Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Financially Distressed City Law of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a financially distressed city or the city's Financial Advisory Authority is awarded a State grant, any moneys the financially distressed city or Authority would be required to match under the grant are waived unless the moneys under the grant come from federal moneys that require the match. Provides that the entity awarding a State grant shall not consider a municipality's status as a financially distressed city in awarding a State grant. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Provides that the Illinois Racing Board may appoint the Director of Mutuels to serve as the State director for inter-track wagering and simulcast wagering by inter-track wagering licensees and inter-track wagering location licensees. Provides that the pari-mutuel tax imposed at all pari-mutuel wagering facilities and on advance deposit wagering shall be remitted to the Board (rather than the Department of Revenue). Provides that the Board shall distribute contributed funds to a charitable organization on a schedule determined by the Board, based on the charitable organization's estimated expenditures related to the grant (rather than by December 31 of each year). Provides that any funds not expended by the grantee in a grant year shall be distributed to the charitable organization or charitable organizations selected in the next grant year after the funds are recovered. Repeals provisions requiring the Board and the Department of Agriculture to establish a program to conduct drug testing on horses at county fairs. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Blockchain Technology Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the purpose and findings of the Blockchain Technology Act. Provides that a court shall permit discovery of electronic records if the existence or ownership of a digital asset secured by a blockchain is factually in dispute. Sets forth provisions concerning permissible discovery of facts and information concerning digital assets and discovery procedures for digital assets. Provides that a court may order that the party with ownership or control over an account generate a test transaction in an amount not to exceed $1 to prove ownership or control over the account. Provides that a party holding a digital asset where the nature and type of the digital asset is at issue in the case may shield the need for disclosure if it posts security with the court for a comparable value for the digital asset in question if the value of the digital asset can be assessed, or for a value that is reasonably correlated to the estimated value of any judgment. Provides that a party seeking to validate or challenge the nature, accuracy, or propriety of a vote taken in connection with a decentralized autonomous organization shall be allowed discovery sufficient to describe the nature and type of vote or votes being taken. Provides that the provisions are repealed 5 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Creates the Digital Asset Discovery Task Force to conduct a review of the court-ordered discovery of digital asset procedures. Sets forth provisions concerning the Task Force's members, administrative support, and compensation. Provides that the Task Force shall submit a report containing its findings and any recommendations to the Supreme Court and the General Assembly by January 1, 2023. Provides that the Task Force is dissolved on January 1, 2024. Effective immediately.
Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Provides that no person, State agency, or unit of local government shall materially reduce, demolish, materially impair, or remove in whole or in part a structure located within 50 feet of the historic district commonly known as Graue Mill without approval of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Creates and provides for the membership of the Graue Mill Intergovernmental Oversight Board. Provides that no structure that was built, in whole or in part, using funds from this State shall be demolished without first securing advance written approval from the State agency supplying the funding. Provides that, if that agency no longer exists or the proper agency cannot be determined, then notice shall be given to the Governor, but only upon the approval of the State Representative and State Senator for the area where the structure is located. Provides that nothing in the new provisions shall prevent the party responsible for a structure from engaging in ordinary and customary maintenance and repair of the structure, including dredging around the structure, so long as the process does not materially impair or destabilize the structure. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Transportation to provide higher education student loan repayment assistance in the form of an annual after-tax bonus of $15,000 per year, for not more than 5 years, to any engineer employed by the Department if (i) the engineer is a graduate of a college or university located in this State, (ii) the engineer provides documentation to the Department of the repayment of higher education student loans taken to attend a college or university located in this State, and (iii) the engineer remains in the employ of the Department for at least 5 years. Provides that if the engineer leaves the employ of the Department prior to serving 5 years, the engineer must return all bonuses made to the engineer by the Department pursuant to these provisions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Collective Bargaining Freedom Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the University of Illinois Hospital Act and Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital shall maintain a metal detector at each point of entry into the hospital. Provides that a hospital shall ensure that all members of the public, other than the employees of the hospital who display proper credentials, who enter the hospital at a point of entry are subjected to screening by a metal detector. Provides that individuals subject to screening shall include, but not be limited to, individuals in wheelchairs. Defines "point of entry". Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Includes wild swine as a protected species covered by the Code. Defines "wild swine" for purposes of the Code. Provides that wild swine may be taken by hunting methods at any time. Provides further that wild swine may be taken during the open season by use of a small light that is worn on the body or hand-held by a person not in any vehicle. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Removes a provision that provides that an eligible race track located in a county that has a population of more than 230,000 and is bounded by the Mississippi River may establish up to 9 inter-track wagering locations, an eligible race track located in Stickney Township in Cook County may establish up to 16 inter-track wagering locations, and an eligible race track located in Palatine Township in Cook County may establish up to 18 inter-track wagering locations. Removes a provision that provides that any eligible racetrack conducting Standardbred racing may have up to 16 inter-track wagering locations. Provides that an inter-track wagering location licensee may conduct inter-track wagering and simulcast wagering without written consent regardless of whether it is located within 5 miles (or 8 miles for specific locations outside of Chicago) of a race track if the Illinois Racing Board licensed the inter-track wagering location licensee before initially issuing an organization license to the race track in question. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Provides that an eligible race track located in a county that has a population of more than 230,000 and that is bounded by the Mississippi River may establish up to 9 inter-track wagering location licenses, and an eligible race track conducting standardbred racing may have up to 16 inter-track wagering location licenses. Provides that in addition to these inter-track wagering location licenses, all other eligible race tracks may have up to 34 in total between all eligible inter-track wagering location licenses (instead of an eligible race track located in Stickney Township in Cook County establishing up to 16 inter-track wagering locations and an eligible race track located in Palatine Township in Cook County establishing up to 18 inter-track wagering locations). Provides that no inter-track wagering location licensee, inter-track wagering licensee, or organization licensee may give anything of value to a licensed establishment as an incentive or inducement to locate video gaming terminals in that establishment.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Prisoner Review Board for its FY22 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2021.
