Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Amends the Use Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sale of a leased or rented motor vehicle.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person who was under 18 years of age at the time of an offense, may, after serving 15 years of his or her sentence of either a term of natural life imprisonment or a term or cumulative term of 40 years or more of imprisonment, submit a petition for sentencing review in the circuit court of the county in which he or she was originally sentenced. Establishes procedures for sentencing review. Provides that following the sentencing review hearing, the court may affirm or reduce the petitioner's sentence. Provides that any offender who has petitioned the circuit court for sentencing review shall not be eligible to submit a second petition until at least 10 years have elapsed since the date on which the circuit court ruled upon the initial petition. Provides that the circuit court shall have discretion at the time of making its ruling to extend the period for filing the second petition up to an additional 10 years if the circuit court finds there to be no reasonable likelihood that the interests of justice will require another petition for sentencing review within 10 years.

BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the two Houses shall convene in Joint Session on Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at the hour of 12:00 o'clock noon for the purpose of hearing Governor Bruce Rauner present to the General Assembly his Report on the Condition of the State, as required by Article V Section 13 of the Constitution of the State of Illinois.

Amends the Township Code. Changes the date the township clerk shall certify the nominated candidates to not less than 68 days (currently, 61 days) before the township election.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the organization of the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Congratulates Carol Shehorn on her retirement as a leadership secretary for the Democratic Caucus of the Illinois House of Representatives.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Cannabis Control Act, the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, and the Unified Code of Corrections. Lowers penalties for the manufacture, delivery, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, trafficking and possession of cannabis, controlled substances, and methamphetamine. Eliminates mandatory sentences of imprisonment for the manufacture, delivery, possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, trafficking and possession of these drugs, Eliminates extended term sentences, habitual criminal status, and Class X sentencing for violations of the Cannabis Control Act, the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, and the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act.