Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that a prescriber shall offer a prescription for naloxone hydrochloride or another drug approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the complete or partial reversal of opioid depression to a patient when one or more of the following conditions are present: (1) the prescription dosage for the patient is 90 or more morphine milligram equivalents of an opioid medication per day; (2) an opioid medication is prescribed concurrently with a prescription for benzodiazepine; (3) the patient presents with an increased risk for overdose, including a patient with a history of overdose, a patient with a history of substance use disorder, or a patient at risk for returning to a high dose of opioid medication to which the patient is no longer tolerant. Provides other requirements and exemptions. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2020.
Rep. Katie Stuart
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Amends the Property Tax Code. With respect to the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption, provides that, beginning in assessment year 2019, the taxpayer's household income shall be reduced by any amounts paid as Medicare premiums. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person who unlawfully possesses fentanyl commits reckless endangerment of a first responder or coroner by fentanyl exposure if he or she, by any means lawful or unlawful, recklessly performs an act or acts that causes a first responder or coroner bodily harm as a result of exposure to or contact with fentanyl. Provides that a person commits reckless endangerment of a first responder or coroner by fentanyl exposure when he or she unlawfully delivers fentanyl to another that causes bodily harm to a first responder or coroner as a result of exposure to or contact with that fentanyl. Reckless endangerment of a first responder or coroner by fentanyl exposure is a Class 2 felony. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Extends the authorization for advance deposit wagering until December 31, 2022 (from December 31, 2020). Amends the Video Gaming Act. Allows for video gaming by licensed horse racing establishments (facilities operated by an organization licensee whose handle from wagering on Illinois races for 2016 was more than $32,000,000 or by an inter-track wagering location licensee that derives its license from such an organization licensee); makes conforming changes throughout the Video Gaming Act and in the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a licensed horse racing establishment that is an organization licensee may operate up to 150 video gaming terminals at its organization licensee location at any time and a licensed horse racing establishment that is an inter-track wagering location licensee may operate up to 5 video gaming terminals at the inter-track wagering location licensee's location or on the premises of the organization licensee with which it is affiliated. The provisions amending the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 are effective immediately.
Encourages the State Board of Education to stop using edTPA as the teacher certification for licensure.
Congratulates Susan Converse on being named the 2019 Illinois Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Congratulates Southern Illinois University on 150 years of service to southern Illinois and beyond.
Congratulates #Boom magazine on its fifth anniversary.
Amends the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Provides for the forfeiture of benefits for any person who otherwise would receive a survivor benefit who is convicted of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with the service of the member from whom the benefit results. Provides that all participants entering service after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall be deemed to have consented to that provision. Provides that the changes under the amendatory Act shall not impair any contract or vested right acquired by a survivor before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.