Rep. Kimberly du Buclet

Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act to authorize the Illinois Housing Authority to establish and administer a foreclosure prevention counseling program using moneys in the Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Fund, appropriated for that purpose, to make grants to HUD-certified housing counseling agencies to support pre-purchase and post-purchase home ownership education and foreclosure prevention counseling. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Fund. Provides that 75% of the moneys in this Fund shall be used for housing counseling outside Chicago and 25% of the moneys shall be used for such counseling in Chicago. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board shall conduct or approve a training program that educates law enforcement officers on individuals with mental health conditions and establishes best practices for interactions with those individuals. Further provides that satisfactory completion of the program shall be evidenced by a certificate issued by the Board.

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act. Grants the Illinois Department of Transportation the power to enter into agreements to make direct grants and low-interest loans to minority-owned businesses, female-owned businesses, and disadvantaged business enterprises certified by the Department for participation on Department-procured construction and construction-related contracts. Provides that grant and loan funds shall be expended, subject to appropriation, from the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund. Specifies permissible uses of funds and provides that funds may be loaned with or without interest. Provides that the Department shall establish the requirements for eligibility and criteria for grant and loan applications, approved use of funds, amount of loans or grants, interest rates, collateral, and terms. Creates the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund and provides that the State Comptroller shall order and the State Treasurer shall transfer $10,000,000 from the Road Fund to the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund.

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law and the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to extend the Quality of Life scratch-off game and the Quality of Life Board for an additional 5 years. Effective immediately.

Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Indigent GPS Electronic Monitoring Device Fund and the GPS Monitoring Device Administration Fee Fund in the State treasury. Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that a respondent shall be required by the court to wear, during the period in which the order of protection is in effect, an electronic monitoring device approved by the court that has Global Positioning System (GPS) capability. Provides that the cost of installing and maintaining the device shall be borne by the respondent unless the court determines that the respondent is indigent. Provides that upon being ordered to wear the device, a non-indigent respondent shall additionally pay a fee determined by the court to cover the cost of installing and maintaining a GPS device. Provides that the Secretary of Human Services shall, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, use all money in the Indigent GPS Electronic Monitoring Device Fund to reimburse electronic monitoring device providers who have installed devices on indigent persons against whom an order of protection has been issued. Provides that the Secretary shall, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, use the money paid into the GPS Monitoring Device Administration Fee Fund to offset his or her administrative costs.

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation has the power to contract with and grant concessions to or lease or license to any person, partnership, firm, association, or corporation the use of rest areas on State highways for motor fuel service stations and facilities, garages, stores, restaurants, or any other lawful purpose, and to fix the terms, conditions, rents, rates and charges for such use.

Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987, the High Risk Home Loan Act, and the Interest Act. Limits the imposition of prepayment penalties in connection with high risk home loans. Limits the size of balloon payments in connection with high risk home loans. Limits the imposition of late fees. Effective January 1, 2013.

Amends the Criminal Identification Act and the Unified Code of Corrections. Creates Offender Initiative Probation. Provides that whenever any person who has not previously been convicted of, or placed on probation or conditional discharge for, any felony offense, other than a violent offense, under the laws of this State, the laws of any other state, or the laws of the United States, pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, a probationable felony offense of theft, retail theft, forgery, possession of a stolen motor vehicle, burglary, possession of burglary tools, possession of cannabis, possession of a controlled substance, or possession of methamphetamine, the court, with the consent of both the defendant and the State's Attorney, may, without entering a judgment, sentence the defendant to probation. Establishes the terms and conditions of the probation. Provides that upon fulfillment of the terms and conditions of probation, the court shall discharge the person and dismiss the proceedings against the person. Provides that upon violation of a term or condition of probation, the court may enter a judgment on its original finding of guilt and proceed as otherwise provided by law.

Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.

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.