Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall create and maintain an animal abuse registry. Requires a person 18 years of age or older who resides in or is domiciled in this State and has been convicted of specified offenses involving animal cruelty or torture to register with the Department to be placed on the registry. Requires a person required to register to pay an annual fee of $50 to the Department. Prohibits a person required to register from owning a companion animal or being employed at an animal shelter, pound, pet shop, zoo, or other business where companion animals are present. Creates the Animal Abuse Registry Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that registration fees shall be deposited into the Fund to be used by the Department for establishing and maintaining the animal abuse registry. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, and the O'Hare Modernization Act. Requires the Chicago Department of Aviation and the O'Hare Noise Compatibility Commission to approve criteria making public libraries eligible under the O'Hare School Sound Insulation Program and for units of local government to provide reimbursement for any cost not federally reimbursed up to 20% of the cost using approved airline revenue sources. Limits home rule powers. Amends the Illinois Local Library Act, Public Library District Act of 1991, and the Village Library Act. Provides that the board of a public library may apply for and receive sound insulation funding under the O'Hare School Sound Insulation Program. Amends the Permanent Noise Monitoring Act. Provides that permanent noise monitoring reports shall indicate public libraries and the number of public libraries within each contour. Effective immediately.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the exemption for the use or sale of tangible personal property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who will temporarily store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or consumption solely outside this State or (ii) for the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal property to be transported outside this State and used or consumed solely outside this State sunsets on June 20, 2021 (currently, June 30, 2016). Effective immediately.
Amends various Acts related to the governance of public universities in Illinois. Provides that beginning in the 2018-2019 academic year, the universities shall maintain an undergraduate and graduate student population in which at least 80% of the undergraduate and graduate student population is deemed an Illinois resident. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a veteran who (i) returned from an armed conflict involving the armed forces of the United States prior to 2007 and (ii) otherwise meets the requirements for a returning veterans' homestead exemption is entitled to a returning veterans' homestead exemption for the 2017 and 2018 taxable years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall offer to each applicant for issuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 18 years of age or older the opportunity to have his or her name excluded from (rather than included in) the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Provides that if an individual does not exclude his or her name from the registry, the Secretary shall note the individual's agreement to be included in the registry. Amends the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Provides that a donor may make an anatomical gift by declining to deny issuance of a statement or symbol indicating that the donor has made an anatomical gift to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that except as otherwise provided in the Act, the public body shall apply the Act in a uniform manner, regardless of who requests to inspect or copy a public record. Provides that all fees charged by a public body shall be according to a fee schedule that is part of a public record of the body. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning funeral processions.
Requests the Auditor General to conduct an audit of scratch-off games under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Lottery.
Amends the School Safety Drill Act. Requires schools to conduct a law enforcement drill to address a school shooting incident within 90 days after the beginning of each academic year (instead of conducting it during each academic year). 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.