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Sen. Elgie Sims

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Total votes
14,130
all sessions
Attendance
89%
1,300 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
99%
of cast votes
Higher than 84% of chamber peers
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Lower than 87% of chamber peers
Sponsored
1,647
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
6
assignments
1,647 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
1,647
Primary
607
Co-sponsor
1,040
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Co-sponsor SB 3590
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
$APPELLATE PROSECUTOR

Appropriates $17,207,900 to the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor for its ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2018.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3496
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
BUSINESS-TECH

Amends the Uniform Commercial Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short titles.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3495
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
CIVIL LAW-TECH

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3493
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
REVENUE-TECH

Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "33 1/3%".

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3270
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
CRIM PRO-BAIL CATEGORY A OFF

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. In the definition for "Category A offense" for purposes of bail adds non-probationable offenses; offenses in which 75% or more of a sentence of imprisonment must be served under the truth-in-sentencing provisions of the Unified Code of Corrections; and the offenses of unlawful use of weapons, aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, violation of bail bond, a Class 3 felony violation of a non-eligible or revoked Firearm Owner's Identification Card, and a Class 3 felony violation of escape or failure to report to a penal institution or to report for periodic imprisonment. Effective immediately.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3497
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH

Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 2340
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
CRIMINAL LAW-TECH

Amends the Probation Challenge Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor SB 3257
Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor
CRIM CD-THEFT&RETAIL THEFT

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Increases the threshold amount of theft not from the person and retail theft that enhances the offense from a misdemeanor to a felony to $2,000. Provides that an enhancement from a misdemeanor to a felony based on a prior conviction must only be for felony theft.

Failed Jan 9, 2019 1 co-sponsor
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