As State Senator, I will fight for YOU by…
Overview
Ensuring access to healthcare, cutting costs of medications and holding corporations accountable for price gouging
In Senate, I did this by...
- Supporting HB1697, The Prescription Drug Affordability Act, in 2025 to curb outrageous spikes in medication and insulin prices, ensuring that families aren’t forced to choose between groceries and critical healthcare.
- Co-sponsoring HB1085 in 2025 which aims to enhance mental health and substance use disorder treatment services by establishing reimbursement rates and mandating that all health insurance policies cover medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder treatment services.
- Publicly supporting HB4461 in 2026 which was designed to protect Illinoisans from having their primary homes used as collateral in unpaid medical debt collection actions.
- Opposing major hospital network acquisitions in District 25 that have reduced services and threatened healthcare accessibility for Illinois residents.
- Co-sponsoring HB4757, a 2026 bill which amended Illinois' Health Facilities Planning Act and strengthened state oversight of health-care facility transactions, including changes of ownership, acquisitions, and closures.
Supporting middle class tax cuts for working families
In the Senate, I did this by...
- Publicly supporting progressive revenue legislation aimed at curbing taxes for the middle class while increasing revenues from high-income earners
- Serving as Chair of the Senate Progressive Caucus to help bring progressive revenue proposals into budget discussions
- Proposing four landmark revenue proposals in 2026, alongside other lawmakers, which did the following:
- Established a Billionaire Wealth Tax on billionaire asset appreciation to ensure extreme wealth growth is taxed just like wages
- Closed corporate tax loopholes created by the current administration
- Closed offshore tax avoidance by multinational corporations
- Created a digital advertising tax to generate revenue for state services
Protecting access to female healthcare and reproductive freedom
In the Senate, I did this by...
- Supporting Illinois' efforts to maintain some of the nation's strongest protections for reproductive freedom and patient access to abortion care.
- Sponsoring and advancing HB3637 in 2025 to protect reproductive healthcare providers from disciplinary or non-disciplinary actions for providing healthcare services that are lawful in Illinois, regardless if the patient is an Illinois resident or not. This bill preserves access to life-saving care and abortion medication in Illinois and fortifies our laws to keep individuals and providers safe within our borders.
In The House, I did this by…
- Voting for The Illinois Reproductive Health Act, signed into law in June 2019, which establishes that every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about their own reproductive health, including contraception, abortion, and maternity care.
Promoting Justice and Equity for black Americans
In the Senate, I did this by...
- Voting for The Illinois Safety, Accountability, Fairness, and Equity-Today (SAFE-T) Act–a historic criminal justice reform law that did the following:
- Entirely eliminated cash bail, making Illinois the first state in the nation to do so
- Mandates that all law enforcement agencies utilize body-worn cameras statewide
- Creates a statewide certification and decertification process for police officers to hold officers accountable for misconduct
Supporting tougher ethics laws
In the Senate, I did this by...
- Supporting the 2021 Illinois Ethics Reform Package which tightened restrictions on lobbying by current and former lawmakers, expanded disclosure requirements, revised economic-interest reporting requirements, and strengthened certain ethics enforcement provisions.
- Co-sponsoring The Health Care Transparency Act in 2025, which is designed to increase transparency about when certain health care services may be denied for nonmedical reasons, particularly in reproductive health, LGBTQ health care, and end-of-life care.
Preserving access to life-saving social services during unprecedented budget cuts by the current administration
In the Senate, I did this by...
- Voting for HB5460 in 2025 which created a state-funded grant program to help nonprofits hire and retain licensed clinical social workers to ensure equitable access to care.
- Sponsoring HB3511 in 2025 to establish a grant program through the Illinois Department of Human Services to help nonprofits hire licensed clinical social workers and provide supervision needed for licensure, addressing workforce shortages and increasing access to behavioral-health services.
- Sponsoring HB5435 in 2026 which modified clinical social worker licensure requirements to reduce barriers within the professional pipeline and help expand the workforce.
- Serving as Chair of the Illinois Senate Health and Human Services Committee to help shape legislative priorities related to healthcare, behavioral health, and human services.
