Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that a final order of adoption shall not be overturned by the court for any reason other than fraud on the part of the party adopting the child. Provides that if consent to adoption has been given by the Department of Children and Family Services and the Department seeks to withdraw or revoke its consent to adoption, it must, within 60 days after the date of the filing of the adoption petition containing the consent, file a petition asking the court to revoke the Department's consent and dismiss the adoption petition. Provides that within 30 days after filing the petition, the Department shall make a formal report to the court explaining it is seeking to withdraw or revoke consent. Provides that if the Department does not file the report within 30 days, the court shall dismiss the Department's petition. Provides that after an order of adoption by the court becomes final, the Department shall be fully bound by the order and may not later challenge the validity of the adoption proceedings. Provides that if the Department withdraws or revokes a consent to adoption or appeals a finalized order of adoption, the court shall order the Department to reimburse the prospective adoptive parents and other interested parties for all adoption expenses, including, but not limited to, all medical fees and costs and all legal fees and costs. Provides that the Department is barred from filing a motion or petition to vacate a final order of adoption or revoke consent to an adoption.
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Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the State Police shall establish a Portal for use by federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies, including State's Attorneys and the Attorney General to capture a report of persons whose Firearm Owner's Identification Cards have been revoked or suspended. Creates the Firearm Recovery Task Force led by the State Police to seize and recover the Firearm Owner's Identification Cards of revoked persons and to enforce the revocation and suspension of Firearm Owner's Identification Cards under the Firearm Owner's Identification Card Act. Amends the Firearm Owner's Identification Card Act. Provides that the State Police shall include in the report the reason the person's Firearm Owner's Identification Card was revoked or suspended. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides the defendant shall physically surrender all firearms in his or her possession to a law enforcement agency designated by the court to take custody of and impound the firearms and physically surrender his or her Firearm Owner's Identification Card to the law enforcement agency as a condition of remaining on bond pending sentencing when the offense the person has been charged with is a forcible felony, stalking, aggravated stalking, domestic battery, any violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, or the Cannabis Control Act that is classified as a Class 2 or greater felony, or any felony violation of the Deadly Weapons Article of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal Code of 2012. Amends the Freedom of Information Act and the Unified Code of Corrections to make conforming changes. to make conforming changes. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Removes the requirement for each Legislative District to be divided into two Representative Districts. Modifies provisions concerning legislative redistricting. Provides specified requirements for each Legislative District, Representative District, and Congressional District for redistricting purposes. Replaces the current method of legislative redistricting with the following: a sixteen-member commission, appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the most senior Supreme Court Justice of a different political party in accordance with specified criteria, shall adopt and file with the Secretary of State redistricting plans for Legislative, Representative, and Congressional Districts following a series of public hearings by August 1 of the year following a federal decennial census; permits the public to submit maps during the map drawing process for consideration by the Commission; and, if a redistricting plan is not adopted by August 1 of the year following a federal decennial census, then a seventeenth member shall be appointed to the Commission and redistricting plans shall be filed by September 1. Adds provisions concerning the membership of the Commission and budgetary matters related to the Commission. Effective upon being declared adopted and applicable to redistricting beginning in 2021 and to the election of General Assembly members beginning in 2022.
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, in consultation with the Department of Revenue and the Secretary of State, shall conduct a study to determine the advantages and disadvantages of consolidating the permitting activities of the State with respect to for-profit firms and entities. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to consider either creating a new State agency to issue permits to for-profit firms or entities or creating an online database maintained by the Department on the Department's website that would allow a person to specify a type of business or a type of license and the website would direct the person toward a list of required licenses and specify the State agency that issues each of the required licenses. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by February 1, 2021. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Assembly, State Employee, State Universities, Downstate Teachers, and Judges Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that by no later than July 1, 2021, each System shall establish and post on its website a searchable database of the names of all persons receiving an annuity from the System and the amount of the annuity paid by the System to that person each month. Requires the database to be updated on a monthly basis. Provides that under no circumstances shall the information in that database include the name of any annuitant under the age of 18 or any identifying information other than the annuitant's name and the amount of annuity paid to that annuitant each month. Effective immediately.
Creates the Taxing Body Debt and Convention Control Act. Contains only a statement of legislative intent.
Amends the Illinois Information Security Improvement Act. Provides that no State agency shall use any software platform developed, in whole or in part, by Kaspersky Lab or any entity of which Kaspersky Lab holds majority ownership. Provides that the Department of Innovation and Technology shall adopt rules as necessary to implement the provisions. Provides legislative findings.
Amends the Automatic Telephone Dialers Act. Redefines "recorded message" to mean any artificial or recorded communication that includes or introduces an advertisement or constitutes telemarketing without live voice interaction (rather than any taped communication soliciting the sale of goods or services without live voice interaction). Prohibits an autodialer from providing inaccurate caller ID information in violation of a specified federal law and regulations of the Federal Communications Commission. Provides that it is a violation of the Act to play a recorded message (rather than a prerecorded message) placed by an autodialer without the (i) prior express consent of the called party or (ii) the prior express written consent of the called party if the call is a call that delivers a health care message made by, or on behalf of, a covered entity or its business associate as those terms are defined in a specified provision of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996. Defines "telemarketing" and "prior express written consent".
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that the limiting rate shall be calculated using the highest aggregate extension from any year in which the taxing district was subject to the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law (currently, the last 3 preceding levy years). Provides that an aggregate extension established for a levy year in which the taxing district was authorized to temporarily increase its limiting rate or its extension limitation may not be used.
Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Provides that a cyber attack is a "disaster".