prison and state hospital workers hurt by inmates or patients, keep their pay for up to a year. This law sets that pay at their full gross pay, including all pay that counts toward a pension, and lets their sick leave, vacation and pension service credits keep building while they are out. The House passed it 81-30, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 3460. House Bill 3460 covers people applying for a barber, cosmetology, esthetics, hair braiding, or nail technology license. The state may not hold up, delay, or refuse to process an application only because the person applying is in prison. The House passed it 75-37, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 75-36, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4890. House Bill 4890 set up a court process for a child who came to this country alone, is held in federal refugee care in Illinois, and says a parent hurt or abandoned them. A judge may rule that the child is now under the court's care. That ruling opens the door to health, school, and social services. The House passed it 82-26, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 81-27, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 65-39, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4948. House Bill 4948 created the Intelligent Speed Assistance Program. A driver with two qualifying speeding offenses within 12 months loses their license for 12 months, but may end the suspension early by driving six clean months on a permit with a device that holds the vehicle to the speed limit. A second suspension lasts until the driver completes 12 months on the device, and a third lasts until 24 months. Drivers pay for the device plus a permit fee of up to $30 a month, and a state fund covers the device for those who cannot afford it. The House passed it 77-24, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against 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 House passed it 79-23, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 82-30, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5390. As enacted, hospitals must use only the single financial assistance application form the Attorney General writes by rule, and interested stakeholders may send the Attorney General recommendations on that form by December 31, 2026. Once a patient is approved for financial assistance, the approval lasts at least 12 months from the first service date covered by the application. The Illinois House passed it 73-34, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 74-37, and it became law.

April 16, 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 House passed it 69-34, and it became law.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against the House version of House Bill 5295. It made health networks separate abortion-related records and block sharing outside Illinois, unless the patient chose a specific out-of-state provider. The House passed it 73-34; the Senate later changed key definitions and access rules, and that final version became law effective July 1, 2027.

April 16, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5460. House Bill 5460 widened who may receive a School Social Work scholarship. It now covers a person working toward a clinical social work or social work license, and a person who will finish a master's degree in social work from an approved program before enrolling. The House passed it 76-32, and it became law.

April 15, 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 House passed it 74-37, and it became law.

April 15, 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 House passed it 75-33, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 82-28, and it became law.

April 14, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4702. House Bill 4702 created the Diaper Labeling Act. Makers must list what is in a diaper. They have 18 months to comply, may name trade secret ingredients by their common use instead of the exact chemical, and may list ingredients that make up one percent or less in any order. The House passed it 73-38, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 73-38, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 73-38, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 72-37, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 76-33, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 72-37, and it became law.

April 14, 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 House passed it 70-35, and it became law.

April 9, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 5070. House Bill 5070 limited which federal pollution rules Illinois may copy. The Illinois Pollution Control Board may not adopt a federal rule that sets a weaker standard than a rule the Board already has in place. The House passed it 69-28, and it became law.

April 9, 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 House passed it 69-33, and it became law.

April 9, 2026

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Voted against the House version of House Bill 5093. It widened in-state college tuition by removing an Illinois school-attendance and residency condition. The House passed it 71-37; the Senate later excluded some temporary visa holders, widened state aid, delayed changes to 2027-2028, and that version became law.

April 9, 2026

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 64-40, and it became law.

April 8, 2026

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Voted against House Bill 4606. House Bill 4606 let the Department of Human Services build and run the administration behind short-term home visits offered to every family with a newborn. The department may list the visiting models that fit the state's goals and set rules to support them. The House passed it 73-31, and it became law.

April 8, 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 House passed it 68-37, and it became law.

April 8, 2026

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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 House passed it 72-35, and it became law.

April 8, 2026

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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 House passed it 75-32, and it became law.

October 31, 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 House passed it 80-26, and it became law.

October 30, 2025

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Voted against 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 House passed it 70-37, and it became law.

