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IllinoisHB1075104th General Assembly (2025–2026)HouseWALLET
BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION ACT
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Signed by Governor
Summary
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that, in accordance with the official day recognized by the government of the Republic of India, the 15th day of the Hindu lunisolar month of Kartika is designated as Diwali Day, to be observed throughout the State by the many Illinoisans who celebrate Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, as a day of thanksgiving and reflection.
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128 provisions identified: 58 benefits, 25 costs, 45 mixed.
Higher home service caps for adults
Eligible adults with mental disabilities who live alone receive higher monthly limits for state-provided home-based services. The cap equals 315% of the monthly federal Supplemental Security Income payment when not enrolled in local special education. For adults enrolled in a local education agency's special education program, it equals 210%. These amounts equal the law's 1.05 multiplier applied to 300% and 200%, respectively. Program approval is required, and the person's service plan sets the actual amount.
Violence survivors gain cash assistance protections
Illinois must automatically waive applicable TANF work, child-support cooperation, and time-limit rules for domestic or sexual violence survivors. The Department must notify applicants, offer service referrals, and decide waiver claims within 15 calendar days. Survivors unable to safely obtain proof can use self-attestation; no protection order or departure from an alleged abuser is required. Domestic violence waiver information must remain confidential. When funding is available, TANF-eligible people with a good-cause waiver must be told about crisis aid and receive at least $1,250 for four months; the provision does not specify payment frequency or a household total.
Backup pension payments for public employees
Affected Tier 2 members of the state employee, teacher, and state university retirement systems can receive supplemental pension payments. An enforceable finding after the law's effective date must establish that benefits fall below federal minimum requirements. It must also find that the shortfall makes affected wages subject to Social Security and Medicare taxes. The retirement system may use the Tier 2 reserve to cover the benefit gap. A continuing appropriation covers amounts needed for qualifying payments.
Clean energy contractors gain loan support
Participating Clean Energy Primes Contractor Accelerator businesses gain support for low- or zero-interest loans, subject to an appropriation. Loan-loss reserves or other assistance can support up to $7 million in loans in each of three delivery areas. The Department must work with the Illinois Finance Authority and Climate Bank, or a comparable financing institution. It can grant Energy Transition Assistance Fund money to the Finance Authority for this purpose. The program ends September 15, 2045.
More research grants for Illinois businesses
Illinois can award federal SBIR/STTR research matching grants to for-profit businesses with their main place of business in Illinois. Phase I grants rise from $50,000 to $75,000; new Phase II grants offer up to $250,000, subject to appropriation. Businesses need a qualifying federal Phase I award, must meet federal requirements, show research ability, and avoid duplicate funding. They must certify at least 51% of Phase II research occurs in Illinois and remain Illinois-based during the project. Phase I pays 75% after the award and application. The remaining 25% requires a Phase II application, demonstrated federal interest, and federal acceptance of the final Phase I report. Phase II pays half after its federal award and application, and half after submission of the final Phase II report. Each business can receive one grant per year per federal proposal, with lifetime limits of five Phase I and two Phase II grants.
New lasting-home option for foster children
Courts can choose continuing foster care as a lasting placement goal for children in state custody and guardianship. The court must find all other goals inappropriate for the child's best interest and record compelling reasons. The child must have lived with the current relative, certified relative caregiver, or foster parent for at least one year. That caregiver must be willing and able to provide a stable, permanent home.
State aid for immigrant crime victims
Otherwise eligible foreign-born victims and qualifying family members can receive Illinois cash or food aid when immigration status blocks comparable federal benefits. Aid depends on available funding. Single adults without qualifying family members need an approved or pending formal T or U status application. The T pathway also requires steps toward federal benefit eligibility. Victims with qualifying family members can also use a formal T, U, or asylum application.
More crisis help for families' housing
Eligible families facing a loss of shelter can receive crisis help when program funds are available. The Department must notify families and provide at least $1,250 for up to four months. The provision does not establish a payment frequency or household total. Families are no longer limited to assistance once in any 12 consecutive months. The program's $2 million annual spending cap remains.
New homelessness program eases provider funding
Subject to an appropriation, Illinois must establish Home Illinois to prevent and end homelessness. It can support prevention, emergency and transitional housing, rapid rehousing, outreach, capital projects, and related services. The Department sets eligibility and other requirements by rule. Separately, emergency, transitional, and supportive housing providers generally cannot be required to supply matching funds for Department funding. State or federal match requirements still apply, and the Department can consider providers' finances and access to other money.
Higher pay funding for disability workers
For services delivered beginning January 1, 2026, covered disability-service rates must fund an $0.80 hourly increase for specified frontline workers. At least $0.60 must directly increase base wages; the remaining $0.20 supports flexible base-wage increases. Providers cannot use this money for operating or administrative expenses. Residential rates must also support specified non-executive direct care staff at Department-defined federal average wages; covered facility rates include employment-related expense adjustments. The increases require federal approval of the applicable waiver or State Plan amendment.
Higher wage floor for homemaker workers
Beginning January 1, 2026, Community Care Program homemaker service rates rise to $30.80, subject to federal approval. The rate supports a minimum direct-service-worker wage of $18.75 per hour. Providers must certify ongoing wage compliance and cannot cut fringe benefits because of the rate increase. Rates in later state fiscal years cannot fall below the federally approved rate.
State gets more bill payment flexibility
The Treasurer can invest eligible state money to pay vouchers when they exceed available general funds by $500 million, previously $1 billion. Investments cannot exceed $2 billion at any time. Eligible money must be unneeded for current spending or set aside for state bond principal and interest. Beginning in fiscal year 2024, agencies have 30 days, rather than seven, to repay qualifying payroll transfers. Agency heads must request those transfers, and the Comptroller must approve them using the manual's payroll-exception criteria.
