Mar 4, 2026 | Hernandez B
AURORA, Ill. – State Representative Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, released a statement to support Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s proposed budget to give $100 million in state funding to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) for residential renovations:...
Feb 18, 2026 | Hernandez B
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – State Representative Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, responded to the Governor’s annual budget address on Wednesday, releasing a statement to establish her commitment to a state budget focused on families’ budgets: “The federal administration has...
Jan 16, 2026 | Hernandez B
AURORA, Ill. – Completing years of work from reformers, law enforcement and business leaders, the transformational “clean slate” criminal justice reforms that state Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, helped pass last fall were signed into law today. “When formerly...
Dec 16, 2025 | Hernandez B
AURORA, Ill. – Buses and trains will be safer, more reliable, and more efficiently managed under a major transit reform package law passed by state Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora. “Millions of Illinoisans depend on public transit to go to their job, to go to school,...
Dec 9, 2025 | Hernandez B
AURORA, Ill. – State Rep. Barbara Hernandez, D-Aurora, helped pass major new reforms to protect people in hospitals, institutions of higher education, courthouses and childcare centers from constitutional abuse by law enforcement officials, which were signed into law...