Their bills, from filing to law
Bills Julia Salazar was a primary sponsor of this session. Most bills from either party never leave committee; in Illinois many never get past the Assignments or Rules committee.
Introduced125
Out of committee43
Passed one chamber33
Passed both chambers5
Became law4
Never left committee82
For comparison, the median Democratic member of the Senate has 21 bills that became law this session.
Prohibits any person, firm, corporation, association or agent or employee thereof from importing, manufacturing, selling, holding for sale or distributing shock gloves; makes possession of shock gloves a misdemeanor.
Not out of committeeREFERRED TO RULES · 2026-09-25
Establishes procedures to be followed when the body scan of an incarcerated individual, employee or visitor to a correctional facility displays alleged abnormalities; requires staff discipline for staff who have wrongfully denied visitation to a visitor or entry to an employee based on a body scan; requires the collection and reporting of certain information relating to visitation and entry denials based on body scans; requires such law to be posted in visitor processing areas of correctional facilities.
Out of committeeCOMMITTED TO RULES · 2026-06-05
Elevates the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings from substantial evidence to a preponderance of the evidence.
Not out of committeeCOMMITTED TO RULES · 2026-06-05
Prohibits the use of restraints on and the use of force against incarcerated individuals during labor and incarcerated individuals who have experienced different pregnancy outcomes, absent extraordinary circumstances, and on pregnant and post-pregnancy persons during a custodial interrogation; provides for certain exceptions for restraints to be used and in such case limits the use to wrist restraints.
Passed one chamberreturned to senate · 2026-06-05
Requires the office of victim services to publicize programs offered by the office and to include certain information in annual reports to the governor and the legislature and to make such reports public on the office's website.
Passed one chamberreturned to senate · 2026-06-04
Prohibits drug, cannabis or alcohol testing of pregnant or postpartum individuals and newborns unless the individual consents and it is within the scope of medical care, or the testing is necessary for a medical emergency.
Passed one chamberreferred to codes · 2026-06-04
Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a person visiting such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating or has a contraceptive device or appears on body scan imaging or alternative methods to have or be using a menstrual product or contraceptive device.
Out of committeeSUBSTITUTED BY A8840A · 2026-06-03
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.
Passed one chamberordered to third reading rules cal.386 · 2026-06-03
Relates to the rights of sexual assault survivors during the investigative process; establishes a task force to study and assess sexual assault survivors' rights and services.
Passed one chamberDELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · 2026-06-02
Extends certain provisions relating to the boarding of out of state incarcerated individuals until September 1, 2029.
Not out of committeeSUBSTITUTED BY A11439 · 2026-06-01
Includes seizure detecting monitors for certain infants under standard coverage for Medicaid recipients; limits coverage to one monitor.
Passed one chamberreferred to health · 2026-06-01
Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents and their children; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish rules and regulations relating to conditions in institutions and correctional facilities and the treatment and care of birthing parents in such institutions and facilities.
Passed one chamberreferred to ways and means · 2026-06-01
Repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.
Passed one chamberreferred to codes · 2026-05-29
Establishes standardized procedures for visiting incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities.
Not out of committeeREFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION · 2026-05-27
Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to discipline certain employees for acts of serious misconduct; defines serious misconduct; establishes procedures for such disciplinary action; prohibits employees who have been removed for serious misconduct from being placed on the eligible list after such removal.
Out of committeeREPORTED AND COMMITTED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS · 2026-05-20
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