Amends the Election Code. Provides that an election authority shall cancel the voter registration card of an inactive voter who has not voted in 2 consecutive general elections.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a person who is not an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces or the Illinois National Guard may apply for a Firearm Owner's Identification Card without parental consent if the person is at least 18 (rather than 21) years of age. Exempts from the requirement of having in one's possession a Firearm Owner's Identification Card a person who is otherwise eligible to obtain a Firearm Owner's Identification Card and is under the direct supervision of a holder of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card who is 18 (rather than 21) years of age or older while the person is on a firing or shooting range or is a participant in a firearms safety and training course recognized by a law enforcement agency or a national, statewide shooting sports organization.
Repeals the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Amends various Acts to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Owned by Noncitizens Act. Repeals language providing that all noncitizens may acquire, hold, and dispose of real and personal property in the same manner and to the same extent as natural born citizens of the United States, and the personal estate of a noncitizen dying intestate shall be distributed in the same manner as the estates of natural born citizens, and all persons interested in such estate shall be entitled to proper distributive shares thereof under the laws of this state, whether they are noncitizens or not. Provides instead that noncitizens may acquire and hold real property only if the real property is purchased from another noncitizen, and the personal estate of a noncitizen dying intestate shall be escheated back to the State, including land subject to the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act.
Amends the Election Code. Requires Voters Identification Cards for those who do not have an acceptable photo ID. Sets forth requirements and exemptions. Provides that any person desiring to vote shall present to the judges of election for verification of the person's identity a government-issued photo identification card or his or her Voter Identification Card. In provisions concerning the receipt of vote by mail ballots, provides that an election authority shall appoint panels as needed of 3 election judges from the list of election judges submitted by the county parties to compare the voter's signature on the certification envelope of the vote by mail ballot with the signature of the voter on file in the office of the election authority. Provides the procedure for verifying or rejecting the signature. Provides that if a vote by mail ballot is rejected, the election authority shall notify the voter within 2 days after the rejection or within one day if the rejection occurs after election day and in all cases before the close of the period for counting provisional ballots. Allows a voter to submit a statement confirming the vote if the signature was rejected. Allows a voter to cast a new ballot if the vote by mail ballot was rejected because the envelope was delivered opened.
Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections to create a form to be used by an election authority to remove a voter from its roll. Provides that the county clerk of the county where a decedent last resided shall (rather than may) issue certifications of death records from an electronic reporting system for death registrations as provided in the Vital Records Act and shall (rather than may) use that system to cancel the registration of any person who died during the preceding month.
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Provides that a concealed carry licensee who is an employee of a public or private elementary or secondary school may carry a concealed firearm into the school building, real property, and parking area under the control of the school where he or she is employed if, in addition to the training requirement to obtain a concealed carry license, he or she receives additional training from a training program established by the Illinois State Police. Provides that within 120 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the Illinois State Police shall establish a training program for licensees who are employees of a public or private elementary or secondary school to permit the employees to carry firearms into the school buildings where they are employed and their adjacent parking lots and real property. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall establish the training curriculum and the amount of training, which shall not exceed 48 hours, of which a maximum of 28 hours shall be firearm training. Provides that the training shall include the safe handling of firearms around children. Provides that the training must be completed annually.
Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Deletes a provision requiring a sign to be clearly and conspicuously posted, at the entrance of a building, premises, or real property specified as a prohibited area, stating that the carrying of firearms is prohibited.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Deletes a provision that if the court finds that the applicant is an indigent person, the court shall grant the applicant a full assessment waiver exempting him or her from the payment of any assessments. Provides that upon proof of need by the applicant, the court shall grant the applicant a partial assessment.
Creates the Manufacturing Capital Investment Fund Act. Contains only a short title provision.
