Amends various Acts to add physician assistants to provisions applicable to physicians, including adding physician assistant members to various committees and boards. Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act. Specifies that the physician assistant who may make a determination of disability for the purposes of an Illinois Persons with a Disability Identification Card is a physician assistant who has been delegated the authority to make this determination by his or her supervising physician. Amends the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act. Adds the President of the Illinois Academy of Physician Assistants or his or her designee to the Illinois Advisory Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Adds representative of a professional organization representing physician assistants to various task forces and councils. Requires that the Department of Public Health consult with the Illinois Academy of Physician Assistants in developing the summary of health care for women and that the summary be distributed to physician assistants. Requires that the Department of Public Health consult with a statewide professional organization representing physician assistants in developing the POLST form. Makes other changes.
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Amends the Illinois Aeronautics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding airports.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Trustees of Northeastern Illinois University for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the deposit of books, bills, documents, and papers with the Secretary of State.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for the use of video event recorder devices in vehicles to be used exclusively for driver feedback or safety monitoring programs, as long as the device does not obstruct the driver's clear view through the front windshield. Prohibits rail carriers from using audio or video images obtained from a video event recorder originating within a contract carrier vehicle in any disciplinary proceeding against an employee. Provides that in the event of an accident involving a contract carrier vehicle equipped with a video event recorder, no audio or video recordings shall be released except upon the order of a court with jurisdiction in the matter.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if an employer fails to notify the Board to suspend the annuity of an annuitant who returns to service as a participating employee, the employer may be required to reimburse the Fund for an amount up to the total of any annuity payments made to the annuitant after the date the annuity should have been suspended, as determined by the Board, less any amount actually repaid by the annuitant. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Weights and Measures Act. Makes a technical change to the Section containing the short title.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, for taxable year 2016 and thereafter, the amount of the senior citizens assessment freeze homestead exemption shall be the greater of (i) the amount of the exemption otherwise calculated under that Section of the Code or (ii) $2,000. Effective immediately.
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that public bodies may hold closed meetings to consider building safety and security.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that health plan issuers offering health plans through the State health insurance marketplace update their provider directory on a monthly basis. Provides that the information in provider directories shall be offered in a manner that accommodates individuals with limited English proficiency and with disabilities. Provides that, with respect to dental plans, a dentist listed is considered an active network participant from the location published in the provider directory only if the dentist has filed a claim for a patient enrolled with the dental plan at least once in the previous 3-month period. Amends the Dental Care Patient Protection Act. Provides that managed care dental plans must only list participating dentists who have filed a claim for an enrolled patient within the past 3 months. Makes conforming changes in the Dental Service Plan Act.