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IllinoisSB2394104th General Assembly (2025–2026)SenateWALLET
FIRST 2025 GENERAL REVISORY
Sponsored By: Bill Cunningham (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
Summary
Creates the First 2025 General Revisory Act. Combines multiple versions of Sections amended by more than one Public Act. Renumbers Sections of various Acts to eliminate duplication. Corrects obsolete cross-references and technical errors. Makes stylistic changes. Effective immediately.
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132 provisions identified: 73 benefits, 19 costs, 40 mixed.
Immediate sealing after qualifying case outcomes
Qualifying records can be sealed immediately after an acquittal or dismissal with prejudice, even with other charges unresolved. The arrest or charge must date from January 1, 2018, or later. You must file with the circuit court clerk on the same day and during the same hearing as disposition. Statutory exclusions still apply.
Record relief after official authorization
A Governor's pardon or Prisoner Review Board certificate specifically authorizing expungement lets you file a verified court petition. You can seek arrest-record expungement and sealing of related court and Illinois State Police records. A Board certificate specifically authorizing sealing instead supports a verified petition to seal those records. Board-based relief also allows removal of your name from the specified official index. Courts must expunge a conviction after granting a certificate of innocence, or after the conviction is set aside and factual innocence is proved by clear and convincing evidence.
Record relief for trafficking survivors
Trafficking survivors can ask to vacate and expunge, or immediately seal, records for offenses caused by trafficking. You must meet the legal definition of a trafficking victim and have completed your last sentence. If challenged, you must show that victim status and the link to the offense are more likely true than not.
Fewer barriers to inpatient mental healthcare
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered plans cannot require prior approval for inpatient mental health admission at participating hospitals. The first 72 hours avoid review during treatment if the hospital reports admission and the initial treatment plan within 48 hours. Later review generally cannot deny coverage for those first 72 hours. After a retrospective denial of that period, billing through the denial date is limited, and patients generally owe only regular cost sharing. Exceptions include care not provided, no coverage, material misrepresentation, or excluded services; excluded care does not receive the patient billing protection. Discharge planning must prepare continuing care that meets patient needs and community preferences. State medical assistance remains subject to federal requirements and consent decrees.
More breast screening and imaging coverage
Illinois Medical Assistance and municipal self-insured employee plans cover baseline mammograms at ages 35–39 and annual mammograms starting at 40. Under 40, a family or personal cancer history, positive genetic testing, or another risk factor supports medically needed screening. Municipal coverage applies to all patients meeting these rules, not just women. Medical Assistance also covers medically needed ultrasound, MRI, and diagnostic mammograms, generally without cost sharing; an HSA-related high-deductible-plan exception applies. Group policies changed, issued, delivered, or renewed starting January 1, 2026, cover molecular breast imaging and whole-breast MRI for dense tissue or medical need.
Patients gain behavioral health coverage minimums
Covered policies issued, amended, delivered, or renewed from January 1, 2019, must cover at least 45 inpatient days and 60 outpatient visits yearly. These minimums cover mental, emotional, nervous, and substance use disorders, with no lifetime day or visit limits. Medication-management visits do not count toward outpatient limits and must be covered on the same terms as physical-illness visits. Qualifying policies changed after January 1, 2007, must add 20 outpatient speech-therapy visits for pervasive developmental disorders. Applicable policies changed from September 9, 2015, must cover medically necessary acute treatment and clinical stabilization; inpatient coverage includes qualifying state-certified or licensed residential centers.
Patients gain broader necessary behavioral care
From January 1, 2023, applicable insurers and Medicaid managed care plans must cover medically necessary mental health and substance use treatment. They cannot impose fixed treatment-length limits or cover only care that relieves current symptoms. Reviews must follow accepted professional standards, including American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria, without stricter added rules. Plans must approve the assessed care level, or the next higher level if unavailable, and generally cannot withdraw good-faith authorizations. Payment is not required for uninsured or Medicaid-ineligible service dates; authorizations based on material misrepresentation are not protected from withdrawal.
Medical debt relief avoids state income tax
For tax years beginning January 1, 2025, or later, eligible Illinois residents can subtract qualifying medical debt relief. The subtraction covers only relief included in federal adjusted gross income for that year. Relief must come from a nonprofit medical debt relief coordinator under the Medical Debt Relief Act. The subtraction lowers Illinois taxable income; the law sets no fixed tax savings.
Long-term care applicants face higher threshold
The law sets a July 1, 2012 start date for raising the long-term care need score from 29 to 37. The increase requires federal approval and covers applicants for institutional or home- and community-based care. Applicants below the higher threshold face restricted access if approval is granted. Without approval, the Department can instead use service-use controls or benefit changes to achieve similar savings.
State redirects money among major funds
At the Governor's direction, the law authorized General Revenue Fund transfers from June 7, 2023, through June 30, 2024. Caps were $1.5 billion for the State Coronavirus Urgent Remediation Emergency Fund and $424 million for the Build Illinois Bond Fund. It also provides up to $350 million for the Fund for Illinois' Future, again at the Governor's direction. That provision gives a July 1, 2024, start and June 30, 2024, end, so the stated dates conflict.
Broader protections for behavioral health coverage
Behavioral health protections cover diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and prescription drugs under specified individual, group, marketplace, and Medicaid managed care plans. Plans must provide hospital or medical coverage; their outside care reviewers must follow these protections too. Insurers cannot weaken the protections through contract terms or how they apply them. Insurers also cannot reject otherwise covered, medically needed care merely because a public program could pay. That rule excludes Medicaid managed care and does not require coverage for benefits a public program already approved and provided.
Care residents gain access to advocates
Long-term care, supportive living, assisted living, and shared housing facilities must allow designated ombudsmen immediate access to residents. They must post the Long Term Care Ombudsman Office's address and phone number in visible public places. Private talks require the participant's consent, and record review generally requires permission from the resident or legal representative. Special record-access rules apply when a resident cannot consent and has no guardian. Entry into private homes or community settings requires the participant's or representative's permission.
Dependent coverage opens to qualifying parents
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered Illinois policies offering dependent coverage must make it available to qualifying parents and stepparents. The relative must meet the federal tax definition of a qualifying relative and live within the policy's service area. Exclusions include specified specialized, Medicare supplement, hospital-only, accident-only, and specified-disease policies.
Fewer insurance barriers to addiction treatment
Applicable plans changed, issued, delivered, or renewed since January 1, 2019, cannot require step therapy for FDA-approved addiction medications. Prior approval cannot exceed American Society of Addiction Medicine criteria; brand and generic drugs belong on their lowest applicable tiers. Court orders cannot exclude medication, counseling, or wraparound services, and additional diagnoses cannot reduce specified treatment benefits. For specified treatment, timely provider notice replaces prior approval: within two business days for non-managed-care insurers, or the agreed protocol within 24 hours for managed care. Managed care allows one extra business day if notice cannot be accepted; without required notice, normal prior approval may apply. Providers must give seven business days' notice before planned discharge and notice that day; non-managed-care insurers must promptly explain external-review rights and follow expedited-review deadlines.
