Recognizes the victims of the December 10, 2021 storms and honors their memories. Urges the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to thoroughly conduct their investigation into the Edwardsville Amazon warehouse to ensure that proper safety protocols were followed before and during the severe weather event, that the warehouse was built to code and offered proper storm shelter for employees, and that OSHA and the other proper authorities can immediately implement proper protocols where needed. Urges Amazon to review their personnel policies to compensate workers that lost income due to the severe weather event, as well as the families of those who lost their loved ones and those who were injured.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that a long-term care facility must spend at least 85% of its total operating revenue on the direct care of residents as part of residents' resident care. Provides that the Department of Public Health and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may adopt rules for the implementation of the amendatory provisions. Defines "direct care", "resident care", and "total operating revenue". Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Allows, under certain circumstances, the Department of Transportation to sell certain real property related to the Interstate 74 Iowa-Illinois Corridor Project and declared excess. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Judicial Inquiry Board for its FY 22 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Creates the Forest Preserve District and Conservation District Design-Build Authorization Act. Provides that a forest preserve district or conservation district may enter into design-build contracts. Includes scope and performance criteria for design-build contracts, a two-phase procedure for selection of contracts, requirements for submission of proposals, procedures for awarding contracts, and requirements of reports and evaluation of contracts. Provides that if the total overall cost of a project is estimated to be less than $12,000,000, the forest preserve or conservation district may combine the two-phase procedure for selection into one phase. Amends the Conservation District Act, Downstate Forest Preserve District Act, and Cook County Forest Preserve District Act making conforming changes. Further amends those Acts increasing the minimum contract amount to $50,000 (currently $25,000) before competitive bidding is required. Effective January 1, 2022.
Amends the Youth Homelessness Prevention Subcommittee Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Declares February 5-12, 2022 as Court Reporting and Captioning Week.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Modifies provisions concerning the College Savings Pool. Expands the definition of "qualified expenses" to include the treatment of qualified education loan repayments under specified provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that specified requirements also apply to opioid treatment programs that are licensed or certified by the Department of Human Services' Division of Substance Use Prevention and Recovery and are authorized by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe Schedule II, III, IV, or V controlled substances for the treatment of opioid use disorders. Requires opioid treatment programs to attempt to obtain written patient consent, document attempts to obtain the written consent, and not transmit information without patient consent. Provides that the documentation obtained shall not be utilized for law enforcement purposes. Provides that treatment of a patient shall not be conditioned upon his or her written consent. Makes other changes.
Amends the Election Code. Allows the State Board of Elections to receive voter registration information provided by applicants using electronic voter registration portals (rather than the Board's website). Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is otherwise qualified to vote may preregister to vote on or after that person's 16th birthday, with the registration held in abeyance by the appropriate election authority until that individual attains the required age to vote. Requires preregistration to be completed using the online voter registration system or an electronic voter registration portal. Provides that for the purposes of the Code, an individual who is 16 years of age or older (rather than who is 17 years of age and who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general or consolidated election) shall be deemed competent to execute and attest to any voter registration forms.
Amends the County Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law and Municipal Cannabis Retailers' Occupation Tax Law. Provides that a certified copy of an ordinance imposing, or ordinance or resolution changing or discontinuing, a tax under the specified Laws shall be filed with the Department of Revenue and proof of filing shall be maintained by the county or municipality for at least 5 years. Effective immediately.
