Appropriates $500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for grants to the Ida B. Wells Commemorative Art Committee. Effective July 1, 2015.
Creates the Community Bank of Illinois Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall operate the Community Bank of Illinois. Specifies the authority of the advisory board of directors to the Bank. Provides that the Secretary is to employ a president and employees. Contains provisions concerning the removal and discharge of appointees. Provides that State funds must be deposited in the Bank. Contains provisions concerning the nonliability of officers and sureties after deposit. Specifies the powers of the Bank. Contains provisions concerning the guaranty of deposits and the Bank's role as a clearinghouse, the authorization of loans the General Revenue Fund, bank loans to farmers, limitations on loans by the Bank, the name in which business is conducted and titles taken, civil actions, surety on appeal, audits, electronic fund transfer systems, confidentiality of bank records, the sale and leasing of acquired agricultural real estate, and the Illinois higher education savings plan. Provides that the Bank is the custodian of securities. Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act to require that the Auditor General must contract with an independent certified public accounting firm for an annual audit of the Community Bank of Illinois as provided in the Community Bank of Illinois Act. Amends the Eminent Domain Act to allow the Bank to acquire property by eminent domain.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Repeals a provision that committed persons shall be responsible to reimburse the Department of Corrections for the expenses incurred by their incarceration at a rate to be determined by the Department. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to make conforming changes.
Urges the Illinois General Assembly to preserve the State Medicaid program, to which cuts will result in limited access to health care and a cost-shift to the State and the counties of this State.
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Provides that the terms of a guardianship account established on behalf of a minor at a financial institution must provide for compliance with court orders regarding the establishment and management of the account, and imposes certain other duties upon financial institutions. Provides that an entity may not act under the direction of a small estate affidavit unless the affiant, or his or her agent, has first presented the affidavit before a judge and obtained a court order granting access. Provides that if there is a surviving spouse, but the surviving spouse is not the affiant, the affiant must state the reason that the affiant, rather than the surviving spouse, has prepared the small estate affidavit. Provides that an affidavit not prepared by a surviving spouse must include a notarized statement, signed by the surviving spouse and witnessed by 2 persons unrelated to the affiant, stating that the surviving spouse declines to prepare the affidavit. Provides that if the reason for the surviving spouse's inability to prepare the affidavit is medically related, a letter from the surviving spouse's physician should be attached attesting to the medical condition that makes the surviving spouse unable to complete the affidavit. Provides that if there is no surviving spouse and there is one or more minor child, the affiant must be a court-appointed guardian for one or more of the children. Provides that if the surviving spouse is the affiant, he or she shall affirm that he or she was not separated from the decedent. Makes other changes.
Creates the Financial Transaction Tax Act. Beginning September 1, 2015, imposes a tax on the privilege of engaging in a financial transaction on any of the following exchanges or boards of trade: the Chicago Stock Exchange, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Provides that the tax is imposed at a rate of $1 per contract for all transactions for which the underlying asset is an agricultural product and $2 per contract for all other contracts. Provides that the term "financial transaction" means a transaction involving the purchase or sale of a stock contract, futures contract, swap contract, credit default swap contract, or options contract, but does not include a transaction involving securities held in a retirement account or a transaction involving a mutual fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that provisions in collective bargaining agreements which limit the ability of a public employer to investigate the conduct of an employee of the public employer or which prohibits the public entity from revealing the name of an employee who was involved in a shooting of a person to be against public policy and unenforceable. Amends the Uniform Peace Officers' Disciplinary Act. Provides that a complaint against a sworn peace officer may be based upon information and belief, and may be supported by a sworn affidavit (currently, must have a sworn affidavit). Further provides that nothing in the Section bars an interrogation when supervisory or command personnel have determined that an investigation and interrogation are warranted. Effective immediately.
Creates the Right to Try Act. Provides that an eligible patient with a terminal illness who has considered all other treatment options approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration may acquire from a manufacturer an investigational drug, biological product, or device that has successfully completed Phase 1 of a clinical trial, but has not been approved for general use by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Provides that a manufacturer may, but is not required to, provide an investigational drug, biological product, or device to an eligible patient, either with or without receiving compensation. Provides that an accident and health insurer may, but is not required to, provide coverage for an eligible patient seeking such a drug, product, or device. Provides that an entity responsible for Medicare certification may not take action against a health care provider's Medicare certification based solely on the health care provider's recommendation that a patient have access to an investigational drug, biological product, or device. Defines required terms. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may not revoke, suspend, place on probation, reprimand, refuse to issue or renew, or take any other disciplinary or non-disciplinary action against the license or permit of a physician to practice medicine based solely on the physician's recommendation to an eligible patient regarding, or prescription for, or treatment with an investigational drug, biological product, or device.
Amends the School Code. Urges, under a school board's policies and rules concerning infectious disease, school boards to allow students to wash their hands with a soap or detergent if they wish to do so.
Appropriates $14,454,700 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for Transportation Reimbursement to Parents/Guardians. Effective July 1, 2015.
