With the new year comes new laws and there are nearly 300 that took effect in Illinois with the start of 2022. Here are just a few.
Those earning the minimum wage in Illinois will find their pay increased to $12 an hour in 2022.
This makes for the third pay adjustment since 2020. It’s a result of the “Lifting Up Illinois Working Families Act” Governor J.B. Pritzker signed into law in 2019. The legislation puts the state on a path to gradually increase its minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.
Students struggling with mental health or behavioral health could find some relief thanks, in part, to Senate Bill 1557. It allows students to exercise their right to five excused absences from school for mental health or behavioral health. The legislation stipulates that no medical note is required.
House Bill 226 gives students the ability to choose whether to submit either ACT or SAT scores if applying to a public college or university. The new law comes as many institutions waived this requirement as they sought to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
House Bill 376 requires elementary and high schools to include Asian American events and contributions into a unit of instruction.
A law went into effect making it illegal to discriminate against a person’s hairstyle, specifically those historically associated with race or ethnicity.
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