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R Illinois House · District 90 On the 2026 ballot

Rep. John Cabello

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Total votes
13,323
all sessions
Attendance
93%
723 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
96%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
3%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
800
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
6
assignments
800 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
800
Primary
159
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Co-sponsor SB 218
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
PARENTAL RIGHT TERMINATION

Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that unless good cause exists that filing a petition to terminate parental rights is contrary to the child's best interests, the Department of Children and Family Services shall request the State's Attorney to file a petition or motion for termination of parental rights and appointment of guardian of the person with power to consent to adoption of the minor under the Act if the parent is criminally convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of a child, or permitting sexual abuse of a child. Makes technical changes. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 750 ILCS 50/1 from Ch. 40, par. 1501 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill. Amends the Adoption Act. Adds to the offenses which create a presumption that a parent is depraved for purposes of the Act: (1) aggravated criminal sexual assault, (2) a person who commits criminal sexual abuse by the use of force or threat of force, (3) sexual exploitation of a child, (4) permitting sexual abuse of a child, and (5) any other similar offense in another state. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that unless good cause exists that filing a petition to terminate parental rights is contrary to the child's best interests, the Department of Children and Family Services shall request the State's Attorney to file a petition or motion for termination of parental rights and appointment of guardian of the person with power to consent to adoption of the minor under the Act if the parent is convicted of criminal sexual abuse where the person: (1) commits an act of sexual conduct by the use of force or threat of force; or (2) commits an act of sexual conduct and knows that the victim is unable to understand the nature of the act or is unable to give knowing consent or criminal sexual assault. Adds criminal sexual assault (rather than aggravated criminal sexual assault) to the offenses which create a presumption that a parent is depraved for purposes of the Adoption Act.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 37
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
PENCD-DNST FIRE-SECONDARY EMPT

Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires a unit of local government of 5,000 or more inhabitants that employs a firefighter who is a full-time firefighter in a different downstate firefighter pension fund to make specified contributions to that downstate firefighter pension fund. Establishes reporting requirements. Authorizes the State comptroller to intercept State funds in the event the unit of local government does not make its required contribution to the primary employer's downstate pension fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that the required contributions by secondary employers are for the purposes of compensating the primary employer's pension fund for additional liabilities and risks to which firefighters are exposed when performing work as firefighters for secondary employers. Provides that the provisions shall not be construed to allow a secondary employee to qualify for benefits or creditable service for employment as firefighters for secondary employers. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 40 ILCS 5/4-110.2 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the fire chief of a secondary employer shall report any injury, illness, or exposure incurred by a secondary employee during his or her employment to the primary employer's pension fund within 96 hours from the time of the occurrence. Provides that a municipality (instead of a unit of local government) that has established a pension fund under the Downstate Firefighter Article and who employs a full-time firefighter shall be deemed a primary employer with respect to that full-time firefighter. Provides that any municipality (instead of any unit of local government) of 5,000 or more inhabitants that employs or enrolls a firefighter (instead of employs a firefighter) and meets other criteria shall be deemed a secondary employer. Requires a secondary employer to annually prepare a report a report accounting for all hours worked by and wages and salaries (instead of wages and salaries) paid to secondary employee firefighters. Requires a certified copy of the report to be transmitted to the primary employer's pension fund (instead of the primary employer). Removes provisions requiring a secondary employer to make specified contributions to the primary employer's firefighters' pension fund. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3101
Signed into law · Illinois House · Co-sponsor
HUMAN TRAFFICKING TRAINING

Creates the Lodging Establishment Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Requires hotels and motels to train employees in the recognition of human trafficking and protocols for reporting observed human trafficking to the appropriate authority. Provides that the Department of Labor shall develop the curriculum for the training. Requires the training program to be developed by January 1, 2020 and training by hotels and motels to begin by June 1, 2020. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the contents of the introduced bill with changes. Limits the scope of the training requirement to employees who routinely interact with guests. Requires lodging establishments to provide its employees with training within 6 months of beginning employment and every 2 years thereafter. Provides for the Department of Human Services rather than the Department of Labor to administer the Act. Provides that a lodging establishment may use its own training curriculum or that of a third party if the curriculum meets minimum standards. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that the Department of Human Services may consult, rather than obtain approval of, the United States Department of Justice for the human trafficking recognition training program developed under the Act. Provides that the human trafficking recognition training program shall be developed and published no later than July 1, 2020, rather than January 1, 2020.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2502
Signed into law · Illinois House · Co-sponsor
PEN CD-ARTS 4 & 6-TRANSFER

Amends the Downstate Firefighter and Chicago Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that until 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, creditable service may be transferred from municipal firefighters' pension funds to the Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago. Removes a provision restricting the amount of creditable service that may be transferred. Authorizes, until 6 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the transfer of creditable service from the Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago to municipal firefighters' pension funds. Amends the State Mandates Act to provide for implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 40 ILCS 5/4-108.6 40 ILCS 5/6-227 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes provisions authorizing a firefighter to transfer creditable service from a municipal firefighters' pension fund to the Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 1919
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
COM COL-MANUFACTURING GRANTS

Amends the Public Community College Act. Requires the Illinois Community College Board to establish and administer a manufacturing training grant program. Provides that to qualify for a grant, a community college district and a public high school located in that district must jointly establish a collaborative regional partnership with workforce development organizations, regional economic development organizations, and economic development officials in the district, along with manufacturers, healthcare service providers, and innovative technology businesses that have a presence in the district, to provide a manufacturing training program. Requires a grant recipient to provide the Board with a plan that meets certain requirements. Requires the Board to establish an advisory board for the program; sets forth the membership and duties of the advisory board. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the Illinois Community College Board shall establish and administer a 21st Century Employment grant program (rather than a manufacturing training grant program). Provides that in awarding grants under the program, the Board must give priority to plans that demonstrate a formal articulation agreement between a public high school and a community college district. Provides that the plan must support a seamless transition into higher education and career opportunities and must outline the college credit and on-the-job training hours that will transfer from the high school to a community college. Adds to the membership of the advisory board. Makes other changes. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Makes the 21st Century Employment grant program subject to appropriation.

