Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides a new definition for a moderately intellectually disabled person and a severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person in the Section pertaining to hearsay exceptions for the admission of evidence in a prosecution for a physical or sexual act perpetrated upon or against a severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person or a moderately intellectually disabled person. Defines a moderately intellectually disabled person as a person, who at the time of the commission of the offense, suffers from a mental illness in which the person's ability to exercise rational judgment is impaired. Defines a severely or profoundly intellectually disabled person, as a person, who at the time of the commission of the offense, suffers from a significant mental illness to the extent that the person's ability to exercise rational judgment is impaired.
Amends the Health Care Right of Conscience Act. Makes changes in the Section concerning findings and policy. Defines "access to care and information protocols" and "material information". Provides that notwithstanding any other law, a health care facility, or any physician or health care personnel working in the facility, may refuse to permit, perform, assist in, counsel about, suggest, recommend, refer for, or participate in health care services because of a conscience-based objection only if the refusal occurs in accordance with written access to care and information protocols designed to ensure that (1) the patient receives material information in a timely fashion; and (2) the refusal will not impair the patient's health by causing delay of or inability to access the refused health care service. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to prevent a health care facility from requiring that physicians or health care personnel working in the facility comply with access to care and information protocols. Makes other changes in Sections concerning: (i) discrimination by employers or institutions; and (ii) liability.
Creates the Child Bereavement Leave Act and amends the State Finance Act. Provides that an employee may use specified amounts of bereavement leave to grieve the death of the employee's child, attend services in relation to the death of the employee's child, or make arrangements necessitated by the death of the employee's child. Provides for enforcement by the Department of Labor. Provides for civil penalties. Authorizes the Attorney General to collect penalties. Creates the Child Bereavement Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to establish a Task Force on Computer Science Education. Sets forth provisions concerning the members of the Task Force, Task Force voting, meetings of the Task Force, support for the Task Force, reporting to the General Assembly, and dissolution of the Task Force. Requires the Task Force to (1) analyze the current state of computer science education in this State; (2) analyze current computer science education laws in other jurisdictions, both mandated and permissive; (3) identify best practices in computer science education in other jurisdictions; (4) make recommendations to the General Assembly focused on substantially increasing computer science education and the capacity of youth to obtain the requisite knowledge, skills, and practices to be educated in computer science; and (5) make funding recommendations, if the Task Force's recommendations to the General Assembly would require a fiscal commitment. Repeals these provisions on July 1, 2018. Effective immediately.
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. With respect to the student member of a local school council for a secondary attendance center, provides for his or her election by 10th and 11th grade students (instead of being appointed by the Chicago Board of Education after a non-binding, advisory poll of student preferences); makes related changes. Requires a person to be in the 12th grade at the beginning of the school year coinciding with his or her term in order to be eligible to be a student member. Allows 10th and 11th grade students to vote for parent and community resident members of a high school council.
Amends the Illinois Library System Act. Indefinitely extends a waiver of a grant eligibility requirement which expired after the State Fiscal Year 2015. Repeals a section allowing the State Librarian to designate Research and Reference Centers and Special Resource Centers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Chicago Public Library, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and the Illinois State Library. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to adopt rules, no later than 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act, for the legally recognized services of persons licensed under other laws of this State as a clinical social worker.
Amends the Credit Card Marketing Act of 2009. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
