Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly operate, manage, be employed by, or be associated with any carnival, amusement enterprise, or fair (rather than the prohibition only applying to county fairs) when persons under the age of 18 are present. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly operate, manage, be employed by, or be associated with any carnival, amusement enterprise, or county or State fair when persons under the age of 18 are present.
Creates the Renewable Energy Component Recycling Task Force Act. Creates the Renewable Energy Component Recycling Task Force to investigate options for recycling and other end of life management methods for renewable energy generation components and energy storage devices in accordance with State and federal requirements, to identify preferred methods to safely and responsibly manage end of life renewable energy generating components and energy storage devices, including the reuse or refurbishment, and other specified duties. Provides for the membership and duties of the Task Force. Directs the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by March 1, 2023. Provides legislative findings. Repeals the Act on December 31, 2023. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate meetings for and provide other logistical assistance to the Task Force. Provides that the Agency may arrange to have outside experts provide research assistance, technical support, and assistance in the preparation of reports for the Task Force. Permits the Agency to use moneys from the Solid Waste Management Fund to fulfill its obligations. Requires the Task Force's final report to be submitted no later than July 1, 2025 (rather than March 1, 2023). Provides that the Act is repealed on December 31, 2025 (rather than December 31, 2023).
Amends the Birth Center Licensing Act. Replaces references to "certified nurse midwife" with "licensed midwife". Defines "licensed midwife" as either a certified nurse midwife who is an advanced practice registered nurse licensed in Illinois under the Nurse Practice Act with full practice authority or who is delegated such authority as part of a written collaborative agreement with a physician who is associated with the birthing center or who has privileges at a nearby birthing hospital; or a licensed certified professional midwife who has successfully met the requirements under the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 170/60 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Birth Center Licensing Act. Provides that a licensed certified professional midwife may attend or be delegated to attend to each person in labor from the time of admission through birth and throughout the immediate postpartum period. Defines "licensed certified professional midwife". Makes a conforming change. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 170/5 210 ILCS 170/25 Adds reference to: 225 ILCS 64/10 225 ILCS 64/30 225 ILCS 64/40 225 ILCS 64/55 225 ILCS 64/90 225 ILCS 64/125 225 ILCS 64/130 225 ILCS 64/150 225 ILCS 64/160 rep. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Licensed Certified Professional Midwife Practice Act. Provides that a "licensed certified professional midwife" means a person who has successfully met the requirements in the provisions concerning licensure and has been licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides that the Illinois Midwifery Board shall have one member who is an Illinois licensed advanced practice registered nurse who is a certified nurse midwife who provides home birth services. Removes a provision providing that applicants for licensure have 3 years from the date of application to complete the application process. Removes provisions providing that the Board shall maintain the confidentiality of annual reports. Removes a provision providing that exhibits shall be certified without cost. Removes a provision providing that the Board shall have 60 days after receipt of the report to review the report from the hearing office. Repeals a provision concerning the certification of records by the Department. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Defines "homeless service provider" to mean a person or entity who provides services to homeless persons under any of the programs of or identified by the Department of Human Services. Requires the Department of Public Health to consider all homeless service providers in the State to be essential critical infrastructure workers under specified guidance from the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Provides that the Department shall ensure that homeless service providers qualify for the same priority benefits afforded to health care organizations and frontline workers by the State, including federal COVID-19 relief funding, personal protective equipment, and vaccinations. Provides for repeal of the provisions on January 1, 2023. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes language providing for repeal of the provisions on January 1, 2023. Provides that the Department of Public Health may adopt rules for the implementation and administration of the provisions and to ensure that homeless service providers are considered essential critical infrastructure workers in the event of a pandemic. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that the Department of Public Health shall ensure that homeless service providers qualify for the same priority benefits afforded to frontline workers (rather than health care organizations and frontline workers) by the State. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 2310/2310-431 new Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 2310/2310-434 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Adds a statement of purpose. Requires the Department of Public Health to consider all homeless service providers in the State to be essential critical infrastructure workers in accordance with the most recent guidance from the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (rather than under the Agency's "Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers Guidance Version 4.0"). Provides that during a federally-designated public health emergency or a public health disaster declared by a proclamation issued by the Governor under specified provisions of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, the Department and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall offer recommendations to their local counterparts encouraging them to consider homeless service providers when making determinations about providing assistance.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the Electric Vehicle Permitting Task Force shall include one member representing a statewide organization of municipalities as authorized under specified provisions of the Illinois Municipal Code. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that the Task Force shall include one member from an association representing automobile manufacturers. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Corrects a typographical error. Requires the Task Force to submit its final report to the Governor and the General Assembly no later than August 1, 2022 (rather than March 1, 2022). Provides that the amendatory Act is effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 2 Provides that the Task Force shall include one member of a labor organization that represents workers in the auto industry and one member representing the component parts manufacturing community.
