104th General Assembly
Passed Bills
Increases wages for home care workers from $18/hour to $20/hour. Included in the FY2026 budget.
Streamlines safeguards against grooming and extending the statute of limitations to protect children and other vulnerable populations from sexual abuse and exploitation.
Requires that higher education coursework related to psychology must count toward required semester hours toward childcare licensing; requires the Department of Children and Family Services to publish on its website a list of all courses that qualify towards a license in the field.
Equal Pay Day Resolution - Marks March 25, 2025 as Equal Pay Day, declaring the importance of equal pay regardless of gender
Allows the Secretary of State to suspend the licenses of defendants who fail to appear in traffic court for serious offenses
Ongoing Bills
Transportation Choices Act: Promotes clean, equitable transportation by setting goals to achieve net-zero emissions in transportation by 2050 and to reduce greenhouse gases by 80%s.
Protecting Survivors' Rights Act: Protects survivors of gender based violence from retaliatory lawsuits for speaking out about gender based violence unless there is clear and convincing evidence that they made the claim with actual malice.
Provides protections for survivors of gender-based violence on higher education campuses by implementing policies for digital sexual harassment and doxing and enacting a policy for retaliation claims.