BUDGETING-AGENCIES

Amends the Illinois Literacy Act. Removes the representative of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity from the Illinois Literacy Council and removes an obsolete reference to the Prairie State 2000 Authority. Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may (currently, must) develop an Engineering Excellence Program. Provides that certain actions concerning the new business permitting portal are permissive. Repeals certain provisions concerning the duties of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Amends the Illinois Emergency Employment Development Act. Repeals provisions concerning the Illinois 21st Century Workforce Development Fund Advisory Committee and the work incentive demonstration project. Amends the Local Government Consolidation Commission Act of 2011. Repeals provisions concerning compensation for the Local Government Consolidation Commission. Amends the Bikeway Act. Provides that a designee of the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (currently, the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) may serve on the interagency council on the bikeways program. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 3987/Act rep. Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3987/20 rep. Adds provisions to the introduced bill repealing the Local Government Consolidation Commission Act of 2011. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1007 Deletes provisions from the engrossed bill concerning the new business permitting portal. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1007 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill. In provisions amending the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois concerning the new business permitting portal, provides that those provisions are subject to appropriation and restores mandatory provisions relating to the new business permitting portal (rather than permissive in the engrossed bill). Effective immediately.