Rep. Silvana Tabares

Amends various Acts. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2016, qualifications and continuing education requirements for health care professionals shall include completion of a one-hour course or training program regarding the identification and reporting of elder abuse and neglect. Amends the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act. Provides that the Department on Aging shall establish and implement a one-hour course or training program regarding the identification and reporting of elder abuse and neglect by health care professionals.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that each taxpayer is allowed an income tax credit in an amount equal to 50% of the reasonable expenditures incurred by the taxpayer for the purpose of making a multi-unit residential building more accessible to persons with disabilities by removing architectural or physical barriers to or within that building. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that parking-fee exempt parking placards may be issued to persons with visual disabilities as certified by an ophthalmologist or optometrist.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Department on Aging to establish a rebate program to assist homeowners aged 65 or older in the payment of their monthly water or sewer or combined water and sewer utility bills. Provides that to receive a rebate under the program, an eligible person must submit (i) a copy of his or her monthly water or sewer or combined water and sewer utility bill issued by a recognized utility service provider, (ii) an original or duplicate receipt acknowledging payment of the total monthly bill amount, and (iii) an application for a water or sewer or combined water and sewer utility rebate as prescribed by the Department. Provides that upon receipt of all application materials and following a final determination of eligibility, including verification that the applicant is the customer of record of the utility service provider, the Department shall issue a rebate check to the eligible applicant in an amount equal to 20% of the total bill amount. Grants the Department rulemaking authority. Prohibits the Department from imposing any income restrictions or requirements for purposes of eligibility under the rebate program. Defines utility service provider.

Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act, the Abused and Neglected Long Term Care Facility Residents Reporting Act, the Nursing Home Care Act, the ID/DD Community Care Act, the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act, and the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act. Provides that any administrator, supervisor, or employee of a long term care facility, or any administrator, supervisor, or employee of an assisted living or shared housing establishment, having reasonable cause to believe that any resident of the facility or establishment has been subjected to abuse shall report the abuse or cause a report of the abuse to be made as follows: if the suspected abuse results in serious bodily injury to the resident, a telephone report shall be made to the local law enforcement agency within 2 hours after the administrator, supervisor, or employee observed, obtained knowledge of, or suspected the abuse; in addition, a written report shall be made to the local law enforcement agency, the Department, and the Office of State Long Term Care Ombudsman within 2 hours after the administrator, supervisor, or employee observed, obtained knowledge of, or suspected the abuse. Provides that if the suspected abuse does not result in serious bodily injury to the resident, such reports shall be made within 24 hours. Effective immediately.

Amends the Condominium Property Act. Provides that the purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, or a purchaser of a condominium unit from a mortgagee who acquired title through a judicial foreclosure, a consent foreclosure, a common law strict foreclosure, or the delivery of a deed in lieu of foreclosure (instead of the purchaser of a condominium unit at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, who takes possession of a condominium unit pursuant to a court order or a purchaser who acquires title from a mortgagee) shall have the duty to pay to the association an amount not to exceed the total of the regular monthly assessments for the condominium unit for the 9-month period immediately preceding the relevant event. Provides that the amount due may include any attorney's fees and court costs, but may not exceed 9 months of regular assessments due over the same 9-month period. Deletes language providing that the purchaser shall have the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration for the 6 months immediately preceding the institution of an action to enforce the collection of assessments, and which remain unpaid. Deletes language providing that if the outstanding assessments are paid at any time during an action to enforce the collection of assessments, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. Provides that the notice of a foreclosure sale of a condominium unit shall state that a purchaser, other than a mortgagee, shall pay to the association any unpaid monthly assessments for the 9-month period preceding the sale, including attorney's fees and court costs. Provides that each notice of a judicial sale a condominium unit and each disclosure statement issued to a prospective purchaser shall list the required fees. Provides that in certain situations, the Board of Managers (instead of the owner) of a condominium unit must make specified information available within 14 days of the request (instead of "upon demand") and may do so either electronically or in writing. Makes corresponding changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Division of Banking Act. Authorizes the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation to establish a Commercial Bank Regulatory Section and a Savings Bank Regulatory Section within the Division. Amends the State Finance Act. Changes the name of the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund to the Residential Finance Regulatory Fund. Provides for expenditures from the Savings Institution Regulatory Fund and the Residential Finance Regulatory Fund related to the disposition of unclaimed property. Amends the Savings Bank Act. Provides that the Secretary may charter mutual and stock holding companies in connection with a mutual savings bank reorganization. Establishes the effect of the repeal of the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, including the regulation of entities formerly under the Illinois Savings and Loan Act as savings banks under the Savings Bank Act. Changes references from "member or shareholder" to "customer". Changes references from "Commissioner" to "Secretary". Makes changes to provisions concerning articles of incorporation, proxies, directors, access to books and records, regulations, investment in loans, loans to one borrower, mergers, conversion of an existing depository institution to a savings bank, powers of the Secretary, regulatory fees, and disclosure of reports of examinations and confidential supervisory information. Repeals the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Clean Coal FutureGen for Illinois Act of 2011. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a household goods recycling bin shall have a permanent, written, printed label affixed to the bin and prominently displayed. Sets forth the required information that must be contained within the label. Defines required terms. Effective immediately.

Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Provides that a health care employer shall conduct a criminal history records check in all other states in which an applicant for employment or an employee has resided to determine if the individual has been convicted in another state of committing or attempting to commit a criminal offense that has the same or similar elements as a disqualifying offense under by the Act.