Creates the Safe Autonomous Vehicle Act. Provides definitions. Provides that upon notification to the Secretary of State, a motor vehicle manufacturer may commence a safe autonomous vehicle project with a vehicle installed with an automated driving system after providing notification to the Secretary of State and after self-certification under certain conditions. Provides that the manufacturer shall determine the geographical boundaries of the project and shall maintain incident records and provide periodic summaries to the Secretary of State and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Provides that the participating fleet in the program shall be insured by the manufacturer who shall assume liability for incidents where the automated driving system technology is at fault for that incident. Provides that any person who operates a vehicle with automated driving system technology without first satisfying the eligibility requirements in the Act shall be fined $10,000 for a first violation and a second or subsequent violation is a Class A misdemeanor. Preempts home rule powers. Effective immediately.
Rep. Curtis Tarver
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, where assessment records are presently maintained in electronic format, the township assessor, multi-township assessor, or chief county assessment officer shall make those records available for immediate public inspection through Internet access. Provides that where assessment records, or some of them, are not presently maintained in electronic format, the township assessor, multi-township assessor, or chief county assessment officer shall convert all assessment records into electronic format and maintain those records in that format. Provides that those records shall be made available for immediate public inspection, preferably through Internet access. Contains provisions concerning requests for assessment records. In provisions providing that property records shall contain the elements (or basis) of valuation and computations that are taken into consideration by the chief county assessment officer in determining the fair cash value of property, provides that those elements include, but are not limited to, capitalization rates and tax loads, rental income data and any adjustments thereto, ratios of expenses to income, net income, vacancy and collection loss, reproduction or replacement cost calculators or manuals, physical, functional, and economic depreciation or obsolescence, and comparable sales and sales adjustment factors. Contains provisions concerning tax objections in the circuit court. Repeals provisions providing that the circuit court shall consider tax objections concerning valuation without regard to the correctness of any practice, procedure, or method of valuation followed by the assessor, board of appeals, or board of review in making or reviewing the assessment, and without regard to the intent or motivation of any assessing official. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Removes provisions providing that a person is not eligible to take the oath of office for a municipal office if that person has been convicted of certain crimes. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person convicted of a felony, bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime (rather than a felony) for an offense committed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act while he or she was serving as a public official is ineligible to hold any local public office (in addition to being ineligible to hold an office created by the Constitution of the State) unless the person's conviction is reversed or until the completion of his or her sentence and his or her eligibility to hold office is restored. Amends the Officials Convicted of Infamous Crimes Act and the Election Code making conforming changes.
Honors and thanks State Representative Frances Ann Hurley for her years of dedicated service. Wishes her the best on her future success.
Proposes to amend the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that an additional income tax shall be imposed on individuals in an amount equal to 3% of the portion of the individual's income that is greater than $1,000,000 for the taxable year. Provides that the revenue collected from the tax shall be distributed to school districts on a per pupil basis. Effective upon being declared adopted.
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. In provisions relating to laboratory testing, defines "batch" to mean: (1) for cannabis concentrate, 10 grams of every 2.2 pounds of concentrate; (2) for edible cannabis-infused products, 1% of a run, being a minimum of 2 packaged units or, if a bulk product, 10 grams; (3) for cannabis-infused beverage products, 1% of a run, being a minimum of 2 packaged units; and (4) for other cannabis-infused products (not including edibles and beverages), 1% of a run, being a minimum of 2 packaged units, or, if a bulk product, 10 grams. Requires the Department of Agriculture to adopt rules creating an incentive program for cultivation centers to use minority-owned or women-owned cannabis-testing laboratories.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the owner of the certificate of purchase shall promptly notify the county collector in writing that a petition for a sale in error has been filed. Provides that the court may deny the petition for a sale in error if the notice is not filed. Amends the Property Tax Code and the Mobile Home Local Services Tax Enforcement Act. Provides that, when the owner of the certificate of purchase is the county as trustee for taxing districts, then, upon request of or consent by the county as trustee, the county collector may declare an administrative sale in error at any time and for any reason. Provides that the declaration shall state the reason why the sale should not have occurred. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the Secretary of State to accept forms and documents that are manually signed and scanned or signed with a digital signature as an alternative to physical hard copies when processing applications for vehicle registration.