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.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Legislative Information System for its FY22 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2021.
Creates the Better Opportunities for Learning and Development (BOLD) Act. Provides that a governmental unit may establish a property assessed individualized learning opportunity program and create a BOLD area or BOLD areas under the program. Provides that, under the program, the governmental unit may enter into an assessment contract with the record owner of property within a BOLD area to finance or refinance one or more individualized learning opportunities for a resident who owns the property or a child or ward of the resident owner. Sets forth required provisions for the contract with the resident owner. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that in distribution of the remaining funds received under the federal Help America Vote Act, the State Board of Elections may make such funds available to election authorities for the maintenance of secure collection sites for the return of vote by mail ballots. Allows election authorities to establish curb-side voting for individuals to cast a ballot during early voting or on election day. Provides that an election authority's curb-side voting program shall designate at least 2 election judges from opposite parties per vehicle and the individual must have the option to mark the ballot without interference from the election judges. Requires election authorities to accept any vote by mail ballot returned, including ballots returned with insufficient or no postage. Requires election authorities to ensure that no ballots are submitted after the polls close. Allows election authorities to establish secure collection sites for postage-free return of vote by mail ballots. Provides for the collection and processing of vote by mail ballots submitted to collection sites. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall establish additional guidelines for the security of collection sites. Before the 2024 general primary election, requires the State Board of Elections to adopt rules regarding a standard vote by mail ballot envelope for all election authorities to use. Effective immediately.
Amends the Forest Preserve Zoological Parks Act. Provides that a zoological park shall be open to the public without charge for at least one day for every 30 days (rather than every 7 days) the zoological park is open. Removes provisions which required a zoological park to be open to the public without charge for at least one day for every 14 days from June 12, 2020 through June 30, 2022. Effective immediately.
Amends the Sanitary District Act of 1936. Removes the ability of the board of trustees of a sanitary district to provide group life, health, accident, hospital and medical insurance, or any one or any combination of such types of insurance to trustees. Effective immediately.
Creates the Reproductive Health Discrimination Ban Act. Prohibits employers from discriminating or taking retaliatory personnel action against an employee with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of or on the basis of an employee's or dependent's reproductive health decision making, including, but not limited to, a decision to use or access a particular drug, device, or medical service. Authorizes actions for damages, injunctive relief, and recovery of attorney's fees. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Deletes provisions that for 4 years after the end of each reporting period, each certified law enforcement officer shall maintain sufficient documentation necessary to corroborate compliance with the mandatory training requirements under the Act. Deletes specific minimum hours of training in certain areas. Amends the Interference With Penal Institution Article of the Criminal Code of 2012. In the definition of "firearm", deletes language providing that a firearm includes any device that is powered by electrical charging units, such as batteries, and that fires one or several barbs attached to a length of wire and that, upon hitting a human, can send out current capable of disrupting the person's nervous system in such a manner as to render him or her incapable of normal functioning, commonly referred to as a stun gun or taser. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a law enforcement officer shall issue a citation in lieu of custodial arrest, upon proper identification, for a person accused of a Class B misdemeanor offense, a Class C misdemeanor offense, a petty offense, or a business offense. Provides an exemption if: (1) a law enforcement officer reasonably believes the accused poses a threat to the community or any person or that in the mind of the law enforcement officer a custodial arrest is necessary to discontinue the criminal behavior or breach of the peace, or (2) a custodial arrest is necessary to address an obvious medical or mental health issue that poses a risk to an individual's own safety. Deletes language providing that those released on citation shall be scheduled into court within 21 days. Deletes language providing that if a defendant is charged with a felony offense, but has a warrant in another county, the defendant shall be taken to the county that issued the warrant within 72 hours of the completion of condition or detention hearing, so that release or detention status can be resolved. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Deletes from the electronic monitoring and home detention provisions that an offender who violates the terms or conditions of electronic monitoring or home detention must remain in violation for at least 48 hours in order for the offender to be guilty of a violation.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Power Agency for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, as follows: Other State Funds $83,456,300.
Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Creates a tax increment allocation financing extension for an ordinance adopted on October 13, 1999 by the Village of Sherman to create the Route 66 Crossing TIF District. Effective immediately.
Amends the Pyrotechnic Use Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Capital Development Board for FY22 capital projects. Effective July 1, 2021.
