2025-2026 IMA Legislator Report Card

Legislator Rankings Overview

Each year, members of the Illinois General Assembly consider and vote on thousands of bills and amendments, many of which directly impact Illinois manufacturers and the broader business community. These votes matter because the policies enacted into law can have significant and lasting implications for the state’s business climate, economic competitiveness, and ability to attract and retain jobs and investment. It is critical that employers and their employees understand how their lawmakers vote on the key issues impacting jobs, investment, and economic growth.

That is why the IMA is proud to present the IMA 2025-2026 Legislator Report Card, which provides a clear look at where lawmakers stand on issues important to Illinois’ manufacturing economy. While legislators often talk about supporting jobs, economic growth, and investment, their voting records provide a more complete picture of whether their actions match their words. The IMA Legislator Report Card highlights those who consistently support Illinois manufacturers and job creators while holding accountable those whose votes make it more difficult to do business, create jobs, and invest in Illinois.

We hope this Report Card provides employers, employees, and voters with the information they need to better understand the actions of their state lawmakers and hold them accountable for the votes they cast in Springfield. Elections have consequences. While companies compete in a national and global marketplace, the decisions made at the state level play a significant role in the success of businesses operating in Illinois. Tax policy, workplace regulations, environmental mandates, energy costs, and countless other state policies directly influence where manufacturers choose to invest and grow. The IMA is proud to recognize lawmakers from both political parties who have demonstrated through their votes that they support Illinois manufacturers and the jobs they create.

This election provides an opportunity for the MANUFACTURING MAJORITY to have their voices heard by supporting manufacturing champions.

Donovan Griffith

Executive VP and Chief Strategy Officer

HB 228 (Morgan-D/Aquino-D) – Junk Fees

Requires certain businesses to disclose the full price of products and services before consumers reach the point of sale.

• IMA Position: Oppose

 HB 2371 (Moeller-D/Koehler-R) – 340B Drug Pricing Program Reform

Creates the Patient Access to Pharmacy Protection Act and prohibits any person, to include a pharmaceutical manufacturer, from restricting the acquisition or distribution of a 340B drug to a covered entity or contract pharmacy authorized to receive the drug, unless restricted federally.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 2394 (Benton-D/Loughran Cappel-D) – Weight Increase for Hydrogen Trucks

Allows hydrogen fuel cell and electric battery vehicles to operate at a maximum weight of 82,000 lbs.

• IMA Position: Support

HB 2516 (Rashid-D/Morrison-D) – PFAS Product Ban

Provides that, beginning January 1, 2026, a person may not sell, offer for sale, or distribute for sale in this State the following products if the product contains intentionally added PFAS: (1) cookware, (2) cosmetics, (3) dental floss, (4) juvenile products, (5) menstrual products, (6) intimate apparel, or (7) food packaging or food contact products

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 3213 (Moeller-D) – Covenants Not to Compete Ban

Prohibits nearly all covenants not to compete by increasing the salary threshold for enforceable agreements from $75,000 to $300,000. The legislation also limits non-compete agreements to one year and requires employers to compensate employees for the duration of the restricted period.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 3596 (Moeller-D) – Wetlands Protections

Establishes the Wetlands Protection Act and requires specific permits from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources for certain activities in jurisdictional wetlands. Excludes waters that meet federal wetland criteria from the definition of State jurisdictional wetlands and imposes a $10,000 fee per day of violations.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 3762 (Gonzalez-D) – Workplace Extreme Temperature

Creates the Workplace Extreme Temperature Safety Act and directs the Illinois Department of Labor to establish tiered workplace safety standards addressing excessive and extreme heat and cold. Requirements include mandatory break periods, access to shade or warming areas, hot or cold beverages, and other protective measures. Requires employers to develop temperature-related illness and injury prevention plans and establishes enforcement provisions, penalties, and protections against employer retaliation.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 4273 (Jones-D/Hastings-D) – Home Insurance Rate Regulation

the Illinois Department of Insurance regulatory authority to review, approve, or reject homeowners insurance rate hikes.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 4725 (Hoffman-D/Aquino-D) – Workers Protection Unit Authority Expansion

Expands the powers and authority of the Worker Protection Unit (WPU) under the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) to allow on-site facility investigations, initiate enforcement actions, and exercise these new powers to any violation related to labor or employment law.

• IMA Position: Oppose

 HB 4844 (Hoffman-D/Martwick-D) – Jury Duty Paid Time Off

Requires employers with more than 25 employees to provide employees with their regular wages while serving jury duty.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 5237 (DeLuca-D) – Head Tax Ban

Prohibits municipalities and counties from imposing taxes or fees on businesses based on the number of employees they employ.

• IMA Position: Support

 HB 5507 (Harper-D) – Ultra Processed Food Ban

Creates the Food Reform to Ensure Student Health Act, requiring Illinois schools to phase out certain ultra-processed foods by 2029 and prohibiting vendors from selling those products to schools beginning in 2032

• IMA Position: Oppose

HB 5366 (Canty-D) – Appliance Efficiency Standards

Directs the Illinois EPA to adopt minimum efficiency standards for covered products.

