Springfield Legislative Update - Illinois Family Institute

The deadline for bills to get a committee hearing was last Friday, March 10th. Unfortunately, several have had their deadlines extended and are listed below. The danger is that some of these are the worse bills and have been given a second chance to be passed.

Abortion Bills

SB 1909 aims to close pregnancy care centers. It allows for the Attorney General to investigate any of a long list of complaints of “deceptive practices.” It allows fines of up to $50,000 to be imposed. The deadline was extended to March 24th.

Please click HERE to email your state senator to oppose SB 1909.

SB 218 allows physician assistants to prescribe Schedule I, II, III, IV, and IV drugs including abortion drugs. No hearing is scheduled, but you can still email your state senator. The deadline was extended to March 24th.

Please click HERE to email your state senator to oppose SB 218.

HB 999 establishes Department of Public Health women’s clinics around the state that will include “birth control services,” which will include abortions. No hearing is scheduled, but you can still email your state senator. The deadline was extended to March 19th.

Please click HERE to file a witness slip against HB 999. (If the system won’t allow you to leave a space blank, type in self, or citizen, or voter, etc.) The bill is scheduled for a hearing on Thursday, March 16 at 8:30 a.m.

SB 1344 passed out of committee and now goes to the Senate floor. SB 1344 mandates abortifacient and gender transition hormonal therapy coverage in all Illinois insurance policies.

Please click HERE to email your state senator to oppose SB 1344.

Your Personal Health Records Made Available

HB 2039 passed out of committee and now goes to the House floor. HB 2039 allows for your personal health records to be sent to your local health department “for the purpose of preventing or controlling disease…” and allows the Dept. of Public Health, the Dept. of Human Services, and the Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services to “adopt any rules necessary to implement the Act.”

Please click HERE to email your state representative and urge him/her to oppose HB 2039.

All-Gender Multiple-Occupancy Restrooms Legalized

HB 1286 passed out of committee and now goes to the floor. HB 1286 legalizes and allows construction or conversion of “multiple occupancy restrooms” into “all-gender restrooms” complete with urinals, stalls, partitions, and signage so that both sexes may use the same multiple-occupancy restroom at the same time.

Please click HERE to email your state representative to oppose HB 1286.

Misc. Bills That Have Passed Out of Committee

HB 1596 now goes to the House floor. HB 1596 deletes gender-specific pronouns in numerous laws.

Please click HERE to email your state representative, urging him/her to oppose HB 1596.

HB 3 now goes to the House floor. HB 3 removes from the definition of “neglected child” as one who is born with a controlled substance in their system and removes in law that such a mother is unfit.

Please click HERE to email your state representative, urging him/her to oppose HB 3.

HB 1591 now goes to the House floor. HB 1591 will make Illinois a destination for same-sex couples if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision which struck down state bans on same-sex “marriage.” In that case, many states could opt to ban same-sex “marriage” in their state once again. HB 1591 will repeal three specific statutes in Illinois’ Marriage Law. These sections are the obstacles for same-sex couples residing in another state who want to marry and then go back to their state with a valid “marriage” license.

Please click HERE to email your state representative to oppose HB 1591.

HB 2118 now goes to the House floor. HB 2118 allows any supplier (not just a pharmacy) to sell any amount (rather than a limit of 100) of hypodermic needles to anyone over 18.

Please click HERE to email your state representative to oppose HB 2118.

HB 2572 now goes to the House floor. HB 2572 bans funds from going to any groups that help people struggling with same-sex attraction. Amounts currently owed to any such groups would be cancelled.

Please click HERE to email your state representative to oppose HB 2572.