➤ Improves remedy 14.5 Prohibition of Firearms at the emergency protection order making issuing the order more consistent across the state

➤ Removes notice and opportunity to be heard language and creates a process for effectuating the removal of the firearms

➤ Language was included in HB676 HA 1, a firearm omnibus bill

➤ Omnibus bill passed the House but did NOT pass the Senate

➤ Creates a remedy for someone to bring against someone else who revealed their personal information such as their name, phone number, address, employer information, and location for malicious and harmful purposes

➤ Anti-Defamation League bill

➤ Passed both houses and was signed by the Governor, PA103-439.

➤ Creates consistency in the timing of when survivors can petition for resentencing

➤ Clarifies that there must not be any substantial evidence of domestic violence presented at trial

➤ Ensures all victims of gender-based violence are included, such as sexual assault and trafficking victims, so that they have the ability to make a petition

➤ Passed both Houses and was signed by the Governor, PA103-403

➤ Will prevent future youth trafficking survivors from being given extreme penalties after being convicted for acts of self-defense

➤ Adds critical mitigating factors to the Juvenile Court Act and Unified Code of Corrections

• During sentencing, judges will be able to consider life-altering trauma like domestic and sexual violence, and sexual exploitation, and can choose to depart from an extreme mandatory sentence so that a youth will not endure additional harms in an adult prison.



• A judge can also reflect on a child’s involvement in the child welfare systems or identify other negative influences that may have led to a youth experiencing sex trafficking.

➤ Passed both Houses and was signed by the Governor, PA103-191

➤ Provides that entities who operate automated license plates reader shall not share or transfer ALPR information

• Currently license plate reader information that is collected by private entities is being used to locate survivors and others.

➤ Removes notice and opportunity to be heard language and create a process for effectuating the removal of the firearms

➤ Bill passed and was signed by the Governor, PA103-540

➤ Provides that an individual or group of policy of accident and health insurance amended, delivered, issued, or renewed in the state on or after January 1, 2024, shall provide coverage for all abortifacients, hormonal therapy medication, human immunodeficiency virus pre-exposure prophylaxis and post-exposure drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and follow up services related to that coverage

➤ Bill passed and was signed by the Governor, PA103-462

➤ Amends various Acts concerning children by replacing certain pronouns with the nouns to which the pronouns refer

➤ Replaces certain instances of the word "biological"

➤ Changes the Independent Juvenile Ombudsman to the Independent Juvenile Ombudsperson

➤ Deletes certain obsolete language

➤ Effective 60 days after becoming law

➤ Bill was signed by the Governor, PA103-0022

➤ Amends the Criminal Identification Act

➤ Provides that a trafficking victim may petition for vacation and expungement of an offense (rather than shall be eligible to petition for immediate sealing) upon the completion of his or her last sentence if his or her participation in the underlying offense was proximately caused by the human trafficking (rather than a direct result of human trafficking)

➤ Provides that, if the offense is a crime of violence, the trafficking victim may petition for immediate sealing of the offense upon the completion of his or her last sentence

➤ Provides that a petition may be prepared, signed, and filed electronically

➤ Provides that the court may allow the petitioner to attend any required hearing remotely by audiovisual conference if the petition affirms that attendance in court would be an undue hardship or could create a risk of harm to the petitioner and provides that the court may allow a petition to be filed under seal if the public filing of the petition would constitute a risk of harm to the petitioner

➤ Bill was signed by the Governor, PA103-0035

➤ There are a few bills that were designed to create a new criminal charge of domestic assault. ICADV opposed these bills, and they did not move in committee. You can see the language here.  

➤ The old IMDMA bill (HB0041) that references fit parents and eliminates the best interest factor in parenting time determinations about the time spent with the child in the 24 months prior to filing did not move through committee. You can see it here.  

➤ Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill

➤ In the Court Record and Document Accessibility Act, provides that the General Assembly encourages the Supreme Court to consider establishing a process for access to court files (rather than requiring the Supreme Court to establish a process for access to court files) that are limited by statute or court rule that includes standardized forms and provisions for requesting access to documents in court files that are restricted in any manner

➤ Removes language requiring the Supreme Court to create a statewide standardized form to request access to documents in a court file that is restricted in any manner

➤ Bill passed both houses and was signed by the Governor, PA103-166

➤ The lobbying fee waiver bill (SB1349) did not make it out of committee. This bill would have allowed for a waiver of the lobbying registration fee for any not-for-profit entity with an annual budget of less than $5 million that is classified as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, including a waiver for any lobbyist that exclusively lobbies on behalf of the entity.  

➤  Christine also made contact and had conversations that impacted SB1886 as survivors were implicated, during committee debate and on the House floor. Language was amended through negotiations between opposition and the sponsoring organization. This bill passed and only allows for a judge to order restrictions on alcohol and cannabis if a proper substance abuse assessment indicates those restrictions are needed as terms of conditions of probation.   

➤ ICADV supports the right to counsel for all youth that is separate from a Guardian ad Litem. ICADV is part of a collaborative group working to advance SB1478, Youth Right to Counsel. Particularly ICADV would like language in the bill that provides a statewide right to counsel for all children (or children of a certain age) and prohibit layers from serving as counsel and GAL simultaneously or at least provide protections to address ethical concerns.  

➤ The Advocacy, Funding and Accountability (AFA) Committee will be working on an issue raised by HB679 HA1 which claims that the Illinois Domestic Violence Act (IDVA) limits the ability of LE and State’s Attorneys to run juvenile court-based diversion programs for youth charged with domestic battery. ICADV’s position is that the language of the IDVA is broad enough to allow for participation in a diversion program without arrest for youth. ICADV understands that this bill will be coming back, and the AFA Committee has formed a work group to develop strategy around how to approach the bill and sponsors. If you would like more information, please contact Christine.