Amends the Energy Conservation and Coal Development Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the evaluation of loan applications.
Amends the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act and the School Construction Law. Provides that, notwithstanding the Illinois Grant Funds Recovery Act's 2-year time limitation on grant fund expenditures, for school energy efficiency grants awarded in 2014, grant funds may be made available for expenditure by a grantee for a period of 4 years from the date the funds were distributed by the State. Provides that any school energy efficiency grant funds not expended or legally obligated by the end of the grant agreement must be returned to the grantor agency within 45 days if the funds are not already on deposit with the grantor agency or the State Treasurer, and such returned funds must be deposited into the fund from which the original grant disbursement to the grantee was made. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a Section concerning the valuation of vegetative filter strips is repealed on December 31, 2026 (instead of December 31, 2016).
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a person also commits a false personation when he or she knowingly and falsely represents himself or herself to be: (1) an active-duty member of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of the United States or the National Guard or a veteran of the Armed Services or Reserve Forces of the United States or the National Guard; and (2) obtains money, property, or another tangible benefit through that false representation. Provides that a violation is a petty offense for which the offender shall be fined at least $100 and not more than $200. Effective immediately.
Amends various Acts to add physician assistants to provisions applicable to physicians, including adding physician assistant members to various committees and boards. Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Specifies that the physician assistant who may make a determination of disability for the purposes of an Illinois Persons with a Disability Identification Card is a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to make this determination by his or her supervising physician. Amends the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act. Adds the President of the Illinois Academy of Physician Assistants or his or her designee to the Illinois Advisory Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Adds representative of a professional organization representing physician assistants to various task forces and councils. Requires that the Department of Public Health consult with the Illinois Academy of Physician Assistants in developing the summary of health care for women and that the summary be distributed to physician assistants. Requires that the Department of Public Health consult with a statewide professional organization representing physician assistants in developing the POLST form. Makes other changes.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Deletes the one-year limit on backdating a survivor benefit. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Defines "solar customer" as any class of customer of an electric utility or an alternative retail electric supplier that uses a photovoltaic electric delivery system. Effective immediately.
Thanks Robert, Richard, and Ronald Jung for their service to our country during World War II.
Congratulates Patrick Delaney on his retirement as Police Chief of the Village of Sauget.
Congratulates Virgil Becker on his retirement as board member of the Kaskaskia Regional Port District.
