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Kam Buckner introduced HB1423 in the Illinois House on Jan. 16, 2025, during the general assembly session 104, according to the Illinois General Assembly.

According to the Illinois General Assembly site, the legislature summarized the bill's official text as follows: "Appropriates $5,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for a grant to Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA for program and operating expenses for youth-development based sports initiatives. Effective July 1, 2025."

The following is our breakdown, based on the actual bill text, and may include interpretation to clarify its provisions.

In essence, this bill allocates $5.5 million from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services in Illinois for a grant to Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA. The funds are intended for program and operating expenses related to youth-development based sports initiatives. The effective date of the appropriation is July 1, 2025.

Kam Buckner has proposed one other bill since the beginning of the 104th session.

Buckner graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a BA and again from DePaul University College of Law with a JD.

Kam Buckner is currently serving in the Illinois State House, representing the state's 26th House District. He replaced previous state representative Christian Mitchell in 2019.

Bills in Illinois follow a multi-step legislative process, beginning with introduction in either the House or Senate, followed by committee review, floor debates, and votes in both chambers before reaching the governor for approval or veto. The General Assembly operates on a biennial schedule, and while typically thousands of bills are introduced each session, only a fraction successfully pass through the process to become law.

You can read more about bills and other measures here.

Bill Number	Date Introduced	Short Description
HB1423	01/16/2025	Appropriates $5,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for a grant to Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA for program and operating expenses for youth-development based sports initiatives. Effective July 1, 2025.
HB1292	01/13/2025	Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that post-traumatic stress disorder is to be rebuttably presumed to arise out of and to be causally connected to the hazards of employment of a person employed as a firefighter, emergency medical technician (EMT), emergency medical technician-intermediate (EMT-I), advanced emergency medical technician (A-EMT), or paramedic.