October 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 House passed it 82-33, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1344. Senate Bill 1344 counts sewer inspection done with a closed-circuit camera as public works, so prevailing wage rules apply to it. A contractor that fails to file the certified payroll for a public works job now faces a penalty. The House passed it 87-30, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 24. Senate Bill 24 told every police agency to write a policy for missing person cases. No agency may keep a rule that makes a family wait before it takes a missing person report. The House passed it 87-28, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 77-36, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 78-39, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of House Bill 3385. House Bill 3385 covers mental health staffing at public colleges and universities. Each must give students access to at least three licensed mental health professionals, or the smaller number its enrollment benchmark calls for, whether they work part-time on campus or full-time on or off campus. The House agreed to that version 91-24, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against 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 House passed it 81-36, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of House Bill 3019. House Bill 3019 made health insurers report how much of the money they collect in premiums goes back out to pay claims. If federal rules that require those reports and refunds are repealed, insurers must still file the reports with Illinois or pay the refunds. The House agreed to that version 84-32, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of House Bill 2516. House Bill 2516 bans the sale of several products that contain added PFAS, a group of long-lasting chemicals linked to health harm. The ban starts in 2032 and covers cosmetics, dental floss, products for babies and children, menstrual products, and underwear. The Senate had taken cookware and food packaging off that list. The House agreed to that version 77-39, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 2437. Within six months, birthing hospitals and centers must let a Medicaid patient bring a Medicaid doula before, during, and after birth without using a support-person slot. It also covers certain foreign-born crime victims, pregnancy choline, mental-health drug compliance reports, and a program certifying family caregivers for nursing-type work. The Illinois House passed it 76-39, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against the House version of Senate Bill 2339. It protects workers responding to federal ID mismatches and allows Labor Department enforcement, civil fines, and private lawsuits, but removes earlier E-Verify limits and a minor criminal penalty. The House passed it 75-42; the Senate agreed, and it became law.

May 31, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 76-39, and it became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against 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 House passed it 76-38, and it became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against accepting the Senate version of 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 House agreed to that version 77-39, and it became law.

May 30, 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 House passed it 80-32, and it became law.

May 30, 2025

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Voted against 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 House passed it 69-44, and it became law.

May 28, 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 if it finds a willful violation. The Illinois House passed it 70-40, and it became law.

May 28, 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 House passed it 69-40, and it became law.

May 28, 2025

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Voted against 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 House passed it 71-38, and it became law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 2280. Senate Bill 2280 changed how the Office of Firearm Violence Prevention reports to lawmakers. Its yearly report must name the communities living with concentrated gun violence, in big cities and smaller ones alike, and explain what money is being spent there to bring it down. The House passed it 71-36, and it became law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1920. Senate Bill 1920 told the State Board of Education to write statewide guidance on how artificial intelligence should be used in grade schools and high schools. It also told the Board to gather teaching material that supports American Sign Language programs. The House passed it 74-34, and it became law.

May 23, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1181. Senate Bill 1181 is the state law against lawsuits filed to silence people. It now covers freedom of the press alongside free speech and the right to petition. If a court finds a motion under the law was frivolous or filed only to stall a case, it must make that side pay the other's legal fees. The House passed it 75-38, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 67. Senate Bill 67 covers nurse staffing agencies. An agency may not operate or advertise in Illinois without a license from the Department of Labor, and the department may act against an agency that operates without one. The House passed it 75-40, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1947. Senate Bill 1947 changed how new teachers are licensed. From September 2026 through August 2029, every Illinois college that trains teachers must take part in a pilot of the state's teacher performance assessment. The House passed it 84-31, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against the House version of Senate Bill 405. It requires public school counseling to serve every student regardless of citizenship status, replacing the Senate's optional wording. The House passed it 74-39; the Senate agreed, and it became law.

May 22, 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 House passed it 75-38, and it became law.

