The House approved the measure 82-12, sending it back to the Senate. The Senate author of the bill says he hopes his chamber will agree to the House's changes and send the legislation to the governor.

The amendment would allow local governments to get back property tax incentives granted to a company, if the company moves out of the state.

A bill placing restrictions on abortions passed through the Senate with opposition from Democrats and three Republicans.

The rejected bill was tabled nearly a week before vandals painted vulgar graffiti on a wall of the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield. It would allow for tougher sentences by taking into account a victim's perceived or actual race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, disability, national origin, ancestry or sexual orientation.

The bill raises the amount someone can collect for a single malpractice incident, from $1.25 million to o$1.65 million. It hasn't been raised in 18 years.

It establishes regulations that include minimum fence heights and acreage, and it mandates reporting disease and escape.

The Senate's version of the road funding bill does not raise any taxes, unlike its House counterpart. Instead, it would spend down the state's surplus and give local governments more freedom to raise or create road funding taxes. It would also create a new task force compromised of lawmakers and state and local officials.

A bill regulating when police body camera videos are released to the public cleared one of its last major legislative hurdles Tuesday with the Senate's near-unanimous passage of the measure.

It's the GOP representatives' latest move to preserve a plan that is funded by contentious gas and cigarette tax increases.

The committee lowered fees and removed language requiring daily fantasy operators to withhold income tax from players' winnings.