Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Creates a new Title in the Act concerning the regulation of coal and coke storage, processing, and transloading. Provides for minimum setbacks for coal and coke facilities, sets limits for quantities of fugitive dust permitted from facilities, establishes specified requirements for storage of coal and coke products, requires permits for construction and operation of facilities, regulates the loading and unloading, paving, and cleaning of facilities. Requires monitoring and testing, record keeping, and reporting to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Legislative Inspector General for its FY15 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2014.

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, November 20, 2014, the House of Representatives stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 02, 2014 at 12:00 o'clock noon, or until the call of the Speaker; and the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, December 02, 2014, or until the call of the President.

Mourns the death of Brooke Whitted.

Mourns the death of Bill Luking.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that every 3 years, beginning July 1, 2014, the Procurement Policy Board shall contract with an outside vendor to conduct a procurement efficiency review, and shall report the findings from its review together with recommendations for improvement to the Governor and the General Assembly. Provides that "prohibited conduct" includes requested payments or other consideration to a third party by the University or State Agency that is not part of the solicitation or that is unrelated to the subject matter or purpose of the solicitation. Provides that all State agencies shall, in consultation with the Department of Central Management Services, evaluate the State's existing lease portfolio prior to engaging in a procurement for real property or capital improvements. Effective immediately.

Amends the Public Utilities Act in relation to on-bill financing programs. Provides for the inclusion of energy efficiency and demand-response plans under those programs.

Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that a court lacks jurisdiction to proceed on a petition for the appointment of a guardian of a minor if it finds that there is a short-term guardian appointed who is fit, willing, and able to care for the minor and that when the petitioner is not the short-term guardian of the minor, there shall be a rebuttable presumption that the short-term guardian of the minor is fit, willing, and able to care for the minor and that the petitioner shall have the burden of proving that the short-term guardian is not fit, willing, or able to care for the minor or that the short-term guardianship has been vacated. Further provides that the appointment of a short-term guardian does not constitute parental consent for court appointment of a guardian. Provides that if a short-term guardian appointed by the minor's parent or guardian petitions for guardianship or standby guardianship, his or her petition must state certain facts concerning his or her appointment as short-term guardian and include a copy of the short-term guardianship appointment with the petition. Provides that a guardian of a minor shall not remove a minor from the State for more than 30 days without first petitioning the court for removal and obtaining leave of the court.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall suspend or refuse to issue or renew the license of a motor vehicle dealer, transporter, wrecker, or rebuilder for violations of any tax administered by the Department of Revenue (currently, the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act only). Effective immediately.

Amends the Wildlife Code. Adds the Gray wolf, American black bear, and Cougar to the list of protected species under the Act.