Gaming money increases education fund transfers
Beginning July 1, 2025, the State Gaming Fund must transfer $28 million monthly to the Education Assistance Fund. Transfers follow required gaming-fund spending and distributions. Each transfer also includes unpaid amounts from earlier months in that fiscal year. Remaining money generated by the Act goes to the Capital Projects Fund.
School funding targets include student supports
Illinois school funding targets include staffing, supplies, buildings, and student supports; these are calculations, not guaranteed payments or staffing levels. Per-student amounts include $40 for gifted education, $125 for teacher training, $190 for materials, $25 for tests, and $285.50 for technology. Activities count at $100 for elementary, $200 for middle school, and $675 for high school; maintenance counts at $1,038 and central offices at $742. Low-income students and English learners each generate calculations for one intervention teacher and one support worker per 125 students, plus one extended-day and one summer teacher per 120; English learners also generate one core teacher per 100. Special education calculations include one teacher and one assistant per 141 students, and one psychologist per 1,000, using the combined count of preschool children with disabilities and all K–12 students; salaries reflect regional costs, with benefits generally calculated at 30%.
Technology support for lower-funded school districts
Beginning with the 2018–2019 school year, qualifying school units get an extra $285.50 per student in their funding target. This technology amount applies to units placed in Tier 1 or Tier 2 during the prior school year. It raises the formula's estimate of needed school funding, not a direct payment to families. The State Board can set spending rules, including limiting the money to district technology needs.
Insulin affordability law is repealed
The law repeals the Access to Affordable Insulin Act. The supplied provision does not describe that Act's protections, eligibility rules, or repeal date. It therefore does not establish how much insulin costs or access change for any patient.
Video gaming operators pay higher tax
Beginning July 1, 2025, video gaming terminal operators pay 35% of net terminal income in tax. Of that revenue, 83.7% goes to capital projects and 14.3% to the Local Government Video Gaming Distributive Fund. The remaining 2% goes to the State Gaming Fund. Earlier tax rules apply through June 30, 2025.
School funding uses specified salary estimates
The state superintendent must calculate specified average salaries to the nearest dollar using state public-school employment data. The data excludes special education and vocational cooperatives, Department of Juvenile Justice schools, and charter schools. For positions missing from the data, first-year funding estimates use $30,000 for school site staff and $25,000 for specified assistants and aides. Both estimates increase annually by the Employment Cost Index after the first implementation year. These are school funding inputs, not required wages or payments to families.
State moves money among budget funds
At the Governor's direction, up to $370 million can move from General Revenue to the Fund for Illinois' Future through June 30, 2025. The law also requires $200 million from General Revenue for the Technology Management Revolving Fund. That transfer must occur on or after enactment, as soon as practical, by June 30, 2025. Starting July 1, 2025, $75 million moves from General Revenue to the Tier 2 SSWB Reserve Fund, as soon as practical. Starting that date, $20 million moves from the Insurance Producer Administration Fund to General Revenue, as soon as practical.
Regional wage rules reshape school funding
Starting in Evidence-Based Funding's fourth year, the state superintendent must update the wage index using a University of Illinois study. Updates must occur at least every five years. With more than two adjacent Illinois counties, the county wage value gets 25% weight and the adjacent-county average gets 75%. With two adjacent counties, those weights are 33% and 66%; the higher of the current and weighted county values applies. A school unit's wage index cannot fall below 0.9, affecting salary costs used to divide school funding.
School aid uses revised local-resource formulas
School funding calculations multiply the specified local-capacity ratio by 9/13 for kindergarten–grade 8 units and 4/13 for grades 9–12 units. Local capacity equals its target when local receipts do not exceed it; otherwise, the excess times the local-capacity percentage is added. Targets also account for specified remaining pension contributions. Laboratory schools and regional offices or service centers running alternative programs use 10%; other units' percentages cannot exceed 90%. Adjusted property values generally use a three-year average, with adjustments for specified homestead exemptions, tax-increment financing, and tax abatements. After a yearly decline of at least 10%, the lower of the latest value or three-year average applies. Special averaging rules cover the first three years after reorganization, consolidation, or annexation.
Campers can get one free night
Illinois may offer coupons waiving the final night's camping fee at sites owned, leased, or managed by the state. Campers must be at least 18, buy another night, and stay at least two nights. Coupons are available August 1 through December 31, 2025, first come, first served, while supplies last. Campers must follow written coupon requirements and advertised limits. Utility fees are not covered.
Police graduates keep college scholarship access
Police Training Academy Job Training Program graduates accepted by an Illinois public college remain eligible for tuition and mandatory-fee scholarships. The law removes the requirement to use the program's named scholarship fund. Awards still depend on an appropriation and existing eligibility rules. Renewal remains available for up to four years of full-time study. Total Commission assistance in a fiscal year cannot exceed the student's cost of attendance.
Distressed communities get fuller park grants
Distressed local governments can receive grants covering up to 100% of eligible open-space acquisition and capital project costs. This applies to awards from new appropriations in fiscal years 2023 through 2026. The Department defines distressed status through administrative rules. During those years, it can make more than 10% of the annual appropriation available for these grants.
Fare subsidies support students and seniors
For fiscal year 2026, Illinois can spend up to $23.067 million from the Road Fund on reduced-fare subsidies. These support half-fare student rides and reduced fares for older riders. The cap applies from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The provision does not set each rider's savings.
Fund supports families of homicide victims
The Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority uses the Death Penalty Abolition Fund for services for families of homicide victims. The fund also supports law-enforcement personnel training. The law states no funding total or individual payment amount.
Funding authority supports rides for disabled people
For fiscal year 2026, the law authorizes up to $11.5 million from the Road Fund for PACE paratransit expenses. The grant goes through the Regional Transportation Authority and depends on a state appropriation. The authorization covers July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. It does not set a fare discount for individual riders.
Funding routes for child and family safety
Child abuse prevention, shelter, and service programs use approved funding from the DCFS Children's Services Fund and General Revenue Fund. Net proceeds from commemorative birth certificates are split equally between the children's fund and Domestic Violence Shelter and Service Fund. Issuing costs are deducted first. State officials must transfer the money within 15 days after the health director certifies the amount.
