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 Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall provide each managed care organization with the quarterly fee-for-service facility-specific nursing component (rather than facility-specific RUG-IV nursing component) per diem along with any add-ons for enhanced care services, support component per diem, and capital component per diem effective for each nursing home under contract with the managed care organization. Provides that no managed care contract shall provide for a level of reimbursement lower than the fee-for-service rate in effect for the facility at the time service is rendered. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 305 ILCS 5/5F-35 Adds reference to: 305 ILCS 5/5-4 from Ch. 23, par. 5-4 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the amount and nature of medical assistance.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the unlawful sale of public conveyance travel tickets to a minor. House Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 720 ILCS 5/10-8 Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7.5 20 ILCS 3930/7.10 new 605 ILCS 140/5 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall establish a pilot program to award $100 to any individual who supplies video or audio footage from the individual's residential security camera that materially contributes to a criminal conviction. Provides that the Authority shall distribute the award to the law enforcement agency investigating or the State's Attorney investigating the crime, who shall pay the individual directly. Provides that, to be eligible for an award under the pilot program, the State's Attorney that prosecuted the offender must certify to the Office of the Attorney General that (i) the individual supplied video or audio footage from the individual's residential security camera and (ii) the video or audio footage supplied by the individual contributed to the criminal conviction of an offender. Provides that the pilot program shall terminate after a total of $1,000,000 has been awarded under the pilot program. Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Adds the State highway system in the counties of Boone, Bureau, Champaign, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Macon, Madison, McHenry, Morgan, Peoria, Rock Island, Sangamon, St. Clair, Will, and Winnebago to the Act. Provides that images from the cameras may also be used in the investigation of any forcible felony, to detect highway conditions, and to facilitate highway safety and incident management. Provides that images from the cameras may be used by any law enforcement agency conducting an active law enforcement investigation. Provides that images from the cameras are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that all images and footage from the cameras must be deleted within 180 days, unless the images or footage is relevant to an ongoing investigation or pending criminal trial. Provides that cameras shall not be used to monitor individuals or groups in a discriminatory manner contrary to applicable State or federal law. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall report statistics to the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority and that no later than June 30, 2023, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall issue a report concerning the instances in which camera-captured information lead to a successful conviction. Makes changes concerning funding for the program. Authorizes the Attorney General or local State's Attorney to prosecute certain offenses. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments by the board of fire and police commissioners.
Creates the Green Alert Program Act. Provides that each law enforcement agency shall implement a Green Alert Program for missing members of the Armed Forces. Provides that each law enforcement agency may adopt necessary rules to implement the Green Alert Program. Requires each law enforcement agency to adopt specified rules. Requires the Illinois State Police to adopt rules to assist investigating law enforcement agencies during their investigations as a resource for the receipt, analysis, and dissemination of information to those agencies that have a need and right to know about a missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules for the display on its variable message signs of appropriate information that may assist in the safe return of a missing member of the Armed Forces, consistent with applicable State and federal requirements. Provides that if an investigating law enforcement agency receives notice that an individual is a missing member of the Armed Forces, the agency shall solicit information from the family or legal guardian of the missing member of the Armed Forces to provide information regarding the physical or mental condition of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Requires the investigating law enforcement agency to notify the Illinois State Police of the missing member of the Armed Forces. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall make all the necessary notifications and assist the investigating law enforcement agency. Contains provisions regarding the cancellation of a Green Alert. Contains other provisions.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "employer".
