Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the assessed value of qualified affordable housing property shall be reduced by 30%. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction in an amount equal to the qualified expenses paid or incurred by a qualified performing artist in connection with the performances by the qualified performing artist in the performing arts as an employee. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that any person who, for any commercial purpose, makes, publishes, disseminates, airs, circulates, or places an advertisement for goods or services before the public or causes, directly or indirectly, an advertisement for goods or services to be made, published, disseminated, aired, circulated, or placed before the public, that the person knows or should have known contains synthetic media, shall disclose in the advertisement that the advertisement contains synthetic media. Provides that if synthetic media has been used in any advertisement for goods or services that is published, aired, circulated, disseminated, or otherwise placed before the public and that depicts a person engaged in any action or expression that the person did not actually engage, the advertisement shall include a disclaimer that clearly and conspicuously states the likeness featured in the advertisement is synthetic, does not depict an actual person, and is generated to create a human likeness. Provides that a violation of the provisions constitutes an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Deletes provision that the Department of Central Management Services shall contract with the qualified vendor who proposes the lowest per minute rate not exceeding 7 cents per minute for debit, prepaid, collect calls and who does not bill to any party any tax, service charge, or additional fee exceeding the per minute rate, including, but not limited to, any per call surcharge, account set up fee, bill statement fee, monthly account maintenance charge, or refund fee as established by the Federal Communications Commission Order for state prisons in the Matter of Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, Second Report and Order, WC Docket 12-375, FCC 15-136 (adopted Oct. 22, 2015). Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall contract with a qualified vendor for telephone services in which the cost of the service is not based on the number of telephone calls made. Provides that a committed person is entitled to make free telephone calls from the correctional institution or facility. Provides that neither the Department of Corrections nor its agents may adopt rules that charge a committed person per telephone call made. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall adopt rules determining the length of each call made by a committed person, how many times each day a committed person may make telephone calls, and may prohibit calls for illegal purposes.
Creates the Prohibition on Automated Online Ticket Purchasing Act. Provides that a person may not use or create any automated software program that performs automatic and repetitive tasks and is designed to impersonate or replicate human activity online to: (1) purchase tickets in excess of posted limits for an online ticket sale; (2) use multiple Internet protocol addresses, multiple purchaser accounts, or multiple e-mail addresses to purchase tickets in excess of posted limits for an online ticket sale; (3) circumvent or disable an electronic queue, waiting period, presale code, or other sales volume limitation system associated with an online ticket sale; or (4) circumvent or disable a security measure, access control system, or other control or measure that is used to facilitate authorized entry to an event. Provides that the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief in response to violations of the Act. Provides for civil penalties for violations of the Act.
Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Deletes the requirement that the victim must report the crime within certain time periods for certain crimes to be eligible to apply for an award under this Act.
Amends the Mobile Home Landlord and Tenant Rights Act. Creates a process if a mobile home park owner attempts to change the use of a mobile home park. Requires the park owner to submit a relocation plan for tenants who may be dislocated by the change and also creates a process for the tenants through their homeowners organization to buy the park. Provides that the change of use that is sought may not be approved until the park owner submits a relocation plan. Requires relocation assistance for a mobile home park with more than 10 sites to be paid to each household equaling the amount of rent for the premises, excluding taxes and utilities, paid for the 12 months immediately preceding the date the tenant vacates the premises. Exempts certain sales of the mobile home park to include, but not be limited to, foreclosure, sale to a park owner's family member, or a sale between joint tenants or tenants in common. Provides that if a park owner receives an offer to buy the park, acceptance of that offer shall be conditioned on the purchaser filing an affidavit, recorded in the land records in the county in which the property is located, affirming that: (i) the purchaser will allow continued use of the land as a mobile home park for 5 years after closing; and (ii) rent for a lot on the property will not increase by more than 10% per year for the first 3 years after the sale is complete. Provides that a purchaser's failure to file this affidavit starts a process for the homeowners association of the tenants to have an opportunity to buy the mobile home park under this Act under terms substantially similar to the proposed sale price of the mobile home park. Makes other changes.
Amends the Telephone Solicitations Act. Provides that a live operator soliciting the sale of goods or services shall immediately state the name and telephone number (rather than the name) of the business or organization being represented. Provides that a live operator shall disclose his or her mailing address and the business or organization being represented on any website owned or operated by the live operator and on any written communications to a customer. Provides that the provisions of the Act shall not apply to a live operator who makes a residential marketing telephone call in response to a customer's telephone call or contact with the website of the business or organization being represented if the customer affirmatively requests a follow-up telephone call or other contact from the business or organization being represented. Provides that specified violations of the Act are a Class C misdemeanor.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that medical appliances, including, but not limited to, devices used to provide advanced life support services, and Class III medical devices that are used for cancer treatment pursuant to a prescription are exempt from the taxes imposed by those Acts. Effective January 1, 2025.
Creates the Bolstering Online Transparency Act. Provides that a person shall not use a bot to communicate or interact with another person in this State online, with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identity for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or to influence a vote in an election, unless the person makes a specified disclosure. Provides that the disclosure shall be clear, conspicuous, and reasonably designed to inform persons with whom the bot communicates or interacts that it is a bot. Provides the Act does not impose a duty on service providers of online platforms, including, but not limited to, web hosting and Internet service providers. Provides that a violation of any of the provisions of the Act is an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to make a conforming change. Effective July 1, 2025.
