Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

SUPPORT:

• HB1129 – Introduced – Provides that at any facility where abortions are performed shall offer any woman seeking an abortion after 8 weeks of gestation an opportunity to receive and view an active ultrasound of her unborn child.
• HB1139 – Introduced – Requires a 48 notice to an adult family member of a physicians intent to perform an abortion on a minor.
• HB1333 – Introduced – Prohibits abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, reinstates the partial-birth abortion ban, and allows doctors and hospital staff the right to refuse to perform, assist in, or provide facilities for abortion procedures based on moral, ethical, or religious objections.
• HB1335 – Introduced – Requires that any live child born after an abortion be recognized as a human person and granted immediate legal protection.
• HB1336 – Introduced – Requires that at least 48 hours’ notice be given to an adult family member before an abortion is performed on a minor.
• HB1340 – Requires that a physician performing an abortion after 8 weeks must offer an active ultrasound to the mother.
• HJRCA0003 – Introduced – Prohibits a person from knowingly perform an abortion on a minor or legally disabled person without providing at least 48 hours’ notice to an adult family member or legal guardian.

• HB1404 – Introduced – Restores cash bail.
• HB1407 – Introduced – Adds home invasion, where the defendant commits criminal sexual assault against anyone in the dwelling, to the definition of “sex offense.”

• HB1097 – Introduced – Allows parents to use audio recording devices during meetings with their child’s individualized education program team.
• HB1113 – Introduced – Allows school boards to employ or accept as a volunteer a certified chaplain to provide support and services in their school.

• HB1067 – Introduced – Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. (Companion to HB1221)
• HB1221 – Introduced – Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. (Companion to HB1067)
• HB1232 – Introduced – Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.
• HB1233 – Introduced – Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act to require that a Firearm Owner’s Identification Card may only be revoked after a circuit court hearing has been held.
• HB1343 – Introduced – Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.

• HB1140 – Introduced – Prohibits a person charged with involuntary sexual servitude of a minor or trafficking involving a victim under 18 from pleading to lesser offenses.

• SB0050 – Introduced – Protects children’s privacy in connection with companies offering online services.

• HB1117 – Introduced – Provides that an athletic team or sport designated as being female is available only to participants who are female based on their biological sex. (Companion to HB1204)
• HB1209 – Introduced – Classification by Biological Sex Act. Sets forth the meaning of the following terms as used in any statute or any rule or regulation: sex; female and male; woman and girl; man and boy; and mother and father.
• HB1214 – Introduced – Prohibits sex-reassignment procedures for patients younger than 18 years of age.
• HB1216 – Introduced – Provides that an athletic team or sport designated as being female is available only to participants who are female, based on their biological sex.

• HB1269 – Introduced – Requires a school district that administers a self-report survey to its students, revealing personal, protected information, to first obtain written consent from the student’s parent or guardian.

• HB1316 – Introduced – Requires school officials to immediately inform the principal if they become aware of any threat of gun violence on school grounds.

OPPOSE:

• HB1019 – Introduced – Lowers the legal drinking age to 18 (instead of 21) so long as a parent or guardian is present, including at licensed establishments.

• HB0075 – Introduced – Provides for enhanced penalties for hate crimes.
• SB0046 – Introduced – Deletes the current provision when sentencing someone for a crime that the sentence is necessary to deter others from committing the same crime.

• HB1143 – Introduced – Creates the Compassionate Use and Research of Entheogens Act and establishes the Illinois Psilocybin Advisory Board.

• HB1177 – Introduced – Imposes a 3.75% surcharge on firearms and firearm component parts.

• HB1374 – Introduced – Requires that questions about the safe storage of firearms in a child’s home be included in every health examination.

WATCH:

• HB1231 – Introduced – Adds committing a crime against a police officer by reason of their status as a police officer to the list of hate crimes.

• HB1405 – Introduced – Imposes harsher penalties for illegal weapon possession.
• SB0008 – Introduced – Prohibits a firearm owner from storing any firearm where a minor or prohibited person can gain access to it.