Amends the Personnel Code. Provides that a bilingual pay supplement shall go into effect within 30 calendar days after an employee presents to the Director or the Director's designee a certification from either: (i) the designated testing program process selected by the Director; or (ii) an Illinois community college confirming that language skill proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking has been satisfied by the employee. Provides for the acceptance of certifications of linguistic competence from pre-approved third parties for needs that require a certain linguistic ability. Provides further requirements concerning the testing and certification of linguistic ability for job positions. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that a bilingual pay supplement shall be processed (rather than go into effect) within 30 calendar days after an employee presents to the Director of Central Management Services, or his or her designee, specified certification. Provides that no later than January 2024 (rather than January 2023), the Department of Central Management Services shall authorize at least one if not more community colleges in specified regions of the State to pre-test and certify linguistic ability for specified purposes.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning confidential treatment of documents, materials, or other information in the possession or control of the Department of Insurance and provisions concerning confidential treatment of information obtained in the course of an examination, provides that the Director of Insurance may only share confidential and privileged documents, material, or information with the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund regarding any member company if the Director determines that the member company may be subject to a future delinquency proceeding. Provides that the Director may disclose the information so long as the Fund agrees in writing to hold that information confidential and uses that information to prepare for the possible liquidation of the member company. Provides that access to the information disclosed by the Director to the Fund shall be limited to the Fund's staff and its counsel. Provides that the board of directors of the Fund may have access to the information disclosed by the Director to the Fund once the member company is subject to a delinquency proceeding subject to any terms and conditions established by the Director. In provisions concerning prevention of insolvencies, provides that the Director may disclose specified information to the Fund and the Fund may use that information to prepare for the possible liquidation of a member company subject to specified requirements and restrictions. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that the Director of Insurance may only share confidential and privileged documents, material, or information reported pursuant to specified provisions with the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund regarding any member company if the member company has an authorized control level event (rather than if the Director determines that the member company may be subject to a future delinquency proceeding). Provides that nothing contained in the Illinois Insurance Code shall prevent or be construed as prohibiting the Director from disclosing specified information to the Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund regarding any member company if the member company has an authorized control level event (rather than if the Director determines that the member company may be subject to a future delinquency proceeding).
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 1705/1 Adds reference to: New Act Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Mental Health Inpatient Facility Access Act. Requires the Department of Human Services' Division of Mental Health to develop a written, strategic plan that comprehensively addresses improving access to inpatient psychiatric beds in State-operated mental health facilities for individuals needing a hospital level of care. Provides that the plan shall include annual training requirements for State-operated inpatient mental health facility clinicians, regular and periodic mental health assessments of individuals admitted to State-operated facilities, updated facility policies and procedures aimed at increasing opportunities for home visits and work programs that assist with community reintegration, steps to increase access to community-based mental health services that provide outpatient alternatives and step-down services, certification requirements for mental health clinicians, and other matters. Requires the Department to develop benchmarks to ensure that every individual found unfit to stand trial or not guilty by reason of insanity who has been committed by a court to the Department for treatment shall be admitted to a Department facility within specified statutory time periods. Requires the strategic plan to be made publicly available in one year. Prohibits the Department from making further reductions in State-operated inpatient mental health bed capacity. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall affect the authority of the Governor to issue emergency executive orders to protect the health or safety of recipients or employees of State-operated inpatient psychiatric facilities. Effective immediately.
