Rep. Lisa Hernandez

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires any child care provider who receives funds from the child care assistance program and who is not required to be licensed to authorize in writing periodic investigations of the Central Register to ascertain if any child care provider or any member of the provider's household age 13 or older has been determined to be a perpetrator in an indicated report of child abuse or neglect. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to conduct an investigation of the Central Register, the Illinois Sex Offender Registry, and the National Sex Offender Registry at the request of the Department of Human Services. Removes a provision requiring the Department of Human Services to provide an unlicensed child care provider with a copy of the criminal history record check obtained from the Department of State Police. Removes provisions concerning disqualifying criminal charges and criteria the Department of Human Services shall consider when making a determination as to terminating payments to an unlicensed child care provider. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State reimbursement for transportation.

Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that in addition to any term of incarceration that may be imposed by the court and unless the court determines that it has good cause not to impose these requirements, a gang member who is under 21 years of age and who has been found guilty of or continued under supervision for a gang-related offense and who has not previously been found guilty of or continued under supervision for a gang-related offense shall, upon completion of any term of incarceration, be required: (i) to perform community service, the type and number of hours of community service to be determined by the court; (ii) if the gang member does not have a high school diploma or a GED certificate, to attend and complete educational courses designed to prepare the gang member to pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED); (iii) to comply with a curfew (A) between 11:00 p.m. on Friday and 6:00 a.m. on Saturday; (B) between 11:00 p.m. on Saturday and 6:00 a.m. on Sunday; and (C) between 10:00 p.m. on Sunday to Thursday, inclusive, and 6:00 a.m. on the following day; and (iv) to attend Life Skills classes conducted by a community college or by a non-profit offender re-entry program.

Amends the Transmitters of Money Act. Defines "general-use prepaid card". Provides that all vendors of general-use prepaid cards must be licensees or authorized sellers of licensees. Provides that a vendor of a general-use prepaid card may charge an activation fee not to exceed the greater of $1 or 1% of the value of the card. Provides that, subject to certain exceptions, no person shall impose a reloading fee, balance check fee, overdraft protection fee, dormancy fee, inactivity charge, or service fee with respect to a general-use prepaid card. Provides that the vendor of a general-use prepaid card shall inform the purchaser of a charge or fee before the card is purchased. Sets forth certain prohibited acts that any vendor issuing, selling, or offering for sale general-use prepaid cards may not commit. Provides that no licensee or authorized seller of a licensee may cash checks for a fee unless licensed under the Currency Exchange Act.

Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Requires contractors to include in recording keeping the gross and net wage, hourly overtime rate, fringe benefit rates, and the sponsor and administrator of fringe benefit plans. Provides for filing of the records with the Department of Labor. Authorizes that Department to require electronic filing. Requires that Department to create and provide a form for the filing of certified payrolls. Allows any interested party to bring an action under the Act. Defines terms.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the Department on Aging.

Appropriates $1,300,000 to the Department of Public Health from the General Revenue Fund for grants to the Illinois Poison Center. Effective July 1, 2012.

Makes appropriations to the Department of Human Services for fiscal year beginning July 1, 2012, as follows: Child Care Assistance Program = $362,300,000; Grants Associated with Child Care Services, Including Operation, Administrative and Prior year costs = $190,464,500; Grants Associated with Employment and Training Programs, Including Operation, Administrative and Prior year costs = $460,000,000; Effective July 1, 2012.

Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Prohibits new redevelopment project areas from being designated if the equalized assessed value of all property in the redevelopment project area plus the total current equalized assessed value of all property located in the municipality and subject to tax increment financing exceeds 10% of the total equalized assessed value of all property located in the municipality. Provides that all accumulated tax incremental revenues not specifically appropriated for defined costs for projects within a redevelopment project area by the end of a municipality's fiscal year shall be deemed "surplus" funds and shall be distributed to taxing districts. Changes the definition of "blighted area" to include a requirement that redevelopment is unlikely to happen in area in the absence of tax increment financing. Contains provisions allowing taxing districts to opt-out of redevelopment projects. Requires all redevelopment project areas to be approved by a majority vote of each county board and the governing authorities affected taxing districts that have not elected to opt out. Contains provisions authorizing intergovernmental agreements related to taxes and fees collected from within a redevelopment project area. Amends the Economic Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act, the County Economic Development Project Area Property Tax Allocation Act, and the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code to provide that the initial equalized assessed value of property shall be indexed for inflation. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Provides that the Director of Natural Resources shall adopt rules that require, prior to such hydraulic fracturing, the owner or operator to perform a suitable mechanical integrity test of the casing or of the casing-tubing annulus or other mechanical integrity test methods using procedures that are established by administrative rule. Provides that each owner or operator that begins extracting natural gas from shale shall report to the Department specified information within 30 days after the completion of all stages of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Requires that the owner or operator shall post the chemical disclosure information on certain specified websites. Provides that the owner or operator shall provide information to the Director as to the amounts, handling, and, if necessary, disposal at an identified appropriate disposal facility, or reuse of the well stimulation fluid load recovered during flow back, swabbing, or recovery from production facility vessels. Provides that the storage of the well stimulation fluid load shall be protective of an underground source of drinking water by the use of either tanks or lined pits. Provides that nothing in the provision shall be construed to require or allow disclosure of trade secrets or commercial information that is exempt from inspection or copying when provided to the Department together with a claim made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act that such information is proprietary, privileged, or confidential and that disclosure may cause competitive harm to the person or business. Provides that the provision only applies to the extraction of natural gas from shale.