Springfield Update 2019 all the Capital Switchboard and ask to be connected to your lawmaker to urge him/her to support or oppose these bills. Call the IFI office at 708-781-9328 Cfor their contact information. SUPPORT HB 340 repeals taxpayer funding of abortion. Sponsor is Rep. Patrick Windhorst (R-Harrisburg) Status: The bill is dead for this session. HB 341 amends the School Code to allow the national motto of “In God We Trust” to be displayed inside and outside of a public school building. Sponsor is Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville). Status: The bill is dead for this session. HB 342 amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Requires the DPH to create and maintain a list of immunizing agents derived from aborted fetal tissue; requires a health care provider to notify the parent that immunizing agent was derived from aborted fetal tissue; requires that, if available, an alternative immunizing agent be offered; and requires notification of the option to decline receipt of immunizing agent. Sponsor is Rep. Darren Bailey (R-Louisville). Status: The bill is dead for this session. HB 835 amends the Flag Display Act by reinforcing the flag’s symbolism and bringing honor to members of the Armed Forces who have lost their lives; provides for the location, dates and manner of display. Sponsor is Rep. Dan Swanson. Status: The bill unanimously passed out of committee, but unfortunately has been stalled. HB 1620 amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Requires if a child is born alive as a result of abortion, the physician in attendance shall exercise the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence to preserve the life and health of the child. Sponsor is Rep. Allen Skillicorn (R-Crystal Lake). Status: The bill is dead for this session. OPPOSE HB 15 creates new criminal penalties for “unlawful discrimination” under the Human Rights Act if a person “denies to another the full and equal enjoyment of the facilities and services of a place of public accommodation because of unlawful discrimination;” or by publishing, circulating, displaying, mailing, emailing communication that would affect the denial of services. For example: bakers, florists and photographers who refuse to provide their services for a same-sex wedding could receive a 3 to 6 month jail sentence. Sponsor is Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago). Status: The bill is dead for this session. HB 18 amends the School Code; requires the instruction in every public school on character education to include the “teaching of respect toward a person’s race or ethnicity or “gender.” (This could become a law that would require children be taught they must respect transgenderism.) Sponsor is Mary Flowers (D-Chicago). Status: The bill passed in the House and has stalled in the Senate. HB 208 amends the School Code by requiring every public school in K-12 to give “instruction, study, and discussion on the side effects of cannabis when the use of cannabis is not authorized by the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act.” (The problem we see with this bill is that it reinforces the (wrong) presumption that cannabis is medicine, which reduces the perception of risk, thereby increases use among children.) Sponsor is Rep. Mary Flowers (D-Chicago). Status: The bill is stalled in the House. HB 246 and SB 78 amends the School Code. It requires that the “teaching of history of the United States in public schools shall include a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people” in grades K-12. House sponsor is Anna Moeller (D-Elgin). Senate sponsor is Heather Steans (D-Chicago). Status: HB 246 bill passed in the House, passed out of a Senate committee and is awaiting a full Senate vote. Updated May 2019 OPPOSE continued... HB 252 amends the Human Rights Acts, which prohibits discrimination based on several categories including sexual orientation and gender identity, by changing the definition of “employer” as previously employing fifteen (15) employees to one (1) employee. Sponsored by Will Guzzardi (D-Chicago). Status: The bill passed in the House and is awaiting a vote in the Senate. HB 902 creates the Cannabis Legalization Equity Act. Allows persons 21 and older to grow up to 24 marijuana plants (24 plants would provide 23,040 joints as a low estimate!), possess up to 224 grams of marijuana (low estimate of 400 joints); requires “that at least 51% of the licenses issued by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for retail cannabis stores shall be in communities disproportionately harmed by the war on drugs.” Sponsor is Rep. Carol Ammons (D-Champaign). Status: Bill is dead for this session. HB 922 amends the School Code to require feminine hygiene products in boys’ bathrooms. Sponsor is Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia (D-Aurora). Status: The bill has stalled. HB 1442 amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to allow pharmacists to give contraceptives to adult women and minors without the patient having to see a physician (and without parents being notified). Sponsor is Rep. Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg). Status: The bill passed out of committee and has stalled. HB 2467 and SB 1594 repeals the Parental Notice of Abortion Act. House sponsor is Rep. Emmanuel Chris Welch. Senate sponsor is Sen. Elgie Sims (D-Chicago). Status: SB 1594 passed out of committee and has stalled. HB 2495 and SB 1942 repeals the Illinois Abortion law of 1975 including criminal penalties on doctors who commit abortion; repeals the Partial Birth Abortion ban, which allows babies to be killed up to the time of birth; removes any and all regulations on clinics that commit abortions; states that a fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under the law. House Sponsor is Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago). Senate sponsor is Sen. Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake). Status: Both bills are stalled, but we are watching them closely. HB 3023 amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Adds any building, real property, or parking area under the control of a church, synagogue, temple, mosque, or other place of worship, to the places where concealed carry of a firearm under the Act is prohibited. Sponsor is Rep. Yehiel “Mark” Kalish. Status: This bill is tabled. HB 3111 amends the Change of Name Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Deletes language barring certain persons convicted of crimes from petitioning for a change of name…unless the person verifies that the petition for name change is due to marriage, transgender status, religious belief, or status as a victim of trafficking. Sponsor is Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago). Status: The bill is dead for this session. HB 3534 amends the Secretary of State Act by requiring that all State forms and documents requiring the listing of gender designations or requiring persons to identify their gender shall include, as a gender designation, the term “non-binary.” Sponsor is Rep. Anne Stava-Murray (D-Downers Grove). Status: The bill passed in the House and awaits a vote in the Senate. HB 3640 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that “gender identity” means a person’s deeply felt, inherent sense of who the person is as a particular gender and that a person’s gender identity may be the same or different from the sex of the person assigned at birth. Includes gender identity (rather than just gender) within the definition of a hate crime. Sponsor is Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Chicago). Status: The bill is dead for this session. SB 7 is a 533-page bill that commercializes, legalizes and taxes high potency marijuana for recreational use; allows for people to grow marijuana in their homes; gives special discounts, grants or interest-free loans to individuals that have been “disproportionately impacted” by marijuana laws or have been “arrested for, convicted of ” selling or possessing marijuana. Sponsor is Sen Heather Steans (D-Chicago). Status: The bill passed out of committee and is moving. SB 1659 amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act by requiring students, upon entering the 6th grade of any public, private, or parochial school, to receive a human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. (Note: HPV is mostly contracted by sexual activity.) Sponsor is Sen. Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield). Status: The bill has been tabled. SB 2075 amends the School Code by lowering the compulsory school age from 6 to 5. Sponsor is Sen. Kimberly Lightford. Status: Passed in the Senate and is stalled in the House. P.O. Box 876 | Tinley Park, IL 60477 708-781-9328 | [email protected] | www.illinoisfamily.org .