Habitat funds accept gifts and grants
Natural Resources can accept gifts, grants, bequests, money, and securities from all sources for the Illinois Habitat Fund. Interest stays in the fund. Approved spending must exclusively preserve and maintain high-quality habitat lands. Roadside Monarch Habitat Fund grants support developing, improving, and restoring Illinois roadside habitats for monarchs and other pollinators.
Health nonprofits gain security grant eligibility
Medical and behavioral health nonprofits are expressly included among groups eligible for state security grants. Organizations must face a high risk of terrorist attack. Illinois Emergency Management Agency grants from the IEMA State Projects Fund can cover security staff, physical protection, and related administrative costs. The law does not set an award amount or guarantee a grant.
Local pretrial agencies gain salary support
Local agencies or the Office of Statewide Pretrial Services can provide courts with felony background data and supervise release conditions. Their pretrial officers count as peace officers when they take the required oath and provide court services. From appropriated funds, the Office reimburses 100% of approved local pretrial officer and supervisor salaries monthly. Local agencies must submit annual plans and budgets, and only approved costs qualify. The Division and Office annually identify overlapping positions and choose one reimbursement source; the same salary cannot be reimbursed twice.
New funds for courts and pretrial services
New dedicated funds hold federal administrative-cost reimbursements for the Illinois Supreme Court and Office of Statewide Pretrial Services. Each office can use its reimbursements for administrative costs, subject to appropriation. A separate pretrial State Projects Fund receives state-agreement money and private donations for SAFE-T Act projects and other authorized deposits. A pretrial Federal Projects Fund holds federal grants and awards and can receive interagency money. Project spending requires appropriations and must follow applicable grant terms and state or federal requirements.
Sexual assault service funding shifts agencies
Human Services replaces Public Health as administrator of the Sexual Assault Services Fund. It makes grants to contracted organizations for community services for victims. The law also adds specified revenue deposits and sets spending rules under the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. No total funding amount or direct household payment is stated.
State conservation funding continues through 2026
Illinois transfers $14 million from the General Revenue Fund to the Partners for Conservation Fund for fiscal year 2026. The money supports conservation programs. Transfers come in 12 equal monthly installments through June 30, 2026.
State supports round-the-clock community helpline
The state can assist approved providers with the statewide 2-1-1 system and database. Grants can support developing, evaluating, and running services, including operation 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The law states no grant amount.
State takes charge of coroner training
The Illinois Department of Public Health takes control of the Coroner Training Board and oversees training standards, applicants, and schools. It can require information from local governments. The department can waive training only on the board's recommendation, based solely on prior death- or homicide-investigation training and experience. Subject to approved spending, 25% of the Death Certificate Surcharge Fund can support death-investigation training, travel, and lodging. Eligible trainees include coroners, deputy coroners, forensic pathologists, and police officers.
Tire cleanup funds support more projects
For fiscal years 2025 and 2026, 55% of Used Tire Management Fund money above $4 million annually is available for specified projects. Uses include tire cleanup, facilities, technology, research, and research grants. The environmental agency and Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity can use this funding, subject to appropriation. The commerce department's inclusion lasts only those two fiscal years.
Child abuse services receive redirected funds
Beginning July 1, 2025, the DCFS Children's Services Fund receives 100% of each covered fine's portion above $10,000. This applies to specified child sexual abuse material offenses. The fund supports grants to private groups providing treatment and counseling for child sexual abuse victims. The Child Abuse Prevention Fund's remaining balance, future deposits, debts, and obligations also move to this fund. The former fund closes after the transfer.
Donations can support disability home services
The state can accept public and private gifts, grants, and donations for community developmental disability services. That money must enter the Community Developmental Disability Services Medicaid Trust Fund. Human Services can also accept contributions for the Home Services Program, deposited into the Home Services Medicaid Trust Fund. These rules do not require donations or change individual eligibility or services.
Long-term care oversight keeps fee money
The Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund no longer transfers its year-end balance above $1 million to the General Revenue Fund. It keeps that license-fee money for state costs of appointing long-term care monitors and receivers. The law does not state how much additional money remains in the fund.
Lyme research funding options broaden
The Lyme Disease Innovation Program can receive approved state funding from any lawful source. This replaces the prior funding language involving the Lyme Disease Awareness Fund. The Illinois Department of Public Health must approve grants. The law sets no funding amount or guaranteed grant.
Unpaid care facilities get funding opportunity
During fiscal year 2026, Illinois may make authorized payments to eligible care providers that received none in earlier years. This includes qualifying long-term care providers, nursing homes, and licensed specialized mental health rehabilitation facilities. Payments require an appropriation from the State Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund. Providers must meet their program's eligibility requirements; no payment amount is guaranteed. This authority ends June 30, 2026.
Families can review school spending plans
School units must submit annual funding plans to the State Board by October 31. Plans explain intended spending, including supports for low-income students, English learners, and special education, plus student goals and public input. Units serving students under Article 14C must continue their existing information reports. By December 31, 2025, the State Board must post a tool showing each unit's planned funding use. The tool must be updated every year.
Struggling schools can receive intervention funding
Eligible school units can add intervention money to their minimum funding. They must meet State Board control or school-year criteria and have a prior-year Tier 1 or Tier 2 designation. They also need a sustainable five-year plan and demonstrated progress in governance, academics, and finances. The State Board submits its proposal to lawmakers; approval or 40 calendar days without action allows the addition. Funded units must report progress by November 30 each year for the first four years.
County fairs gain flexible funding sources
During fiscal year 2026, Agriculture can use the Fair and Exposition Fund for county fair payments otherwise due from the Agricultural Premium Fund. Existing payment conditions and each fair's prior fund election stay unchanged. Premium formulas apply to both funds, including the existing 30% department-or-class cap except for junior exhibitor classes. Permitted uses include 4-H and vocational agriculture fair premiums, fairground repairs, agricultural society aid, and county fair and State Fair horse racing. Recipients generally need owned land, a continuous-possession lease of at least 20 years, or qualifying association-held land, unless the Director allows an exception.
