Rep. Jeanne M Ives

Amends the Transportation Article of the School Code. Provides that the Section concerning transportation to and from specified interscholastic or school-sponsored activities does not apply to students with disabilities who are eligible under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Children with Disabilities Article of the Code and who are receiving transportation for curriculum-related activities as part of the student's individualized educational program.

Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that no member of the Civil Service Commission, Board of Review of the Department of Employment Security (other than the Director of Employment Security), Civil Service Commission, Illinois Liquor Control Commission, Secretary of State Merit Commission, Human Rights Commission, State Mining Board, Property Tax Appeal Board, Illinois Racing Board, Department of State Police Merit Board, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority, or Illinois State Board of Elections may establish creditable service in the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act for service in that capacity. Effective immediately.

Amends the Pension Impact Note Act and the State Debt Impact Note Act. Requires a copy of each pension impact note and State debt impact note to be furnished by the Commission to the Legislative Information System and posted by the System on the General Assembly's Internet website as soon as is practicable after its receipt for viewing by the public. Effective immediately.

Amends the Open Meetings Act. Specifies that the term "meeting" includes collective bargaining meetings. Defines the term "collective bargaining meeting". Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Deletes a provision that, subject to certain exceptions, exempts from the Act's copying and disclosure requirements records relating to collective negotiating matters between public bodies and their employees or representatives. Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Deletes provisions that make the Open Meetings Act inapplicable to collective bargaining negotiations and grievance arbitrations under those Acts. Effective immediately.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Increases the maximum reduction under the General Homestead Exemption from $6,000 to $7,000 for taxable year 2013 and indexes the reduction to the Consumer Price Index. Effective immediately.

Amends the Property Tax Code. In the Special Service Area Tax Law, provides that the term "special services" means certain specified infrastructure projects (instead of all forms of services) pertaining to the government and affairs of the municipality or county. Provides that a list of the names and addresses of the individuals and entities to whom notice of the public hearing concerning the establishment of a special service area was sent by mail shall be published at the time notice was given and made available at the public hearing. Provides that no special service area may be created or enlarged; no special service area tax may be levied, imposed, or increased; and no bonds may be issued in connection with a special service area, unless an authorization petition is filed with the municipal clerk or county clerk. Effective immediately.

Pledges our eagerness to work tirelessly here in Springfield during the third full week of May 2014 to complete the work of the people of Illinois prior to Memorial Day. Urges the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives to recess the House for the duration of Memorial Day, May 26, 2014, and not to call us back into session until the completion of this day of American remembrance.

Mourns the death of Jerome F. McBride, Jr. of Glen Ellyn.

Creates the Public Self-Care of Diabetes Act. Provides that a person with diabetes, or parent or legal guardian of a person with diabetes, may self-administer insulin or administer insulin for his or her child in any location, public or private, where the person or their parent or legal guardian are authorized to be, irrespective of whether the injection site is uncovered during or incidental to the administration of insulin. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the prosecuting State's Attorney shall seek an order from the court to compel the accused to be tested for any sexually transmissible disease, including a test for infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), within 48 hours: (1) after a finding at a preliminary hearing that there is probable cause to believe that an accused has committed criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, or (2) after an indictment is returned charging an accused with criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, or (3) after a finding that a defendant charged with criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or predatory criminal sexual assault of a child is unfit to stand trial where the finding is made prior to the preliminary hearing, or (4) after the request of the victim of criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. Effective immediately.