Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. With regard to the Monetary Award Program, provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 academic year, an applicant who is otherwise eligible for grant assistance under the Program may receive grant assistance for an additional academic year after receiving a baccalaureate degree or the equivalent of 135 semester credit hours if he or she (i) enrolls in a State-approved educator preparation program and (ii) within 7 years after receiving a Professional Educator License, teaches in this State for a minimum of 5 years. Provides that if at any time a person fails to meet these requirements, he or she must repay the amount of additional assistance received to the Commission. Effective immediately.
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Commends Mary Ann Millush on her service to the College of DuPage.
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 Alzheimer's Disease Research Act. Changes the short title of the Act to the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund Act. Creates the full-time position of Dementia Coordinator within the Department of Public Health, who is responsible only for activities associated with and relevant to the successful implementation of the State of Illinois Alzheimer's Disease State Plan. Changes the name of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Fund to the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund and makes corresponding changes in the State Finance Act. Provides that moneys from the Fund shall be used to cover costs, including the Dementia Coordinator's salary and expenses. Provides that the Department shall be responsible for providing the Dementia Coordinator with administrative support through its existing resources and not from the Fund. Repeals provisions concerning a grant program administered by the Department. Amends the Alzheimer's Disease Assistance Act. Makes changes concerning the membership of the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee. Requires the Department of Public Health to make reasonable efforts to promote the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund during relevant times, including, but not limited to, periods of time when tax returns are typically received, such as issuing press releases and posting on social media. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: provides that the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee shall consist of 17 (rather than 16) voting members; provides that the additional voting member of the Committee shall be an individual with medical or academic experience with early onset Alzheimer's disease or related disorders; and provides that the Dementia Coordinator shall be funded out of the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a participating municipality or instrumentality shall post on its publicly available website, if the participating municipality or instrumentality maintains a publicly available website: (1) all documents pertaining to the municipality's or instrumentality's adoption of a resolution to participate in the Fund if the municipality or instrumentality has adopted such a resolution; (2) all documents pertaining to the municipality's or instrumentality's annual projected future contributions to the Fund; and (3) information about the amount of the municipality's or instrumentality's past required contributions to the Fund for each year of participation. Provides that the public posting requirement does not require a participating municipality or instrumentality to post on its website information that is not subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 40 ILCS 5/7-135.5 new Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 120/7.4 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, and moves a provision concerning required public posting of information by participating municipalities and instrumentalities under Article 7 of the Illinois Pension Code into the Open Meetings Act. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 120/7.4 new Adds reference to: 40 ILCS 5/7-135.5 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the Fund shall post on its publicly available website the following information regarding municipalities that participate in the Fund that the Fund has in its possession: (1) copies of all resolutions adopted by a municipality on or after January 1, 1995 to participate in the Fund if such a resolution was required; (2) an annual report listing each municipality and the date each municipality first became a municipality that participates in the Fund; (3) all documents pertaining to each municipality's annual projected future contributions to the Fund; and (4) information about the amount of each municipality's past required contributions to the Fund for each year of participation on or after January 1, 1995 and before, if available. Requires municipalities to post to its website a link to that information. Specifies that the provisions do not require the Fund to post on its website information that is exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act and do not require a municipality to establish or maintain a website. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State. Effective July 1, 2020.
Creates the Public University Uniform Admission Act. Requires each public university in this State to admit first-time freshman applicants as undergraduate students if the applicant graduated with a grade point average in the top 10% or was certified to be in the top 10% of the student's high school graduating class in one of the 2 school years preceding the academic year for which the applicant is applying for admission and (1) the applicant graduated from an accredited public or private high school in this State or from a high school operated by the United States Department of Defense; (2) the applicant successfully completed the minimum college preparatory curriculum requirements for admission to the university and satisfied the ACT college admission assessment or the SAT college admission assessment composite score and subscores required for admission to the university; and (3) if the applicant graduated from a high school operated by the United States Department of Defense, the applicant is a State resident or is entitled to pay tuition fees at the rate provided for State residents. Provides that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is not required to offer admission to applicants who qualify for automatic admission in excess of the number required to fill 75% of the university's enrollment capacity designated for first-time resident undergraduate students in an academic year. Sets forth other provisions concerning the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sets forth other provisions concerning admissions. Provides for additional preparation for college, student outreach, and rulemaking. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes from the applicability of the Act the University of Illinois, Illinois State University, Governors State University, Northeastern Illinois University, and Chicago State University; makes conforming changes. Provides that, beginning with the 2020-2021 academic year, each institution shall create a 4-year uniform admission system pilot program under the Act (rather than create a permanent uniform admission system). Makes other changes. Repeals the Act on July 1, 2025. Fiscal Note, House Committee Amendment No. 1 (IL Board of Higher Education) House Bill 26 (H-AM 1) will not have a fiscal impact on the Illinois Board of Higher Education. House Committee Amendment No. 2 With regard to the student outreach program, removes a provision requiring the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, after gathering information and recommendations from available sources and examining current outreach practices by institutions of higher education in this State and in other states, to prescribe best practice guidelines and standards to be used by institutions in conducting student outreach. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that an applicant who graduates in a graduating class of a school that has so few students that class rank does not make a reliable contribution toward assessing the student's college readiness is considered to have satisfied certain automatic admission requirements of the Act if, among other requirements, the student has (i) successfully completed the minimum college preparatory curriculum requirements established by law for admission to the institution and (rather than or) (ii) satisfied the ACT college admission assessment or the SAT college admission assessment composite score and subscores required for admission to the institution to which the applicant applied as well as any composite scores or subscores for colleges within that institution. Makes a technical correction.