Department gains facility improvement powers
The department responsible for the covered facilities can buy land for training or building sites. It can also build, repair, maintain, and make capital improvements to those facilities or properties. All work requires approved state funding. The provision sets no spending amount.
Early childhood agencies can shift funding
During fiscal year 2026 only, the Governor can transfer general-fund appropriations set aside for Department of Early Childhood costs. The money can go to the Department of Early Childhood or the Department of Human Services. Both department leaders or their designees must certify that the transfer serves the Early Childhood Act's purposes. The Governor must notify the Comptroller. This authority does not change families' eligibility or benefit amounts.
Grant recipients get more spending time
Recipients of state fiscal year 2023 and 2024 grants can spend the money within three years after distribution. The law also adds exceptions to the usual two-year spending limit for certain Department of Human Services grants. Those exceptions cover grants identified in Section 80-45(b) and (c) of the Department of Human Services Act. These changes extend spending time, not grant amounts.
Horse racing purses receive fund transfer
The law requires a $2 million transfer on July 3, 2025, to the Horse Racing Purse Equity Fund. The money comes from the Horse Racing Fund. It supports qualifying Illinois horse-racing purse accounts, not household checks.
New reserve covers state revenue delays
The law creates the Budget Reserve for Immediate Disbursements and Governmental Emergencies, called the BRIDGE Fund. It can supplement state funds when unexpected revenue delays or failures prevent them from carrying out approved spending. Transfers out and later repayments require the Governor's written direction. The law sets no fund balance or direct household payment.
Port districts gain infrastructure grant authority
During fiscal year 2026, the Illinois Department of Transportation can use Road Fund money for port district infrastructure grants. Spending depends on a state appropriation. Improvements must meet the Illinois Constitution's transportation-funding requirements. The authority ends June 30, 2026, and no grant amount is specified.
Racetracks receive specified prize fund shares
The law extends the 2024 Horse Racing Purse Equity Fund distribution formula to the 2025 division. Stickney Township racetracks receive 45% for thoroughbred purses and 30% for harness purses; a Madison County racetrack receives 25% for thoroughbred purses. Eligible licensees must hold purse money supporting a recognized horsemen's association they contracted with during the prior three calendar years. Transfers follow fund deposits and an executed grant agreement. Money can only add to future purses during state fiscal years 2025 and 2026.
State agencies gain limited budget flexibility
During fiscal year 2026, covered agencies can move money between operating or lump-sum budget lines within the same treasury fund. Total transfers cannot exceed 4% of the agency's combined appropriation for those expenses. The Attorney General, Comptroller, Treasurer, courts, and legislative branch are excluded. The law does not add to agencies' total appropriations.
State construction and purchasing authority continues
Specified Central Management Services construction purchases fall under the chief procurement officer, and the department can use design-build contracts. The Design-Build Procurement Act's repeal moves from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2027. The Capital Development Board Revolving Fund and its authorized uses continue beyond their scheduled July 1, 2025, repeal. The Professional Services Fund can receive deposits or transfers authorized by state law or executive order. Central Management Services can bill agencies for services from itself, the Executive Ethics Commission, and the Chief Procurement Officer.
State procurement offices receive operating set-asides
For fiscal years 2024, 2025, and 2026, the Executive Ethics Commission must reserve money for four chief procurement officers. The set-asides cover the officers' and their offices' ordinary and contingent expenses. Money comes from the Commission's appropriation, and the law sets no dollar amount.
Waste energy facilities stop paying assessment
Qualified waste-energy facilities selling electricity to Illinois utilities no longer pay the $0.0006-per-kilowatt-hour assessment. They also stop filing the related monthly forms. The law removes the related Municipal Economic Development Fund transfer, refund, and municipal audit rules. It does not establish savings on household electricity bills.
State gains temporary bill payment flexibility
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, state voucher-payment investments can be deposited into other Treasury funds. The Governor must request each deposit, and the Treasurer must approve it for outstanding or expected payment requests. Repayment can come from the fund the Governor identifies. Investment repayments use the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, Federal Funds Rate, or an equivalent market rate instead of LIBOR. Existing caps tied to state late-payment interest rates remain; this does not change personal loan rates.
Annual receipts reserved for pharmacy grants
The law establishes a pharmacy-grant transfer rule tied to enactment of House Bill 1697 with Senate Amendments 2, 4, and 5. That rule directs the first $25 million collected each fiscal year under the pharmacy benefit manager registration provisions to pharmacy grants. The money goes through the DCEO Projects Fund. Remaining receipts go to the General Revenue Fund. The law does not set individual pharmacy grant amounts.
Housing agency gets flexible grant deadlines
The Department of Human Services must make grants available to the Illinois Housing Development Authority when the State distributes them. The housing authority is exempt from the specified Grant Funds Recovery Act deadline to spend or return that money. The change does not set a grant amount or change household eligibility for housing help.
State manages affordable housing funds
The law assigns an Illinois department to manage affordable housing funds used by the Illinois Housing Development Authority. The department can make agreements with government agencies needed for this role, following state and federal law. This provision sets no funding amount and does not change who qualifies for housing help.
University can transfer unused state property
The University of Illinois can sell, lease, or otherwise transfer surplus real estate and improvements to a state agency. Transfers can happen with or without payment. The Board of Trustees must find the terms serve the university's best interests and purposes. Sale proceeds remain subject to State Property Control Act requirements.
Community groups gain Illinois Works funding
Beginning July 1, 2024, annual transfers to the Illinois Works Fund rise from $20 million to $27.5 million. The money comes from the Capital Projects Fund and supports community-based organizations across Illinois. Transfers occur each July 1 or as soon afterward as practical. The provision does not set individual benefit amounts or eligibility.
