Rep. Dwight Kay

Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission may adjust the standard award formula for wage differential based on the type of employment, the nature and extent of injuries, and the age of the employee as it relates to the employee's remaining length of career in his or her usual and customary line of employment notwithstanding the injuries.

Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that, within 120 days after a determination by an arbitrator that an employee is no longer eligible for benefits for temporary total incapacity, the arbitrator shall issue a determination on eligibility for permanent disability benefits unless the arbitrator extends the time for determination for good cause shown.

Encourages school districts, for the 2014-2015 school year through the 2017-2018 school year, to not use results of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test as a determining factor for making decisions about a student's educational opportunities, the evaluation of educators, and the allocation of resources based on educational achievement on this assessment.

Re-enacts and changes various provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to product liability actions that were added by Public Act 89-7, which was held to be void in its entirety by the Illinois Supreme Court in Best v. Taylor Machine Works, 179 Ill. 2d 367 (1997). Effective immediately.

Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.

Authorizes the Department of Transportation to convey certain parcels of land in the counties of Grundy and Madison. Authorizes the Department of Natural Resources to convey, for so long as the property is used for public purposes, certain parcels of land in the counties of Bureau and Stephenson. Effective immediately.

Commends Bill Puhse and Amy Heath for their commitment to ensure a healthy blood supply in their community.

Creates the Citizen Privacy Protection Act. Provides that a law enforcement agency may not use a cell site simulator device, except to locate or track the location of a communications device or to identify a communications device. Except as provided in the Freedom From Location Surveillance Act, a court order based on probable cause that a person whose location information is sought has committed, is committing, or is about to commit a crime, is required for any permitted use of a cell site simulator device. Provides that an application for a court order to use a cell site simulator device, including an emergency application under the Freedom From Location Surveillance Act, must include a description of the nature and capabilities of the cell site simulator device to be used and the manner and method of its deployment, including whether the cell site simulator device will obtain data from non-target communications devices. Provides that an application for a court order to use a cell site simulator device, including an emergency application under the Freedom From Location Surveillance Act, must also include a description of the procedures that will be followed to protect the privacy of non-targets of the investigation, including the immediate deletion of data obtained from non-target communications devices. Provides that if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a law enforcement agency used a cell site simulator to gather information in violation of the limits in the Act, then the information shall be presumed to be inadmissible in any judicial or administrative proceeding. Defines "cell site simulator device", "communications device", and "law enforcement agency".

Amends the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act. Provides that the failure to submit required apprenticeship reports is a violation of the Act. Creates penalties for violation of the Act. Provides that an entity that violates the provisions of the Act or any rule adopted under the Act shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 for each violation found in the first audit by the Department of Labor. Provides that following a first audit, an entity shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $2,000 for each repeat violation found by the Department within a 5-year period. Provides that each violation of the Act for each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate and distinct violation. Provides that in determining the amount of a penalty, the Director of the Department of Labor shall consider the gravity of the violations.

Encourages the Illinois Department of Human Services to address heroin addiction and implement new addiction protocols. Designates November 4, 2016 as Heroin Addiction Awareness Day in the State of Illinois.