Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Procurement Policy Board (now, the Executive Ethics Commission) shall appoint procurement compliance monitors to oversee and review the procurement processes. Provides that, after a hearing, the Board (now, the Commission) shall determine whether a procurement compliance monitor shall be removed. Provides that the determination shall be made upon a three-fifths vote of the Board. Effective July 1, 2012.

Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Adds and excludes certain classes of persons from the definition of "community college benefit recipient". Provides, beginning July 1, 2012, (i) that the program of health benefits for community college benefit recipients and community college dependent beneficiaries shall include health benefits for community college benefit recipients and community college dependent beneficiaries subject to Article VII of the Public Community College Act and (ii) that those persons and the employers of those persons shall pay the required contributions. Increases the required contribution to be paid by contributors to the State Universities Retirement System and their employers. Provides that a community college district subject to Article VII of the Public Community College Act shall contribute (i) $10 million toward the cost of these health benefits by March 30, 2012 and (ii) an additional amount on or before September 1, 2012. Requires the Board of Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System to recertify its estimate of the total amount of contributions to be contributed for these benefits, taking into account the changes made by the amendatory Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Water Well Construction Code. Requires the Illinois Department of Public Health, by January 1, 2012, to (i) establish standards for the certification and licensing of individuals and contractors constructing and modifying closed loop wells and (ii) issue permits for the construction and modification of closed loop wells. Effective immediately.

Creates the Redistricting Act of 2011. Contains only a short title provision.

Congratulates Rep. Karen May for her many years of service as a State representative.

Creates the Redistricting Act of 2011. Contains only a short title provision.

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 Salaries Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title.