Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for individuals, trusts, and estates for certain qualified student loan payments made during the taxable year. Provides that the deduction is excluded from the Act's automatic sunset provisions. Effective immediately.
FY19 Department of Transportation Capital Appropriation.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to conduct at least one workshop and issue a report concerning how the State can continue to encourage electric utilities in their efforts regarding the evaluation of emerging technologies, products, and services associated with the provision of electric service to provide their customers with reliable, efficient, and safe electric service. Provides for repeal of the provisions on January 1, 2020. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Requires that applications for certification, registration, and licensure must contain specific language that states that the applicant is not obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest and prohibits entities authorized to grant professional licenses, certifications, and registrations from asking if an applicant has had records sealed or expunged. Provides that certain sealed or impounded felony records shall not be disseminated in connection with an application for a professional or business license, registration, or certification, except specified health care worker licenses. Amends various professional licensing Acts with the following changes: Provides that the licensing agency must find that a license applicant has not committed certain acts or has been sufficiently rehabilitated to approve the application. In provisions concerning license denial, nonrenewal, or revocation for conviction of a felony, allows the licensing agency to issue a license with monitoring requirements and provides for an exception if an individual demonstrates to the licensing agency sufficient rehabilitation to warrant the public trust. Provides that the licensing agency shall not require applicants to report certain criminal history information and the licensing agency shall not consider the information. Requires the licensing agency to consider certain mitigating factors and evidence of rehabilitation for license applicants. Requires the licensing agency, upon denial of a license, to provide the applicant certain information concerning the denial. Provides that on May 1 of each year, the licensing agency shall prepare, publicly announce, and publish certain statistical information. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2018.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Defines "connected automated braking system" and "platoon". Provides that a driver of a motor vehicle operating in a platoon or a driver of a motor vehicle operating with a connected automated braking system shall be exempt from a provision in the Code prohibiting a driver of a motor vehicle from following another vehicle too closely. Provides that before the operation of a platoon upon the streets or highways of this State, a person shall file a plan for general platoon operations with the Department of State Police and the Department of Transportation. Provides that if the Department of State Police or the Department of Transportation do not reject the plan within a 30-day time period after receipt of the plan, the person may operate the platoon.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality that supplies water to 2 or more municipalities must submit a report no later than 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and then annually on or before January 1 to each municipality to which it supplies water. Provides that the report must contain the water rates for each municipality that is supplied water and, if the water rates differ between the municipalities that receive water, a justification as to why water rates are different between municipalities. Provides that if the municipality changes water rates causing water rates to be different between the municipalities, the municipality must submit a report to each municipality to which it supplies water no later than 5 business days after the change in water rates unless the change is reflected in the annual report. Limits home rule powers.
Amends the Gubernatorial Boards and Commissions Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the $25 assessment for drug related offenses appropriated to and administered by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority shall be distributed to fund Department of State Police drug task forces and Metropolitan Enforcement Groups by dividing the funds equally by the total number of Department of State Police drug task forces and Illinois Metropolitan Enforcement Groups.
Amends the Renter's Financial Responsibility and Protection Act. Provides that a rental car company may void a damage waiver if damage or loss occurs to the rental vehicle when the rental vehicle is stolen and the renter fails to: (i) return the rental vehicle's ignition key and key tag identifying the rental vehicle to the rental company; (ii) file a police report within the 24-hour period after discovery of the rental vehicle theft; and (iii) fully cooperate with the rental company, law enforcement agency, or any other authority in all matters connected to the investigation of the stolen rental vehicle.