Frequent hospital patients gain mobile care
Plans issued, amended, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026, must cover medically necessary mobile integrated health care. Eligible people include those with at least three emergency department visits in four consecutive months during the past 12 months. A provider can also identify someone likely to avoid admission or readmission, or leave the hospital, through these services. This benefit does not include nonemergency ambulance transport.
Health plans cover longer postpartum care
Covered Illinois health policies and managed care plans must cover care during the first 12 months after a pregnancy ends. This applies to plans changed, issued, delivered, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026. Patients must remain enrolled when they receive care. Permitted limits on doula home visits still apply.
Home care residents gain complaint advocates
With sufficient funding, Illinois's Long Term Care Ombudsman Program may help eligible people living at home or in community settings. This includes adults age 60 or older and adults with disabilities ages 18–59. Participants must qualify for a state medical-assistance waiver or a managed care organization serving seniors and people with disabilities. Advocates can investigate complaints about participants' health, safety, welfare, or rights.
Lower out-of-pocket costs for pregnancy care
Beginning January 1, 2026, many covered pregnancy and postpartum services have no cost-sharing, such as deductibles or copays. The rule excludes home-birth care and inpatient or residential mental health care. It also excludes substance use disorder care at ASAM Level 3.1 or higher. An exception applies when removing cost-sharing makes a high-deductible plan lose health savings account eligibility.
Medicaid patients can choose refurbished equipment
Medicaid and its managed care plans can offer refurbished durable medical equipment through the state assistive technology reuse program. Patients need a prescription or Certificate of Medical Necessity and cannot already receive the same or similar equipment elsewhere. Available equipment must be safe, properly reprocessed, last at least three years, and meet the patient's needs as well as new equipment. Its cost, including shipping, must be lower than equivalent new equipment; patients retain the choice of new equipment without added managed care approval conditions. Prosthetic and orthotic devices, complex rehabilitation technology, and associated services are excluded.
Medicaid patients gain broader HPV vaccination
Medical Assistance must cover and reimburse a federally approved human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine for eligible people ages 9 through 45. Prior approval for vaccine administration is prohibited. Coverage for people age 46 or older requires federal approval. They must also have cervical dysplasia at high risk of returning or progressing.
Medicaid patients gain formula coverage
Medical Assistance must cover and reimburse amino acid-based elemental formulas for patients with an eosinophilic disorder or short bowel syndrome. A prescribing doctor must provide a written order stating that the formula is medically necessary. Coverage applies regardless of how the formula is delivered.
Medicaid patients get cancer care navigation
Since January 1, 2016, adult Healthcare and Family Services care networks must offer an American College of Radiology-certified breast imaging center. All care networks must arrange timely cancer navigation and access to an in-network cancer program accredited by the Commission on Cancer. The breast cancer navigation pilot starts in high-mortality areas and compares patient outcomes and care costs. From July 1, 2016, it includes at least one site each in western, southern, and central Illinois, and four in metropolitan Chicago. Primary care providers earn an unspecified bonus for meeting the state's annual mammogram goal for female patients over age 40.
Medicaid payment errors cannot erase claims
Medicaid cannot deny or reduce payment solely because responsibility was wrongly assigned between managed care and fee-for-service Medicaid. The service must be covered and medically necessary, and the provider must have relied in good faith on documented eligibility information. The protection does not cover people who were ineligible for Illinois Medicaid. Resolution policies must address extra filing time and retroactive approval; fee-for-service cases must receive an extended claims period. Resulting out-of-network services must receive at least the current fee-for-service rate plus applicable add-ons.
Medicaid plans face standard approval rules
The state must adopt standard managed care approval rules before July 1, 2025, for services on or after that date. Rules cover published policies, appeal forms, repeat medical reviews, peer-to-peer reviews, and urgent and standard post-hospital care requests. They also address payment for specified complex inpatient services and long-term acute-care hospital admissions. Expanded outside audits must check clinical standards, consistency across Medicaid systems, and approval request and outcome data. The state must report findings to lawmakers each April.
More support after pregnancy loss
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered Illinois plans provide specified mental health and substance use benefits after miscarriage or stillbirth. Other diagnoses cannot reduce or block those benefits. Hospitals holding a fetus after spontaneous fetal death at 20 or more completed weeks must explain stillbirth certificate rights. They must provide the state notice form, available in English and Spanish; the law requires notice, not automatic certificate issuance.
Patients gain independent behavioral health reviews
Plans must share behavioral health medical-necessity criteria on request, including with potential members and contracting providers. Members requesting denial reasons must receive understandable explanations within a reasonable time. When an insurer disputes treatment necessity, it must supply supporting information and arrange timely independent review. The patient or representative, treating provider, and insurer jointly choose an unaffiliated reviewer with the same license and specialty. A favorable finding requires reimbursement; insurers cannot retaliate against participating providers, and patients may agree in writing to self-pay during review.
Patients gain major jaw injury coverage
Policies issued, amended, delivered, or renewed from January 1, 2026, must cover medically necessary care for major jaw injuries. The injury must result from an accident or disease. Covered care includes specified oral and facial surgery, implants, crowns, bridges, prosthetics, orthodontics, prosthodontics, and ear, nose, and throat treatment. Plans may use the same cost-sharing limits as other related benefits.
Patients gain no-cost preventive health visits
Beginning January 1, 2025, covered plans must provide liver disease screenings without cost-sharing for high-risk people ages 35 through 64. These include liver ultrasounds and alpha-fetoprotein blood tests every six months. Beginning January 1, 2026, qualifying policies must cover an annual menopause health visit without cost-sharing for people age 45 or older. The menopause rule applies to policies covering more than 25 employees that are issued, amended, delivered, or renewed from that date. Both requirements have an exception when coverage would disqualify a high-deductible plan from health savings account eligibility.
Patients gain no-cost respiratory virus vaccines
Plans issued, amended, delivered, or renewed from January 1, 2026, must cover COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines without cost-sharing. Coverage includes administration fees. Vaccines must be federally authorized or licensed and ordered and given under the federal advisory committee's standard immunization schedule. No-cost coverage also applies when a contracted pharmacist or provider cannot otherwise administer the covered vaccine. An exception applies when coverage would disqualify a high-deductible plan from health savings account eligibility.
