Amends the School Code. With regard to a sex education course, provides that course material and instruction in grades 6 through 12 must include an age-appropriate discussion on the meaning of consent that includes discussion on recognizing that (i) consent is a freely given agreement to sexual activity, (ii) consent to one particular sexual activity does not constitute consent to other types of sexual activities, (iii) a person's lack of verbal or physical resistance or submission resulting from the use or threat of force does not constitute consent, (iv) a person's manner of dress does not constitute consent, (v) a person's consent to past sexual activity does not constitute consent to future sexual activity, (vi) a person's consent to engage in sexual activity with one person does not constitute consent to engage in sexual activity with another person, (vii) a person can withdraw consent at any time, and (viii) a person cannot consent to sexual activity if that person is unable to understand the nature of the activity or give knowing consent due to certain circumstances. Removes a provision requiring material and instruction to include, with an emphasis on workplace environment and life on a college campus, discussion on what constitutes sexual consent. Makes other changes concerning the course material and instruction.
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Amends the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, Illinois Insurance Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning coverage for mammograms, provides that coverage shall also include a diagnostic mammogram when medically necessary, as determined by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant. Makes changes to coverage for a comprehensive ultrasound screening and MRI. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that if an insurance policy or medical assistance coverage includes mammogram coverage, the coverage shall not impose a deductible, coinsurance, copayment, or any other cost-sharing requirement on the coverage provided. Exempts coverage of diagnostic mammograms to the extent such coverage would disqualify a high-deductible health plan from eligibility for a health savings account. Defines "diagnostic mammogram" and "diagnostic mammography". Corrects a typographical error. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Changes the immediate effective date to January 1, 2020.
Amends the Continuum of Care Services for the Developmentally Disabled Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 42/1 Adds reference to: New Act Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Tobacco Products Compliance Act. Provides that any person who manufactures, fabricates, assembles, processes, or labels a tobacco product or imports a finished tobacco product for sale or distribution in the United States, located in or having a place of business in the State, shall provide written certification of its compliance with labeling provisions of the federal Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009 to the Department of Public Health. Provides for enforcement and rulemaking by the Department of Public Health. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Prohibits the manufacture, distribution, or use of paper containing bisphenol A for the making of business or banking records. Requires paper manufacturers to, among other things, replace bisphenol A with an alternative chemical. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to gather and certify certain information about alternative chemicals. Requires the Agency to convene an Advisory Committee on Least Toxic Alternatives to Bisphenol A. Sets forth requirements that apply to members of the Committee. Delays the applicability of the prohibitions on the manufacture, distribution, and use of paper containing bisphenol A for the making of business or banking records if the United States Environmental Protection Agency has not identified a safe, commercially available alternative to bisphenol A prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 415 ILCS 5/42 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1042 415 ILCS 5/44 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1044 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that beginning January 1, 2020, no person shall manufacture thermal paper. Provides that no person shall distribute or use any thermal paper for the making of business or banking records. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Requires all school boards of school districts to develop threat assessment protocols and to create threat assessment teams. Provides that the threat assessment team shall include specified personnel and other members. Provides that a threat assessment protocol adopted by the school board shall be a public document and be posted on the school district's website. Provides that a school board shall create the threat assessment team within 30 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act and adopt an initial threat assessment protocol within 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that a school district may share information concerning a clear and present danger with another school district and creates a conforming exemption in the Illinois School Student Records Act. Creates exemptions for the work of the threat assessment team in the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 120/2 105 ILCS 10/6 Adds reference to: 50 ILCS 470/10 55 ILCS 5/5-1006.7 105 ILCS 5/3-14.31 105 ILCS 5/10-20.43 105 ILCS 5/10-22.36 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.36 105 ILCS 5/17-2.11 from Ch. 122, par. 17-2.11 105 ILCS 128/25 105 ILCS 230/5-25 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Counties Code. Provides that counties may impose a tax to be used exclusively for school facility purposes, school resources officers, or mental health professionals (rather than exclusively for school facility purposes). Adds referendum language to levy, reduce, or discontinue the tax. Amends the Innovation Development and Economy Act and the School Construction Law to make conforming changes. Amends the School Code to make conforming changes and to provide that if a school district having a population of less than 500,000 inhabitants determines that it is necessary for school security purposes and the related protection and safety of pupils and school staff to hire a school resource officer or that personnel costs for school counselors, mental health experts, or school resource officers are necessary, the district may levy a tax or issue bonds as provided under a provision in the Code authorizing a school board to levy a tax or to borrow money and issue bonds for fire prevention, safety, energy conservation, accessibility, school security, and specified repair purposes if funds are not needed for those other purposes. Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Requires each school district to implement a threat assessment procedure that may be part of a school board policy on targeted school violence and prevention and that must include the creation of a threat assessment team; provides for the team's membership. Requires each school district, at its annual meeting to review each school building's emergency and crisis response plans, protocols, and procedures, to review the procedures regarding its threat assessment team. Creates an exemption for the work of the threat assessment team in the Freedom of Information Act. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 With regard to a school district's threat assessment procedure, removes a provision requiring the policy on targeted school violence and prevention that directs the implementation of a threat assessment procedure to be a public document and to be posted on the school district's website with other school district policies. Makes conforming changes. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that each school district must implement a threat assessment procedure that may be part of a school board policy on targeted school violence prevention (rather than school violence and prevention). Provides that a regional behavioral threat assessment and intervention team utilized by a school district must include mental health professionals and representatives from State, county, and local law enforcement agencies (rather than mental health professionals, a representative from the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System, a safety education officer from the Department of State Police, and local law enforcement representatives) and removes a provision requiring the members to complete the training courses offered by Western Illinois University's Office of Public Safety.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for amounts included in the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for certain fringe benefits. