Healthcare:​

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• Seek broader state coverage to address impending federal Medicaid cuts (HB 4824 - Rep. Avelar / SB 3462 - Sen. Guzman)

• Prevent surprise bills from third-party medical providers and strengthen hospital financial assistance (SB 3976 Sen. Aquino / HB 5390 - Rep. Avelar) ​

• Protect the Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIS) program

• Ensure Health Benefit for Immigrant Adults (HBIA) recipients receive proper healthcare 

• Protect health care and other public benefit data

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Protect our communities from ICE enforcement

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• Restrict collection of immigration status information and sharing of personal data (SB 1995 - Sen. Guzman):

• Opening opportunities for post-conviction relief (HB 4367 - Rep. Slaughter / SB 1266 - Sen. Villa)

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Nutritional assistance

 

• SNAP emergency assistance (FRESH) (SB 3277 - Sen. Sims / HB 4730 Rep. Avelar)

• Food assistance for lawfully present immigrants (SB 3167 - Sen. Guzmán / HB 4831 - Leader L. Hernandez)

• SNAP response working group (SB 3276 - Sen. Sims / HB 5062 - Rep. Lilly)

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Other bills ICIRR has endorsed

Protections from ICE

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• Bounty hunters (HB 4685 - Rep. N. Hernandez / SB 3458 - Sen. Guzman): Create a new offense of “unlawful restraint for immigration purposes” to penalize civilians who try to abduct people to turn over to ICE

• No state contracts for DHS vendors (SB 4165 - Sen. Villa): Direct state agencies to reject contract bids from anyone who provides goods or services to DHS, ICE, or CBP that are used for immigration enforcement

• BREATHE Act (SB 4045 - Sen. Peters / HB 5553 - Rep. Gonzalez): Ban the use of tear gas and restrict the use of pepper spray.Ashley’s bill (HB 4890 - Rep. Jimenez): Enable children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected and who are held by immigration authorities in Illinois to get state court orders that would enable them to apply for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. 

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Worker and civil rights

 

• Right to sit (HB 3249 - Rep. Jimenez): Require employers to design worksites to provide suitable seats if the work reasonably allows for seated work.  

• Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act (HB 3762 - Rep. Gonzalez): Protect workers from extreme temperature exposure at work (initiative of the Illinois Temperature Safety Coalition)

• Driver’s license requirements for jobs (HB 4758 - Rep. Johnson / Sen. Belt): Bar employers from requiring job applicants to provide driver's licenses unless driving is part of the job (initiative of Access Living)

• Disparate impact discrimination (SB 3777 - Johnson/ Belt and HB 5386 - Guzzardi/N. Hernandez): Clarify that policies and practices regarding employment, financial credit, public accommodations, education, and health care that have a disparate discriminatory impact on certain protected groups violate the Illinois Human Rights Act