Pregnant Medicaid patients get addiction help
Prenatal providers must immediately recommend a referral when they suspect a pregnant person has a substance use disorder. Referrals must go to a licensed local treatment program or a licensed hospital offering substance abuse treatment. Healthcare and Family Services, working with Human Services, must assure treatment coverage for pregnant Medical Assistance recipients. Those agencies cannot sanction a recipient solely because of substance abuse. Sanctions for other reasons remain allowed.
School employees gain required insurance benefits
School-district insurance benefits must include coverage required by Sections 356z.74 and 356z.77 of the Illinois Insurance Code. This applies to employees covered by those district benefits. The supplied provision does not describe those benefits or specify coverage amounts, premium changes, or an effective date.
Seniors gain Medicare supplement switching rights
Beginning January 1, 2025, Medicare supplement policyholders ages 65–75 get an annual 45-day switching window starting on their birthday. The replacement must come from the same insurer or an affiliate authorized in Illinois. Its benefits must be equal to or less than the current policy's benefits. Insurers cannot deny or condition coverage, or vary prices, based on health, claims history, medical conditions, or use of care.
School bond taxes can exceed limits
Districts can exclude certain school bond payments from the aggregate property tax extension limit. The exclusion covers principal and interest on bonds issued under School Code Section 17-2.11. It also covers bonds that refund those bonds, including later refunding rounds. Affected property taxpayers can face taxes outside that limit; the law sets no household increase.
License holders face impairment compliance checks
License holders with impairment-related terms, conditions, or restrictions must follow them. Failure to comply requires referral to the Secretary. The Secretary decides whether to suspend the license immediately while a Department hearing is pending.
Detention rules cover specified felony charges
The State can seek pretrial detention for specified nonforcible felonies requiring prison based on the charge or criminal history. Conviction must rule out probation, periodic imprisonment, and conditional discharge. The State must file a verified petition alleging a real, present safety threat supported by specific facts. The law also lists aggravated discharge involving a machine gun or a firearm with a silencing device as a detention ground. For that firearm charge, the State must allege a specific safety threat and prove detention requirements by clear and convincing evidence.
More criminal records qualify for sealing
More arrest, supervision, and conviction records qualify for sealing, subject to statutory exclusions. Some qualify immediately; others generally require 2 years after supervision or 3 years for specified convictions and first-offender probation. A new qualifying education credential earned during a sentence or mandatory supervised release can allow sealing when the last sentence ends. That exception excludes an educational goal completed beforehand, and specified arson, sex-offense, and violent-offense registration duties block sealing while active. Expungement generally requires 2 or 5 years after satisfactory supervision, or 5 years after qualified probation; specified vehicle misdemeanors committed before 25 require waiting until 25, subject to limits involving other vehicle convictions.
Families gain maternity coverage with limits
Beginning January 1, 2026, qualifying Illinois plans must cover listed doula and licensed certified professional midwife services. Coverage includes home births, necessary equipment and supplies, home visits, and support during labor, miscarriage, or abortion. Plans may cap doula home visits at 16 before and 16 after each event, and doula coverage at $8,000 per pregnancy and postpartum period. Plans must also cover lactation home visits, breast pumps and supplies, plus consultant-recommended breastfeeding supplies and feeding aids. Prescribed at-home urine pregnancy tests are covered, even when sold over the counter, with a limit of two every 30 days.
Hospitals face updated stroke care standards
Illinois must designate applying Primary and Comprehensive Stroke Centers with approved national certification based on current evidence-based guidelines. Designations continue while certification remains valid and renew automatically when Illinois receives renewed certification; hospitals must report lost certification or unmet standards within five business days. Starting on the first day of the month beginning 12 months after rule adoption, Illinois must try to designate Acute Stroke-Ready Hospitals. Those hospitals can qualify through certification or by attesting to standards covering teams, testing, treatment, transfers, patient records, and quality checks. Hospitals using attestation must review care policies annually; applicants pay an annual fee, and Illinois can survey hospitals and suspend, revoke, or refuse designation renewal.
Four districts received school borrowing authority
The law authorized school bonds up to $40 million for Williamsville District 15 and $105 million for Berkeley District 87. It also authorized $33 million for Maroa-Forsyth District 2 and $3.5 million for Greenview District 200. Funds were limited to projects approved by voters on March 17, 2020. Each board had to adopt a resolution supporting the work and meet the law's debt-limit provisions. Williamsville and Maroa-Forsyth addressed aging buildings; Berkeley addressed outdated facilities and safe learning spaces; Greenview expanded its kindergarten-through-grade-12 facility. Bonds had to be issued within five years of that vote, so those issuance windows have passed. Williamsville, Maroa-Forsyth, and Greenview bonds had 25-year maturity limits. This was borrowing authority, not a grant; repayment can create local costs, but no household tax amount is set.
School funding follows enrollment and withdrawals
For 2018–2019 and later school years, minimum school funding uses prior-year funding and specified additional amounts. Regional programs established after June 5, 2019 also have initial minimum-funding rules. Regional-office and intermediate-service-center programs with zero enrollment lose their minimum the next fiscal year; that money goes to other school units. A district leaving a special education cooperative may receive the minimum funding attributable to it. The district and cooperative must state the amount in their withdrawal agreement and send it to the State Board.
Schools get revised funding need calculations
Illinois calculates school funding needs using staffing, enrollment, student needs, facilities, administration, and regionally adjusted salaries. Formula amounts include $40 per student for gifted services, $125 for staff development, $190 for materials, and $1,038 for maintenance and operations. The local-resource formula accounts for grades served, property values, tax limits, receipts above the local target, and specified pension contributions. Its weighted-percentile calculation is capped at 90%; laboratory schools and regional alternative education programs use a 10% local-capacity percentage. Each year, Illinois must update per-student benchmarks for gifted services, materials, assessment, activities, maintenance, and central offices using expense studies and financial reports.
Three districts can finance school upgrades
Elmwood Park District 401 can borrow up to $55 million for school additions, renovations, safety, and site work. Schiller Park District 81 can borrow $30 million for replacement-school, safety, accessibility, land, and site projects. Iroquois County District 9 can borrow $17.125 million for school construction, existing facilities, and site improvements. Voters must approve projects at elections on or after March 17, 2020, for Elmwood Park and Schiller Park. Iroquois County's eligible election date starts April 6, 2021. Bonds must be issued within five years after the vote, and funds can support only approved projects. Boards must document facility needs and authority to exclude the debt from statutory limits; Schiller Park must also address enrollment growth and modern learning spaces. Original and refunding bonds have 25-year maturity limits in Elmwood Park and Iroquois County, and 27 years in Schiller Park. Borrowing supports facilities but creates repayment costs; the law sets no household tax amount.
Child welfare specialists gain address privacy
Illinois child welfare employees with the title Child Welfare Advanced Specialist can use their work address on state ID applications. They can list that address instead of a home or mailing address.
