Rep. Anna Moeller

Urges the creation of an environmental justice agenda.

Amends the Governor Transition Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the orderly transition of the office of Governor.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a school finance authority. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 105 ILCS 5/34A-104 Adds reference to: 105 ILCS 5/2-3.176 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the School Code. Provides that on or before January 1, 2023, the State Board of Education shall create a model curriculum that may be used by school districts for the teaching of the Vietnamese and Laotian American refugee experience and a model curriculum on the Cambodian genocide. Provides that the curricula must be developed in an age-appropriate manner for instruction in kindergarten through grade 12; specifies other curriculum requirements. Effective immediately. Fiscal Note, House Committee Amendment No. 1 (State Board of Education) House Bill 3638 (H-AM 1) is estimated to have a fiscal impact of $220,000 on the Illinois State Board of Education's (ISBE) General Revenue Fund budget. It is estimated that each model curriculum will cost $110,000 to create the content. For development of each curriculum, ISBE assumes it will pay teachers a $30 per hour stipend for approximately 1,620 hours of work for a total of $48,600. An additional $61,400 is assumed for each curriculum for other personnel costs, materials, printing, travel, meeting expenses, video production, and creation of other content. State Mandates Fiscal Note, House Committee Amendment No. 1 (Dept. of Commerce & Economic Opportunity) This bill does not create a State mandate.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning noise.

Mourns the death of Steve R. Stroud of Elgin.

Amends the Counties Code. In provisions concerning winds farms and electric-generating wind devices, makes the provisions applicable even if a county has or has not formed a zoning commission and adopted formal zoning. Clarifies that only a county may establish standards for wind farms, electric-generating wind devices, and commercial wind energy facilities in unincorporated areas of the county outside of the zoning jurisdiction of a municipality and the 1.5 mile radius surrounding the zoning jurisdiction of a municipality. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that only a county may establish standards for wind farms outside the 1.5 mile radius (rather than in the 1.5 mile radius) surrounding the zoning jurisdiction of a municipality.

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall establish reimbursement rates that build toward livable wages for front-line personnel in residential and day programs and service coordination agencies serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities under the Act, including, but not limited to, intermediate care for the developmentally disabled facilities, medically complex for the developmentally disabled facilities, community-integrated living arrangements, community day services, employment, and other residential and day programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities supported by State funds or funding under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. Provides that on or before July 1, 2019, the Department shall increase rates and reimbursements and on or before that date, direct support persons shall earn a base wage of not less than $5.25 per hour above the highest applicable federal, State, county, or municipal minimum wage, and on or before that date, other front-line personnel shall earn a commensurate wage. Provides that on or before July 1, 2021, the Department shall increase rates and reimbursements and on or before that date, direct support persons shall earn a base wage of not less than $6.75 per hour above the highest applicable federal, State, county, or municipal minimum Wage, and on or before July 1, 2021, other front-line personnel shall earn a commensurate wage. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.

Calls on the 116th United States Congress to pass the Dream Act.

Amends the Open Meetings Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to employ an investigator who is required to devote at least 50% of his or her time to the investigation of complaints that allege a violation of the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987 or its rules.