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 Illinois Vehicle Code. Adds a licensed physical therapist as a person who can verify that a person is a person with disabilities for the purposes of the Code.
Amends the Energy Transition Act. Provides that Climate Works Hubs shall be awarded grants in multi-year increments not to exceed 36 months with the opportunity for grant renewal and modification for subsequent years. Provides that each Climate Works Hub that receives funding from the Energy Transition Assistance Fund shall: recruit, prescreen, and provide preapprenticeship training to equity investment eligible persons; provide training information related to opportunities and certifications relevant to clean energy jobs in the construction and building trades; and provide preapprentices with stipends not less than the State minimum wage unless a higher wage is required by the locality where the preapprenticeship training program is situated. Provides that priority shall be given to Climate Works Hubs that have an agreement with North American Building Trades Union to utilize the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum or successor curriculums. Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Provides that projects less than or equal to 25 kilowatts on the waitlist for this capacity that are moved to the waitlist for the first block of annual capacity shall not be required to be in compliance with the Agency's long-term renewable resources plan. Removes language that provides that projects that were on the waitlist for the first block of annual capacity prior to the opening of the next block are not required to be in compliance with the Agency's long-term renewable resources plan. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3855/1-75 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/5-117 220 ILCS 5/16-108.30 220 ILCS 5/16-111.11 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Removes a provision of the Illinois Power Agency Act concerning the Planning and Procurement Bureau. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the annual report in the provisions concerning supplier diversity goals shall include a buying plan for the specific goods and services the company intends to buy in the next 6 to 18 months. Provides that the energy transition assistance charge shall not exceed 1.3% of the amount paid per kilowatthour by eligible retail customers during the year ending May 31, 2009. Provides that specified entities shall submit an annual supplier diversity report to the Illinois Commerce Commission. Provides that the annual report shall be filed on an electronic form as designed by the Commission by June 1, 2023 and every June 1 thereafter on all procurement goals and actual spending for women-owned businesses, minority-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, and small business enterprises in the previous calendar year related to performance of obligations in the State of the contracts of licenses. Provides the relevant information that shall be included in the annual report. Provides that each annual report: shall include as much State-specified data as possible; shall include the rules, regulations, and definitions used for the procurement goals; and shall be submitted to the Commission. Provides that the Commission shall not be required or authorized to compel production of any specified report. Provides that the Commission shall hold an annual workshop in 2024 and every year thereafter on the state of supplier diversity, and the Commission shall invite all entities submitting an annual report. Provides that the Commission shall publish a database on its website of the point of contact for each participating entity for supplier diversity. Makes other changes. House Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/8-218 220 ILCS 5/16-107.6 220 ILCS 5/16-108.5 415 ILCS 5/9.15 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill and makes the following changes. In the Public Utilities Act, provides that Climate Works Hub shall be awarded grants in multi-year increments not to exceed 36 months and removes a provision that provides that this shall be with the opportunity for grant renewal and modification for subsequent years. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may take into account experience and performance as a previous grantee of the Climate Works Hub as part of the selection criteria for subsequent years. Provides that each Climate Works Hub that receives funding from the Energy Transition Assistance Fund shall provide preapprentices with stipends they receive that may vary depending on the occupation the individual is training for. Provides that the annual report shall include a buying plan for the specific goods and services the company intends to buy in the next 6 to 18 months that is either (i) organized by and reported at the level of each applicable North American Industry Classification System code, (ii) provided using a method, system, or description similar to the North American Industry Classification System, or (iii) provided using the major categories of goods and related services utilized in the company's procurement system, and including any procurement codes used by the company, to assist entrepreneurs and diverse companies to understand upcoming opportunities to work with the company, however, a utility shall not be required to include commercially-sensitive data, nonpublic procurement information, or other information that could compromise a utility's ability to negotiate the most advantageous price or terms. Provides that a utility-scale pilot project may consist of photovoltaic energy generation facilities located on one or more sites and may be installed or constructed in phases. Provides that upon approval of a rebate application, the retail customer shall no longer be entitled to receive any delivery service credits for the excess electricity generated by its facility and shall be subject to the Act's provisions concerning net electricity metering unless the owner or operator receives a rebate only for an energy storage device and not for the distributed generation device. Provides that provisions concerning a report on the infrastructure program and the performance-based formula rate and provisions concerning a participating utility prohibited from offering broadband services or the delivery of broadband services are not inoperative after December 31, 2022 for every participating utility. Provides that the provisions concerning what a participating utility is prohibited from providing (rather than offering) are inoperative after December 31, 2027 for every participating utility. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that large GHG-emitting units including EGUs may temporarily continue emitting CO2e and copollutants (instead of greenhouse gases) after any applicable deadline specified in any of the provisions concerning EGUs and greenhouse gas-emitting units if it has been determined that ongoing operation of the EGU is necessary to maintain power grid supply and reliability or ongoing operation of large GHG-emitting unit that is not an EGU is necessary to serve as an emergency backup to operations. Effective immediately.
Creates the Equity and Representation in Health Care Act. Contains the findings of the General Assembly. Creates the Equity and Representation in Health Care Workforce Repayment Program and the Equity and Representation in Health Care Workforce Scholarship Program to be administered by the Department of Public Health. Provides that a health care professional, medical facility, or behavioral health provider may apply to the Department for loan repayment assistance under the Program. Provides that, in order to be eligible for loan repayment under the Act, the health care professional or behavioral health provider shall comply with specified requirements. Requires the Department to submit an annual report with specified requirements to the General Assembly and the Governor. Contains provisions regarding the adoption of rules by the Department. Contains other provisions. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that loan repayment and scholarship program funds are subject to appropriation. Provides that an individual who is awarded a loan repayment authorized under the Act shall not receive concurrent loan repayments through any other Illinois or federal loan repayment program. Requires the Department of Public Health to share information about the application process for a scholarship or loan repayment under the Act prominently on the Department's website, as well as with specified Illinois-based health care training programs and institutions of higher education. Requires recipients who fail to meet their obligations to pay to the Department a sum of at least 1.5 times plus 7% interest annually (rather than a sum equal to) the amount of the received moneys. Contains provisions for waiver or deferment of a recipient's obligation under the Act. Provides that the Act is effective January 1, 2023. Makes other changes. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that a nurse is a "health care professional". Removes language providing that a certified nurse midwife is a "health care professional". Defines "nurse" as a person who is licensed as a licensed practical nurse or as a registered nurse under the Nurse Practice Act.