Sex crime victims can seek sealing
Victims can ask the county State's Attorney to petition to seal court clerk records after qualifying sex crime convictions. Covered crimes include criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, and criminal sexual abuse or aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Arresting-agency and Illinois State Police records remain unsealed. Courts may allow public inspection of trial records for good cause.
Identity theft victims can correct arrests
People whose identity was used without permission in an arrest can file a verified petition with the circuit's chief judge. The petition goes to the court where the arrest occurred. The court may remove the victim's name and substitute the offender's name if known or ascertainable. The clerk's records are sealed and the victim's name leaves the official index, subject to limits on previously issued indexes and false-name records.
Surviving spouses can keep military plates
The law updates which special military plates a surviving spouse can keep. The spouse must live in Illinois and transfer registration into their name within 180 days after the service member's death. Only plates covered by the listed vehicle-law provisions qualify.
Children gain earlier behavioral crisis monitoring
The state must identify and analyze signs that children face elevated behavioral health crisis risks. Where state and federal law allow, it must share those signs with contracted managed care and similar care-coordination organizations. The state must reassess the indicators yearly and guide organizations toward stabilizing services and early intervention.
Insurance requirements reach more health plans
The state employee health program must provide coverage required by six listed Insurance Code sections. County and municipal self-insured employee plans must include benefits from two added sections. Health maintenance organizations must follow five added sections, and limited health service organizations must follow three. Health services plan corporations and related parties must follow four added sections. These provisions extend insurance requirements, but the supplied text does not describe the referenced benefits or their dollar value.
Limits on mandatory Medicaid plan expansion
The state cannot expand mandatory Medicaid managed care beyond counties designated as of June 1, 2014, for the specified population. This applies to people whose eligibility is not based on being a senior or having a disability. Expansion must wait until accountable care entities and managed care organizations have an opportunity to participate in the new counties.
Medicaid covers depression screening after pregnancy
Beginning July 1, 2022, Medical Assistance covers perinatal depression screenings for otherwise eligible people. Screenings must occur during the 12 months beginning on the last day of pregnancy. Providers must use a screening tool approved by the Department.
Medicaid must follow another coverage requirement
Medical Assistance must provide the coverage required by Section 356z.75 of the Illinois Insurance Code. The supplied provision does not identify the service or benefit. Its specific effect on members cannot be determined from this text.
Medicaid plans must update provider networks
A plan's payment responsibility starts on the latest of three dates: contract signing, complete approved roster submission, or state enrollment. Plans must add new practitioners of existing contracted providers to directories within 30 days after receiving a complete, accurate roster. Those practitioners must already have effective state enrollment. Plans must confirm receipt of complete physician or dentist network-change information within three days and update online directories under federal rules. Specified network-adequacy exceptions must limit admission and treatment to Medicaid-certified providers or facilities.
Newborn parents get milk donation information
Hospitals with licensed obstetric beds must give newborns' parents free milk-donation information when the newborn leaves the hospital. Materials must explain milk banking and list nearby nonprofit banks accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America or its successor. Hospitals can provide materials electronically. Donation remains voluntary.
Patients gain coverage for hair prostheses
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered Illinois plans must cover at least one wig or scalp prosthesis every 12 months. Hair loss must result from alopecia, chemotherapy, or radiation treatment for cancer or other conditions.
Patients retain drug coverage during shortages
Beginning January 1, 2026, covered Illinois plans must cover an eligible brand-name drug during a qualifying generic shortage. The generic drug or a therapeutic equivalent must be unavailable because of supply problems, and the dose cannot be adjusted. Coverage continues until the generic or equivalent is available. The provision does not set a patient cost-sharing amount.
Protection for residents reporting care problems
The law protects long-term care residents and workers who contact or give information to the state ombudsman's office. Intentionally retaliating against them or discriminating against them is a business offense. Intentionally blocking an ombudsman representative's official work is also an offense. The fine is up to $501.
Counselor training approval can include rehabilitation
The state can set rules for approving graduate programs used to qualify for professional and clinical professional counselor licenses. Programs considered for approval may include rehabilitation counseling, professional counseling, clinical professional counseling, psychology, and similar fields. A rehabilitation counseling degree is not automatically approved.
Qualifying groceries gain state tax exemption
Beginning January 1, 2026, qualifying food sold for eating away from the sale location is exempt from Illinois tax. Alcohol, adult-use cannabis foods, soft drinks, candy, and food prepared for immediate eating are excluded. A separate exemption covers prepared food transferred with taxable services by specified licensed care or child-care providers. Entities with a Life Care Facilities Act permit also qualify for that prepared-food exemption. The provisions do not state a household savings amount.
Qualifying leases receive state tax exemptions
Illinois exempts lessees' use of software under qualifying written licenses and property covered by qualifying local lease taxes. For leases beginning January 1, 2025, or later, qualifying lease receipts are also exempt from state tax. Software agreements need both parties' signatures; authenticated electronic signatures qualify, but clicking “I agree” alone does not. Licenses must restrict copying and use, and require permission and continued control for transfers outside related parties. The licensor must document a policy allowing archival copies or replacement copies at little or no cost. Copies must be returned or destroyed when the license ends; perpetual licenses satisfy this requirement automatically. The local-tax exemption requires a home-rule lease-tax ordinance adopted before January 1, 2023.
Illinois builders get state bidding preference
State construction agencies must make reasonable efforts to hire Illinois businesses. When an out-of-state firm also bids, qualifying projects carry a 4% base-bid preference for the lowest responsible, responsive Illinois bidder. Projects must exceed the procurement code's small-purchase maximum. Eligible firms must have operated and been headquartered in Illinois for at least one year, meet applicable state tax requirements, and offer construction services when advertised. The preference does not apply when it conflicts with federal rules on federally funded projects. Agencies must report Illinois business use, project locations, utilization shares, and improvement efforts by December 1 each year. Neither the preference nor the hiring effort guarantees a contract.
Federal objections require air permit action
Illinois must submit a revised covered air permit after federal environmental regulators object in response to a petition. If Illinois fails to do so, federal regulators must modify, terminate, or revoke the permit. The rule covers permits issued after the 45-day review period and before the federal objection.
Permit compliance protects irrigation wastewater reuse
Following an Illinois environmental agency permit authorizing wastewater reuse for irrigation satisfies the relevant water-pollution prohibition. The protection covers only reuse that follows that permit's terms. It does not exempt unpermitted wastewater reuse.
Specialty court judges need relevant training
Judges assigned to veterans and servicemembers courts or mental health courts must have relevant experience and training. They must also receive continuing education on required topics, including confidentiality.
