2025 IL Legislative Scorecard

HB2568, the “Equality for Every Family Act,” would recognize parent-child relationships “without regard to the marital status, age, gender, gender identity or sexual orientation of the child's parents, or the circumstances of the child's birth.”

The Senate passed HB2568 on May 29, 2025, by a vote of 36 to 19, prior to the Governor’s veto. We have assigned pluses to the nays because homosexual behavior should be illegal, and parental rights belong to the child’s birth parents—not anyone else. No person has a right to sexually “groom” or abuse a child using the pretext of LGBTQ+ ideology, and no parent should be compelled to relinquish their child due to conflation of biological sex with fictional and absurd “gender identity” constructs. This bill would codify a radical version of the “best interests of the child” legislation, modeled after the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which seeks to rewrite U.S. family law entirely. Being contrary to the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” the LGBTQ+ movement undermines self-government and the family, the very foundations of a free society. If it is not defeated, it will have severe and long-lasting consequences for parental rights in America. Parental rights, as with all other fundamental rights, are protected by the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment.

HB3489 allows pharmacists to prescribe Medicaid-covered “emergency contraception” to patients.

The Senate passed HB3489 on May 22, 2025, by a vote of 41 to 16. We have assigned pluses to the nays because “emergency contraception,” such as the “morning-after” pill (e.g., Plan B), functions as an abortifacient, thereby resulting in “silent” at-home abortions. Abortion is murder, and no person has a right to kill a preborn child, let alone tax their neighbor to pay for it. Additionally, Medicaid is a jointly financed federal-state program that has no authorization under Article 1, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution. Given that the care of human life—not its destruction—is the greatest responsibility of government, Illinois ought to abolish abortion completely. The right to life is the most fundamental, God-given, and “unalienable” right mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and secured by the Fifth and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

SB1560 requires school districts to offer “mental health screenings” to all students annually, beginning in 3rd grade.

The Senate passed SB1560 on April 11, 2025, by a vote of 52 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because neither education nor health care is role of the government—each is the responsibility of a child’s parents or family. Universal “mental health” screenings in schools dangerously permit government intrusion into the most sensitive areas of a child’s life, which rightly belong under the care and control of parents, not social workers. This legislation is designed to ultimately restrict a parent’s ability to make medical decisions for their minor child (e.g., abortion, “gender-affirming” surgery) if that child is or claims to be experiencing “mental health conditions.” Hence, critical race theorists, feminists, and transgender activists are some of its leading proponents. Nevertheless, it’s another reason why the best “school choice,” by far, is for parents to choose not to place their child’s education or overall well-being in the hands of the state. Parental rights and the future of our children cannot be secured with all that now entails a compulsory, failing, and government-run school system.

SB1675 removes gender-specific language from the Illinois Code of Military Justice, including “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.”

The Senate passed SB1675 on April 9, 2025, by a vote of 56 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because this bill replicates a “gender-neutral” modification to the Uniform Code of Military Justice made by a Democrat-led Congress in 2021, following President Joe Biden’s executive order on “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in the Federal Workforce.” The General Assembly has no business complying with “woke” diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies to socially engineer an effeminate, egalitarian, or insubordinate culture in the armed forces. These changes have resulted in not only homosexuals serving openly within the ranks, but women in combat and transgendered troops. It’s subversive of all order, discipline, and the very existence of the military itself. The Illinois National Guard’s mission is to provide well-trained and equipped soldiers and airmen ready to fight and protect the lives, liberty, and property of their fellow citizens. State legislators should, in a manner more worthy of self-government, be expected to “bear true faith and allegiance” to the same constitutional principles that National Guard members also take an oath to “support and defend.”

SB1932 provides that it is an “unlawful practice” to sell consumer food items or goods, except “petroleum products,” for an “unconscionably high” price increase of “20% or more” in a “designated disaster area.”

The Senate passed SB1932 on April 4, 2025, by a vote of 41 to 7. We have assigned pluses to the nays because price-controls are blatantly unconstitutional. Price controls mean controlled profits, and controlled profits mean controlled products, controlled labor, and controlled people. As dishonest and manipulative tactics to control the economy, especially during a disaster, they forcibly deny the constitutionally protected property rights of both businesses and consumers by violating their freedom of association — preventing individuals from making purchases and transactions voluntarily, according to their own terms. Ignoring the basic economic principles of supply and demand, they create an unequal balance of wealth confiscation and redistribution, hindering consumers, even hard-hit disaster victims, from getting the best goods and services at the best prices. The Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to safeguard American prosperity via free-market enterprise by ensuring that “No State” shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property.”