Amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act. Provides that members of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board may opt in to receive a stipend of $250 and the chair of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board may opt in to receive a stipend of $400 for each Board meeting attended. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Educational Labor Relations Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2021, as follows: Other State Funds $2,045,800.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law. Modifies duties and responsibilities of the Department concerning the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and Programs and agencies under the Department. Amends the Illinois Main Street Act. Makes the Illinois Main Street Program subject to appropriation. Further modifies duties of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity concerning the Program. Amends the Opportunities for At-Risk Women Act. Requires the issuance of a report under the Act on or before January 1, 2023. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2023. Amends the Eliminate the Digital Divide Law. Removes provisions concerning the Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee and Working Group. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Modifies requirements concerning the angel investment tax credit. Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Modifies requirements concerning the tax credit created under the Act. Makes conforming and other changes concerning the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1025 rep. Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1040 rep. Repeals a provision concerning the assessment of marketing programs by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Restores a provision concerning data center investment by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1025 rep. 20 ILCS 5075/15 20 ILCS 5075/20 new Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 605/605-1040 rep. Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Repeals a provision concerning the assessment of marketing programs by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Restores a provision concerning data center investment by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Removes provisions amending the Opportunities for At-Risk Women Act concerning the issuance of a report under the Act and the repeal of the Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the methodologies for reimbursement under the managed care medical assistance program shall not be applicable to facilities licensed under the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Provides that covered services provided by facilities licensed under the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013 shall be reimbursed at the rates paid under the Illinois Medicaid fee-for-service methodology.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that any taxing district that has an aggregate property tax levy of more than $5,000,000 for the applicable levy year shall make a good faith effort to collect and electronically publish data from all vendors and subcontractors doing business with the taxing district as to whether the vendor or subcontractor is a minority-owned, women-owned, or veteran-owned business or whether the vendor or subcontractor is a small business. Preempts the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Includes public therapeutics programs in the definition of "special educational facilities and services". In a provision requiring a school district to pay the cost of tuition for special education and related services if a child attends a non-public school or special education facility, a public out-of-state school, or a special education facility owned and operated by a county government unit, provides that the special education and related services includes public therapeutics programs.
Amends the General Provisions and Downstate Teacher Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a teacher may establish one additional day of service credit for each day of service credit that was earned between March 16, 2020 and June 30, 2021 in which the teacher provided in-person instruction if he or she pays certain contributions and supplies satisfactory evidence. For a Tier 1 member, provides that the System shall waive the reduction in retirement annuity for persons who retire before age 60 if the member has attained age 59 and earned service credit in the 2020-2021 school. For a Tier 2 member, provides that the reduction in retirement annuity for persons who retire before age 67 shall be waived if the member has attained age 66 and earned service credit in the 2020-2021 school year. For a Tier 1 member who earned service credit in the 2020-2021 school year and has not attained age 59 or a Tier 2 member who earned service credit in the 2020-2021 school year and has not attained age 66, provides that the member shall be deemed to be one year older than his or her actual age for purposes of provisions concerning a reduction in retirement annuity due to a member's age. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations for the Illinois State Board of Education and teacher retirement contributions for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022, as follows: General Funds $16,047,214,967; Other State Funds $101,183,700; Federal Funds $10,421,681,400; Total $26,570,080,067.
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall not issue a tax certificate to any taxpayer under this Act unless the taxpayer first submits a supplier diversity report. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall publish on its website all supplier diversity reports filed by taxpayers under this Act and maintain those reports for at least 5 years.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
