Rep. Patrick Windhorst

Proposes to amend the Legislature and Executive Articles of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that a person may not be elected to the office of State Senator or State Representative for terms totalling more than 12 years in each office. Provides that a person may not be elected to any single Executive Branch office for terms totalling more than 8 years in each office. Provides that service prior to the date of the adoption of the amendment shall be considered in the calculation of a person's service. Provides that any person in office at the time of the adoption of this amendment to the Illinois Constitution who meets the specified term limitation shall be allowed to complete his or her term of office. Proposes to amend the Finance Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that the Auditor General shall serve a term of 4 years (rather than 10 years), and shall not be eligible for reappointment. Specifies that the provision shall apply to service as Auditor General prior to the adoption of the amendment. Provides further requirements concerning any person serving as the Auditor General at the time of the adoption of the amendment. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Amends the Firearm Concealed Carry Act. Eliminates provision that a licensee under the Act shall not knowingly carry a firearm on any bus, train, or form of transportation paid for in whole or in part with public funds, and any building, real property, and parking area under the control of a public transportation facility paid for in whole or in part with public funds.

Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the tax on motor fuel, gasohol, majority blended ethanol fuel, biodiesel, and biodiesel blends shall be suspended if the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index is more than 3% over the previous 12-month period. Provides for certain amounts to be transferred from the General Revenue Fund to the Road Fund if the suspension is in effect. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that if the court enters an order for the detention of the defendant, the defendant shall be brought to trial on the offense for which the defendant is detained within 120 (rather than 90) days after the date on which the order for detention was entered. Provides that if the defendant is not brought to trial within the 120 (rather than 90) day period, the defendant shall not be denied pretrial release. Provides that in computing the 120 (rather than 90) day period, the court shall omit any period of delay resulting from a continuance granted at the request of the defendant.

Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides for registration under the Act of a person who committed a violation or attempted violation of the unauthorized video recording and live video transmission offense that involves: (1) knowingly making a video record or transmitting live video of another person without that person's consent in a restroom, tanning bed, tanning salon, locker room, changing room, or hotel bedroom; (2) knowingly making a video record or transmitting live video of another person's intimate parts for the purpose of viewing the body of or the undergarments worn by that other person without that person's consent; or (3) placing or causing to be placed a device that makes a video record or transmitting a live video in a restroom, tanning bed, tanning salon, locker room, changing room, or hotel bedroom with the intent to make a video record or transmitting live video of another person without that person's consent.

Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that a member of the General Assembly, his or her spouse, and any immediate family member living with that member of the General Assembly shall not, for compensation, lobby any official of the executive or legislative branch of State government or any official of any unit of local government. Provides that a person who violates these provisions is guilty of official misconduct, a Class 3 felony. Defines terms. Repeals current provisions banning members of the General Assembly from lobbying, a Class A misdemeanor. Effective immediately.

Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, beginning 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and continuing through the last day of the fourth month after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the taxes imposed by those Acts do not apply to the proceeds of sales of: motor fuel; gasohol; majority blended ethanol fuel; biodiesel; and biodiesel blends. Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Act. Provides that no tax shall be imposed under this Act beginning 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and continuing through the last day of the fourth month after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to authorize emergency rulemaking. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. In provisions concerning the renewable portfolio standards, specifies the goals for procurement of renewable energy credits and cost-effective renewable energy resources that shall be included in the long-term renewable resources procurement plan and makes other changes concerning these procurements and provides for the calculation of the cost of equity for the purposes of recovering all reasonable and prudently incurred costs of energy efficiency measures from retail customers. Provides that savings of fuels other than electricity achieved by measures that educate about, incentivize, encourage, or otherwise support the use of electricity to power vehicles shall count towards the applicable annual incremental goal and shall not be included in determining certain limits. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an electric utility that serves less than 3,000,000 retail customers but more than 500,000 customers in this State may plan for, construct, install, control, own, manage, or operate photovoltaic electricity production facilities and any energy storage facilities that are planned for, constructed, installed, controlled, owned, managed, or operated in connection with photovoltaic electricity production facilities without obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity subject to specified terms and conditions. Provides that a public utility that provided electric service to at least 1,000,000 retail customers in Illinois and gas service to at least 500,000 retail customers in Illinois may elect to recover its natural gas delivery services costs through a performance-based rate. Provides that, beginning in 2022, without obtaining any approvals from the Commission or any other agency, regardless of whether any such approval would otherwise be required, a participating utility that is a combination utility shall pay $1,000,000 per year for 10 years to the energy low-income and support program. Adds provisions authorizing certain utilities to plan for, construct, install, control, own, manage, or operate electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Amends the Prevailing Wage Act to include specified facilities financed in whole or in part with renewable energy resources in the definition of "public works". Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Creates the Rebuild Illinois Mental Health Workforce Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to preserve and expand access to Medicaid community mental health care in Illinois to prevent unnecessary hospitalizations and avoid the criminalization of mental health conditions. Establishes add-on payments for the following community mental health services to be paid beginning with State Fiscal Year 2023 and continuing for each State fiscal year thereafter: individual therapy services; community support-individual services; case management services; and assertive community treatment services. Requires monthly directed payments to community mental health providers of community support team services or assertive community treatment services. Provides that such directed payments shall be based on the number of Medicaid users, as defined, who receive services from the provider in the base year. Provides that the add-on payments established under the Act shall apply to Medicaid services provided by a contracted managed care organization or entity and services paid for directly by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services. Provides that no base Medicaid rate or Medicaid rate add-on payment or any other payment for the provision of Medicaid community mental health services in place on July 1, 2021 shall be diminished or changed to make the reimbursement changes required under the Act. Requires the Department to apply for federal approval to implement the Act. Provides that implementation of the add-on payments is conditioned on the receipt of federal financial participation for such payments. Effective immediately.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Restores a provision in the Act concerning the regulation of greenhouse gases to its form prior to amendment by P.A. 102-662. Repeals a provision defining "clean energy". Effective immediately.