Rep. Norine Hammond

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Provides that an application for an identification card must include the applicant's county of residence. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires an application for a driver's permit or license to include the applicant's county of residence. Requires the Secretary of State to include an applicant's county of residence on a driver's license issued, renewed, or corrected beginning on January 1, 2025. Provides that a person who moved from a residence address listed on the person's application must notify the Driver Services Department in writing of the person's old and new residence addresses, including the county of the new residence.

Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. In provisions concerning educator testing, provides that an applicant for a Professional Educator License with a school support personnel endorsement for non-teaching speech-language pathologist may satisfy the requirement of passing a test of content area knowledge by passing the national Praxis test in speech-language pathology administered by the Educational Testing Service. Provides that an applicant for a Professional Educator License with a school support personnel endorsement for non-teaching speech-language pathologist may complete a school internship, externship, or practicum prior to taking the Praxis test, but must pass the Praxis test in speech-language pathology prior to licensure.

Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administration Code of Illinois. Requires (instead of allows) the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to accept payment by credit card for any fee, fine, or other charge that it is authorized by law to collect. Requires (instead of allows) the Department to accept payment through a third-party payment agent of any fee, fine, or other charges to the Department.

Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to, at least annually, provide each provider of home and community-based services an updated, detailed rate sheet for each funded client served by the provider. Provides that the Department must also, within 45 days of submission of any provider-based information to the Department, such as Inventory for Client and Agency Planning scores, which changes a client's reimbursement rate, issue an updated rate sheet for the client. Provides that each detailed rate sheet must include full rate calculator formula transparency.

Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's short title.

Creates the Parental Digital Choice Act. Provides that the Act may be referred to as Sammy's Law. Provides that, before August 1, 2025, or within 30 days after a service becomes a large social media platform after August 1, 2025, a large social media platform provider shall create, maintain, and make available to any third-party safety software provider a set of third-party-accessible real-time application programming interfaces, including any information necessary to use the interfaces, by which a child, if the child is 13 years of age or older, or a parent or legal guardian of a child, may delegate permission to the third-party safety software provider to: (1) manage the child's online interactions, content, and account settings on the large social media platform on the same terms as the child; and (2) initiate secure transfers of user data from the large social media platform in a commonly used and machine-readable format to the third-party safety software provider. Sets forth disclosure requirements to the child and the parents or guardians of a child; requirements of third-party safety software providers; and liability of third-party safety software providers. Provides that a violation of any of the provisions of the Act is an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to make a conforming change. Effective June 1, 2025.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a unit of local government, including a home rule unit, may not enact an ordinance providing for a noise monitoring system upon any portion of its roadways (removing language allowing the City of Chicago to enact an ordinance providing for a noise monitoring system upon any portion of the roadway known as Lake Shore Drive). Makes changes to the definition of "noise monitoring system".

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the surviving spouse of a veteran who has a service connected disability of 100% and is deemed to be permanently and totally disabled shall not be required to reapply for the homestead exemption for veterans with disabilities. Effective immediately.