NOTE: The Illinois General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Legislators are focused on finalizing the FY 26 state budget. If they fail to pass a budget by May 31st, a super majority (3/5 vote) will be required to pass the budget—rather than a simple majority.
The following are disability-related bills and/or issues pending in the Illinois General Assembly that are scheduled to be heard in committee for the period of May 27, 2025 to May 31, 2025:
House Appropriations-Elementary & Secondary Education Committee
May 27, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Capitol Building, Room 118
Springfield, IL
HB 1879, Representative Terra Costa Howard
Appropriates $4,500,000 to the State Board of Education for grants to school districts to contract with organizations that directly provide students and school-based staff with mental telehealth services that are billed to Medicaid and commercial insurance plans. Effective July 1, 2025.
- To file an electronic witness slip on HB 1879: Click
To file an electronic witness slip on SB 1920: Click
House Appropriations-Public Safety & Infrastructure Committee
May 27, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Stratton Building, Room C-1
Springfield, IL
HB 1438, Representative Kevin John Olickal
Appropriates $1,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the
Independent Corrections Ombudsperson for the Office’s ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2025.
- To file an electronic witness slip on HB 1438: Click
House Human Services Committee
May 28, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Stratton Building, Room C-1
Springfield, IL
HR 171, Representative La Shawn K. Ford
Urges the Illinois General Assembly to reconsider the repeal of the 2013 Medicaid funding trigger law and to protect those who may be impacted by federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid funding cuts. Urges the Illinois General Assembly to take decisive budget actions in the healthcare arena and to aggressively advocate for Medicaid protection and expansion to ensure no vulnerable resident is left behind and no hospital, clinic, or emergency department is threatened out of existence.
House Appropriations-Health and Human Services Committee
May 29, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Capitol Building, Room 114
Springfield, IL
HB 2364, Representative Maurice A. West, II
Appropriates $16,358,900 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services Rehabilitation Services Bureau for grants to independent living
centers. Effective July 1, 2025.
- To file an electronic witness slip on HB 2364: Click
HB 3076, Representative Maurice A. West, II
Appropriates $7,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human
Services for the purpose of making a grant to the Illinois Network of Centers for Independent Living to administer and implement the Home Modification Program. Effective July 1, 2025.
- To file an electronic witness slip on HB 3076: Click
HB 3162, Representative Maurice A. West, II
Makes various appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of
Human Services and the Illinois Housing Development Authority for housing program
and related services for formerly incarcerated individuals. Effective July 1, 2025.
HB 3268, HA 1, Representative Hoan Huynh
Provides legislative findings. Appropriates specified amounts to the Department of
Public Health for grants, expenses, and administrative costs of programs relating to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus; the Getting to Zero-Illinois plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030; the prevention, screening, and treatment services to address sexually transmitted infection cases; and the PrEP4Illinois Program to provide client navigation for pre-exposure prophylaxis services and medication access. Contains other provisions. Effective July 1, 2025.
- To read the full text of HB 3268: Click
- To read the full text of HA 1: Click
- To file an electronic witness slip on HB 3268: Click
Senate Executive Committee
May 28, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Capitol Building, Room 212
Springfield, IL
HB 1085, Senator Karina Villa
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Establishes reimbursement rates for mental health and substance use disorder treatment services for all group or individual policies of accident and health insurance or managed care plans that are amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2027 or for any contracted third party administering the behavioral health benefits for the insurer. Requires a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after January 1, 2026 or any contracted third party administering the behavioral health benefits for the insurer to cover certain medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder treatment services. Provides that, if the Department of Insurance determines that an insurer or a contracted third party administering the behavioral health benefits for the insurer has violated a provision concerning mental health and substance use parity, the Department shall by order assess a civil penalty of $1,000 for each violation. Excludes certain health care plans serving Medicaid populations who are enrolled under the Illinois Public Aid Code or under the Children’s Health Insurance Program Act from provisions concerning mental health and substance use parity. Requires the Department to review the impact of the proposed mental health and substance abuse mandate on network adequacy for mental health and substance use disorder treatment and access to affordable mental health and substance use care. Permits the Department to examine out-of-network utilization and out-of-pocket costs for insureds for mental health and substance use treatment and services for all plans to compare with in-network utilization. Effective immediately.
NOTE: If you wish to take any action regarding any of these bills/issues, you may wish to file an electronic witness slip and/or or submit oral or written testimony to the committee holding the hearing and/or contact the members of the committee conducting the hearing and/or the legislators in your home district. The names, addresses, and telephone numbers of all legislators, both Representatives and Senators, can be found on the Illinois General Assembly website at www.ilga.gov. You may check this website to find out if any of the committee hearing dates or times have been changed, which may happen upon very short notice.
For additional information, please contact:
Cheryl R. Jansen
Public Policy Director
cherylj2@equipforequality.org
217-303-8543
