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Updated May 2026

Interesting bills in the Illinois General Assembly (House and Senate) and US Congress (House and Senate)

🛟 You can help! pia309.com is interested in bills relating to: LGBTQ+ rights, civil rights, privacy, democracy, housing, and renewable energy.

Illinois General Assembly

Bills in the Illinois General Assembly (ILGA) are in scope for State Reps and State Senators.

Your State Senators for Greater Peoria are Dave Koehler (D), Li Arellano Jr. (R), and Neil Anderson (R).

Your State Reps for Greater Peoria are Ryan Spain (R), Sharon Chung (D), Jehan Gordon-Booth (D), and Travis Weaver (R)

Bills:

• HB 0624 "Home for Good Act"
  • pia309.com has not reviewed this bill.
  • The Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments and Illinois Justice Project support it.
• HB 4277 "Elimination of Notary Restrictions"
  • pia309.com has not reviewed this bill.
  • The Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments supports it.
• HB 5091 "Permanent Punishments Task Force"
  • pia309.com has not reviewed this bill.
  • The Illinois Coalition to End Permanent Punishments supports it.
• SB 3938 "Property Tax - Site Value"
  • Allows tax districts to assess property tax based on the site value (or "land value") of the property, ignoring improvements such as buildings. This would mean that home improvements do not increase a home owner's tax burden, and vacant commercial lots pay the same property tax as if they were occupied, which incentivizes development in downtown commercial space.
  • pia309.com has not reviewed the text of the bill, which is only supported by two Republicans at time of writing.

Equality Illinois 2026 Agenda

pia309.com agrees with the Equality Illinois 2026 Legislative Agenda unless marked.

• SB 3495 and HB 5095
  • "Requires that forms that people fill out to correct gender markers must be destroyed by (Secretary Of State) immediately once the updated driver’s license is issued"
  • "Cleans up language from the 2019 law that set up the option of the X marker on driver’s licenses."
• SB 3525 and HB 5492
  • "Allow patients who are prescribed prescription hormone therapy to request a 12-month supply of the medication"
• HB 4834 and SB 3323
  • "Exempt testosterone from being reported through the state's Prescription Monitoring Program, which anti-equality law enforcement in other states may access"
• HB 4554 and SB 3105
  • "Ban on funding for conversion therapy"
• HB 4359 and SB 2805
  • "The Illinois LGBTQ+ and HIV Long-Term Care Bill of Rights, is critical legislation enshrining protections of LGBTQ+ older adults and Illinoisans aging with HIV in long-term & home-based care"

Illinois BUILD Plan

The Illinois BUILD Plan is a set of bills that will make housing cheaper by making it easier to build both single-family and multi-family housing.

pia309.com supports all these bills unless marked.

• SB 4063 "Third Party Review"
  • Allows third-party reviews for building permits if the municipality cannot review permits fast enough.
• SB 4060 "Legalizing Middle Housing"
  • Allows multi-family housing such as duplexes, triplexes, cottage clusters, townhouses, on lots above a certain size.
• SB 4064 "Parking Reform"
  • Reduces or removes minimum parking mandates for many kinds of dwellings.
• SB 4061 "Single Stair Reform"
  • Allows apartments with different layouts from the current "double-loaded corridor" design. The new layouts can be denser while making it easier to build multi-bedroom apartments
• SB 4062 "Impact Fee Modernization"
  • Governor Pritzker supports this bill
  • pia309.com has not researched this bill.
• SB 4071 "Accessory Dwelling Units"
  • Allows home owners to build little guest houses / rental units on their lots.
• HB 5626
  • An omnibus bill for the Illinois House that matches the Senate bills.

US Congress

pia309.com has not reviewed these bills, unless marked.

• HR 6529 "Protecting Families from AI Data Center Energy Costs Act"
• HR 6644 "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act"
  • YIMBY Action supports it.
• S 4213 "Data Center Water and Energy Transparency Act of 2026"
  • Senator Durbin sponsors this bill
• S 4214 "Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act"
  • Senator Bernie Sanders sponsors this bill
• S.J.Res. 184
  • Withdrawing from Iran
• No number yet - "Energy Cost Fairness and Reliability Act"
  • Requires data centers to pay to ensure that residents do not see their energy prices go up