Reserve supports public workers' retirement systems
The law creates the Tier 2 SSWB Reserve Fund for extra state contributions tied to specified Tier 2 earnings-limit adjustments. Distributions require an appropriation. Of each distribution, 5.1% goes to the State Employees' Retirement System and 83.3% to the Teachers' Retirement System. The State Universities Retirement System gets 11.6%. These are payments to retirement systems, not a stated payment formula for individual members.
Gaming operators can claim tax adjustments
Qualifying gaming owners can reduce privilege taxes when specified taxes leave after-tax receipts below their 2018 level, within an annual cap. Reductions become credits against the following year's payments, not refunds; owners authorized under the specified excluded license category cannot qualify. Expansion spending from June 28, 2019, through June 28, 2029, can raise the cap and extend relief. Expansion relief starts at $15 million in qualifying costs, excludes initial fees for added gaming positions, and stops after $75 million; relief cannot extend beyond the ninth calendar year after the initial adjustment year or exceed 4% of annual adjusted gross receipts. The specified construction credits require all construction contracts to include a project labor agreement with the local building trades council.
Covered vehicle violations carry $150 assessment
A person found in violation of Illinois Vehicle Code Section 15-109.1 owes a $150 assessment per violation. Half goes to the county general fund. The other half goes to the arresting local law enforcement agency or through the State Treasurer when a state agency arrests.
Drivers lose two special plate options
Beginning January 1, 2026, the law ends authorization for two special license plates. Drivers can no longer apply for or renew EMS Memorial Scholarship and Training plates under the repealed section. The same applies to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital plates. These provisions do not specify changes to other plate choices.
New charity license plates carry extra fees
Illinois residents can choose four new special plate decals by identifying the organization; receiving charities must follow state charity laws. Electrical Workers and Sons of the American Legion decals each cost an extra $25 initially and at renewal. Each organization's fund gets $10 initially and $23 per renewal for grants to its Illinois chapters or detachment. The 100 Club decal costs $45 initially and $27 at renewal, with $30 and $25 supporting fallen first responders' families and active responders' mental health. Youth Tennis Foundation decals cost $40 initially and at renewal, with $25 and $38 supporting youth tennis grants. The remaining fees go to the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund.
Farmers market technology assistance law ends
The law repeals the Farmers' Market Technology Improvement Program Act. Farmers' markets and participating farms lose that Act as a basis for technology improvement assistance. The provision names no replacement program or funding amount.
Animal abuse fund authorization ends
The Illinois Animal Abuse Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2027. The provision does not identify supported activities or explain how remaining money is handled. It does not specify changes to enforcement or related services.
Child abuse prevention fund authorization ends
The Child Abuse Prevention Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2026. The provision does not state its balance or explain how remaining money is handled. It does not identify prevention services that end or change for families.
Dedicated defibrillator fund section ends
The law repeals the Heartsaver AED Fund's State Finance Act section on January 1, 2027. This provision does not explain how remaining money is handled. It does not specify any change in access to automated defibrillators or related services.
Radioactive waste fund authorization ends
The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Closure, Post-Closure Care and Compensation Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2026. The provision does not explain how closure or later care will be financed afterward. It does not specify a new household charge or service change.
Some health nonprofits lose security grants
Beginning July 1, 2024, the state cannot award these nonprofit security grants to entities meeting the law's primary-purpose exclusion. The exclusion covers entities primarily providing reproductive or maternal health care and reproductive or maternal health counseling services. The provision does not state an award amount.
Veterans rehabilitation fund authorization ends
The Illinois Veterans' Rehabilitation Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2027. The provision does not state the balance or explain what happens to remaining money. It also does not identify veterans' services that end or change.
Youth substance prevention funding transfer pauses
The law pauses a transfer to the Youth Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Prevention Fund from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. The regular transfer from the General Revenue Fund equals $50 for each retail liquor license issued that fiscal year. The pause reduces money available for programs supported by this fund; it does not eliminate the programs.
Dedicated heart defibrillator grant fund closes
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, the Heartsaver AED Fund transfers its balance to General Revenue. The fund supported matching grants for automated external defibrillators. It closes after the transfer, with future deposits, obligations, and liabilities moving to General Revenue. Its establishing section is repealed January 1, 2027.
Youth prevention funding authorities wind down
Through June 30, 2026, general funds support the Youth Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Prevention Fund using a liquor-license formula. The transfer equals $50 times the number of retail liquor licenses issued for that fiscal year's license period. That transfer authority becomes inoperative afterward. The statutory sections for that fund and the Youth Drug Abuse Prevention Fund are repealed January 1, 2027. These provisions do not explain replacement funding or identify prevention services that end.
Education funding dedication paused for 2026
For state fiscal year 2026, the law suspends a required dedication of new school funds. In other years, new funds above $300 million go to specified education purposes, up to $50 million. The law does not specify where money freed from this requirement goes.
Emergency medical scholarship fund section repealed
The Illinois EMS Memorial Scholarship and Training Fund's State Finance Act section is repealed January 1, 2026. This provision does not explain how remaining money, scholarships, or training are handled.
Intercity rail subsidies face spending cap
From July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026, Road Fund spending on Illinois intercity rail subsidies cannot exceed $76 million. This is a ceiling, not a promise to spend the full amount. The provision does not specify fare or service changes.
Military funds face scheduled funding limits
The law ends the specified transfer authority for the Illinois Veterans' Rehabilitation Fund after fiscal year 2026. It also repeals the National Guard and Naval Militia Grant Fund's State Finance Act section on January 1, 2027. These provisions give no dollar amounts or direct changes to military or veterans' benefit eligibility.
Public airport loan fund authorization ends
The Airport Land Loan Revolving Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2026. That section names the fund as the source for appropriations supporting loans to public airport owners. The provision does not say whether another funding source replaces it. It does not change household loan terms.
