Rep. La Shawn Ford

Co-sponsor SJR 43

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

DYSLEXIA AWARENESS WEEK

Designates the last week of October in 2013 as Dyslexia Awareness Week in the State of Illinois.

Passed Nov 6, 2013 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 547

Passed · Illinois House · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL - ALNETTA WILLIAMS

Mourns the death of Alnetta Williams of Chicago.

Passed Oct 22, 2013 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 575

Passed · Illinois House · Co-sponsor

CONGRATS - RUSS CHORLEY

Congratulates Russ Chorley on the occasion of his retirement from the LaGrange Police Department.

Passed Oct 22, 2013 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 566

Passed · Illinois House · Co-sponsor

CONGRATS - THEARTIS K. CLARY

Congratulates Theartis K. Clary on helping to found the Forever Fly Crew.

Passed Oct 22, 2013 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 549

Passed · Illinois House · Co-sponsor

MARCH ON WASHINGTON 50TH ANNIV

Commemorates the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Passed Oct 22, 2013 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SB 923

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

VEH CD-AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning certificates of title.

Signed into law Aug 27, 2013 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 2332

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

DIVERSITY IN ENGINEERING

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Expands the list of targeted group member classes for the Diversity in Engineering scholarship program to include national origin, ancestry, age, and disability, and modifies the definition so that classes are included as long as the percent employed by the Department is less than the percent employed statewide according to labor statistics and not a specific plan adopted by the Department. Removes the eligibility requirement that applicants be members of a targeted group, and removes the requirement that applicants be full-time students. Directs the Department to establish a process for selecting eligible students that considers obtaining a critical mass of students in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group members. Provides that the Department may (rather than shall) adopt rules to implement and administer the scholarship program. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Aug 27, 2013 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 1006

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

CRIMINAL JUSTICE-RECORDINGS

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a drug testing program.

Signed into law Aug 26, 2013 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 1872

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

CRIM CD-PROSTITUTION-PENALTY

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes provision that enhances the penalty for prostitution to a Class 4 felony if the offense is committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school. Deletes provision that a second or subsequent prostitution violation, or any combination of convictions for prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act, promoting prostitution, promoting juvenile prostitution, soliciting for a prostitute, soliciting for a juvenile prostitute, pandering, keeping a place of prostitution, keeping a place of juvenile prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, patronizing a juvenile prostitute, pimping, juvenile pimping, aggravated juvenile pimping, or exploitation of a child, is a Class 4 felony. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2013 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 1341

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

OPEN SPACE LAND GRANTS

Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government defined as "distressed" under criteria adopted by the Department of Natural Resources through administrative rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 90% (rather than 50%) for the acquisition of open space lands and for capital development and improvement proposals, provided that no more than 10% of the amount appropriated under this Act in any fiscal year is made available as grants to distressed local governments. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2013 1 co-sponsor