Amends the Parking Excise Tax Act. Creates an exemption for parking areas and garages that are operated for the use of attendees, vendors, or employees of the Illinois State Fair or the DuQuoin State Fair and are not otherwise subject to taxation under the Act in the ordinary course of business. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the Parking Excise Tax does not apply to: (1) a parking area or garage operated by the State, a State university, or a unit of local government; (2) the purchase of a parking space by the State, a State university, or a unit of local government for use by employees of the State, State university, or unit of local government; (3) a parking space leased to a governmental entity for use by the public; or (4) a parking area or garage owned and operated by a person engaged in the business of renting real estate and used by the lessee to park motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, or self-propelled vehicles for the lessee's own use. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act for any company to use the name or logo of a public utility company in any manner to market and sell any type of home insurance, maintenance, or service product. Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Deletes reference to: 815 ILCS 505/2AAAA new Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/8-201.4 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that no non-utility individual, business, or entity shall use a public utility name or logo, in whole or in part, in any manner to market, solicit, sell, or bill for a home (i) insurance, (ii) maintenance, or (iii) warranty product. Provides that the prohibition does not apply to activities permitted to implement a program or plan approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission. Provides that the prohibition does not apply to the partial use by a non-utility entity of a logo belonging to an electric utility that serves fewer than 200,000 customers in the State.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that during the month of June (rather than October) of each year, the Illinois Commerce Commission shall make specified determinations with respect to moneys deposited into the Public Utility Fund during the next (rather than current) fiscal year and the moneys expected to be expended or obligated against appropriations made from the Fund during the next (rather than current) fiscal year. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/8-406 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-406 220 ILCS 5/8-406.1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill, and makes the following change. In provisions concerning an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall notify each owner of record of land included in a right-of-way over which the utility seeks in its application to construct a high-voltage electric line of the time and place scheduled for the initial hearing on the public utility's application by certified mail (rather than registered mail). Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that notwithstanding a positive test for the presence of cannabis within the petitioner's body from a drug test taken within 30 days before the filing of the petition for expungement or sealing or the failure of the petitioner to take such test, the petitioner may petition for the sealing or expungement of his or her felony records for a violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, or the Cannabis Control Act or felony records of a qualified probation for a felony drug offense. Defines "cannabis" and "felony drug offense". House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the court shall not deny a petition for expungement or sealing because the petitioner has submitted a drug test taken within 30 days before the filing of the petition for expungement or sealing that indicates a positive test for the presence of cannabis within the petitioner's body. Defines "cannabis".
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes provision that it is an affirmative defense to a charge of solicitation of a sexual act with a person who is under the age of 18 or who is a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability that the accused reasonably believed the person was of the age of 18 years or over or was not a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability at the time of the act giving rise to the charge. Provides that solicitation of a sexual act from a person who is under the age of 18 or whom the solicitor of the sexual act reasonably believes to be under the age of 18 is a Class 4 felony. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill as introduced but deletes provision that solicitation of a sexual act from a person whom the solicitor of the sexual act reasonably believes to be under the age of 18 is a Class 4 felony.
Amends the School Code. Provides that, for one year beginning on the effective date of the amendatory Act, requirements related to completing professional development activities for the renewal of a Professional Educator License do not apply, except that the number of professional development hours required is reduced by 20% for any renewal cycle that includes the 2021-2022 school year. In provisions related to the content of evaluation plans, allows a school district to waive, for the 2022-2023 school year only, the evaluation requirement of any teacher in contractual continued service whose performance during the last school year in which the teacher was evaluated was rated as either "excellent" or "proficient". With respect to rules adopted by the State Board of Education concerning educator evaluations, for the 2022-2023 school year only, provides that factors related to methods of measuring student growth may not be used in any educator evaluation. With respect to the development of an evaluation plan for principals and assistant principals, allows a school district to waive, for the 2022-2023 school year only, the evaluation requirement of any principal or assistant principal whose performance during the last school year in which the principal or assistant principal was evaluated was rated as either "excellent" or "proficient". Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/21B-45 105 ILCS 5/24A-5 105 ILCS 5/24A-7 105 ILCS 5/24A-15 Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/19-1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the debt limitations of school districts, provides that, in addition to all other authority to issue bonds, Mahomet-Seymour Community Unit School District 3 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $97,900,000, subject to specified conditions; New Berlin Community Unit School District 16 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $23,500,000, subject to specified conditions; Highland Community Unit School District 5 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $40,000,000, subject to specified conditions; Sullivan Community Unit School District 300 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000, subject to specified conditions; Manhattan School District 114 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $85,000,000, subject to specified conditions; and Golf Elementary School District 67 may issue bonds with an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $56,000,000, subject to specified conditions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a certificate of service authority granted to an alternative retail electric supplier or alternative gas supplier or a license granted to an agent, broker, or consultant engaged in the procurement or sale of retail electricity supply for third parties is not property and the grant of a certificate or license does not create a property interest. Makes changes in provisions concerning certification of alternative retail electric suppliers; Illinois Commerce Commission oversight of services provided by alternative retail electric suppliers; licensure of agents, brokers, and consultants engaged in the procurement or sale of retail electricity supply for third parties; and certification of alternative gas suppliers. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that if the Commission finds that an alternative retail electric supplier has violated specified provisions, it may require a violating alternative retail electric supplier to pay a fine of up to $10,000 (rather than $1,000) into the Public Utility Fund for each violation (rather than each repeated and intentional violation) or, for a pattern of violation or for violations that continue after a cease and desist order (rather than intentionally violating a cease and desist order), revoke the violating alternative retail electric supplier's certificate of service authority. Provides that complaints may be filed with the Commission by a consumer, or by the Commission on its own motion, when it appears that an alternative retail gas supplier has provided service in a manner not in compliance with specified provisions. Provides for actions that the Commission may take if, after notice and hearing, the Commission finds that an alternative retail gas supplier has violated specified provisions. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/19-120 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill, and makes the following changes. Further amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the bonds issued to an applicant for a certificate of service authority as an alternative retail electric supplier or alternative gas supplier may be drawn upon in whole or in part to satisfy any penalties imposed by the Illinois Commerce Commission for a violation of the applicant's duties or obligations, except that the total amount of claims and penalties against the bond shall not exceed the penal sum of the bond and shall not include any consequential or punitive damages. Provides that the Commission shall have jurisdiction to entertain and dispose of any complaint made by the Commission, on its own motion, or by any person or corporation, chamber of commerce, board of trade, or any industrial, commercial, mercantile, agricultural or manufacturing society, or any body politic or municipal corporation (rather than an individual consumer) against any alternative retail electric supplier or alternative gas supplier. Provides that the provisions concerning certification of alternative retail electric suppliers and alternative gas suppliers do not diminish the existing rights of a certificate holder to notice and hearing as proscribed by the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and in rules adopted by the Commission. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Makes technical changes.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that in order to maximize the accessibility of preventive prenatal and perinatal health care services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall amend its managed care contracts such that an managed care organization must pay for preventive prenatal and perinatal healthcare services rendered by a non-affiliated provider, for which the health plan would pay if rendered by an affiliated provider, at the same rate the Department would pay for such services exclusive of disproportionate share payments and Medicaid percentage adjustments, unless a different rate was agreed upon by the health plan and the non-affiliated provider. Effective January 1, 2023. House Committee Amendment No. 2 Adds reference to: 210 ILCS 170/5 210 ILCS 170/25 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the bill as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1 with the following changes. 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. Effective January 1, 2023. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: Further amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that a managed care organization must pay for preventative prenatal services, perinatal healthcare services, and postpartum services rendered by a non-affiliated provider, for which the health plan would pay if rendered by an affiliated provider, at the rate paid (rather than at no less than the rate paid) under the Illinois Medicaid fee-for-service program methodology for such services. Provides that, in cases where a managed care organization must pay for preventive prenatal services, perinatal healthcare services, and postpartum services rendered by a non-affiliated provider, the payment rate requirements under the amendatory Act shall not apply if the services were not emergency services, as defined in a specified provision of the Code, and: (1) the non-affiliated provider is a perinatal hospital and has, within the 12 months preceding the date of service, rejected a contract that was offered in good faith by the health plan as determined by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services; or (2) the health plan has terminated a contract with the non-affiliated provider for cause, and the Department has not deemed the termination to have been without merit. Provides that the Department may deem that a determination for cause has merit if: (i) an institutional provider has repeatedly failed to conduct discharge planning; or (ii) the provider's conduct adversely and substantially impacts the health of Medicaid patients; or (iii) the provider's conduct constitutes fraud, waste, or abuse; or (iv) the provider's conduct violates the code of ethics governing his or her profession. Effective January 1, 2023.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes language requiring the phrase "The Susan G. Komen Foundation" to be placed on mammogram license plates. Removes language requiring all money in the Mammogram Fund to be paid as grants to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research, education, screening, and treatment. Provides that all money in the Mammogram Fund shall be paid to the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program for patient navigation services specifically for populations with the highest rates of breast cancer mortality in the State. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that all money in the Mammogram Fund shall be paid to the Illinois Department of Public Health for the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the bill, as amended by Senate Amendment No. 1, with the following changes. Provides that all money in the Mammogram Fund shall be distributed by the Illinois Department of Public Health to the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program (rather than distribution by the Secretary of State to the Illinois Department of Public Health for the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program).
