Creates the No Representation Without Population Act. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall collect and maintain an electronic record of the legal residence, outside of any correctional facility, and other demographic data for each person entering its custody after January 1, 2019. Provides for the minimum records that the Department shall maintain. Requires the Department to provide certain information to the Secretary of State after the decennial census. Requires the Secretary of State to request similar information from agencies that operate federal incarceration facilities. Requires the Secretary of State to prepare redistricting data to reflect the incarcerated persons at their residential address, rather than the address of the facility in which the person is incarcerated. Provides that for persons for whom a legal residence is unknown or not in the State, and for all persons reported in the census as residing in a federal correctional facility for whom a report was not provided, the Secretary of State to allocate the person to a State unit not tied to a specific determined geographic location, as other residents with unknown addresses are allocated. Requires the data collected to only be used as a basis for determining Legislative and Representative Districts. Prohibits the use of the data for the distribution of State or federal aid. Contains severability provisions. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall reimburse epilepsy specialists, as defined by the Department by rule, who are authorized by Illinois law to provide epilepsy treatment services to persons with epilepsy or related disorders via telehealth. Provides that the Department shall establish, by rule, a method to reimburse providers for epilepsy treatment services provided by telehealth. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Makes changes to provisions regarding youth suicide awareness and prevention. Sets forth some of the characteristics of students at an increased risk of suicide. Effective immediately.
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Provides that no later than January 1, 2021, the Department of Public Health shall adopt rules under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to require remote monitoring and support services at community-integrated living arrangements. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services and the Department of Human Services to jointly submit the necessary application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a waiver or State Plan amendment to allow remote monitoring and support services as a waiver-reimbursable service for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and seniors requiring in-home care. Provides that the application shall be submitted no later than 60 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires a school board, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year and each school year thereafter, to collect data for the preceding school year and submit a report to the State Board of Education regarding student participation in computer science courses. Requires the report to include, along with other required information: (i) the total number of computer science courses offered in each school and whether these courses are advanced placement classes; (ii) the number and percentage of students who enrolled in a computer science program; and (iii) the number of computer science instructors at each school. Requires the report to be posted on the school district's website. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the definition of "gambling device" to include any vending or other electronic machine or device, including, without limitation, a machine or device that awards credits and contains a circuit, meter, or switch capable of removing and recording the removal of credits that offers a person entry into any contest, competition, sweepstakes, scheme, plan, or other selection process that involves or is dependent upon an element of chance for which the person may receive a gift, award, or other item or service of value if that offer is incidental to or results from: (A) the purchase of an item or service of value; or (B) the purchase or gratuitous receipt of a coupon, voucher, certificate, or other similar credit that can be redeemed for or applied towards an item or service of value from such machine or device or elsewhere. Provides that participants in a game of skill or chance where money or other things of value can be won but no payment or purchase is required to participate shall not be convicted of gambling except where participation in such game of skill or chance is accomplished using a gambling device prohibited by these changes to the definition. Further provides that a gambling offense involving such a gambling device is a Class 4 felony. Amends the Video Gaming Act. Removes a provision allowing for the use of a game device without a license if the game device is used in an activity that is not gambling under the Criminal Code of 2012. Effective immediately.
Urges Illinois to continue to be a leader in the protection of the privacy of its citizens by codifying the Illinois Constitution's fundamental right of privacy. Declares January 28, 2020 as "Data Privacy Day" in the State of Illinois.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning instruction.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning no later than October 1, 2019, and for each State fiscal year thereafter, the monthly personal needs allowance required under Title XIX of the Social Security Act for any person residing in a facility licensed under the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act who is determined to be eligible for medical assistance under the Code and who is enrolled in the State's Home and Community-Based Services Waiver Program for adults with developmental disabilities shall be no less than 15% of the individual's monthly Supplemental Security Income benefits or Social Security Disability Insurance benefits, or both, for the previous calendar year. Establishes a similar personal needs allowance amount for any person residing in a facility licensed under the ID/DD Community Care Act who is determined to be eligible for medical assistance under the Code beginning no later than October 1, 2019 and for each State fiscal year thereafter. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires school districts to provide contact information for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and for the Crisis Text Line on the back of each student identification card issued by the school district. Provides that if the school district does not issue student identification cards to its students or to all of its students, the school district must publish this information on its website. Effective July 1, 2020.