She Votes Illinois

06/01/2026

🎉 GREAT news for healthcare in Illinois! 🎉

Illinois is putting your wellness first by expanding medical coverage, cutting red tape, and making everyday products safer with the passage of these bills in both Houses of the IL General Assembly! Next stop, the Governor’s desk.

Better health outcomes start with better access and safer products. Thank you to everyone who championed these important bills!



State Representative Sonya Harper State Senator Mattie Hunter State Senator Terri Bryant Kimberly Lightford

06/01/2026

Domestic violence shelters and survivor support organizations are being forced to cut services, reduce staffing, and scale back crisis support while $150 million in federal funding remains undistributed.

Survivors deserve access to lifesaving resources when they need them.

📣 Contact your Members of Congress (MoCs) and urge them to demand the immediate release of these funds. 🔎 Find your MoCs here: https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/


https://19thnews.org/2026/05/domestic-violence-federal-funding-impact/

The 19th reached out to over 250 domestic violence shelters, organizations and municipalities that have received federal grants in the past to determine the impact of withheld funds.

05/31/2026

SB3341 has passed both Houses of the ILGA. 🎉

This legislation, led by State Senator Graciela Guzman, ensures minors can access confidential contraceptive services and make informed decisions about their reproductive health without requiring consent from a parent or guardian.

Young people deserve privacy, dignity, and the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies. Illinois continues moving forward.

Thank you to everyone who raised their voices, advocated, and helped push this bill across the finish line!

05/31/2026

Call your IL state legislators in Springfield NOW to ask that they provide $2.5 million in new funding to keep the Pretrial Success Grants Program going.

Find your legislator here: https://pluralpolicy.com/find-your-legislator/

🚨Save the Pretrial Success Act🚨

The Pretrial Success Grants Program has been providing essential support for people awaiting trial but new funding is not currently in the state budget. If the General Assembly doesn’t add it to the budget today, this vital program will no longer exist.

Please call your State Senator and State Representative as soon as possible to ask that they continue to fund pretrial success! Find your legislators by visiting bit.ly/LookUpLegislators

Last year, the Illinois legislature funded the creation of the Pretrial Success Grant Program as a pilot program in five counties. The Pretrial Success Grant Program is bolstering the success of people who are released pretrial, thanks to the Pretrial Fairness Act, by expanding access to vital services like transportation and child care so they can attend court and providing resources for mental health, substance use disorder and other needs.

This program needs funding in order to survive. Right now, there is no new funding for the Pretrial Success Act in the budget. The deadline to pass a budget is midnight tonight, so this is our very last chance to convince our legislators to give this program the funding it needs to keep succeeding.

Look up your State Senator and State Representative’s Springfield phone numbers (the number with the 217 area code), and give them a quick call RIGHT NOW to ask that they provide $2.5 million in new funding to keep the Pretrial Success Grants Program going.

Find your legislators by visiting bit.ly/LookUpLegislators

05/31/2026

New research found that just a $1,000 increase in annual living costs could leave 3 million more households unable to make ends meet. Rising costs for housing, healthcare, food, transportation, and childcare continue to outpace wages, pushing more families to the financial edge.

A new report shows that nearly half of U.S. households did not earn enough to cover their necessities in 2024.

05/31/2026

🚨 CALL TO ACTION due TODAY, Sunday, May 31 by 11AM

Fill out these witness slips as a PROPONENT to support legislation that prevents medical misconduct, secures privacy safeguards for sensitive reproductive & gender-affirming medical records, & ensures uninterrupted continuity of care for hormone therapy.

✍️ Find the links for all three bills under the Sunday, May 31st section here: bit.ly/WitnessSlips0525

05/30/2026

🎉 HB4235 has passed both Houses in the Illinois General Assembly!

This important legislation, led by State Rep. Rita Mayfield, helps ensure incarcerated people and their loved ones are not charged excessive or exploitative fees just to stay connected.

Communication with family supports dignity, mental health, and successful reentry. No one should profit off those connections.

05/30/2026

📣 Our Latest Nation Watch Biweekly is Live!

We’re breaking down the top national headlines you need to know, from federal crackdowns on mail voting to soaring grocery prices, frozen domestic violence funding, and DOJ attempts to purge Illinois voter rolls.

Plus, don’t miss our Recent Wins! We're celebrating major court victories, including the dismissal of all federal charges against Chicago’s "Broadview Six" anti-ICE protesters, alongside wins against voter roll purges and gerrymandering.

Read the full recap here:

Recapping the top national developments you should know

05/30/2026

🚨 CALL TO ACTION — Witness Slips Due Saturday, May 30 at 3PM 🚨

Support SB3777, the Civil Rights Safeguard Act which codifies longstanding “disparate impact” protections into the Illinois Human Rights Act, helping address policies that disproportionately harm women and marginalized communities, even when discrimination isn’t explicit.

📣 Submit a witness slip as PROPONENT in support of the bill: bit.ly/4fbz9yj

05/29/2026

For the first time, Illinois earned a “B” in the latest national maternal mental health report card, making it one of just 10 states plus D.C. to reach that level.

Check out Illinois’ maternal mental health report card to see where the state is making progress and where more work is still needed for families.

And an "F" for parental support, according to the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health.