Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Exempts persons who have served in the United States Armed Forces from the requirement that persons at least 18 years of age but less than 21 years of age successfully complete an adult driver's education course in order to receive, renew, or retain a driver's license or permit.
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that beginning in Fiscal Year 2017, if the State has not cut the backlog of unpaid bills by 10% by the end of the fiscal year, salaries of the members of the General Assembly shall be cut by 10% for the following fiscal year. Further provides that the percentage by which the backlog of unpaid bills has decreased or increased at the end of the fiscal year shall be certified by the State Comptroller. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the definition of "sexual conduct" in the Sex Offenses Article of the Code to any knowing touching, kissing, or fondling by the victim or the accused, either directly or through clothing, of the sex organs, anus, buttocks, or breast of the victim or the accused, or any part of the body of a child under 13 years of age, or any transfer or transmission of semen by the accused upon any part of the clothed or unclothed body of the victim, for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal of the victim or the accused (currently, kissing and buttocks are not included in the definition).
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning extended statutes of limitations.
Amends Public Acts 98-679, 98-680, and 98-681. Adds supplemental appropriations to various agencies for personal services and State contributions to Social Security. Effective immediately.
Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities in Illinois and the Public Community College Act. Requires a university or community college to waive its fee for the receipt or transmission of a transcript for each veteran, member of the Armed Forces of the United States, member of the Reserve components thereof, or member of the Illinois National Guard who resides in this State and has been admitted to the institution. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Replaces provisions regarding application for a certificate of authority for an out-of-state bank to merge with a State bank with language that provides that a State bank may merge with and into an out-of-state bank, provided the out-of-state bank causes notice to be filed with the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation not less than 60 days before the proposed effective date of the merger. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Savings Bank Act. Makes changes in provisions concerning parity, out-of-state savings banks establishing branches in this State, examinations, the Savings Bank Regulatory Fund, regulatory fees, orders of the Secretary, and administrative review. Repeals provisions of the Savings Bank Act concerning hearings, records of proceedings, and subpoenas and depositions. Amends the Electronic Fund Transfer Act. Requires that a person who establishes or owns specified cash-dispensing terminals must post a telephone number on the terminal for consumers to call to report problems, along with the telephone number of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Amends the Corporate Fiduciary Act. Makes changes concerning the office locations of corporate fiduciaries. Amends the Foreign Bank Representative Office Act. Makes changes concerning the definition of "foreign bank". Repeals provisions of the Check Printer and Check Number Act concerning registration of persons other than financial institutions who sell or distribute checks. Repeals provisions of the High Risk Home Loan Act regarding annual reports on default and foreclosure rates on conventional loans. Effective immediately.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that if a municipality enacts an ordinance in violation of preemption provisions of the Act, the municipality is liable for damages to the prevailing party in a civil action brought against the municipality or an officer or employee of the municipality for infringing upon the rights of the prevailing party for enforcing the ordinance enacted in violation of the preemption provisions. Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Removes the prohibition on taking bobcats in the State. Provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to trap or to hunt bobcats with gun, dog, dog and gun, or bow and arrow, except during the open season which will be set annually by the Director of Natural Resources between 12:01 a.m., November 1 to 12:00 midnight, February 15, both inclusive. Provides that the season limit for bobcat shall not exceed one bobcat per person per season. Provides that the pelts of bobcats shall be tagged in accordance with federal regulations and the Department of Natural Resources may require harvest registration and set forth procedures, fees for registration, and the process of tagging pelts in administrative rules. Provides that bobcats may be taken during the open season by use of a small light which is worn on the body or hand-held by a person on foot and not in any vehicle.
Creates the State Property Disposal Agency Law within the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the State Property Disposal Agency. Provides that the Agency shall be responsible for the disposal of surplus real property under the State Property Control Act. Amends the General Provisions and Departments of State Government Articles of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to make conforming changes. Amends the State Property Control Act. Changes the definition of "surplus real property" to include property that is determined by the head of the State agency to no longer be required for the State agency's needs and responsibilities (instead of property that is vacant, unoccupied, or unused and having no foreseeable use by the owning agency). Makes changes concerning the disposition of surplus State property. Provides that, with regard to surplus real estate, "administrator" includes the Director of State Property Disposal.
