Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Enhances various penalties for firearm offenses by at least one class. Increases mandatory minimum and maximum terms of imprisonment for various firearm offenses.
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, in consultation with the Department of Revenue and the Secretary of State, shall conduct a study to determine the advantages and disadvantages of consolidating the permitting activities of the State with respect to for-profit firms and entities. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to consider either creating a new State agency to issue permits to for-profit firms or entities or creating an online database maintained by the Department on the Department's website that would allow a person to specify a type of business or a type of license and the website would direct the person toward a list of required licenses and specify the State agency that issues each of the required licenses. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by February 1, 2021. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Assembly, State Employee, State Universities, Downstate Teachers, and Judges Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that by no later than July 1, 2021, each System shall establish and post on its website a searchable database of the names of all persons receiving an annuity from the System and the amount of the annuity paid by the System to that person each month. Requires the database to be updated on a monthly basis. Provides that under no circumstances shall the information in that database include the name of any annuitant under the age of 18 or any identifying information other than the annuitant's name and the amount of annuity paid to that annuitant each month. Effective immediately.
Amends the Credit for Prior Learning Act. Requires the Board of Higher Education to create an ongoing program of stakeholder meetings between public universities and the employer community to develop standardized credit-hour privileges for prior learning and to better stabilize the number of credentials issued in Illinois. Requires the Illinois Community College Board to create an ongoing program for stakeholder meetings between community colleges and the employer community to develop standardized credit-hour privileges for prior learning and to better stabilize the number of credentials issued in Illinois.
Creates the Taxing Body Debt and Convention Control Act. Contains only a statement of legislative intent.
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act and the Public Community College Act. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college district to annually submit to the Board of Higher Education or the Illinois Community College Board a plan to expand the use of open educational resources, open textbooks, and commercial digital learning materials in order to achieve savings for students enrolled in the institution of higher education. Requires the Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board to review the plans and report their findings and recommendations to the General Assembly. Effective June 1, 2020.
Amends the Illinois Information Security Improvement Act. Provides that no State agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab holds majority ownership. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions. Provides legislative findings.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that a taxing district's aggregate extension base shall be adjusted whenever an assessment decrease due to the issuance of a certificate of error, a court order, or a final administrative decision of the Property Tax Appeal Board results in a refund from the taxing district of a portion of the property tax revenue distributed to the taxing district. Effective immediately.
Amends the Automatic Telephone Dialers Act. Redefines "recorded message" to mean any artificial or recorded communication that includes or introduces an advertisement or constitutes telemarketing without live voice interaction (rather than any taped communication soliciting the sale of goods or services without live voice interaction). Prohibits an autodialer from providing inaccurate caller ID information in violation of a specified federal law and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission. Provides that it is a violation of the Act to play a recorded message (rather than a prerecorded message) placed by an autodialer without the (i) prior express consent of the called party or (ii) the prior express written consent of the called party if the call is a call that delivers a health care message made by, or on behalf of, a covered entity or its business associate as those terms are defined in a specified provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Defines "telemarketing" and "prior express written consent".
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that the limiting rate shall be calculated using the highest aggregate extension from any year in which the taxing district was subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (currently, the last 3 preceding levy years). Provides that an aggregate extension established for a levy year in which the taxing district was authorized to temporarily increase its limiting rate or its extension limitation may not be used.