Public airports lose land loan program
The law ends the Airport Land Loan Program for public airport owners and removes its transportation bond deposit authority. On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the remaining loan fund balance moves to the General Obligation Bond Retirement and Interest Fund. The loan fund closes, and the program section is repealed January 1, 2026. No transfer amount or replacement financing is specified.
Higher education research fund section ends
The law repeals the BHE Data and Research Cost Recovery Fund's State Finance Act section on January 1, 2027. It does not specify a replacement fund, balance transfer, or change to services used by households.
Returned college grants cannot be redistributed
Beginning when the law takes effect, the state cannot redistribute certain returned college grant money. The restriction covers remaining grants returned by institutions that failed to qualify as an independent college. The provision does not state how much money is affected.
Farm loan guarantee funds lose reserves
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state must move $6 million from the Illinois Agricultural Loan Guarantee Fund into general revenue. It must also move $4 million from the Illinois Farmer and Agribusiness Loan Guarantee Fund into general revenue. Transfers must occur as soon as practical. These transfers reduce loan guarantee fund balances but do not specify changes to borrowers' loan terms or eligibility.
Small business environmental fund provision ends
The Small Business Environmental Assistance Fund provision ends January 1, 2026. A separate transfer provision moves its remaining balance, future deposits, and outstanding obligations to the Clean Air Act Permit Fund. This repeal does not itself specify any change to business eligibility for assistance.
College retirement plans allow more marketing
The law expands permitted marketing in public college defined contribution plans and the State Universities Retirement System's deferred compensation plan. Recordkeepers can use participant information to offer nonplan products at a participant's request or the responsible board's or System's request. For public college plans, promoting credit cards, life insurance, or banking products requires a board or authorized delegate's request. Both rules allow public commercial-product links encountered during normal browsing of recordkeepers' or affiliates' websites. Participants gain access to optional offers, but their information can support marketing without their own request; purchases are not required.
Animal abuse fund joins livestock account
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, the Illinois Animal Abuse Fund balance moves to the Livestock Management Facilities Fund. Future deposits, debts, and obligations also move, and the Animal Abuse Fund closes. The related section is repealed January 1, 2027. The law does not state the balance amount.
Drug assessment money shifts toward enforcement
For covered felony and misdemeanor drug assessments, the Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund share rises from $28 to $66. The $38 Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal Fund share ends; the amount charged to individuals does not change. This covers specified controlled-substance, cannabis, and methamphetamine offenses. The projects fund supports authorized grants, drug task forces, Metropolitan Enforcement Groups, information projects, and related costs. Specified assessment deposits are divided equally among Illinois State Police drug task forces and Metropolitan Enforcement Groups.
Election funds merge into project fund
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the ERIC Operations Trust Fund transfers its remaining balance. The money goes to the Elections Special Projects Fund. The old fund closes, and its future deposits, unpaid obligations, and liabilities move to the receiving fund.
Habitat funding combines accounts and oversight
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the Illinois Habitat Endowment Trust Fund balance moves to the Illinois Habitat Fund. The trust fund closes, and future deposits, debts, and obligations move with it. The advisory committee reviews and recommends Habitat Fund allocations without waiting for the former $10 million endowment threshold. Revenue from Sportsmen Series license plates is excluded from that review. The law states no transfer or allocation amount.
Hazardous waste fund gains quarterly transfers
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Solid Waste Management Fund transfers $750,000 quarterly to the Hazardous Waste Fund. Transfers occur January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1. This moves $3 million per full year between the funds. The provision does not specify how the receiving fund spends the money.
Parole supervision fund merges into corrections
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the parole supervision fund transfers its remaining balance. The money goes to the Department of Corrections Reimbursement and Education Fund. The old fund closes, and future deposits, unpaid obligations, and liabilities move to the receiving fund. Its State Finance Act section is repealed January 1, 2026. These provisions state no change to parole services.
Police funding shares change; fund expires
Beginning July 1, 2025, motor vehicle insurance assessment revenue is divided among three law-enforcement funds. The State Police administration fund gets 10%, the State Police vehicle fund gets 10%, and law-enforcement training gets 80%. This replaces the prior 10%/90% split and does not itself set insurance premiums. Separately, the Police Training Board Services Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2027. That repeal does not specify whether training services change.
Police funding shifts toward vehicle costs
Through June 30, 2025, added insurance producer and car rental license-fee revenue is split 10% for police administration and 90% for training. Beginning July 1, 2025, police administration gets 10%, police vehicles get 10%, and training gets 80%. The law updates the training fund's revenue rule to match this allocation; it does not change these fees. It also repeals the Secretary of State Police DUI Fund's State Finance Act section on January 1, 2026. That repeal does not specify a change in DUI enforcement.
Police training funds merge and broaden
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, two funds transfer their balances to the Law Enforcement Training Fund. They are the Law Enforcement Recruitment and Retention Fund and Police Training Board Services Fund. Both close, passing future deposits, obligations, and liabilities to the training fund; intern-training fee revenue shifts there June 30, 2026. The recruitment fund's State Finance Act section is repealed January 1, 2027. Counties, school districts, and law-enforcement partners in the specified police-academy programs can seek public or private training and scholarship funding.
Radioactive waste money changes funding accounts
Civil penalties under two radioactive waste laws now go to the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facility Development and Operation Fund. This replaces deposits into the Closure, Post-Closure Care and Compensation Fund. The development and operation fund also replaces the former fund in interstate calculations for site care costs after closure. Cost sharing applies to compact states with resident waste generators when costs exceed available funds and other financial responsibility. States with less than 10% of the region's recorded annual waste volume remain excluded.
Road fund money shifts to police
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, $8 million moves from the Road Fund. It goes to the Illinois State Police Federal Projects Fund. The money must be used for purposes allowed by the Illinois Constitution's transportation-funding restrictions.
State police money shifts toward operations
The law requires a $10 million transfer from the State Police Services Fund to the State Police Operations Assistance Fund. The transfer is due July 1, 2025, or as soon as practical afterward. The provision does not specify which police activities receive support.
