Rep. Marcus Evans

Amends the Housing Authorities Act. Requires housing authorities to develop and implement policies granting housing preferences to veterans who are homeless. Provides that such preferences shall be cumulative with any other preference allowed by a housing authority for which the veteran qualifies. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to supersede any federal law or regulation.

Amends the Minimum Wage Law and the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that wages recovered by the Department of Labor shall be deposited into the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund, from which the Department shall disburse the sums owed to the employee or employees. Provides that the Department shall conduct a good faith search to find all employees for whom it has recovered unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, or as soon as is practical, and each July 1 thereafter, the Department may direct the State Comptroller and State Treasurer to transfer up to 15% of the balance of the moneys due to employees who cannot be located and that have been held by the Department in the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund for 3 or more years from the Department of Labor Special State Trust Fund to the Wage Theft Enforcement Fund. Makes other changes. Amends the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes changes concerning the hiring process for employees with a disability. Amends the Personnel Code. Makes changes concerning the procedures for extending jurisdictions to positions not initially covered by the Act. Makes changes concerning positions that are exempt from jurisdictions. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall adopt rules for positions and employees subject to the Act (currently, the Director shall prepare and submit proposed rules to the Civil Service Commission). Makes changes concerning testing and eligibility lists. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for grants distributed under the Access to Justice Grant Program to the Westside Justice Center and the Resurrection Project. Effective July 1, 2023.

Condemns the expulsion of Tennessee State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson and condemns the attempted expulsion of Tennessee State Rep. Gloria Johnson from the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Provides background information. Appropriates specified amounts to the Department of Public Health for grants, expenses, and administrative costs of programs relating to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and human immunodeficiency virus; the Getting to Zero-Illinois plan to end the HIV epidemic by 2030; the prevention, screening, and treatment services to address sexually transmitted infection cases; and the PrEP4Illinois Program to provide client navigation for pre-exposure prophylaxis services and medication access. Contains other provisions. Effective July 1, 2023.

Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission for costs associated with the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program Act. Effective July 1, 2023.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Deletes provision requiring Central Management Services to prepare and submit the total quantity of annual reports printed, the total cost, and the cost per copy and the cost per page of the annual report of the State agency printed during the calendar year covered by the report. Amends the Use Tax Act, Service Occupation Tax Act, Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and the State Finance Act. Deletes obsolete funding. Amends the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and Regional Planning Act. Removes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity from the Act. Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, Unified Code of Corrections, Workers' Compensation Act. Repeals obsolete mandates. Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides that in preparing the roster of approved certified independent arbitrators, the Chairman shall seek the advice and recommendation of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission or the Workers' Compensation Advisory Board at his or her discretion. Repeals obsolete mandate. Effective immediately.

Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois (Department of Professional Regulation Law). Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall refuse the issuance or renewal of a license to, or suspend or revoke the license of, any individual, corporation, partnership, or other business entity that has been found by the Workers' Compensation Commission or the Department of Insurance to have failed to secure workers' compensation obligations in the manner required by the Workers' Compensation Act, to pay in full a fine or penalty imposed due to a failure to secure workers' compensation obligations in the manner required by the Workers' Compensation Act, or to fulfill all obligations assumed pursuant to a settlement reached with the Workers' Compensation Commission or the Department of Insurance relating to a failure to secure workers' compensation obligations in the manner required by the Workers' Compensation Act. Provides no initial or renewal license shall be issued, and no suspended license shall be reinstated, until the Department is notified by the Workers' Compensation Commission or the Department of Insurance that the licensee's or applicant's failure to comply with the Workers' Compensation Act has been corrected or otherwise resolved to the satisfaction of the Workers' Compensation Commission or the Department of Insurance. Provides that an application to make disciplinary records confidential shall also be considered by the Department for an offense or action relating to: failure to comply with workers' compensation requirements or reprimand of a licensee. Makes corresponding changes to the Asbestos Abatement Act, the Lead Poisoning Prevention Act, and the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Effective January 1, 2024.

Amends the Labor Dispute Act. Provides that no award of monetary damages, except for damage done to an employer's property as a result of conduct prohibited by law, shall be granted by any court of this State in any case involving a labor dispute.