Rep. Lisa Hernandez

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In a provision requiring the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to determine the quantity and quality of medical services provided under the State's Medical Assistance Program, provides that such services may include dental and periodontal prevention and treatment services for residents of long term care facilities and adults diagnosed with a developmental disability or an acquired disability that is permanent and irreversible and that occurred prior to age 21. Provides that on or after July 1, 2017, the Department shall provide dental services, including periodontal prevention and treatment and prescription eyeglasses to veterans and their dependents. Effective immediately.

Amends the Labor Dispute Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Creates the Illinois Trust Act. Provides that no law enforcement agency may detain or continue to detain any individual solely on the basis of any immigration detainer or administrative warrant, or otherwise comply with an immigration detainer or administrative warrant, after that individual becomes eligible for release from custody. Provides that a law enforcement official or other law enforcement agency personnel shall not give an immigration agent access to an individual or allow an immigration agent to use law enforcement agency facilities for investigative interviews or other investigative purposes; transfer a person into an immigration agent's custody; permit federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents' use of agency facilities, information, or equipment, including an agency's electronic database for investigative interviews or other investigative purpose or for purposes of executing an immigration enforcement operation; or respond to immigration agent inquiries regarding an individual's incarceration status, release date, or contact information except insofar as the agency makes that information available to the public. Amends the Police Training Act. Requires the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to conduct or approve a training program on federal U and T nonimmigrant visas and other federal immigration remedies for immigrant victims of qualifying criminal activity. Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Makes changes in provisions concerning special immigrant juvenile status. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that no person subject to an immigration detainer or administrative warrant shall be denied bail solely on the basis of that immigration detainer or administrative warrant. Makes changes in provisions concerning post-conviction proceedings. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Peace Officer and Probation Officer Firearm Training Act. Expands the definition of "peace officer" to include any child protective investigator of a Child Protective Services Unit assigned to perform the duties and responsibilities provided under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Requires a child protective investigator to complete a Crisis Intervention Team training program conducted by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board before becoming a peace officer. Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Requires all personnel of the Department of Children and Family Services to adhere to specified Department procedures when conducting a child abuse or neglect investigation. Requires the Department to adopt policies on self-defense training for Department personnel. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of criminal threatening. Makes changes to provisions on stalking and aggravated stalking offenses. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. In provisions concerning stalking offenses, makes changes to the definitions of "course of conduct", "contact", and "stalking".

Amends the Property Tax Code. Repeals the increase in the limiting rate under the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law for Berwyn South School District Number 100 adopted by referendum at the election held on April 4, 2017, effective levy year 2018. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code.

Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that a borrowing employer that has entered into an agreement with a loaning employer may not avail itself of the exclusive remedy protection under the Act. Provides that any agreement between a loaning employer and a borrowing employer by which the loaning employer is entitled to receive certain reimbursements relating to fees and costs in hearings before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission is prohibited, is against public policy, and shall be wholly void.

Appropriates $5,797,550 from the Build Illinois Bond Fund to the Capital Development Board for early childhood construction grants. Appropriates $1,375,000 from the Build Illinois Bond Fund to the Capital Development Board for a grant to Gads Hill Center for an early childhood center located in Brighton Park and other capital improvements. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, with exceptions, a school bus may not idle in excess of 3 minutes in a 60 minute period. Provides that a person convicted of a violation of the new provision is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined $100 for the first conviction and $500 for a second or subsequent conviction within any 12-month period.

Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires the Illinois Investment Policy Board to make its best efforts to identify all companies that contract to shelter migrant children and include those companies in the list of restricted companies distributed to each retirement system and the Illinois State Board of Investment. Effective immediately.