State shifts money toward brownfield redevelopment
The law requires $5 million to move from the Underground Storage Tank Fund to the Brownfields Redevelopment Fund. The transfer is due July 1, 2025, or as soon as practical afterward. The provision does not identify cleanup sites or grant recipients.
Cancer research funds move together
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, the Penny Severns cancer research fund transfers its remaining balance. The money goes to the Carolyn Adams Ticket For The Cure Grant Fund. The old fund then closes, with future deposits, obligations, and liabilities moving to the receiving fund. The old fund's establishing section is repealed January 1, 2027.
Children's charity funds move together
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the Children's Wellness Charities Fund transfers its remaining balance. The money goes to the Ronald McDonald House Charities Fund. The old fund closes, and future deposits, unpaid obligations, and liabilities move to the receiving fund. The transfer section is repealed January 1, 2026.
Crisis hotline fund receives temporary funding
Beginning July 1, 2025, the law requires $12.5 million to move into the Statewide 9-8-8 Trust Fund. The money comes from the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund, with the transfer made as soon as practical. Beginning June 30, 2026, the Secretary of Human Services can direct $12.5 million back to the medical cannabis fund. The provision does not specify changes to individual eligibility or service levels.
Drug treatment funding sources shift
Human Services uses approved Drug Treatment Fund spending for community and nonprofit residential or nonresidential treatment and prevention grants. The fund can receive deposits and support other uses allowed by law; no grant amount is guaranteed. The law redirects 12.5% of covered drug fines and assessments from the Youth Drug Abuse Prevention Fund. These proceeds support treatment, prevention, and education, including designated juvenile services, without changing fines owed. The law also removes income tax checkoff receipts as a stated source for the youth prevention fund.
Medicaid managed care enrollment counts broaden
Illinois no longer excludes Medicaid Medicare Alignment Initiative Plan enrollment months from managed-care member-month calculations. Those months can now count in the Department's totals. The provision does not specify changes to patients' coverage, benefits, or costs.
Schools get revised minimum funding rules
School funding floors for 2018–2019 onward use prior-year funding and specified district amounts. The 2022–2023 floor includes specified 2019–2022 enrollment corrections and fiscal year 2022 property tax relief grants. Regional programs use earlier state allocations; programs started after June 5, 2019, use first-year enrollment and the lowest-funded similar program's prior-year per-student amount. Programs with no students lose their floor the next fiscal year, and that money goes to other school units. A district leaving a special education cooperative can receive its share when the withdrawal agreement states the amount and goes to the State Board.
Worker protection fund gains broader uses
Civil penalties under the Job Opportunities for Qualified Applicants Act now go to the Child Labor and Day and Temporary Labor Services Enforcement Fund. Its former restriction to enforcing employer violations of that hiring law is removed. The fund also receives 20% of collected employer penalties that previously went to the Child Bereavement Fund. Subject to appropriation, it can support programs, demonstration projects, and enforcement activities under the hiring law and Family Bereavement Leave Act. These changes redirect penalty money without changing penalty amounts.
Agrichemical facilities gain reimbursement eligibility paths
Illinois agrichemical facilities gain ways to meet the historical-fee requirement for response-cost reimbursement. Facilities absent during 1991–1993 that did not pay those years' fees can make a one-time $1,500 payment. Facilities present during those years can pay unpaid $500 annual fees, but payment must arrive before the incident. These payments go to the Pesticide Control Fund. A replacement facility absent during 1991–1993 can instead request its discontinued predecessor's eligibility under the same ownership. That route requires $500 paid for each year from 1991–1993, completed closure requirements, and a written request for Department review.
Driver fees support broader office costs
The law names the account holding temporary visitor's license fees and the $5 adult driver education fee the DMV Transformation Fund. The Secretary of State can use it for broader office operations, not only temporary visitor's license costs. Allowed costs include staff, facilities, computer programming, and data transmission. Spending requires an appropriation. This provision broadens fee uses rather than creating a new fee.
Drug disposal fund moves to justice
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the remaining Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal Fund balance transfers. The money goes to the Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund. The disposal fund dissolves when the transfer finishes, and future deposits, obligations, and liabilities pass to the receiving fund. The transfer section is repealed January 1, 2026. The provision does not specify how disposal services change.
Specialty plate funds combine state accounts
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, two funds move into the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund. They are the Illinois EMS Memorial Scholarship and Training Fund and the St. Jude Children's Research Fund. Each former fund closes after its balance, future deposits, debts, and obligations move to the receiving fund. The St. Jude fund's State Finance Act section is repealed January 1, 2026. The law gives no balances or specific changes to scholarship awards, training, or hospital support.
State funds executive administration and grant oversight
The law requires $500,000 to move from the General Revenue Fund to the Governor's Administrative Fund. Another $100,000 moves from general revenue to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Fund. Both transfers are due July 1, 2025, or as soon as practical afterward. The provisions do not specify changes to household payments or services.
State funds must cover audit expenses
The Comptroller must order scheduled transfers from listed state funds to the Audit Expense Fund. The Treasurer must carry them out within 30 days after July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical. Each source fund's transfer follows the amount in the statutory schedule.
State program balances fund emergency reserve
By July 31, 2025, Illinois must transfer specified program balances into the BRIDGE emergency budget reserve. Major transfers include $15 million from medical cannabis, $10 million each from open-space grants and DHS community services, and $8 million from fire prevention. They also include $7.5 million from the Dram Shop Fund and $5 million each from criminal justice information, cannabis business development, public health special projects, and senior property-tax deferrals. Other transfers include $2.4 million from pension regulation, $2 million each from law-enforcement training and horse racing, and $500,000 from Illinois Works, alongside smaller transfers from regulatory, environmental, and agency funds. The reserve supports state appropriations when revenue is delayed or falls short, while source funds lose those balances.