May 22, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1441. Senate Bill 1441 covers Secure Choice, the state retirement savings program for workers whose employer offers no plan. An employer must sign up every worker who has been there 120 days or more, and must enroll each new worker within 120 days of hire. The House passed it 74-37, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1261. Senate Bill 1261 covers state homeownership programs. It set up a Community Land Trust Task Force to report to the Governor and lawmakers on land trusts, a way of keeping homes affordable over the long run. The task force closes 14 months after its first meeting. The House passed it 71-37, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1173. Senate Bill 1173 covers the form a person without a home signs to prove their status for a state ID card. A notary may not charge any fee for notarizing that form. The House passed it 81-28, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 175. Senate Bill 175 covers health plans renewed or issued on or after January 1, 2027. They must pay for the tests used to find Klinefelter syndrome, a genetic condition in males. That means a karyotype test and the hormone tests that go with it. The House passed it 76-33, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 212. Senate Bill 212 covers the break time an employer must give a nursing mother. The employer must pay for that time at the worker's regular rate, and may not make her use paid leave for it or cut her pay in any other way. The House passed it 82-27, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 1560. Senate Bill 1560 told the State Board of Education to publish model procedures and guidance for schools that want to screen every student for mental health needs. It also set up training so hospital staff can point families to BEACON, the state's central line for children's behavioral health services. The House passed it 72-36, 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 House passed it 83-27, and it became law.

May 21, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 69. Senate Bill 69 covers health insurance policies renewed or issued after January 1, 2027. They must pay for equine therapy when a doctor says it is needed. In equine therapy a patient works with horses as part of treatment. The House passed it 78-33, and it became law.

May 20, 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 House passed it 74-37, and it became law.

May 20, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 460. It bars limits on Monetary Award Program college grants for covered students unless state law requires them. Local student-aid rules must allow the widest eligibility for Illinois residents that state law permits. The Illinois House passed it 70-40, and it became law.

May 20, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3309. Schools and colleges must already give a teachers' or school workers' union information about the employees it represents. This law makes them also send a copy to the statewide union the local union belongs to. The House passed it 75-37, and it became law.

April 11, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 2464. House Bill 2464 protected families whose newborn needs intensive care. When that care comes from a hospital or doctor outside the family's insurance network and is billed as an emergency, the insurer must make sure the family pays no more than in-network care would have cost. The House passed it 84-30, and it became law.

April 11, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3097. House Bill 3097 required every school district to help each high school student learn about and finish the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or a state aid form. Districts may offer that help in different formats, times, and settings, and must give a student the chance to ask for one-on-one help. The House passed it 84-24, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3352. House Bill 3352 deals with coerced debt, meaning debt a person was forced or tricked into taking on, often by an abusive partner. A debtor may give a collection agency a written statement that the debt was coerced. The act sets out what that statement must say and how it is delivered. The House passed it 89-23, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3566. House Bill 3566 covers eviction cases in which a child is named as a defendant. If a minor was named willfully and recklessly against the law, the minor may recover attorney fees, real damages, and $1,000 in set damages. The House passed it 73-38, and it became law.

April 10, 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 House passed it 75-37, and it became law.

April 10, 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 House passed it 74-38, and it became law.

April 10, 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 House passed it 68-41, and it became law.

April 10, 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 House passed it 82-29, and it became law.

April 10, 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 House passed it 76-38, and it became law.

April 10, 2025

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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 House passed it 76-39, and it became law.

April 9, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3046. It adds to the State Universities Civil Service Act that nothing in that law or its rules stops a university and its employees' union from agreeing to a contract term that gives workers more rights than the civil service rules do. The House passed it 83-30, and it became law.

April 8, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 3026. The state must give schools guidance for starting or growing dual-language programs by December 15, 2026, and offer optional awards for younger bilingual students by July 1, 2027. By July 1, 2029, its education plan must include hiring, training, and keeping bilingual teachers. The Illinois House passed it 77-35, and it became law.

April 8, 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 House passed it 82-28, and it became law.

April 8, 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 House passed it 75-40, and it became law.

April 8, 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 House passed it 77-36, and it became law.

April 8, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 1616. House Bill 1616 gave part-time employees the same organ donor leave full-time employees already had. They may take up to 10 days off in a 12-month period. Pay is figured from the daily average they earned over their previous two months of work. The House passed it 70-34, and it became law.

April 7, 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 House passed it 67-38, and it became law.

April 7, 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 House passed it 78-27, and it became law.

April 7, 2025

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