• IMA Position: Oppose

HJRCA 21 (Ford-D) – Millionaire’s Tax

Amends the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution to impose an additional 3% income tax on net income exceeding $1 million in a taxable year for individuals, including small and mid-sized businesses that file as individuals.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 25 (Stadelman-D/Hoffman-D) – CRGA Energy Bill

Creates a comprehensive energy framework expanding energy storage, renewable and nuclear development, long-term resource planning, transportation electrification, and utility cost-recovery mechanisms. Allows certain large industrial gas users to opt out of utility efficiency programs but includes other provisions likely to increase energy costs for manufacturers.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 93 (Preston-D/Faver Dias-D) – Food Additives Ban

Bans the manufacture, sale, delivery, and distribution, of food products for human consumption that contains brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben, or red dye 3.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 320 (Peters-D) – Surveillance Pricing

Creates the Protection from Surveillance Pricing Act and bans “surveillance pricing,” defined as offering or setting a customized price for any goods or services for a specific consumer or group of consumers based on personal data.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 328 (Harmon-D/Hoffman-D) – General Jurisdiction

Provides that companies registered to do business in Illinois would constitute automatic consent to “general jurisdiction,” allowing Illinois courts the authority to hear any lawsuit against the company, even if a dispute occurred outside of Illinois.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 714 (Villivalam-D/Jones-D) –Auto Insurance Rate Regulation

Gives the Illinois Department of Insurance new authority to review and challenge automobile insurance rates deemed excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory. Requires additional notice for renewal premium increases exceeding 10% and establishes new requirements governing insurer rate filings.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 1531 (Fine-D/Gong-Gershowitz-D) – Polystyrene Ban
Bans the sale and/or distribution in Illinois of disposable food service containers composed wholly or partially of polystyrene foam beginning January 1, 2030.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 1723 (Faraci-D/Ammons-D) – Carbon Capture and Sequestration Ban

Bans carbon sequestration over, under or through a sole source aquifer.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 1784 (Sims-D/Gordon Booth-D) – Clean Slate

Establishes the automatic sealing of certain criminal records that are already eligible under Illinois’ existing petition-based sealing system in order to facilitate a smoother transition for formerly incarcerated individuals to join the workforce.

• IMA Position: Support

SB 1976 (Peters-D/Evans-D) – Workers Rights & Safety

Creates the Illinois Workers’ Rights and Worker Safety Act and allows the Department of Labor to adopt rules on occupational health or safety standards if similar standards are repealed or revoked at the federal level.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 2008 (Cervantes-D/Hoffman-D) – Economic Development Package

Creates and expands several economic development incentives, including a new capital tax credit for advanced manufacturing, an enhanced and extended Apprenticeship Tax Credit, and expansions of the EDGE and REV programs. Includes additional policies aimed at strengthening manufacturing and supporting economic growth in Illinois.

• IMA Position: Support

SB 2339 (Cervantes-D/Gonzalez-D) – E-Verify Use

Requires employers using E-Verify to provide certain notifications to employees, incorporates timeframes that compete with federal guidelines, increases penalties for violations, and allows private rights action by interested parties.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 3019 (Villanueva-D/Tarver-D) – Revenue Package

Imposes a Digital Ad Tax of 10% on digital services, a Social Media Tax, limits net operating loss deductions, and decouples from Internal Revenue Code 1202 requiring Illinoisans to include Qualified Small Business Stocks into taxable income, in addition to other policy changes. Amends the Pass-Through Entity Tax Election to allow partners in a pass-through entity flexibility in choosing to include their full distributive share or Illinois-sourced income.  Extends the Illinois Research & Development tax credit and the Apprenticeship Tax Credit.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 3070 (Preston-D/Davis, W.-D) – Foreign Language Requirement Exemption

Allows high school students to satisfy the foreign language graduation requirement by completing a career and technical education course.

• IMA Position: Support

SB 3393 (Hastings-D/Hoffman-D) – Labor Omnibus

Creates a State Labor Mediation Services Program within the Illinois Department of Labor to provide mediation services with the purpose of facilitating resolution of disputes between employers and labor organizations. Adds project labor agreements requirements on specific state-supported renewable energy and storage projects, mediator confidentiality requirements, and requires prevailing wage to be paid to field mechanics, technicians, or similar occupations, during their time transporting parts, materials, or equipment to and from a worksite.

• IMA Position: Oppose

SB 3496 (Harmon-D/Syed-D) with HFA#1 – Prescription Drug Affordability Board (previously HB 1443)

Creates the Prescription Drug Affordability Board (PDAB), funded by pharmaceutical manufacturers, to review the affordability of certain prescription drugs and establish Upper Payment Limit when applicable.

• IMA Position: Oppose