Creates the Rebuild Illinois Mental Health Workforce Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to preserve and expand access to Medicaid community mental health care in Illinois to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and avoid the criminalization of mental health conditions. Establishes add-on payments for the following community mental health services to be paid beginning with State Fiscal Year 2023 and continuing for each State fiscal year thereafter: individual therapy services; community support-individual services; case management services; and assertive community treatment services. Requires monthly directed payments to community mental health providers of community support team services or assertive community treatment services. Provides that such directed payments shall be based on the number of Medicaid users, as defined, who receive services from the provider in the base year. Provides that the add-on payments established under the Act shall apply to Medicaid services provided by a contracted managed care organization or entity and services paid for directly by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Provides that no base Medicaid rate or Medicaid rate add-on payment or any other payment for the provision of Medicaid community mental health services in place on July 1, 2021 shall be diminished or changed to make the reimbursement changes required under the Act. Requires the Department to apply for federal approval to implement the Act. Provides that implementation of the add-on payments is conditioned on the receipt of federal financial participation for such payments. Effective immediately.
Amends the Lodging Services Human Trafficking Recognition Training Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that in distribution of the remaining funds received under the federal Help America Vote Act, the State Board of Elections may make such funds available to election authorities for the maintenance of secure collection sites for the return of vote by mail ballots. Allows election authorities to establish curb-side voting for individuals to cast a ballot during early voting or on election day. Provides that an election authority's curb-side voting program shall designate at least 2 election judges from opposite parties per vehicle and the individual must have the option to mark the ballot without interference from the election judges. Requires election authorities to accept any vote by mail ballot returned, including ballots returned with insufficient or no postage. Allows election authorities to establish secure collection sites for postage-free return of vote by mail ballots. Provides for the collection and processing of vote by mail ballots submitted to collection sites. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall establish additional guidelines for the security of collection sites. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that records of disciplinary action by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may be considered expunged for reporting purposes if an application is submitted more than one year after an initial disciplinary offense occurred, 3 years after any subsequent disciplinary offense or offenses occurred, or after restoration of the license, whichever is later (rather than 3 years after the disciplinary offense or offenses occurred, or after restoration of the license, whichever is later). House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that records of disciplinary action by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may be considered expunged for reporting purposes if an application is submitted more than 2 years (rather than 3 years) after the date of the final disciplinary action (rather than after the disciplinary offense or offenses occurred) or after restoration of the license, whichever is later and the licensee has had no incidents of discipline since the final disciplinary action was issued by the Department (rather than no incidents of discipline since the disciplinary offense or offenses identified in the application occurred). Provides that the 2-year waiting period (rather than 7-year waiting period) and the $175 fee (rather than $200 fee) do not apply to any applicant for licensure or a licensee whose petition for review is granted by the Department.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the determination of questions by the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall certify the Temporary Nursing Assistant Training Program that it implemented by emergency rule. Provides that the Department shall deem an individual who has completed a training program and competency assessment under the Temporary Nursing Assistant Training Program as satisfying the requirement of completing a nurse aide training and competency evaluation program approved by the State under specified eligibility provisions. Provides that a person shall be deemed to have completed the eligibility provisions if they have completed all nursing assistant training and competency evaluation program requirements and shall be placed on the State nurse aide registry as "active". Provides that temporary nursing assistants must enroll in an approved certified nursing assistant training program no later than 2 years after completion of the Temporary Nursing Assistant Training Program. Provides that, once enrolled in the certified nursing assistant training program, the individual may work as a nursing assistant in training and continue to practice the same skills he or she did as a temporary nursing assistant and new competencies he or she has learned in his or her certified nursing assistant training. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Provides that the Illinois Power Agency is authorized to oversee the procurement by electric utilities that serve more than 3,000,000 customers in the State as of January 1, 2019 of renewable energy credits from new, newly modernized, or retooled hydroelectric facilities. Provides that the long-term renewable resources procurement plan shall prioritize compliance with the new wind, new photovoltaic, and hydroelectric procurement requirements (rather than the new wind and new photovoltaic procurement requirements). Provides that the Agency shall not comply with the annual percentage targets of the long-term renewable resources procurement plan by procuring renewable energy credits that are unlikely to lead to the development of new renewable resources or modernized or retooled hydroelectric resources (rather than the development of new renewable resources). Provides that the Agency shall consider other approaches, in addition to competitive procurements, to procure renewable energy credits from new and existing hydroelectric facilities to support the development and maintenance of these facilities. Provides that on and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, for all procurements of renewable energy credits from hydroelectric facilities, the Agency shall establish contract terms designed to optimize existing hydroelectric facilities through modernization or retooling. Provides that procurement of renewable energy credits from hydroelectric facilities shall comply with specified geographic requirements. Makes a change in provisions concerning definitions.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "chokehold" as the intentional and prolonged application of force to the throat, windpipe, or carotid arteries that prevents or hinders breathing or blood flow, reduces the intake of air, or reduces blood flow to the head (rather than applying any direct pressure to the throat, windpipe, or airway of another).
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that specified contracts related to supplies, materials, or work involving an expenditure in excess of $30,000 (rather than $25,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be competitively bid. Provides that all competitive bids for contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $30,000 (rather than $25,000), or a lower amount if required by board policy, must be sealed by the bidder and must be opened by a member or employee of the park board at a public bid opening at which the contents of the bids must be announced. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act concerning expungement. Provides for automatic expungement of law enforcement records, criminal history records, and court records of all persons whose arrest or charge not initiated by arrest resulted in release without charging or in acquittal, dismissal, or conviction when the conviction was reversed or vacated. Provides exceptions. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriati ons to the Office of the States Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor for its ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall not make possession of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card a condition of continued employment as a correctional officer if the correctional officer's Firearm Owner's Identification Card is revoked or seized because the correctional officer has been a patient of a mental health facility and the correctional officer has not been determined to pose a clear and present danger to himself, herself, or others as determined by a physician, clinical psychologist, or qualified examiner. Provides that nothing in the new provisions shall otherwise impair the Department's ability to determine a correctional officer's fitness for duty. Provides that a collective bargaining agreement already in effect on this issue on the effective date of the amendatory Act cannot be modified, but on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Department cannot require a Firearm Owner's Identification Card as a condition of continued employment in a collective bargaining agreement. Provides that the Department shall document if and why a correctional officer has been determined to pose a clear and present danger. Defines "mental health facility" and "qualified examiner".
