Rep. Kelly Burke

Amends the General Assembly and Judges Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Changes the manner in which highest salary for annuity purposes, final average salary, automatic annual increases, and survivor benefits are calculated for persons who first become participants of either system on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Also makes technical changes.

Creates the Tuition Reduction Act of 2016. Contains only a short title provision.

Amends the State Treasurer Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a college savings pool.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax checkoff to allow taxpayers to make contributions to Special Olympics Illinois and Special Children's Charities. Effective immediately.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the Office of Retail Market Development shall: have the function and duties of promoting competition in the natural gas market for all classes of customers; work with all segments of the natural gas market to identify barriers to competition; and recommend to the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Governor, and the General Assembly programs or legislation needed to eliminate those barriers. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited transactions.

Urges the General Assembly to apply any revenues which exceed expenditures to the payment of any old bills that are more than 45 days past the due date, including General Revenue Fund and non-General Revenue Fund expenditures, at the close of each fiscal year and to direct such revenues to the Budget Stabilization Fund if there are no pending bills over 45 days past the due date. Urges the General Assembly to provide for the use and maintenance of the Budget Stabilization Fund by appropriating any excess amounts "off the top" of estimated available revenues to the Budget Stabilization Fund should the growth in the annual revenue estimate exceed 3% from the previous year's estimated revenues and applying any revenues which exceed expenditures to the Budget Stabilization Fund should no unpaid bills remain due over 45 days at the close of each fiscal year.

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to develop and implement an algorithm that is based on quality scores and other operational proficiency criteria developed, defined, and adopted by the Department, by rule, to automatically assign Medicaid enrollees served under the Family Health Plan and the Integrated Care Program and those Medicaid enrollees eligible for medical assistance pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into managed care entities, including Accountable Care Entities, Care Coordination Entities, Children with Special Needs Care Coordination Entities, Managed Care Community Networks, and Managed Care Organizations. Provides that the algorithm developed and implemented shall favor assignment into managed care entities with the highest quality scores and levels of compliance with the operational proficiency criteria established.

Amends the Illinois Parentage Act of 2015. Defines "assisted reproduction" and "donor". Creates the Article concerning children of assisted reproduction. Adds provisions concerning: the scope of the Article; parental status of donor; parentage of a child of assisted reproduction; withdrawal of consent of an intended parent or donor; parental status of a deceased individual; inheritance rights of a posthumous child; the burden of proof; limitations on proceedings to declare the non-existence of the parent-child relationship; and establishing parentage in the context of a gestational surrogacy arrangement. Repeals the Illinois Parentage Act.

Amends the State Mandate Act. Specifies that failure of the General Assembly to appropriate adequate funds for reimbursement shall not relieve the State Board of Education from its obligations. Requires that fiscal notes on education bills creating State mandates include actual implementation cost data and analysis generated by school districts. Amends the School Code. Specifies additional factors that the State Board's annual report listing State mandates shall identify. Authorizes the State Board to make available a copy for publication. Provides that the State Board shall review school district applications for reimbursement. Permits the State Board, in cases in which there is no appropriation for reimbursement, to determine whether a Public Act constitutes a mandate. Authorizes the Legislative Research Unit to conduct public hearings. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.