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Declares that all changes to the existing nursing facility direct care reimbursement rate methodologies and to the bed assessment and collection procedures must be approached with caution, executed deliberately, and held to the highest of standards in order to protect nursing facility residents from disruption in care, protect workers from lost wages and jobs, and protect providers from the increased instability within the industry. Provides that a Nursing Facility Oversight Committee (Committee) shall be named by the 4 legislative leaders to oversee, assess, and provide direction to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services as it relates to long term care services. Contains provisions on the Committee's composition, meetings, proxy voting, and other matters. Requires the Department to seek the advice and consent of the Committee prior to filing emergency or permanent administrative rules with the Secretary of State or submitting Medicaid State Plan amendments and all correspondence to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Requires the Department to prepare transition plans for the redesign of the direct care reimbursement rate methodologies and the assessment tax schedule and collection proceedings. Contains provisions concerning advanced notice to nursing facilities of all payment, award, and rate changes; a quarterly direct care per diem reimbursement rate for each nursing facility; direct care reimbursement rate components subject to redesign; establishment of a single quarterly non-Medicare occupied bed varied tax assessment; State Plan amendments to permit expedited implementation of the redesigned bed assessment; compliance requirements for managed care organizations; penalties for non-compliance; and other matters. Effective immediately.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the Self-Insurers Advisory Board.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning conspiracy. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 720 ILCS 5/8-2 from Ch. 38, par. 7-1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 3930/7.10 new 20 ILCS 4005/1 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1301 20 ILCS 4005/2 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1302 20 ILCS 4005/3 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1303 20 ILCS 4005/4 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1304 20 ILCS 4005/7 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1307 20 ILCS 4005/8 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 1308 20 ILCS 4005/8.5 20 ILCS 4005/12 rep. 30 ILCS 105/5 from Ch. 127, par. 141 30 ILCS 105/5.295 from Ch. 127, par. 141.295 30 ILCS 105/6z-125 30 ILCS 105/6z-126 625 ILCS 5/4-109 720 ILCS 5/12C-36 new 740 ILCS 45/2 from Ch. 70, par. 72 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall establish a program by which grants are administered for the purpose of preventing predatory vehicular hijacking. Provides that the Authority shall determine eligible recipients for the grants. Provides that grants shall be made of money appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to eligible recipients to provide street-level intervention services for at-risk youth in danger of being recruited for the purpose of predatory vehicular hijacking. Provides that the Authority shall adopt rules to determine eligibility standards for grants. Amends the Illinois Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Act. Specifies that it is the purpose of the Act to, among other things, reduce vehicle hijacking, to improve and support vehicle hijacking law enforcement, and to support the prosecution and administration of vehicle hijacking laws. Changes the name of the Illinois Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council to the Illinois Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Council. Provides that the Council is responsible for providing grants and financial support to assist in the identification, apprehension, and prosecution of hijackers, and the recovery of hijacked and stolen motor vehicles. Authorizes the Council to assess the scope of the vehicle hijacking problem. Provides that the Council is responsible for developing and sponsoring the implementation of plans and strategies for combating vehicle hijacking, and to improve the administration of vehicle hijacking laws. Changes the name of the Motor Vehicle Theft prevention and Insurance Verification Trust Fund to the Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention and Insurance Verification Trust Fund. Provides that money in the Trust Fund may be used to provide financial support for law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary for programs designed to reduce vehicle hijacking. Renames the State Police Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Trust Fund to the Vehicle Hijacking and Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Trust Fund. Repeals a provision that repeals specific Sections of the Act on January 1, 2025. Makes corresponding changes in various Acts. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of predatory vehicular hijacking, a Class 1 felony. Repeals the offense on January 1, 2026. Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Provides that "pecuniary loss" includes expenses incurred for the towing a victim's vehicle in connection with a crime of violence. House Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to: 740 ILCS 45/7.1 from Ch. 70, par. 77.1 740 ILCS 45/10.1 from Ch. 70, par. 80.1 Further amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Limits the amount of towing fees that may be reimbursed to a maximum of $1,000. Provides that an application for compensation shall set out the amount of benefits, payments, or awards, if any, payable under vehicle or towing insurance. Provides that, in order to be reimbursed, the applicant must show that he or she has exhausted the benefits reasonably available under full vehicle coverage insurance (including towing insurance, if available).
Amends the Fire Department Promotion Act. Modifies the definition of "affected department" for purposes of the Act to include a municipality with a population over 1,000,000.
