Commits to passing meaningful legislation that will prevent people filled with hate from obtaining the means by which to end innocent lives.
Urges the General Assembly and the Governor's Administration to invest our transportation and infrastructure dollars as promised under Rebuild Illinois to make good on our collective commitment to fix our roads, bridges, and schools while creating jobs and opportunities for all residents of Illinois.
Declares January 17, 2021 as Muhammad Ali Day in the State of Illinois.
Declares June 27, 2021 as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Day. Declares June 2021 as Post-Traumatic Stress Injury Awareness Month. Urges the Departments of Public Health, Military Affairs, and Veterans Affairs to continue working to educate victims of interpersonal violence, combat, life-threatening accidents, or natural disasters and their families, as well as the general public, about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of post-traumatic stress injury.
Creates the Community Health Worker Certification and Reimbursement Act. Amends various Acts regarding medical staff credentials; electronic posters and signs; N95 masks; Legionella bacteria testing; continuing education on implicit bias awareness; overdoses; the Prescription Monitoring Program; a dementia training program; taxation of blood sugar testing materials; funding of safety-net hospitals; a Child Care Assistance Program Eligibility Calculator; managed care organizations; Federally Qualified Health Centers; care coordination; billing; the Medicaid Business Opportunity Commission; reimbursement rates; doula services; personal care of family members; the State Health Assessment; the State Health Improvement Plan; child care training; and a Medicaid Managed Care Oversight Commission. Creates the Behavioral Health Workforce Education Center of Illinois Act. Creates the Underlying Causes of Crime and Violence Study Act. Creates the Special Commission on Gynecologic Cancers Act. Creates the Racial Impact Note Act to require the estimate of the impact on racial and ethnic minorities of certain bills. Creates the Health and Human Services Task Force and Study Act to review health and human service departments and programs. Creates the Anti-Racism Commission Act concerning elimination of systemic racism. Creates the Sickle Cell Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program Act regarding programs and other matters. Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act in relation to the Health Facilities and Services Review Board, facility closure, and other matters. Creates the Medicaid Technical Assistance Act. Repeals, adds, and changes other provisions. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 305 ILCS 5/9A-11 from Ch. 23, par. 9A-11 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: Removes language requiring the SHA and SHIP Partnership to regularly evaluate and update the State Health Assessment and track implementation of the State Health Improvement Plan with revisions as necessary. In provisions amending the Illinois Controlled Substances Act and regarding the Prescription Monitoring Program: (1) presents the findings of the General Assembly; (2) provides that opioid treatment programs may not transmit information without patient consent, and reports made may not be utilized for law enforcement purposes; and (3) provides that treatment of a patient may not be conditioned upon his or her consent to reporting. Removes provisions amending the Illinois Public Aid Code regarding child care. Removes language requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to issue quarterly reports to the Governor and the General Assembly indicating: (i) the number of determinations of noncompliance since the last quarter; (ii) the number of financial penalties imposed; and (iii) the outcome or status of each determination. Makes other changes. House Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 720 ILCS 570/316 Removes provisions amending the Illinois Controlled Substances Act regarding the Prescription Monitoring Program. Makes changes in provisions amending the Adult Protective Services Act regarding adult protective services dementia training. In provisions regarding increasing access to primary care in hospitals, removes language providing that the program developed by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall encourage coordination between FQHCs and hospitals. In the Sickle Cell Prevention, Care, and Treatment Program Act, provides that expenditures from the Sickle Cell Chronic Disease Fund shall be subject to appropriation. Makes the following changes to the Medicaid Technical Assistance Center Act: (1) provides that the Center: (i) shall undertake efforts to identify and engage community-based providers offering behavioral health services or services addressing the social determinants of health, especially those predominantly serving communities of color or those operating within or near service deserts, for the purpose of offering training and technical assistance to them through the Center; and (ii) is committed to the principle that all Medicaid recipients have accessible and equitable physical and mental health care services; (2) requires all providers served through the Center to deliver services notwithstanding the patient's race, color, gender, gender identity, age, ancestry, marital status, military status, religion, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, order of protection status, or immigration status; and (3) provides that moneys in the Medicaid Technical Assistance Center Fund shall be used for specified purposes, subject to appropriation. Makes other changes.
