Amends the Suicide Prevention, Education, and Treatment Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the evidence-based funding formula.
Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Changes the title of the Act to the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities and Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Act. Makes changes to make the provisions of the Act applicable to community-integrated living arrangements certified under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that the term "Department", for the purposes of facilities licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act, ID/DD Community Care Act, or MC/DD Act, means the Department of Public Health. Provides that the term "Department", for the purposes of community-integrated living arrangements certified under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, means the Department of Human Services. Adds community-integrated living arrangements to the definition of "facility". Provides that "resident's representative" does not apply to community-integrated living arrangements. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall consult with the Department of Public Health when adopting rules to implement the Act. Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act to make conforming changes. Provides that it is a business offense for a person to discriminate or retaliate against a resident for consenting to the electronic monitoring, or to prevent the installation or use of an electronic monitoring device by a resident that has provided specified notice and consent. Makes other changes.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that employers may file safety and return to work programs with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission. Authorizes the Commission to certify the programs upon review for certain minimum requirements. Provides that the Director of Insurance shall direct any workers' compensation rate setting advisory organization to recalculate rates with respect to employers that file safety and return to work programs. Provides for the Director of Insurance to waive the Workers' Compensation Commission Operations Fund fee with respect to self-insured employers that file the plans.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago school district.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Board of Education.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning financial oversight panels.
Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that for redevelopment project areas created on and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, "blighted areas" must have a household median income of 100% or less of the area median income, as defined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, in addition to the other requirements for "blighted areas". Provides that on or after January 1, 2019, tax increment revenues may be utilized for jointly undertaken and performed redevelopment projects only in an amount equal to the percentage of eligible costs undertaken within the redevelopment project area that received the revenue. Provides that tax increment revenues received in one redevelopment project area may not be used for eligible costs in another redevelopment project area on or after January 1, 2019 and tax increment revenues may not be transferred to another redevelopment project area on or after January 1, 2019. Provides that if there are any contracts or agreements in force on the effective date of the amendatory Act, tax increment revenues may continue to be used or transferred to another redevelopment project area or utilized for jointly undertaken and performed redevelopment projects after January 1, 2019 only to the extent necessary to comply with the contract or agreement.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an early childhood education block grant.
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning children attending nonpublic schools or special education facilities, public out-of-state schools, public school residential facilities, or county special education facilities. Removes certain provisions referring to public school residential facilities or nonpublic schools. Removes certain minimums on funding levels. With respect to funding for children requiring special education services, makes changes to the required deadline for filing certain claims. Adds provisions concerning funding for children with excess cost that apply beginning July 1, 2018. Provides that payments to school districts and State-authorized charter schools for children requiring special education services may be used only for the provision of special educational facilities and services. Requires school districts and State-authorized charter schools to keep accurate, detailed, and separate accounts of all expenditures for the maintenance of each of the authorized facilities, classes, and schools. Requires claims to be submitted in a certain manner. Allows school districts to classify certain payments as funds received in connection with a funding program for which it is entitled to receive funds from the State, regardless of the source or timing of the receipts. Repeals provisions concerning an account of expenditures, cost reports, and reimbursement. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