Voters no longer handle separate ballots
Illinois election authorities must use the ballot form prescribed in Article 16 of the Election Code. The law removes the exception for matters covered by Article 8A. It also removes instructions requiring voters to deliver a separate representative ballot and judges to place it in a separate box.
Public reports help families compare care
Licensed long-term care facilities must complete consumer information reports for a public database run by the state long-term care ombudsman. The office can check reports, request updates, and add compliance records, satisfaction surveys, and quality measures. For facilities under the ID/DD Community Care Act or MC/DD Act, special forms involve the Attorney General and Human Services. Human Services makes those facilities' information public.
Emergency agencies must stock overdose medicine
State and local agencies employing police officers or firefighters must keep opioid-reversal medicine. They must set policies for buying, storing, transporting, and giving it. Those policies must include training on how to give the medicine.
Emergency medical directors can suspend providers
An emergency medical services director can suspend an individual provider from the local emergency medical system. This authority applies when the provider is considered not to meet the system's approved program plan. The rule adds no duty for patients.
Emergency medical suspensions need written reasons
An emergency medical services Medical Director must document an immediate suspension based on imminent danger to the public. The written order must state the suspension's length, terms, and reason. The requirement applies to the Director, not patients.
Hospitals gain more stroke center pathways
Illinois must try to designate qualified applicants as Thrombectomy Capable, Thrombectomy Ready, or Primary Stroke Centers Plus. Certification standards must follow current nationally recognized, evidence-based stroke guidelines. Designation lasts while certification remains in good standing. Hospitals must notify the health department and regional emergency medical advisory committee within five business days of learning certification or standards lapse.
Hospitals get simpler overdose program enrollment
Licensed hospitals and University of Illinois hospitals meet overdose-program enrollment standards once they complete enrollment. They no longer need proof of a standing order or an attestation of program requirements. Enrolled qualifying hospitals can receive state fentanyl test strips for distribution, subject to approved funding.
Local groups can get overdose grants
Illinois Human Services can award grants for local overdose prevention, recognition, and response. Grants can fund opioid-reversal medicine and fentanyl test strips. Eligible applicants include health departments, correctional institutions, hospitals, universities, community groups, and faith-based groups. Applicants must follow the Department's application schedule and process. Awards must consider overdose rates, increases in overdoses, and racial disparities in communities served.
Medicaid providers get claim correction time
When Medicaid or a managed care plan requires non-electronic claims, providers get at least 90 business days to correct rejected claims. That period starts when the provider receives the rejection notice. Late-filing denials are limited to claims submitted beyond 180 days after the latest service date or beyond the 90-business-day correction period.
Medicaid providers get payment timing protections
Medicaid managed care plans must pay complete claims within 30 days or notify the billing party they cannot process them. Late-payment penalties must at least match the Insurance Code's timely-payment interest penalty. Plans must calculate and pay interest automatically within 30 days after paying the claim, and report it separately. Providers on the state's expedited list must receive payments at least as often as the state's expedited fee-for-service schedule. Documented, mutually agreed interim payments can satisfy that rule; the state must share the list and schedule at least monthly.
Stronger checks on mental health insurers
Illinois insurance and medical-assistance agencies must review parity complaints, audit treatment limits and denials, and publish findings. They may require comparisons explaining how plans design and apply treatment limits. Insurers and Medicaid managed care plans must train behavioral health reviewers annually and share criteria and training materials free on request. Reviewer consistency tests require at least a 90% pass rate, immediate correction of failures, testing before new staff work unsupervised, and agency reporting. After notice and a hearing opportunity, violating insurers face fines of $1,000–$5,000 per violation, paid into the Parity Advancement Fund.
Chicago renames noncitizen student advisory board
Chicago's school board renames its Diversity Advisory Board the Non-Citizen Advisory Board. The advisory body supports noncitizen students' opportunity to succeed in elementary and secondary school. It advises the school board on issues affecting those students and their families. The provision creates no student payment or new benefit eligibility.
More candidates qualify for labor panels
Experience representing private employers now counts toward appointment to the Illinois Labor Relations Board's State and Local Panels. Other qualifying experience includes representing public employers or unions, teaching labor relations, and administering relevant orders or regulations. Appointees still need at least five years of directly related experience. They must live in Illinois when appointed.
Olympic mandate costs regain reimbursement review
State mandate reimbursement rules now apply to qualifying costs of the specified 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games mandate. The law removes the prior exemption from those reimbursement rules. It does not set a reimbursement amount.
Utilities gain excavation notice volume exceptions
Some increases above historical averages in non-emergency excavation notices or dig-site notification areas count as beyond a utility's reasonable control. The requests must come from underground utility owners, operators, or their contractors or subcontractors. The exception excludes large projects that provided at least 60 days' notice.
Utility goals include low-income communities
Illinois electric utilities serving more than 500,000 customers must include low-income communities in their reliability and safety goals. This requirement applies within the system that links utility rates to performance. It does not guarantee a specific service improvement or a lower household bill.
Breast care providers get payment standards
Beginning January 1, 2012, the Department pays qualifying providers Medicare rates for screening and diagnostic mammograms. Providers must join a Department-approved quality improvement program. Payments include increased digital mammography rates and, after January 1, 2023, breast tomosynthesis rates. Beginning January 1, 2017, participating breast cancer treatment providers receive at least 95% of Medicare rates for program-covered data elements. These are provider payment rules, not direct payments to patients.
Care facilities gain monthly billing procedures
The Department must establish monthly reimbursement claim procedures for licensed skilled care facilities. It must also establish monthly procedures for facilities licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act and MC/DD Act. Required system testing and changes support implementation. The law does not set a start date or change residents' benefit amounts.
Medicaid raises dental sedation provider payments
Beginning January 1, 2025, Medicaid raises certain dental sedation payments by 33%, subject to federal approval. The increase is measured against rates in effect December 31, 2024. It covers sedation evaluations, deep sedation, and intravenous sedation, but not nitrous oxide. Payments go to providers; the law does not promise lower patient costs.
Improving school districts can receive more
Eligible districts can receive annual intervention money added to their minimum school funding. Eligibility includes prior-year Tier 1 or Tier 2 status, the required state-control history, a five-year plan, and academic, financial, and governance progress. The State Board reports a proposed amount by January 2; lawmakers must approve it or take no action for 40 calendar days. Districts must report progress by November 30 during their first four funding years. Insufficient progress or financial reporting can lead to a new or extended Financial Oversight Panel.
Public university leaders face contract limits
The law limits president and chancellor contracts at the University of Illinois, Chicago State, Eastern Illinois, and Governors State. It covers contracts made, changed, renewed, or extended after January 1, 2017, but excludes collective bargaining agreements. Severance cannot exceed one year's salary and applicable benefits. Fixed-term contracts cannot exceed four years, and automatic rollover clauses are banned.
