Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Human Rights Commission for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, as follows: General Funds $3,013,400.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person shall not knowingly and without authority remove, destroy, tamper with, damage, alter, disable, or otherwise interfere with or circumvent the operation of an approved electronic monitoring device or knowingly interfere or tamper with, or circumvent or alter, a signal, impulse, or data that is being transmitted by or stored within an approved electronic monitoring device worn or otherwise used by an individual as a condition of: (1) pretrial or pre-adjudicatory detention; (2) probation; (3) conditional discharge; (4) periodic imprisonment; (5) parole, aftercare release, or mandatory supervised release; (6) work release; (7) furlough; or 8) post-trial incarceration. Provides exceptions. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony.
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Changes the definition of "public utility" to exclude commercial natural gas cooperatives. Provides that for a commercial natural gas cooperative to qualify and be recognized by the Illinois Commerce Commission, the properties that receive retail natural gas service from each commercial natural gas cooperative: (i) shall not have a public utility-owned natural gas transportation pipeline located within the properties at the time of commencement of service; (ii) shall comprise of not less than 500 acres and not more than 2,500 acres, which territory does not need to be contiguous; and (iii) shall be used exclusively for non-residential purposes. Effective July 1, 2021. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds a requirement that for a commercial natural gas cooperative to qualify and be recognized by the Illinois Commerce Commission, the properties that receive retail natural gas service from each commercial natural gas cooperative must be located in a county that has a population of not more than 300,000 people and that borders the Mississippi River or is contiguous to any such county and has a population of between 10,000 and 50,000 people.
Amends the Keep Illinois Families Together Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Governor's Office of Management and Budget for its FY22 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the definition of "gambling device" to include any vending or other electronic machine or device, including, without limitation, a machine or device that awards credits and contains a circuit, meter, or switch capable of removing and recording the removal of credits that offers a person entry into any contest, competition, sweepstakes, scheme, plan, or other selection process that involves or is dependent upon an element of chance for which the person may receive a gift, award, or other item or service of value if that offer is incidental to or results from: (A) the purchase of an item or service of value; or (B) the purchase or gratuitous receipt of a coupon, voucher, certificate, or other similar credit that can be redeemed for or applied towards an item or service of value from such machine or device or elsewhere. Provides that participants in a game of skill or chance where money or other things of value can be won but no payment or purchase is required to participate shall not be convicted of gambling except where participation in such game of skill or chance is accomplished using a gambling device prohibited by these changes to the definition. Further provides that a gambling offense involving such a gambling device is a Class 4 felony. Amends the Video Gaming Act. Removes a provision allowing for the use of a game device without a license if the game device is used in an activity that is not gambling under the Criminal Code of 2012. Effective immediately.
Amends the Smoke-Free Campus Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall allow for non-resident firearm concealed carry license applications from any state or territory of the United States (rather than from a state or territory of the United States with laws related to firearm ownership, possession, and carrying, that are substantially similar to the requirements to obtain a license under the Act). Provides that the applicant must meet certain statutory qualifications.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning uniformity of taxes.
Urges the Administration of President Biden to publish without delay the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Urges Congress to pass a joint resolution affirming the Equal Rights Amendment as the Twenty-Eighth Amendment. Calls on other states to join in this action by passing the same or similar resolutions.