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 5/203 from Ch. 120, par. 2-203 Adds reference to: 35 ILCS 5/205 from Ch. 120, par. 2-205 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with a technical correction concerning the applicable Section of the Illinois Income Tax Act. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with a technical correction concerning the applicable Section of the Illinois Income Tax Act. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 5/205 from Ch. 120, par. 2-205 Adds reference to: 35 ILCS 5/304 from Ch. 120, par. 3-304 35 ILCS 5/601 from Ch. 120, par. 6-601 35 ILCS 5/701 from Ch. 120, par. 7-701 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that, for purposes of being liable for income tax, compensation is paid in this State if some of the individual's service is performed within this State, the individual's service performed within this State is nonincidental to the individual's service performed without this State, and the individual's service is performed within this State for more than 30 working days during the tax year. Defines terms. Contains provisions concerning the calculation of compensation paid in this State if the employer maintains a time and attendance system. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of the Lottery, beginning on January 1, 2020 or as soon thereafter as is practical, to offer a special instant scratch-off game to benefit school technology. Requires the net revenue from that game to be deposited into the School Technology Revolving Loan Fund. Provides that moneys received from the scratch-off game shall be used by the State Board of Education to fund grants for school technology. Authorizes the Department to adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the game. Defines "net revenue". Amends the School Code to make conforming changes. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/2-3.117a Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 105/5.891 new 105 ILCS 5/2-3.119a new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of the Lottery, beginning on January 1, 2020 or as soon thereafter as is practical, to offer a special instant scratch-off game to benefit school STEAM programming. Requires the net revenue from that game to be deposited into the School STEAM Grant Program Fund. Provides that moneys received from the scratch-off game shall be used by the State Board of Education to fund school STEAM grants. Authorizes the Department to adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the game. Defines "net revenue". Amends the State Finance Act to create the School STEAM Grant Program Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to administer the School STEAM Grant Program for the purpose of making science, technology, engineering, art, and math programming available to low-income students in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1605/21.13 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the scratch-off game to benefit school STEAM programming shall be discontinued on January 1, 2021. Further amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of the Lottery to offer a special instant scratch-off game with the title of "The End of Alzheimer's Begins With Me". Requires the net revenue from that game to be deposited into the Alzheimer's Awareness Fund. Authorizes the Department to adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the game. Effective immediately.
Amends the Attorney General Act. Creates the Worker Protection Unit within the Office of the Illinois Attorney General to intervene in, initiate, enforce, and defend all criminal or civil legal proceedings on matters and violations relating to specified statutes. Provides further powers and requirements of the Attorney General in the Worker Protection Unit. Creates the Worker Protection Task Force. Provides for the purposes and composition of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding its progress no later than December 1, 2020. Repeals the Task Force December 1, 2021. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with additions and changes. Modifies provisions concerning the Worker Protection Unit. Specifies that the Unit shall be dedicated to combating businesses that underpay their employees, force their employees to work in unsafe conditions, and gain an unfair economic advantage by avoiding their tax and labor responsibilities. Specifies that the Unit shall have the power and duty to intervene in, initiate, and enforce all legal proceedings on matters related to the payment of wages, the safety of the workplace, and fair employment practices. Provides that the Office of the Attorney General may use information obtained by the Worker Protection Unit for law enforcement purposes only. Modifies provisions concerning the Worker Protection Unit Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall be coordinated by the Office of the Attorney General to promote a statewide outreach and enforcement effort to target businesses that violate the State's worker protection laws (currently, to target Illinois' underground economy). Adds members to the Task Force. Makes other changes concerning the purposes and duties of the Unit and Task Force.
Amends the Assumed Business Name Act. Provides that a person conducting or transacting business under an assumed name at his or her residence is not required to include his or her home address while complying with the publication requirements of the Act if that person's safety would be put at risk by publishing his or her home address. Provides that, instead, the person may provide a post office box address. House Floor Amendment No. 3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Assumed Business Name Act. Provides that a person conducting or transacting business under an assumed name at his or her personal residence may list the address of the county clerk of the county of his or her personal residence as the default agent for service of process to meet the publication requirements of this Act if the following conditions are met: (1) the person reasonably believes that publishing his or her home address would put his or her safety at risk, and lists the reasoning for such on the form submitted to the county clerk, which shall be kept confidential; (2) the form is accompanied by a court order, police report, or other indicia that there is a true need for the address to be kept confidential; and (3) the person provides the address of his or her residence, which shall be kept confidential, to the county clerk. Provides that the county clerk may charge a nominal fee for performing this service and shall provide a check box on its form for a confidential address request and room for the explanation for the request. Requires the county clerk to notify the business when the county clerk has been served with process. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that if a person lists the county clerk as the default agent for service of process, the request must be accompanied by a court order or police report. Removes a provision permitting the form to be accompanied by some other indicia that there is a true need for the person's address to be kept confidential.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals a provision requiring the Department of Public Health to enforce provisions regarding the duty of providers of mammography services to provide specific notifications if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue and requires the Illinois Emergency management Agency to enforce the provisions. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3305/10.5 new Adds reference to: New Act Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Dense Breast Tissue Act. Provides that the Act's provisions apply to a facility that provides mammography services in Illinois. Provides that if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue, the provider of mammography services shall provide notification to the patient in the summary of the mammography report sent to the patient that shall include specified information. Defines "dense breast tissue". Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Repeals a provision requiring the Department of Public Health to enforce provisions regarding the duty of providers of mammography services to provide specific notifications if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following alterations: Changes the text of the notice to the patient to the text of the notice to the patient in the introduced bill. Allows a facility that performs mammography to update the language in the notice to reflect advances in science and technology. Provides that the Act does not create a duty of care or other legal obligation beyond the duty to provide the required notice.