Licensed cannabis businesses get tax deductions
For tax years beginning January 1, 2023, or later, qualifying Illinois cannabis businesses can subtract federally disallowed business deductions. The deductions must be disallowed under federal Section 280E and not otherwise added back under Illinois income tax law. Businesses must operate in Illinois with a license under the state's adult-use or medical cannabis laws. This lowers Illinois taxable income, not federal taxable income.
Covered vehicle violations carry $150 assessments
Courts must order a $150 conditional assessment for each sentenced violation covered by Vehicle Code Section 15-109.1. Half goes to the county general fund. Half goes to the arresting agency, or the State Treasurer when a state agency makes the arrest.
Later felonies limit record sealing
A felony conviction after earlier felony records were sealed blocks sealing later felony convictions under this rule. The court can also order the previously sealed felony records reopened.
Legion decals cost drivers $25
Drivers choosing a Sons of the American Legion decal pay $25 for the first issue and each renewal. Grants to the Illinois Detachment receive $10 from each first issue and $23 from each renewal. The Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund receives the remaining $15 and $2, respectively.
Olympic physical therapy license exception ends
Physical therapists can no longer use the exception tied to the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games licensing law. Ordinary physical therapy licensing requirements apply. The removed exception applied only while that 2016 law was operable.
Service-related property leases face state tax
Beginning January 1, 2025, Illinois applies a 6.25% tax to property leased as part of a service sale. The taxable amount cannot be less than the service provider's cost of the property. The resulting cost depends on the covered transaction.
Public access narrows for protected records
Illinois agencies must withhold additional protected records from public records requests. These include data provided under the Statewide Recycling Needs and Assessment Act. They also include information protected by laws covering lawful health care, human rights, money transmission, and student-athlete endorsement rights. Only records within the referenced laws' protected categories are covered.
Witness protection fund loses state money
The law requires a $25 million transfer from the Violent Crime Witness Protection Program Fund to the General Revenue Fund. The transfer date is July 1, 2024, or as soon afterward as practical. It reduces the witness protection fund's balance, but the text does not specify service cuts.
Medicaid providers face claim filing deadlines
Initial and resubmitted Medical Assistance claims generally must arrive within 180 days after the claim's latest service date. Late claims cannot be paid. Retroactive-eligibility claims have 180 days from the Department's eligibility decision. When another payer pays first, the deadline is 180 days after that payer's final decision. Exceptions cover specified enrollment processing, Department errors, Department-initiated monthly billing, and certain local-government providers.
Medicaid vendors face conditional enrollment
Illinois Medical Assistance vendor enrollment is conditional for one year, with limits based on the vendor's risk category. The Department can apply added screening, oversight, and review during that period. It can terminate or disenroll a vendor without cause, generally without a hearing. A removed vendor can reapply without penalty.
Medical equipment suppliers need approved accreditation
Durable medical equipment suppliers must obtain approved accreditation to bill the Department for equipment supplied to Medical Assistance recipients. The accrediting organization must be federally approved and recognized by the Department. Suppliers must comply no later than 15 months after the applicable Department rule takes effect.
Stroke centers pay annual data fees
Facilities with specified stroke-center designations must pay an annual fee of $100 to $500. The Illinois Department of Public Health sets the fee within that range. Payments go into the Stroke Data Collection Fund. The law does not require patients to pay this fee.
Commercial building code timing protection ends
The law removes a code-timing protection for new or substantially improved commercial buildings in places without building codes. It had locked requirements to January 1 of the permit-application year, or construction-start year when no permit was needed. Those requirements had stayed fixed for the permit or construction period. The provision does not identify replacement requirements or establish a change in construction costs.
Workers’ compensation insurers pay annual surcharge
Qualifying workers’ compensation insurers pay a 1.092% annual surcharge on the previous year's applicable direct written premiums. The Director charges it within 15 days after June 5, 2024, and each July 1 afterward, until repeal January 1, 2027. Insurers must state the charge separately to employers, and unpaid amounts face a 10% monthly penalty. The surcharge supports the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission Operations Fund. Self-insuring employers avoid the company-collected surcharge if they paid the separate required operations fee.
Endowment gift credits trigger tax addbacks
Trusts, estates, and partnerships must add back federal deductions for endowment gifts that also receive Illinois Gives tax credits. The amount of the federal deduction is added to income used for Illinois tax. This limits the combined state benefit of the deduction and credit. The provisions specify no fixed tax increase or start date.
Vendors face monthly tax discount cap
For returns due January 1, 2025, or later, vendors' combined tax-collection discounts cannot exceed $1,000 per month. The cap covers use, service use, retailers' occupation, and service occupation taxes. It also includes applicable local taxes administered by the Department of Revenue and reported on the same return. Vendors previously claiming larger combined discounts keep less money for collecting tax.
Drug testing rules for record relief
Specified felony sealing and felony qualified-probation expungement petitions must include proof of a drug test. The test must be taken within 30 days before filing and show no illegal substances defined by the cited laws. Courts cannot deny expungement or sealing because a test taken within those 30 days shows cannabis. These rules do not themselves clear or seal records.
Optional driver decals fund community grants
Drivers choosing the electrical workers' decal pay $25 initially and at renewal; $10 and $23, respectively, fund local union chapter grants. The 100 Club decal costs $45 initially and $27 at renewal; $30 and $25, respectively, fund its grants. Those grants support children and spouses of first responders killed on duty and mental health resources for active-duty responders. The youth tennis foundation decal costs $40 initially and at renewal; $25 and $38, respectively, fund Illinois youth tennis grants. For all three decals, the remaining $15 initially and $2 at renewal goes to the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund.
Record petition fees include a waiver
Illinois State Police and circuit court clerks can charge record-relief petition fees up to their respective processing costs. Clerks deposit $10 of the total filing fee into their operations and administrative fund. The State Police share goes into the State Police Services Fund. The expungement-petition fee is waived when the same record was previously sealed under this law's record-relief section.
Sealing protects records, not unpaid debts
Courts cannot deny sealing solely because you owe most court, law-enforcement, or government debts. Victim restitution is excluded from this protection unless converted to a civil judgment, and debts remain collectible. On a motion, courts can release necessary sealed records solely to collect an obligation from the criminal case. Clerks can also access sealed records for that purpose. Released records cannot enter the official index and must be sealed again immediately after collection.
Antique vehicle owners must affirm safety
Owners applying to register an antique vehicle must affirm that it meets the required condition standard. Its glass, brakes, lights, mechanical and physical condition, and appearance must be the same as or as safe as originally equipped. The provision states no separate fee or penalty amount.
Medicaid record sharing requires signed permission
Providers must release health information when a Medicaid managed care plan requests it and the member signed a general insurance-carrier release. This sharing can support care coordination, but also gives the plan access to the member's health information. Disclosure remains subject to federal health privacy law and other applicable laws.
