Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Provides that the Department may impose a fine not to exceed $35,000 (up from $25,000) for any one or any combination of the grounds for discipline.
Amends the Chicago Municipal Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning the restoration of rights after receipt of a refund, removes language restricting repayment of the refund within certain periods and provides that, if the employee withdraws from service or dies in service during a specified period, any payments made shall be refunded without interest thereon and in accordance with a refund provisions of the Article. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date for the Wholesale Drug Distribution Licensing Act from January 1, 2013 to January 1, 2023. 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.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts from an eavesdropping violation with prior approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which it is to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to an undercover conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act or a felony violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that the use of an eavesdropping device under these provisions may be used in an emergency situation. Provides that an emergency situation occurs when, without previous notice to the law enforcement officer sufficient to obtain prior State's Attorney approval, the conversation to be overheard or recorded will occur within a short period of time and the use of the device is necessary for the protection of the law enforcement officer.
Amends the Chicago Laborers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows an employee annuitant who has elected the reversionary annuity to cancel the election. Prohibits the option for a reversionary annuity if the reversionary annuity for a widow or any reversionary annuitant, when added to the widow's annuity payable under the Article, exceeds 100% of the reduced annuity payable to the employee. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Changes employer contribution rates of each employer who has incurred liability for the payment of contributions within each of the 3 calendar years immediately preceding the calendar year for which a rate is being determined. Creates the Unemployment Insurance Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding ideas to reform unemployment insurance in Illinois in a way which encourages business growth while ensuring protection of workers who become involuntarily unemployed. Provides that reform ideas may include, but are not limited to, altering employer contribution rates to place a greater burden upon those employers with greater employment loss experience, allowing for and developing a private unemployment insurance market, and privatizing unemployment insurance through the establishment of employee-owned accounts similar to retirement accounts to be funded by contributions from the employer and employee to be used at the discretion of the employee if he or she becomes unemployed. Provides that the Task Force members shall serve voluntarily and without compensation. Provides that the Task Force shall submit a final report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2012. Provides that the final report shall include estimated costs and savings data for the State, Illinois businesses, and Illinois workers related to any recommendations. Provides that the Task Force is abolished on January 1, 2013. Effective immediately.