Signed into law Aug 20, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 416
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
COUNTY JAIL GOOD BEHAVIOR

Amends the Cannabis Control Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 720 ILCS 550/2 Adds reference to: 730 ILCS 130/3.1 from Ch. 75, par. 32.1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the County Jail Good Behavior Allowance Act. Provides that if the disciplinary board sustains charges of assault or battery on a peace officer or public indecency, the warden may revoke up to 90 days of accumulated pre-trial custody credit or good behavior allowance and up to 365 days may be revoked for any second or subsequent sustained charges of these offenses. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 730 ILCS 130/3.1 Adds reference to: 730 ILCS 5/5-5-3.2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a defendant being found guilty of an administrative infraction related to an act or acts of public indecency or sexual misconduct in a penal institution shall be considered a factor in aggravation in sentencing.

Signed into law Aug 16, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 69
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION ELDERLY

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that the court shall not order the sealing of the records of arrests or charges not initiated by arrest that result in a conviction for financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability, aggravated identity theft against a person 60 years of age or older or a person with a disability, abuse or criminal neglect of a long term care facility resident, or criminal abuse or neglect of an elderly person or person with a disability. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who commits the offense of financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability may be tried in any one of the following counties in which (1) any part of the offense occurred or (2) the victim or one of the victims reside. Provides that theft by deception from a person with a disability is a Class 2 felony. Provides that consent is not a defense to financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability if the accused knew or had reason to know that the elderly person or a person with a disability lacked capacity to consent. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 2630/5.2 Deletes the amendatory changes to the Criminal Identification Act that relate to sealing of records of arrest or charges not initiated by arrest that result in an order of supervision or conviction for financial exploitation of an elderly person or a person with a disability, aggravated identity theft committed against a person 60 years of age or older or a person with a disability, abuse or criminal neglect of a long term care facility resident, criminal abuse or neglect of an elderly person or a person with a disability, or a similar provision of a local ordinance.

Signed into law Aug 16, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 1894
Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
SPEC PLATES-POLICE/FIREFIGHTER

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that children and stepchildren, in addition to the spouse and parents, of a police officer or firefighter who has died in the line of duty may be issued special license plates.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3151
Signed into law · Illinois House · Co-sponsor
IL SENTENCE POL COUNCIL-EXTEND

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Removes sunset date of December 31, 2020 for the provision creating the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council. Adds the Cook County Sheriff, or his or her designee as an ex-officio member of the Council. Provides that the Council shall determine the qualifications for and hire the Executive Director. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2708
Signed into law · Illinois House · Co-sponsor
MISSING PERSON DNA SYSTEM

Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Provides that, in the event that a missing person remains missing for 30 days after being identified in a missing person report, law enforcement may coordinate with partner laboratories of the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. Provides that all DNA samples obtained in missing person cases shall be immediately forwarded to a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System partner laboratory within 30 days. Provides that DNA samples obtained from family members of missing persons shall not be retained after the location or identification of the remains of the missing person unless there is a search warrant. Provides that the responding local law enforcement agency shall submit a packet of all relevant reports and DNA samples to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System within 30 days of collecting the information for any high-risk missing person cases and shall also submit any DNA samples voluntarily obtained from family members to a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System partner laboratory for DNA analysis within 30 Days. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 50 ILCS 722/5 50 ILCS 722/10 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with these changes. Provides that the law enforcement agency shall attempt to gather at the time of the missing person report: (1) a DNA sample of the missing person; and (2) a DNA reference sample created from family members DNA samples for submission to the Department of State Police or a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) partner laboratory. Provides that if the person identified in the missing person report remains missing after 30 days, but not more than 60 days, the law enforcement agency shall generate a report of the missing person within NamUs, and the law enforcement agency shall attempt to obtain the additional information and materials that have not been received. Provides that the law enforcement agency shall attempt to obtain a DNA sample from the missing person or a DNA reference sample created from family members DNA samples for submission to the Department of State Police or a NamUs partner laboratory. Provides that samples collected for DNA analysis shall be submitted to a NamUs partner laboratory or other resource where DNA profiles are entered into local, State, and national DNA Index Systems within 30 days (rather than immediately submitted to the Department of State Police for analysis). Provides that the responsible law enforcement agency shall make a NamUs report on the missing person within 60 days after the report of the disappearance of the missing person. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2020. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Changes the effective date of the bill from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021. Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with these changes. Provides that the law enforcement agency may attempt to gather at the time of the missing person report: (1) a DNA sample of the missing person; and (2) a DNA reference sample created from family members DNA samples for submission to the Department of State Police or a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) partner laboratory. Provides that if the person identified in the missing person report remains missing after 30 days, but not more than 60 days, the law enforcement agency may generate a report of the missing person within NamUs, and the law enforcement agency may attempt to obtain the additional information and materials that have not been received. Provides that the law enforcement agency may attempt to obtain a DNA sample from the missing person or a DNA reference sample created from family members DNA samples for submission to the Department of State Police or a NamUs partner laboratory. Provides that samples collected for DNA analysis may be submitted to a NamUs partner laboratory or other resource where DNA profiles are entered into local, State, and national DNA Index Systems within 60 days (rather than immediately submitted to the Department of State Police for analysis). Provides that the responsible law enforcement agency may make a NamUs report on the missing person within 60 days after the report of the disappearance of the missing person. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2021.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
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