Foreclosure challengers pay their own lawyers
When an owner with redemption rights challenges a lender's certified foreclosure expenses, each side pays its own objection-related costs. That includes lawyer fees. The law removes the prior express qualification tied to Civil Procedure Section 2-611. Owners bear their own costs but are not assigned the lender's objection-related costs under this rule.
Day care transportation rules become lighter
Beginning July 1, 2026, day care centers are exempt from the specified driver-qualification, state-verification, and related enforcement rules. Group homes and child care institutions must still follow those rules. The change reduces requirements for centers and removes those transportation safeguards for their riders.
Large-city tow trucks need safety tests
Tow trucks owned or operated by local governments with populations of at least 1 million must pass applicable safety tests. They must also obtain a safety certificate instead of using the specified testing exemption.
Medicaid providers get payment dispute review
The state must maintain a portal for unresolved managed care denials or partial denials of provider payment. Providers must first use the plan's internal dispute process and wait at least 30 days before filing with the state. Filing deadlines are 30 days after an unsatisfactory internal resolution or 60 days after submission to the plan. The state presents the dispute to the plan and may grant one 30-day extension. At the provider's request, the state may issue a final written decision, with no right to an administrative hearing.
State funds receive grant oversight money
The law requires two $500,000 transfers from the General Revenue Fund to the Grant Accountability and Transparency Fund. The dates are July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, or as soon after each date as practical. These are state fund transfers, not direct household payments.
Chicago sports authority can pledge assets
The Chicago Sports Facilities Authority can secure bonds with its property or income. This includes rents, rates, fees, charges, and other receipts payable to or received by the Authority. The law sets no bond amount or new household payment.
Port bond interest limits change reference
Covered district bonds now use the Bond Authorization Act to set their maximum interest rate. This replaces references to the 1970 public-corporation bond interest-limit law. Affected districts include Southwest Regional, America's Central, and White County port districts. The provision states no new numerical rate.
Port districts gain more financing options
Jackson-Union Counties and Joliet port districts can use airport income to repay revenue bonds, payable solely from specified facility income. Shawneetown and Waukegan port districts can also use airfield and airport income for revenue-bond repayment. Covered districts, including Southwest Regional Port District, can use climatron income to repay revenue bonds. America's Central Port District can issue bonds to acquire, build, rebuild, expand, or improve airports, airfields, terminals, port facilities, and related property or equipment. Its general obligation bonds require voter approval; revenue bonds do not.
Public authority borrowing has rate ceiling
For Authority notes and bonds issued after July 1, 1983, the law sets a three-part interest-rate ceiling. The ceiling is the highest of the Bond Authorization Act maximum, 11% yearly, or 70% of the prime commercial rate. The prime rate is measured when the contract is made. This sets a borrowing limit, not the actual interest rate or a household payment.
Public borrowers face revised debt rules
Build Illinois bonds issued in fiscal year 2025 can have unequal principal or required redemption amounts. For debt limits, lease and installment payments count as interest as designated or as tied to financed bonds. Otherwise, a notional-debt calculation uses the highest lawful rate, or 12% when no rate limit exists. References to the Illinois Coal and Energy Development Bond Act still include the General Obligation Bond Act. References to the School Construction Bond Act no longer receive that treatment.
Local development debt gains voter safeguards
Municipalities may finance economic development projects by ordinance using pledged revenues or assets, with applicable maturity limits of 38 years. They may levy annual property taxes for full-faith-and-credit debt, reduced when other money is available. For covered debt or property-tax pledges, a petition filed within 21 days after publication can require voter approval. Signatures must equal at least 15% of those voting for mayor or president in the last general municipal election; majority approval at a regular election is required, with specified home-rule and special-service-area exclusions. Within 180 days after each fiscal year, uncommitted special tax allocation surplus must go through the county collector to taxing districts, matching the latest project-area property-tax distribution proportions.
Early classroom projects can skip referendums
Beginning September 1, 2024, school districts can build or buy instructional buildings without a referendum to add early classrooms. The board must first adopt a resolution finding that the project increases pre-kindergarten or kindergarten classroom space. This gives districts a simpler approval path but removes the required public vote for qualifying projects. The law specifies no project cost or funding source.
Four school borrowing windows remain closed
These school bond exceptions exclude covered debt from usual limits, but their issuance deadlines have passed. Prairie Grove District 46 had a $30 million cap for projects approved in 2008, with issuance due December 31, 2012. Prairie Hill District 133 had a $13.9 million cap for projects approved April 17, 2007, with issuance due December 31, 2011. Mascoutah District 19 had a $55 million cap for new-high-school projects approved on or after November 4, 2008, with issuance due December 31, 2011. Wilmington District 209-U had a $2.285 million cap for projects approved March 21, 2006, with issuance due March 1, 2011; all four authorities required board findings about building needs and restricted proceeds to approved projects.
Growing school districts gain borrowing options
Qualifying school districts can borrow up to $5.5 million above their usual debt limit. Boards must find that passenger-rail improvements cause projected enrollment growth of at least 7% in each of the next two school years. They must also find that school improvements are needed because of that growth. Districts that used this authority before July 22, 2004 can seek additional voter-approved borrowing. Under that option, total debt cannot exceed 25% of taxable property's equalized assessed value.
Monticello and Milford borrowing windows closed
Monticello District 25 had authority for up to $35 million in bonds outside usual debt limits. The district formed from Milford Districts 280 and 233 had similar authority for up to $17.5 million. Both covered school projects approved by voters on or after November 4, 2014. Boards had to find a new building necessary because of an existing building's age and condition, and proceeds were limited to approved projects. Bonds had to be issued by July 1, 2020 and mature within 25 years; the issuance deadline has passed.
Older school borrowing deadlines have passed
Sandoval District 501 had authority to borrow up to $2 million for projects approved on March 20, 2012. Its board had to document the need to replace its aging elementary school and qualify for a debt-limit exemption. Bonds had to be issued by March 19, 2022. Bureau Valley District 340 had authority to borrow $25 million for renovation, construction, and demolition approved at elections on or after March 15, 2016. Its board had to document aging-building needs and a debt-limit exemption. Bureau Valley bonds had to be issued by July 1, 2021, with maturities no longer than 30 years. Both issuance deadlines have passed; funds were restricted to approved projects. These borrowing powers supported school facilities but created repayment obligations, without setting household tax amounts.
