Amends the Community Development Loan Guarantee Act. Provides that the State Treasurer may establish the Loan Guarantee Program by establishing one or more Loan Guarantee Accounts at approved financial institutions (currently, one Account as a special account outside the State treasury with the State Treasurer as custodian). Provides that moneys in a Loan Guarantee Account may be paid to a participating financial institution to cover losses on guaranteed loans up to the full amount in the Account or the amount of loss, whichever is lesser. Provides that the State of Illinois and the State Treasurer shall not be responsible for any losses in excess of the full amount in the Loan Guarantee Account designated for a participating financial institution. Provides that the State Treasurer may withdraw funds from any Loan Guarantee Account for a financial institution's failure to comply with Program requirements. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nursing Education Scholarship Law. Creates the Nurse Educator Scholarship Fund as a special fund in the State treasury to be used by the Department of Public Health to provide scholarships to nurse educators. Provides that each fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2023, the Comptroller shall transfer $1,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Nurse Educator Scholarship Fund to implement these provisions. Makes a conforming change in the State Finance Act. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that $6,000,000 (instead of $4,000,000) of the moneys deposited in the Nursing Dedicated and Professional Fund each year shall be set aside and appropriated to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for nursing scholarships awarded pursuant to the Nursing Education Scholarship Law. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Police and Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an active IMRF member who is a sheriff's law enforcement employee may transfer up to 15 years of creditable service under the Downstate Police Article to IMRF. Authorizes the reinstatement of creditable service terminated upon receipt of a refund by paying to the police pension fund the amount of the refund plus interest. Provides that, to establish the credit, a person may elect to either pay to IMRF an amount equal to the difference between the amount of employee and employer contributions transferred to IMRF and the amounts that would have been contributed had such contributions been made at the rates applicable to an employee under IMRF, plus interest; or to have the amount of his or her creditable service reduced by an amount corresponding to the amount by which the contributions that would have been required if he or she had participated in IMRF during the period for which credit is being transferred, plus interest, exceeds the amount actually transferred to IMRF. Provides that a sheriff's law enforcement employee shall be deemed to be a person who first became a sheriff's law enforcement employee before January 1, 2011 if the transferred creditable service was for service as a police officer who first became a police officer before January 1, 2011; at the time the sheriff's law enforcement employee applied to transfer the creditable service, the amount of creditable service under Article 3 was greater than the amount of creditable service the sheriff's law enforcement employee had under IMRF; and other requirements are met. Makes other changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Condominium Property Act. Provides that the bylaws of each condominium association shall provide that, if the meeting of the board of managers is to be held without the physical presence of all of the members of the board by telephonic means, or by use of any acceptable technological means, notice of the meeting shall include a telephone number, web-based access portal, or other appropriate means of access to enable each unit owner to attend and hear or see, as applicable, the board meeting via telephonic or other acceptable technological means.
Creates the Fair Food Delivery Act. Prohibits a third-party delivery service from using the likeness, registered trademark, or intellectual property belonging to a merchant, and from taking or arranging for the pickup or delivery of an order from a merchant through the marketplace, without first obtaining written consent from the merchant. Provides that an agreement subject to the Act may not include a provision that requires a merchant to indemnify a third-party delivery service, an independent contractor of the third-party delivery service, or a registered agent of the third-party delivery service for any damages or harm partially or wholly caused by or resulting from the third-party delivery service, an independent contractor of the third-party delivery service, or a registered agent of the third-party delivery service. Authorizes recovery of actual damages or $5,000, whichever is greater. Imposes a civil penalty of not more than $1,000 per violation. Provides that each day a violation occurs constitutes a separate violation. Defines terms.
Amends the State Finance Act. Modifies the allocation of moneys from the Cannabis Regulation Fund. Provides that 4% (currently 8%) of specified moneys shall be transferred to the Local Government Distributive Fund to be used for law enforcement training programs (currently, crime prevention programs, training, and interdiction efforts). Provides that 24% (currently, 20%) of specified moneys shall be transferred to the Department of Human Services Community Services Fund to be used for specified purposes. Makes conforming changes. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Further modifies the allocation of moneys from the Cannabis Regulation Fund. Restores provision specifying that 8% (rather than 4%) of specified moneys shall be transferred to the Local Government Distributive Fund to be used for specified purposes. Reallocates the use of the 8% of moneys for specified purposes. Restores provision specifying that 20% (rather than 24%) of specified moneys shall be transferred to the Department of Human Services Community Services Fund to be used for specified purposes. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Halal Food Act. Provides that any food commodity in package form that is marked as being certified by an organization, identified on the package by any symbol, or is otherwise marked as being Halal shall not be offered for sale by the producer or distributor of the food commodity until 30 days after the producer or distributor registers the name, current address, and telephone numbers of the certifying organization or the supervising imam with the Department of Agriculture. Effective June 1, 2023.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Judicial Inquiry Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code to provide that every company authorized to do business in the State or accredited by the State with assets of at least $50,000,000 shall submit a report on its voluntary supplier diversity program, or the company's procurement program if there is no supplier diversity program, to the Department of Insurance. Provides that the voluntary supplier diversity report shall set forth specified information. Provides that each company is required to submit a report to the Department on or before November 15, 2022, and on or before November 15 every year thereafter. Provides that the Department shall publish the results of supplier diversity reports on its Internet website for 5 years after submission. Provides that the Department shall hold an annual insurance company supplier diversity workshop in February of 2023 and every February thereafter to discuss the reports with representatives of the companies and vendors. Provides that the Department shall prepare a one-page template for the voluntary supplier diversity reports. Provides that the Department may adopt rules necessary to implement the provisions. Makes conforming changes in the Dental Service Plan Act, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Limited Health Service Organization Act.
Amends the Sports Wagering Act in provisions concerning the Lottery sports wagering pilot program. Provides that the Department of the Lottery shall establish and publish the rules and procedures for the competitive bid process in issuing the central system provider license. Requires the winning bidder to pay no less than $10,000,000 (rather than paying $20,000,000) for the central system provider license. Allows the Department to choose whether to receive the payment in a lump sum immediately upon issuing the license or to receive partial payments over a period not to exceed one year. Requires the money to be deposited into the State Lottery Fund. Allows the Department to use up to $5,000,000 of the amount for costs of development and administration related to the Lottery sports wagering pilot program. Provides that the remainder shall be transferred to the Rebuild Illinois Projects Fund. Provides that sports lottery terminals may be placed in no more than 2,500 Lottery retail locations in the State in any one given year of the sports wagering pilot program (rather than during the first 360 days after the effective date of Public Act 101-31). Provides that the total number of retail locations of the Lottery sports wagering pilot program shall not exceed 5,000 after initial implementation of the Lottery sports wagering pilot program. Provides that the privilege tax due for Lottery sports wagering shall be transferred to the Capital Projects Fund on the last day of each month (rather than the 15th day of each month). Extends the repeal date of provisions concerning the Lottery sports wagering pilot program from January 1, 2024 to July 1, 2025. Makes other and conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Designates the portion of Old Highway 136 from E. 950th St. to E. 750th St. between Macomb and Colchester as the "Lt. Col. John Stein Memorial Highway."
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