Amends the Early Intervention Services System Act. Requires all early intervention services to be initiated as soon as possible but not later than 30 calendar days after the consent of the parent or guardian has been obtained for the child's individualized family service plan. Provides that services may be initiated later than 30 calendar days after the consent of the parent or guardian has been obtained if the multidisciplinary team determines that a later initiation date is necessary to meet the individual needs of the child and family, the child's parent or guardian provides informed written consent for the later initiation date, and the reasons for the later initiation date are documented by the multidisciplinary team. Provides that the parent or guardian must be informed in writing, which may be done electronically if the parent or guardian prefers, that services shall be initiated no later than 30 calendar days after the individualized family service plan has been developed or on a later initiation date as determined by the multidisciplinary team with the informed consent of the parent or guardian. Provides that if services are not initiated within 30 calendar days after the consent of the parent or guardian has been obtained for the individualized family service plan or on a later initiation date as determined by the multidisciplinary team with the informed consent of the parent or guardian, the parent or guardian must be informed by the family's Child and Family Connections service coordinator in writing, which may be done electronically if the parent or guardian prefers, of the family's legal rights and alternative service options available to the family until an early intervention provider is identified, including, but not limited to, providers not currently early intervention credentialed or enrolled in the early intervention program. Effective July 1, 2022. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Early Intervention Services System Act. Provides that all early intervention services shall be initiated as soon as possible but not later than 30 calendar days after the consent of the parent or guardian has been obtained for the individualized family service plan, in accordance with rules adopted by the Department of Human Services. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking Act. Renames the Act the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Human Trafficking, Sexual Assault, or Stalking Act. Defines "human trafficking". Makes the Act's requirements applicable to victims of human trafficking. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7.5 10 ILCS 5/1A-16 10 ILCS 5/19-1 from Ch. 46, par. 19-1 10 ILCS 5/20-3 from Ch. 46, par. 20-3 750 ILCS 61/30 750 ILCS 61/35 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, or Stalking Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault, Human Trafficking, or Stalking Act. Makes the Act's requirements applicable to victims of human trafficking. Deletes language providing that: a program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may apply to vote under the Election Code; the program participant shall automatically receive absentee ballots for all elections in the jurisdictions for which that individual resides; and the election authority shall transmit the absentee ballot to the program participant at the address designated by the participant in his or her application. Provides instead that a program participant who is otherwise qualified to vote may register to vote by submitting an Illinois Address Confidentiality Program Voter Registration Application created by the State Board of Elections to the appropriate election authority. Provides that the State Board of Elections (rather than the Attorney General) shall adopt rules to ensure the integrity of the voting process and the confidentiality of the program participant. In a provision regarding when disclosure of an address is prohibited, removes the exception requirement that a certification has been canceled. Exempts a program participant's address and phone number on file with the Attorney General from being disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Freedom of Information Act and the Election Code. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7.5 10 ILCS 5/1A-16 10 ILCS 5/19-1 from Ch. 46, par. 19-1 10 ILCS 5/20-3 from Ch. 46, par. 20-3 750 ILCS 61/1 750 ILCS 61/5 750 ILCS 61/10 750 ILCS 61/11 750 ILCS 61/15 750 ILCS 61/30 750 ILCS 61/35 750 ILCS 61/40 Adds reference to: 735 ILCS 5/13-207 from Ch. 110, par. 13-207 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. In a provision concerning a counterclaim or set-off, provides that a defendant may plead a set-off or counterclaim barred by the statute of limitation or the statute of repose (rather than only the statute of limitation), while held and owned by him or her, to any action, the cause of which was owned by the plaintiff or person under whom he or she claims, before such set-off or counterclaim was so barred, and not otherwise. Provides that the changes made to this provision apply to claims initiated on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7.5 10 ILCS 5/1A-16 10 ILCS 5/19-1 from Ch. 46, par. 19-1 10 ILCS 5/20-3 from Ch. 46, par. 20-3 750 ILCS 61/1 750 ILCS 61/5 750 ILCS 61/10 750 ILCS 61/11 750 ILCS 61/15 750 ILCS 61/30 750 ILCS 61/35 750 ILCS 61/40 Adds reference to: 735 ILCS 5/13-207 from Ch. 110, par. 13-207 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. In a provision concerning a counterclaim or set-off, provides that a defendant may plead a set-off or counterclaim barred by the statute of limitation or the statute of repose (rather than only the statute of limitation), while held and owned by him or her, to any action, the cause of which was owned by the plaintiff or person under whom he or she claims, before such set-off or counterclaim was so barred, and not otherwise. Provides that the changes made to this provision apply to claims initiated on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act and to claims intentionally filed to preclude a defendant a reasonable opportunity to file a counterclaim within the original limitation period. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Requires notice to be given to the Department of Transportation by the corporate authority of a municipality initiating annexation, disconnection and annexation, or disconnection under Article 7 of the Code.