Past school construction borrowing deadlines remain
These four school bond exceptions exclude covered debt from usual limits, restrict spending to voter-approved projects, and have expired issuance deadlines. Belle Valley District 119 had a $47.5 million cap for projects approved on or after April 7, 2009; issuance was due March 31, 2014, with maturity within 30 years. West Washington District 10 had a $32.2 million cap for Okawville school work approved on or after February 2, 2010; issuance was due March 31, 2014, with maturity within 25 years. Cahokia District 187 had a $50 million cap for projects approved on or after November 2, 2010; issuance was due July 1, 2016, with maturity within 25 years. Lebanon District 9 had a $7.5 million cap for projects approved February 2, 2010, with issuance due April 1, 2014; all four required board findings about facility needs.
Peoria keeps older school lease exception
Peoria District 150 can exclude qualifying public building commission leases from usual debt limits when awarded state school construction grants. The exclusion cannot exceed the grants awarded by the State Board of Education or Capital Development Board. Only leases signed from January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2011 qualify. That period has ended, so newly signed leases do not qualify.
School borrowing tied to voter approval
North Shore District 112's authority covers up to $150 million for building and site projects approved on or after March 15, 2016. Hall High School District 502's authority covers up to $32 million for a new school approved on or after April 9, 2013. Both authorities exclude covered debt from usual debt limits and restrict proceeds to voter-approved projects. Boards must find the work necessary because of building age and condition; Hall's rule also requires full demolition or preservation only of the 1914 west wing. Bonds must be issued within five years after the vote and mature within 30 years; North Shore's maturity rule also covers refinancing bonds.
School renovation bonds carry local costs
Brookfield LaGrange Park District 95 received $20 million in borrowing authority for Brook Park Elementary and S. E. Gross Middle School. Voter-approved additions and renovations required board findings about enrollment growth, outdated facilities, modern learning spaces, and debt-limit exemption authority. Eligible votes started April 4, 2017. Komarek District 94 received $20.8 million for voter-approved school building and site work, with eligible votes starting March 17, 2020. Its board had to document aging-building needs and debt-limit exemption authority; original and refunding bonds have 30-year maturity limits. Both districts had to issue bonds within five years after the vote and use funds only for approved projects. The stated issuance windows have passed; the borrowing supports facilities but creates repayment costs, without setting household taxes.
Schools gain construction debt limit exceptions
Districts with approved state construction grants can exceed usual debt limits to finance the project's non-grant share. They must have an approved facilities plan, receive a grant entitlement, lack enough borrowing capacity, and obtain voter approval afterward. Bonds cannot exceed the Capital Development Board's certified non-grant amount and must fund the approved project. Separately, qualifying bonds under School Code Section 19-3.5 are excluded from usual debt limits when combined debt stays within 18.5% of assessed taxable property value. For qualifying bonds under Section 19-3.10, that ceiling is 43%, using the latest assessment for state and county taxes.
Two districts gain refinancing debt exceptions
Ridgeland District 122 can issue up to $50 million to refinance bonds voters approved on November 7, 2000. The refinancing bonds are excluded from usual debt limits, can be issued in multiple rounds, and must mature within 25 years. East Prairie District 73's bonds approved November 8, 2016 are excluded from usual debt limits, up to $47,353,147 in principal. That exclusion also covers bonds refinancing the covered debt; bonds may mature within 25 years. These exceptions change borrowing treatment, not a household's tax amount.
Two districts received building bond authority
Paxton-Buckley-Loda District 10 received authority to borrow up to $28.5 million for voter-approved school building projects. Eligible votes were on or after November 8, 2016. Hillsboro District 3 received authority for $34.5 million in school building and site projects, with eligible votes starting March 15, 2016. Both boards had to document aging-building needs and eligibility for a statutory debt-limit exemption. Funds were limited to approved projects, with bonds issued within five years after the vote. Original and refunding bonds must mature within 25 years. The stated issuance windows have passed; borrowing supported facilities but added repayment costs, without setting household taxes.
Waltham school debt uses redevelopment funds
Waltham District 185 received authority for up to $9.5 million in debt for a new school, equipment, and site improvements. The board had to document aging-building needs and debt-limit exemption authority. Repayment agreements had to pledge redevelopment tax funds from LaSalle I, LaSalle III, and Utica I, with extensions allowed for repayment. A November 8, 2016 advisory vote favored building without higher property tax rates, but did not guarantee household tax rates. Debt had to be incurred by January 1, 2021, a deadline that has passed. Debt and repayment bonds have 25-year maturity limits; the project financing also creates repayment obligations.
Wolf Branch gains mine damage financing
Wolf Branch District 113 can issue up to $17.5 million in bonds to repair or replace a mine-damaged school. Covered bonds and refinancing bonds are excluded from usual debt limits. State education or Capital Development Board grants specifically for that work reduce the maximum debt eligible for the exclusion. Bonds and refinancing bonds must mature within 25 years after issuance.
Financial firms change Illinois income calculations
For tax years ending December 31, 2024, or later, financial organizations use receipts to assign investment and trading income. The Illinois share uses specified Illinois receipts divided by total receipts included in the formula. This replaces the method based on income assigned to fixed business locations. A firm's Illinois tax can rise or fall depending on its receipts.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Bill Cunningham
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Ann M. Williams
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 5/31/2025
Third Reading - Short Debate - Passed
Yes: 117 • No: 0
House vote • 4/30/2025
Do Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee;
Yes: 11 • No: 0
Senate vote • 4/9/2025
Third Reading - Passed;
Yes: 56 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/19/2025
Do Pass State Government;
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Public Act . . . . . . . . . 104-0417
8/15/2025SenateEffective Date August 15, 2025
8/15/2025SenateGovernor Approved
8/15/2025SenateSent to the Governor
6/27/2025SenatePassed Both Houses
5/31/2025SenateThird Reading - Short Debate - Passed 117-000-000
5/31/2025HouseAlternate Chief Sponsor Changed to Rep. Ann M. Williams
5/31/2025HouseThird Reading/Final Action Deadline Extended-9(b) May 31, 2025
5/23/2025HousePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading - Short Debate
5/16/2025HouseSecond Reading - Short Debate
5/16/2025HousePlaced on Calendar 2nd Reading - Short Debate
4/30/2025HouseDo Pass / Short Debate Executive Committee; 011-000-000
4/30/2025HouseAssigned to Executive Committee
4/17/2025HouseReferred to Rules Committee
4/11/2025HouseFirst Reading
4/11/2025HouseChief House Sponsor Rep. Robyn Gabel
4/11/2025HouseArrived in House
4/9/2025HouseThird Reading - Passed; 056-000-000
4/9/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading
4/9/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading **
4/4/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 3rd Reading April 1, 2025
3/20/2025SenateSecond Reading
3/20/2025SenatePlaced on Calendar Order of 2nd Reading March 20, 2025
3/19/2025SenateDo Pass State Government; 009-000-000
3/19/2025SenateAssigned to State Government
3/4/2025Senate
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