Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Directs various governmental bodies to prepare and submit specified reports at stated intervals. Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act to authorize a revolving loan program and actions for the delivery of public purpose projects on behalf of units of local government. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Code does not apply to certain contracts entered into on or before December 31, 2022. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to create a credit for railroad track maintenance. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that certain tax-exempt property that is leased to another party for a public purpose project shall remain exempt from taxation. Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Provides that the Authority may establish a line of credit with a bank or other financial institution. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to remove the registration discount for electric motor vehicles. Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Provides that potential projects may not move forward if the General Assembly declares by joint resolution that the project is not in the public interest. Amends the Build Illinois Act. Repeals the Port Development Revolving Loan Program.
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Amends the General Assembly Operations Act. Provides that on and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the General Assembly shall, by joint resolution, establish a revenue estimate for the following State fiscal year by April 30th of each year. Effective immediately.
Creates the Revenue Estimate Act. Provides that the General Assembly shall not enact any bill to appropriate funds within any fiscal year prior to its adoption of a joint resolution reflecting the estimate of funds available for that fiscal year as required under the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2028 (currently, January 1, 2021), moneys received from the rental of land, buildings, or improvements on property held for the development of an airport in Will County by the Department of Transportation shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund instead of the Tax Recovery Fund. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, with respect to real property in Will County owned by the State for the purpose of developing an airport, payments made to compensate taxing districts for leasehold taxes shall be calculated based on the 2019 property tax year (currently, 2002). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that no legislator while serving as a member of the General Assembly shall concurrently serve as the chairperson for a statewide political party.
Amends the State Finance Act, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Metro-East Park and Recreation District Act, the Local Mass Transit District Act, the Regional Transportation Authority Act, and the Water Commission Act of 1985. Eliminates certain transfers into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund.
Amends the School Code. With regard to grants to alternative schools, safe schools, and alternative learning opportunities programs, for fiscal year 2019, to calculate grant amounts to the programs operated by regional offices of education, the State Board of Education shall calculate an amount equal to the greater of the regional program's best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2017-2018 school year or the average of the best 3 months of average daily attendance for the 2015-2016 school year through the 2017-2018 school year, multiplied by the amount of $6,119. Effective immediately.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall create and implement a Type II Noise Suppression Program to provide noise abatement on existing highways in the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Provides that it is unlawful for an employer to require an employee to sign a contract or waiver that would prohibit the employee from disclosing or discussing the employee's wage or salary; however, an employer may prohibit a human resources employee, a supervisor, or any other employee whose job responsibilities require or allow access to other employees' wage or salary information from disclosing such information without prior written consent from the employee whose information is sought or requested. Provides that it is unlawful for an employer to seek the wage or salary history of a prospective employee from the prospective employee or a current or former employer or to require that a prospective employee's prior wage or salary history meet certain criteria, with some exceptions. Provides that an employer against whom an action is brought alleging a violation of the Act's prohibition against gender-based wage differentials and who, within the previous 3 years and prior to the commencement of the action, has completed a self-evaluation of the employer's pay practices in good faith and can demonstrate that reasonable progress has been made toward eliminating wage differentials based on gender for the same or substantially similar work in accordance with that evaluation shall have an affirmative defense to liability. Provides that an employer who cannot demonstrate that the evaluation was reasonable in detail and scope shall not be entitled to an affirmative defense, but shall not be liable for any civil fine in excess of: (1) $500 per employee affected, if the employer has fewer than 4 employees; or (2) $2,500 per employee affected, if the employer has 4 or more employees. Provides that if an employee recovers unpaid wages under the Act and also files a complaint or brings a sex discrimination action under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 that results in additional recovery under federal law for the same violation, the employee shall return to the employer the amounts recovered under State law or the amounts recovered under federal law, whichever is less.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions about procedures for a large public utility to acquire a water or sewer utility, provides that if the water or sewer utility being acquired is owned by the State or a political subdivision of the State, a referendum will be required to approve the acquisition of the water or sewer utility by the large public utility (rather than only requiring a public meeting and publication of the terms of acquisition in a newspaper of general circulation in the area that the water or sewer utility operates). Effective immediately.