State reserve money joins general budget
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the MPEA Reserve Fund balance moves to the General Revenue Fund. Future deposits, debts, and obligations also move, and the reserve fund closes. The related section is repealed January 1, 2026. The law does not state the transfer amount.
State shifts capital money between accounts
The law requires a $4 million transfer from the Capital Projects Fund to the Capital Development Board Revolving Fund. The transfer is due July 1, 2025, or as soon as practical afterward. The provision does not identify construction projects or direct household benefits.
Waste funding transfers continue through 2026
Illinois continues transfers from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the General Revenue Fund through fiscal year 2026. The Comptroller directs the transfers, and the Treasurer makes them monthly. Each installment is one-twelfth of $5 million, for $5 million per fiscal year. The provision does not specify how the receiving fund spends this money.
State can redirect identification security funding
During fiscal year 2026, the Secretary of State can redirect money to the Identification Security and Theft Prevention Fund. Caps are $400,000 from the Division of Corporations Registered Limited Liability Partnership Fund and $5.5 million from the Department of Business Services Special Operations Fund. Additional caps are $4 million from the Securities Audit and Enforcement Fund and $3 million from the Corporate Franchise Tax Refund Fund. The Secretary must direct the transfers and notify the Comptroller.
Public pension funding shifts in 2027
For fiscal years 2006 through 2026, available State Pensions Fund money must be appropriated to the State Universities Retirement System. The law delays broader retirement-system sharing of unclaimed-property deposits from fiscal year 2026 to 2027. Beginning in fiscal year 2027, the Treasurer must promptly divide those deposits based on each system's share of total actuarial reserve shortfalls. These payments add to, rather than replace, required state pension contributions. Both funding arrangements must leave at least $5 million in the State Pensions Fund.
Autism care money moves between funds
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, the Autism Care Fund balance moves to the Autism Awareness Fund. Future deposits, debts, and obligations also move, and the Autism Care Fund closes after the transfer. The related sections are repealed January 1, 2027. The law gives no transfer amount or direct change to eligibility or services.
Hospital transfers must protect unpaid obligations
After overdue hospital assessments and penalties are paid, the Department can move money from the Hospital Provider Fund. Transfers go to the Healthcare Provider Relief Fund. Enough must remain to cover all outstanding assessment-related payments owed to hospitals. The rule covers amounts overdue when House Bill 2771 takes effect. It starts on the later effective date of this law or House Bill 2771.
State research funds merge and expire
On July 1, 2025, or as soon afterward as practical, the Autoimmune Disease Research Fund's balance moves to the Multiple Sclerosis Research Fund. The old fund dissolves, and future deposits, obligations, and liabilities pass to the receiving fund. The transfer section is repealed January 1, 2026. The Penny Severns Breast, Cervical, and Ovarian Cancer Research Fund's statutory section is repealed January 1, 2027. These provisions do not identify research projects or patient services that change.
State shifts money into human services funds
On July 1, 2025, or as soon as practical afterward, the law requires transfers into Department of Human Services funds. Its State Projects Fund receives $5 million from the General Revenue Fund. Its Community Services Fund receives $15 million from the Criminal Justice Information Projects Fund. That community fund also receives $3 million from the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Fund. These transfers do not specify which projects or services receive money or change household eligibility.
Family housing money joins homelessness fund
On June 30, 2026, or as soon afterward as practical, the Housing for Families Fund balance moves to the Homelessness Prevention Revenue Fund. Future deposits, debts, and obligations also move, and the former fund closes after the transfer. Its State Finance Act section is repealed January 1, 2027. The law gives no transfer amount or change to who qualifies for housing help.
Housing and parks revenue gets split
Beginning July 1, 2025, the first $300,000 in yearly revenue collected under Property Tax Code Section 31-15 goes to the Governor's Administrative Fund. After required deposits, the remaining revenue is split among three funds. Affordable housing gets 50%, open-space acquisition and development gets 35%, and natural-area acquisition gets 15%. This allocation does not change household property tax bills.
Schools get later special education reimbursement dates
For claims payable in fiscal year 2026, school districts have until September 15 instead of August 15 to submit claims. The State Board of Education's first approved reimbursement voucher moves from September 30 to November 30. Other vouchers go to the Comptroller on December 30 and March 30, with the final voucher due by June 20. These dates change special education reimbursement processing, not the reimbursement amounts.
Tax receipts shift among state funds
For fiscal year 2026, 9.15% of specified individual, trust, and estate income-tax receipts goes to the Income Tax Refund Fund. The share for the other specified income-tax receipts is 14%; these are not household tax rates. The Commitment to Human Services Fund receives 1/26 of specified receipts after refund-fund deposits beginning February 1, 2025. Its earlier share was 1/30 from February 1, 2015, through January 31, 2025. Human-services deposits stop when either specified underlying income-tax rate is reduced.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
Elgie R. Sims, Jr.
Democratic • Senate
Mark L. Walker
Democratic • Senate
Napoleon Harris III
Democratic • Senate
Robyn Gabel
Democratic • House
Will Guzzardi
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/31/2025
Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 House Concurs
Yes: 74 • No: 41
House vote • 5/31/2025
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee;
Yes: 3 • No: 2
House vote • 5/31/2025
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 House Concurs
Yes: 74 • No: 41
House vote • 5/31/2025
Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Motion to Concur Recommends Be Adopted Rules Committee;
Yes: 3 • No: 2
Senate vote • 5/31/2025
Third Reading - Passed;
Yes: 32 • No: 23
Senate vote • 5/15/2025
Do Pass as Amended Executive;
Yes: 9 • No: 4
House vote • 4/7/2025
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed
Yes: 103 • No: 0
House vote • 3/5/2025
Do Pass / Short Debate State Government Administration Committee;
Yes: 8 • No: 0
Bill Text
Engrossed
Enrolled
Introduced
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Senate Amendment 2
Senate Amendment 3
Senate Amendment 4
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