Rep. Carol Ammons

Creates the EpiPen Crowdsourcing Task Force Act. Creates the EpiPen Crowdsourcing Task Force to study the use of crowdsourcing in the availability of EpiPens. Provides for the membership and meetings of the Task Force. Provides that members of the Task Force shall receive no compensation for their service as members of the Task Force, but may be reimbursed for expenses from appropriations made by law. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall provide administrative and other support to the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to conduct a study on the use of crowdsourcing in the availability of EpiPens and produce a report on its findings. Provides for the contents of the report. Requires the Task Force to submit the report to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before January 1, 2023. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2024.

Amends the Police and Community Relations Improvement Act. Provides that in the case of a law enforcement officer-involved death, the chief judge of the circuit court of the circuit in which the law enforcement officer-involved death occurred shall appoint a special prosecutor to review the report of the investigators assigned to investigate an officer-involved death and to prosecute the officer involved in the death, if the special prosecutor determines that there is a basis for the prosecution. Amends the Counties Code to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State and the Illinois Supreme Court may work in cooperation to implement a program to reinstate suspended driving privileges. Provides that the program shall be available to citizens of this State who earn less than $50,000 per year and whose driving privileges have been suspended for a period longer than 3 months, but not to persons whose driving privileges have been revoked or suspended for driving under the influence or refusing to submit to drug or alcohol testing. Provides that the program shall include a feature by which persons may apply for relief online through the website of the Secretary or in person at a local Driver Services facility. Provides that a person eligible for relief under the program shall be provided with a daily 10-hour window in which the person may operate the vehicle for transportation to and from work. Provides that if a person granted limited driving privileges drives for 6 months without committing specified violations, then the person shall be eligible for the full restoration of driving privileges upon the payment of a $50 fee and completion of a 4-hour driver's education course. Provides that the Secretary shall develop the driver's education course and offer the course to eligible participants free of charge. Provides that the Secretary and the Illinois Supreme Court shall work in cooperation with local law enforcement, the Illinois State Police, and circuit court clerks to implement the new provisions. Authorizes the Secretary of State to adopt rules. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Allows a court to appoint a parenting coordinator when deemed in the best interests of the child following the entry of, or prior to if approved by the court, a parenting plan. Provides that a parenting coordinator shall facilitate the resolution of conflict among parties regarding an existing parenting plan in a marital dissolution, parentage, or post-judgment case. Authorizes a parenting coordinator to make specific recommendations regarding the existing parenting plan. Restricts a parenting coordinator from making certain recommendations. Requires the parenting coordinator to provide recommendations to the parties within 14 days of the recommendations. Allows the parties to submit the recommendations to the court for entry as an agreed order. Prohibits a parenting coordinator from serving as a court's professional evaluation in any proceeding involving one or more parties for whom the parenting coordinator has provided parenting coordination services. Requires the parties to pay the parenting coordinator fees. Requires the parties to comply with the recommendations made by the parenting coordinator. Allows a party to file a motion for review of any recommendations made by the parenting coordinator. Allows the parenting coordinator to have access to non-public records involving the parties. Provides that communications with the parenting coordinator shall not be confidential. Provides that no ex parte communication by the parenting coordinator with the court is permitted. Grants the same immunity to a parenting coordinator as provided to all other professionals appointed under a provision regarding the representation of a child. Allows a court to adopt its own rules governing the qualifications, appointment, duties, and training of parenting coordinators. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes language providing that a parenting coordinator is authorized to make specific recommendations regarding the existing parenting plan, including decisions regarding non-permanent alterations to the physical appearance of the child such as the child's clothing and hairstyle. Restricts a parenting coordinator from making recommendations as to any allocation of parenting time besides specified minor alterations of parenting time. Provides that a court shall consider the financial resources of the parties and any fee waiver requests pending or which have been granted. Allows the court to order the party opposing any recommendations to pay both parties' reasonable attorney's fees and costs incurred in connection with the issue brought before the court if the court finds the motion for review was frivolous. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that the Supreme Court (rather than each circuit court for the State) may adopt rules governing the qualifications, appointment, duties, and training of parenting coordinators if such rules do not conflict with the minimum requirements.

Appropriates $8,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency for grants to not-for-profit organizations for security improvements that assist the organization in preventing, preparing for, or responding to acts of terrorism.

Directs the Auditor General to conduct a performance audit of the Department of Children and Family Services' compliance with its obligations to protect the Indian children in care and their families.

Amends the College Campus Press Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. In provisions concerning mandated reporter training, requires mandated reporters to complete training that includes a section on the consequences and results of hotline calls and investigations conducted by the Department of Children and Family Services. Provides that the section on the consequences and results of hotline calls and Department investigations shall be in-person or web-based, and shall include, at a minimum, information on the following topics: (i) the procedural process after a hotline call is made; (ii) actions the Department is authorized to take during the investigative process; (iii) data from the last 5 annual Disproportionality and Disparity reports, published by the Children and Family Research Center, that detail the racial disproportionality present at each key decision point of system involvement; (iv) the trauma caused to children and families by family separation, even for 48 hours or less; and (v) how records of indicated, unfounded, and undetermined investigations are retained and used by the Department and other public entities. Provides that the section on the consequences and results of hotline calls and Department investigations, shall be provided through the Department, through a licensed entity authorized to provide continuing education for professionals. Provides that beginning January 1, 2023, any additions or updates to the mandated reporting training shall be reflected in all manuals or guides for mandated reporters about their duty to report.

Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning expenses of conducting a primary election. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 10 ILCS 5/7-6 Adds reference to: 60 ILCS 1/Art. 90 rep. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Township Code. Repeals the Corporate Powers Exercised By County Board Article. Effective immediately.

Amends the Health Facilities Planning Act. Modifies provisions concerning Safety Net Impact Statements. Provides for Emergency Medicine and Trauma Systems Impact Statements and Maternal and Child Health Impact Statements. Provides further requirements concerning the discontinuance of a hospital facility or a category of service. Provides requirements for hospital closure during a pandemic. Provides for a right of action under the Act. Specifies and modifies penalties for a violation of the Act. Allows a health facility to be placed under receivership. Specifies further powers and duties of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board under the Act. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires a general acute care hospital that ceases to provide hospital services before January 1, 2022 to pay specified amounts. Provides further requirements concerning the payments. Defines terms. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3960/4 20 ILCS 3960/14.2 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Modifies provisions and requirements concerning Safety Net Impact Statements, Emergency Medicine and Trauma Systems Impact Statements, and Maternal and Child Health Impact Statements. Makes changes concerning requirements for applications for permits, exemptions, and certificates for changes in ownership of a health care facility and discontinuation of health care facilities or services thereof. Further modifies the powers and duties of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board (State Board). Makes changes in provisions concerning the revision of criteria, standards, and rules. Modifies provisions concerning State Board notice of hospital reduction in health care services. Restores provisions allowing the State Board to accept in-kind services or donations instead of or in combination with the imposition of a fine. Removes provisions concerning membership of the State Board and receivership. Modifies defined terms. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.