Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that an advanced practice registered nurse shall observe consumers and staff and their interactions at least weekly, and the psychiatric medical director shall be present at the facility at least monthly to review interactions and make necessary modifications. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that a license under the Act shall be automatically granted to an individual who has graduated from an approved program of professional nursing education or an approved program of practical nursing education, as applicable to the license being granted; passed a criminal background check with the Illinois State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation; and completed and passed an examination specific to State laws that regulate the nursing profession as an advanced practice registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, or registered nurse. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules.
Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Creates a pre-license practice allowance for an individual enrolled in a specialty or residency training program to practice dentistry prescribed by and incidental to the individual's program of residency or specialty training if the individual applied for a general dental license or a temporary training license. Provides for the conditions of and restrictions on a pre-license practice allowance. Waives the renewal fee for individuals who applied for initial licensure less than 6 months before the start of the renewal period. Waives the renewal fee for the 2024 license renewal cycle for faculty restricted licensees who paid renewal fees in 2022 and 2023 and whose licenses were terminated and then renewed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. In provisions concerning the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Nutrition Program, removes a provision requiring the Department of Human Services to report quarterly to the Governor and the General Assembly on the status of obligations and expenditures of the WIC nutrition program appropriation and make recommendations on actions necessary to expend all available federal funds. Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions requiring the Department of Human Services to enter into intergovernmental agreements with the Illinois Department of Corrections, the Cook County Department of Corrections, and the office of the sheriff of every other county, removes a requirement that the Department conduct monthly exchanges of information with the specified agencies in order to determine if an assistance unit receiving public aid includes an individual who is an inmate of a correctional institution, facility, or jail. Removes a requirement that the Department of Human Services exchange information with the office of the sheriff of every county and instead requires the Department to exchange information with the office of the sheriff to the extent available. Requires the Department to review each individual prior to authorizing benefits at application and redetermination to verify eligibility for benefits under the Code (rather than requiring the Department to review each month the entire list of individuals generated by the monthly exchange and verify the eligibility for benefits under the Code for each individual on the list).
Creates the Workforce Direct Care Act. Establishes the Behavioral Health Administrative Burden Work Group within the Office of the Chief Behavioral Health Officer. Sets forth membership and responsibilities of the Work Group, including to review policies and regulations affecting the behavioral health industry to identify inefficiencies, duplicate or unnecessary requirements, unduly burdensome restrictions, and other administrative barriers that prevent behavioral health professionals from providing services and to analyze the impact of administrative burdens on the delivery of quality care and access to behavioral health services. Requires the Work Group to meet at least once a month and to prepare an administrative burden reduction plan with policy recommendations to improve access to behavioral health care.
Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning death benefits and disability benefits, provides that certain presumptions that apply to a policeman who becomes disabled or dies as a result of exposure to and contraction of COVID-19 apply to any policeman who was exposed to and contracted COVID-19 on or after March 9, 2020 and on or before January 31, 2022 (instead of on or before June 30, 2021). Amends the State Mandates Act require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that upon request by a unit of local government, the Department shall make available any study or survey completed by the Department that concerns traffic or the environmental impact on road construction projects. Allows a study or survey conducted by the Department to be substituted for a study or survey required by a unit of local government for construction projects affecting a portion of a State right-of-way.
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that an Emergency Telephone System Board shall include the county sheriff or the sheriff's designee and at least 2 (rather than 3) representatives of the 9-1-1 public safety agencies other than the sheriff's office.
Amends the Adoption Act. Defines "adult", when referring to a person who is the subject of a petition for adoption under provisions relating to who may be adopted, as a person who is 18 years old or older. Provides that after either the entry of an order terminating parental rights or the entry of a judgment of adoption, the parents (rather than the natural parents) of a child or adult (rather than only a child) sought to be adopted shall be relieved of all parental responsibility for the child or adult and shall be deprived of all legal rights as respects the child or adult, and the child or adult shall be free from all obligations of maintenance and obedience as respects such parents. Provides that a parent who is also a petitioner in the adoption will retain all parental rights, responsibilities, and obligations.
Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that quick-take powers may be used for a period of no more than 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act by the City of Elmhurst for the acquisition of certain described property for the purpose of road construction. Repeals the new provisions 3 years after the effective date. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance issued, amended, delivered, or renewed after January 1, 2026 that provides dependent coverage shall make that dependent coverage available to the parent or stepparent of the insured if the parent or stepparent meets the definition of a qualifying relative under specified federal law and lives or resides within the accident and health insurance policy's service area. Exempts specialized health care service plans, Medicare supplement insurance, hospital-only policies, accident-only policies, or specified disease insurance policies from the provisions. Defines "dependent".
Amends the Illinois Modular Dwelling and Mobile Structure Safety Act. Provides that an installer of manufactured homes must supply a weather radio with specified features in each manufactured home installed after 2023. Provides for an annual notice during National Fire Prevention Week to be given by the operator of a mobile home community to replace batteries in weather radios and smoke detectors. Provides installers with immunity from liability for the functionality of weather radios or smoke detectors.