States that physical education is an essential and integral part of educating the whole child and that ALL students in the State of Illinois should have access to equitable, high quality, standards-based physical education programming being supported by equitable resources and funding. Urges all physical education programs to be in compliance with and accountable for following the Illinois School Code.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that in distribution of the remaining funds received under the federal Help America Vote Act, the State Board of Elections may make such funds available to election authorities for the maintenance of secure collection sites for the return of vote by mail ballots. Allows election authorities to establish curb-side voting for individuals to cast a ballot during early voting or on election day. Provides that an election authority's curb-side voting program shall designate at least 2 election judges from opposite parties per vehicle and the individual must have the option to mark the ballot without interference from the election judges. Requires election authorities to accept any vote by mail ballot returned, including ballots returned with insufficient or no postage. Allows election authorities to establish secure collection sites for postage-free return of vote by mail ballots. Provides for the collection and processing of vote by mail ballots submitted to collection sites. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall establish additional guidelines for the security of collection sites. Effective immediately.
Condemns the conduct of Illinois State Representative Chris Miller.
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Provides that the State Treasurer, for purposes related to the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act, is not required to pay various fees to the circuit court clerk. Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act. Provides that the State Treasurer has the authority to access and reproduce, at no cost, vital records and court records. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 2 (Dept. of Human Services) The expected state fiscal impact for the Department of Human Services is minimal. Subject to appropriations and federal cash deposits. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 2 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 A2 will have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority and there is not sufficient information to determine the full effect of that fiscal impact. Additional details are needed in order to make this determination; including but not limited to the extent of the populations served and the administrative cost is unclear and would be developed during program development (staffing needs, new hires, software). IHDA has in place a mortgage relief program but with that comes administrative costs as well. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 3 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 A3 will have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority and there is not sufficient information to determine the full effect of that fiscal impact. Additional details are needed in order to make this determination; including but not limited to the extent of the populations served and the administrative cost is unclear and would be developed during program development (staffing needs, new hires, software). IHDA has in place a mortgage relief program but with that comes administrative costs as well. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 3 (Dept. of Human Services) No fiscal impact to the Department of Human Services exists. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 4 (Dept. of Human Services) SB 3066 (H-AM 4) creates the Covid-19 Federal emergency Rental Assistance Program Act. The Act establishes guidelines of implementing the Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Programs including the prioritization of applicants, accessibility of applications, correspondence with applicants, and availability of program data on the administrating agencys website. In addition to creating the Covid-19 Federal emergency Rental Assistance Program Act SB 3066 (H-AM4) clarifies the availability of court files in residential eviction actions and establishing various guidelines for the temporary COVID-19 moratorium on certain residential evictions. The source for the Rental Assistance Program is federal and pending the final determination of the agency responsible for implementing the Covid-19 Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, DHS does not anticipate a significant fiscal impact to the department to carry out the duties required by SB 3066 (H-AM 4). House Floor Amendment No. 7 Deletes reference to: 705 ILCS 105/27.1b 765 ILCS 1026/15-504 Adds reference to: New Act 735 ILCS 5/9-121 735 ILCS 5/9-121.5 new 735 ILCS 5/9-122 new 735 ILCS 5/15-1513 new 735 ILCS 5/15-1514 new 815 ILCS 505/2Z.5 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the COVID-19 Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program Act. Contains provisions for: the Federal Emergency Rental Assistance program; accessibility and transparency; process for further prioritizing applicants for financial assistance and housing stability services; and required notifications and correspondence. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes changes concerning the sealing of court files. Provides that certain new provisions concerning sealing of court files in a residential eviction action apply until August 1, 2022. Contains provisions for: the sealing of a court file in a residential eviction action; emergency sealing of a court file in a residential eviction action during the COVID-19 emergency and economic recovery period; and a temporary COVID-19 stay of certain foreclosure proceedings and filings. Makes corresponding changes to a provision regarding demand for rent and eviction actions. Makes corresponding changes in the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Effective immediately. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 4 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 A4 may have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Additional details regarding the funding are needed in order to make this full determination: (1) SB3066 A4 discusses enhanced reporting and administration mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of staffing; (2) SB3066 A4 discusses enhanced reporting mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of technology (website development and administration, new notification strategies, etc.); (3) IHDA is not definitively listed as an administrating agency for the federal rental assistance funds discussed in this act. If IHDA does not administer these funds, there will be no impact. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 5 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 (H-AM 5) may have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Additionally, details regarding the funding are needed in order to make this full determination:(1) SB3066 (H-AM 5) discusses enhanced reporting and administration mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms ofstaffmg; (2) SB3066 (H-AM 5) discusses enhanced reporting mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of technology ( website development and administration, new notification strategies, etc.; (3) IHDA is not definitively listed as an administrating agency for the federal rental assistance funds discussed in this act. If IHDA does not administer these funds, there \vill be no impact. House Floor Amendment No. 8 Corrects a cross reference. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 5 (Dept. of Human Services) In addition to creating the Covid-19 Federal emergency Rental Assistance Program Act SB 3066 House Amendment 5 clarifies the availability of court files in residential eviction actions and establishing various guidelines for the temporary COVID-19 moratorium on certain residential evictions. The source for the Rental Assistance Program is federal and pending the final determination of the agency responsible for implementing the Covid-19 Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, DHS does not anticipate a significant fiscal impact to the department to carry out the duties required by SB 3066 House Amendment 5. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 6 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 A6 may have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Additional details regarding the funding are needed in order to make this full determination: (1) SB3066 A6 discusses enhanced reporting and administration mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of staffing. (2) SB3066 A6 discusses enhanced reporting mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of technology (website development and administration, new notification strategies, etc.); (3) IHDA is not definitively listed as an administrating agency for the federal rental assistance funds discussed in this act. If IHDA does not administer these funds, there will be no impact. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 7 (Housing Development Authority) SB 3066 A7 may have an immediate fiscal effect to the Illinois Housing Development Authority. Additional details regarding the funding are needed in order to make this full determination: (1) SB3066 A7 discusses enhanced reporting and administration mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of staffing; (2) SB3066 A7 discusses enhanced reporting mechanisms (requirements that were not part of the first round of CRF rental assistance funds) that would place a fiscal burden on IHDA in terms of technology (website development and administration, new notification strategies, etc.); (3) IHDA is not definitively listed as an administrating agency for the federal rental assistance funds discussed in this act. If IHDA does not administer these funds, there will be no impact. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 8 (Dept. of Human Services) In addition to creating the Covid-19 Federal emergency Rental Assistance Program Act, SB 3066 as amended by House Amendment 7 and 8 clarifies the availability of court files in residential eviction actions and establishing various guidelines for the temporary COVID-19 moratorium on certain residential evictions. The source for the Rental Assistance Program is federal and pending the final determination of the agency responsible for implementing the Covid-19 Federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, DHS does not anticipate a significant fiscal impact to the department to carry out the duties required by SB 3066 House Amendment 7 and 8.
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall develop an appropriate licensing and monitoring system that recognizes the unique population and programming for youth served by the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services program. Provides that the Department shall maintain licensing staff who are knowledgeable of Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services program standards, as set forth by the Department of Human Services. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall be responsible for the development and implementation of training curriculum for host homes that recognizes the unique population and programming of youth served in Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services. Provides that host homes licensed by the Department shall not be utilized for a child who is a youth in care of the Department. Defines "host homes". Effective July 1, 2021. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 225 ILCS 10/2.17 225 ILCS 10/3.6 new Adds reference to: 220 ILCS 5/16-108 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning recovery of the costs associated with the purchase of zero emission credits from zero emission facilities, authorizes the collection of certain charges relating to renewable resources through the delivery year beginning June 1, 2021 (rather than beginning June 1, 2019). Provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall not conduct an annual review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs through delivery years commencing June 1, 2022 (rather than through June 1, 2020) and shall instead conduct a single review, reconciliation, and true-up associated with renewable energy resources' collections and costs for the period beginning June 1, 2017 and ending May 31, 2023 (rather than ending May 31, 2021), provided that the review, reconciliation, and true-up shall not be initiated until after August 31, 2023 (rather than after August 31, 2021). Provides that the Illinois Power Agency shall file an update to the revised long-term renewable resources procurement plan, which shall be referred to as the Emergency Relief for Renewable Jobs Program, within 15 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the update to the revised long-term renewable resources procurement plan shall, at a minimum, provide for procurement of additional renewable energy credits from the categories of the Adjustable Block Program, with the remaining 25% allocated to the procurement of renewable energy credits from the categories of the Adjustable Block Program that are sourced from or the balance of the project developed by businesses that are owned by minority persons, women, and persons with disabilities and procurement of renewable energy credits from new utility-scale wind projects, new utility-scale solar projects, and new brownfield site photovoltaic projects. Provides that any company that receives a renewable energy credit contract from the Emergency Relief for Renewable Jobs Program shall submit an annual report within 6 months after the date of the contract award. Provides that any company that receives a renewable energy credit contract from the Emergency Relief for Renewable Jobs Program for projects over 500 kilowatts in nameplate capacity must certify that not less than the prevailing wage was or will be paid to employees who are engaged in construction activities associated with the project. Effective immediately. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 3 (Illinois Power Agency) The changes to Illinois law required by House Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 3096 would not require the expenditure of state funds, nor would House Amendment 3 increase or decrease state revenues. This is because the renewable energy credit contracts at issue through House Amendment 3 concern ratepayer-funded, utility-held funds, rather than state funds or state revenues. As a consequence, House Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 3096 would have no direct or indirect fiscal impact on the revenues of the State.
