Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person commits unlawful use of an exotic animal in a traveling animal act when he or she knowingly allows for the participation of an exotic animal (rather than an elephant) in a traveling animal act. This offense is a Class A misdemeanor. Defines "exotic animal".
Amends the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the New Markets Development Program Act. Provides that qualified equity investments may be made under the Act without reauthorization through fiscal year 2026 (currently, fiscal year 2021). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Physical Therapy Act. Provides that the State of Illinois ratifies and approves the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact. Provides that the purpose of the Compact is to facilitate interstate practice of physical therapy with the goal of improving public access to physical therapy services, and states that the Compact preserves the regulatory authority of states to protect public health and safety through the current system of state licensure. The Compact contains provisions concerning definitions, state participation in the Compact, active duty military personnel and their spouses, adverse actions, establishment of the Physical Therapy Compact Commission, a data system, rulemaking, oversight, dispute resolution, and enforcement, date of implementation, withdrawal, construction, and severability.
If and only if Senate Bill 1056 of the 102nd General Assembly, as amended by House Amendment 1, becomes law, amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if an annuitant does not elect to repay a mistaken overpayment from the Fund by a lump sum, monthly payments, or reduction of the corrected benefit, the annuitant may have his or her automatic annual increase discontinued beginning in January of the following calendar year until the pension payment matches his or her corrected pension rate. Provides that upon full repayment, the annuitant's automatic annual increase shall resume at the rate of increase equivalent to a comparable annuitant whose automatic annual increase was not discontinued. Removes language that provides that if (1) the amount of the benefit was mistakenly set too high, (2) the error was undiscovered for 3 years or longer from the date of the first mistaken benefit payment, and (3) the error was not the result of incorrect information supplied by the affected member, then upon discovery of the mistake the benefit shall be adjusted to the correct level, but the recipient of the benefit shall not be required to repay to the Fund the excess amounts received in error. Effective immediately or on the date Article 20 of Senate Bill 1056 takes effect, whichever is later.
Amends the Burn Injury Reporting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Local Government Electronic Notification Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Provides that, beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, each school district must provide a parent or guardian of an at-risk student information about appropriate and available community-based or in-school academic support services; defines "at-risk student" and specifies what those services may include. Provides that a school district shall not be responsible for any costs or transportation associated with a student's participation in community-based academic support services. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services to be used to promote the availability of the Child Care Assistance Program to families with children under the age of 13 and to child care providers. Effective July 1, 2022.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol for its FY23 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2022.
