Rep. Will Davis

Congratulates the Chicago Magnesium Casting Company on the 60th anniversary of its founding.

Congratulates Cabrini Green Legal Aid on its 40th anniversary.

Mourns the death of LaVerne Adrienne Bell.

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Expands the list of targeted group member classes for the Diversity in Engineering scholarship program to include national origin, ancestry, age, and disability, and modifies the definition so that classes are included as long as the percent employed by the Department is less than the percent employed statewide according to labor statistics and not a specific plan adopted by the Department. Removes the eligibility requirement that applicants be members of a targeted group, and removes the requirement that applicants be full-time students. Directs the Department to establish a process for selecting eligible students that considers obtaining a critical mass of students in the program to remedy the underutilization of targeted group members. Provides that the Department may (rather than shall) adopt rules to implement and administer the scholarship program. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a drug testing program.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Increases the minimum mandatory coverage amounts for liability insurance policies in this State and increases the amounts sufficient to satisfy a judgment following a motor vehicle accident as follows: bodily injury or death to any one person from $20,000 to $50,000; bodily injury or death to more than one person from $40,000 to $100,000; and injury or destruction of property of others from $15,000 to $40,000. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Deletes provision that enhances the penalty for prostitution to a Class 4 felony if the offense is committed within 1,000 feet of real property comprising a school. Deletes provision that a second or subsequent prostitution violation, or any combination of convictions for prostitution and solicitation of a sexual act, promoting prostitution, promoting juvenile prostitution, soliciting for a prostitute, soliciting for a juvenile prostitute, pandering, keeping a place of prostitution, keeping a place of juvenile prostitution, patronizing a prostitute, patronizing a juvenile prostitute, pimping, juvenile pimping, aggravated juvenile pimping, or exploitation of a child, is a Class 4 felony. Effective immediately.

Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides that a local government defined as "distressed" under criteria adopted by the Department of Natural Resources through administrative rule shall be eligible for assistance up to 90% (rather than 50%) for the acquisition of open space lands and for capital development and improvement proposals, provided that no more than 10% of the amount appropriated under this Act in any fiscal year is made available as grants to distressed local governments. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Specifies that certain facilities qualify as health care facilities for the purposes of the Act, regardless of whether they are owned or operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical or professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical or professional group. Deletes a provision that exempted from the definition of "health care facilities" certain facilities owned or operated by a physician, a partnership, a medical or professional corporation, or an unincorporated medical or professional group. Deletes a provision which specifies that permits for projects that are not obligated within the prescribed obligation period expire on the last day of that period. Changes the circumstances under which the Board issues written decisions. Defines "category of service".

Amends the Pawnbroker Regulation Act. Provides that the value of things loaned by a person to a pawnbroker shall no longer be included in the memorandum, contract, or note signed by the pawnbroker. Provides that all information provided to law enforcement according to the reporting requirements of a specified provision is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately.