Amends the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Makes appropriations for the Illinois State Board of Education and teacher retirement contributions for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, as follows: General Funds $15,011,395,061; Other State Funds $71,683,700; Federal Funds $6,719,999,300; Total $21,803,078,061.
Makes appropriations from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for grants to meet ordinary and contingent expenses of the IL Non-Profit Security Grant Program for the prevention, preparing for, or responding to acts of terrorism. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Restores the death penalty for the first degree murder of a peace officer killed while performing his or her official duties, to prevent the performance of his or her official duties, or in retaliation for performing his or her official duties, and the defendant knew or should have known that the murdered individual was a peace officer. Enacts the Capital Crimes Litigation Act of 2022. Provides specified funding and resources for cases in which a sentence of death is an authorized disposition. Creates the Capital Litigation Trust Fund. Provides that all unobligated and unexpended moneys in the Death Penalty Abolition Fund are transferred into the Capital Litigation Trust Fund. Amends the State Appellate Defender Act. Provides that in cases in which a sentence of death is an authorized disposition, the State Appellate Defender shall provide trial counsel with legal assistance and the assistance of expert witnesses, investigators, and mitigation specialists from funds appropriated to the State Appellate Defender specifically for that purpose by the General Assembly. Provides that the Office of State Appellate Defender shall not be appointed to serve as trial counsel in capital cases. Amends the Freedom of Information Act, the State Finance Act, and the Criminal Code of 2012 to make conforming changes.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a school building code.
Amends the State Employee Indemnification Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's short title.
Appropriates $21,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority for the Violent Crime Witness Protection Program and Section 7.10 of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority Act . Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that an elected or appointed public official of a public body has a right to all records of the public body to which the official is elected or appointed, and to the records of each subsidiary of the public body to which the official is elected or appointed. Provides that a member of the General Assembly shall have access to all records of each State agency. Provides that records of a public body shall be provided under equal circumstances to all persons entitled to records under the new provisions. Provides that records shall be provided within 5 business days, unless a mutual agreement between the official and the public body provides otherwise. Provides that an official entitled to records under the new provisions is not required to submit a request for records under other provisions of the Act. Provides that the new provisions do not apply to records exempt under specified Sections of the Act.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that when the respondent requests a jury on the question of whether he or she is subject to involuntary admission on an inpatient or outpatient basis, the jury shall consist of 12 persons, unless the respondent requests a jury of 6 persons. Provides that a respondent is also entitled (rather than not entitled) to a jury on the question of whether psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy may be administered under the Code. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that electors of President and Vice President of the United States shall be chosen by congressional district. Provides that 2 electors at large shall cast their ballot for the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate that received the highest number of votes in the State.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
