Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Adds provisions concerning the applicability of the Code to public institutions of higher education. Provides for a Chief Procurement Officer for Higher Education to be appointed by a committee composed of the Illinois Public University Presidents (rather than appointed by the Executive Ethics Commission). Provides that the Chief Procurement Officer for Higher Education shall serve for a term of 5 years. Provides qualification and salary requirements for the Chief Procurement Officer for Higher Education. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a set of veteran with a disability license plates may be issued to an eligible applicant for the registration of a motor vehicle of the second division weighing not more than 10,000 (instead of 8,000) pounds.
Amends the Government Severance Pay Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Redistricting Transparency and Public Participation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Repeals a Section authorizing the issuance of Knights of Columbus Special License Plates. Provides instead that the Department of Human Services may issue decals for Universal special license plates. Provides that the cost for the decals shall be $25 at original issuance and renewal. Provides that $15 of each original issuance and $2 of each renewal shall be deposited into the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund. Provides that $10 of each original issuance and $2 of each renewal shall be deposited into the Knights of Columbus Fund. Provides that money in the Knights of Columbus Fund shall be paid as grants to charitable entities designated by the Knights of Columbus. Makes a corresponding change in the State Finance Act.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning recomputation of State aid claims.
Amends the Cigarette Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Counties Code. In provisions relating to specified recorder fees in counties of the third class, provides that the fees apply to certified copies of records that are maintained in any format, or portions thereof, including microfilm, paper, electronic, database, or index. Provides that the recorder in counties that adopted a predictable recording fee schedule may, after the effective date of the amendatory Act, charge a standard fee for non-standard documents, except for specified documents, and charge a penalty for any non-conforming documents and a standard document copy fee as provided under a county's predictable fee schedule for all copies; and provides that the copying fees shall be applicable to any format, or portions thereof, that the record is maintained, including paper, microfilm, electronic format, or database.
Urges every Illinois municipality and county to cut 10% of funding to law enforcement agencies that do not adopt and comply with an appropriately robust reform program. Urges municipalities and counties to review municipal and county codes for the over-criminalization of minor offenses and the criminalization of poverty or other status. Details steps to reform policing procedures.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning HVAC affiliate marketing.