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 Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that gratuities to employees are the property of the employees and may not be retained by an employer. Provides that an employer's retention of gratuities is an underpayment of wages for purposes of the Act. Provides that the new provisions do not prohibit tip pooling as permitted by law. Provides that the new provisions do not affect an employer's entitlement to an allowance for gratuities to the extent permitted under the Minimum Wage Law. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that gratuities are the property of employees and that employers shall not keep gratuities. Requires gratuities to be paid to employees within 13 days after the end of the pay period during which the gratuities were earned. Permits the employer to reduce the amount of a gratuity paid by credit card by a proportionate amount of the fee incurred in processing credit card payments. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 820 ILCS 115/11 from Ch. 48, par. 39m-11 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the engrossed bill, and further amends the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Provides that if a final and binding administrative decision issued by the Department of Labor requires an employer or other party to pay wages, penalties, or other amounts in connection with a wage claim, and the employer or other party has neither: (i) made the required payment within 35 days of the issuance of the final and binding administrative decision; nor (ii) timely filed a complaint seeking review of the final and binding administrative decision pursuant to the Administrative Review Law in a court of competent jurisdiction, the Department may file a verified petition against the employer or other party to enforce the final administrative decision and to collect any amounts due in the circuit court of any county where an official office of the Department is located.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Public Health to ensure that those who draw blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities are trained, at least once every 3 years, in the most current method of drawing blood from children and adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. Provides that the training shall focus on drawing blood in a safe manner that is as comfortable as possible. Requires the Department to ensure that those facilities and providers review their training program at least once within each 3-year period to ensure that the training includes the most current methods available of drawing blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that is safe and comfortable for them and their families. Requires the Department to ensure that by July 1, 2020 all medical facilities are equipped to draw blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities using finger-prick equipment, hemoglobin testing equipment, and all other related equipment that can be adapted to serve patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop and make available training materials that ensure that all phlebotomists are trained in the most current methods of drawing blood from children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides that the materials shall conform to the best available practices used for drawing blood in a safe manner that is as comfortable as possible for the individual from whom blood is drawn and for the families, guardians, caretakers, or companions of the individual accompanying him or her while blood is drawn. Provides that the Department shall review the materials every 3 years to ensure that they conform with the best available practices. Provides that the Department shall ensure that health care providers and laboratories that employ a phlebotomist incorporate the training as part of a phlebotomist's initial employment training and as part of any ongoing training to maintain competencies and certifications as a phlebotomist. Defines "phlebotomist". House Floor Amendment No. 1 Removes language requiring the Department to develop training materials. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Defines "phlebotomist" as a person specifically trained to draw blood for diagnostic purposes in a health care setting (rather than a person who is certified to draw blood for diagnostic testing, transfusion, research, or blood donation). Exempts nonprofit blood banks or the affiliated laboratories of nonprofit blood banks from the provisions.
Amends the Limitations Article of the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that if there is evidence that childhood sexual abuse was committed by a person who holds a position of trust, authority, or supervision over the minor victim, and that person fraudulently concealed a cause of action from the knowledge of the minor victim, the action may be commenced at any time within 5 years after the person entitled to bring the action discovers that he or she has such cause of action, and any repose or limitation period is tolled during that 5-year period. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill, and makes the following changes: Provides that the limitation period for damages for personal injury based on childhood sexual abuse do not run during a time period when the person abused is subject to fraudulent concealment by the abuser or by any person acting in the interest of the abuser. Deletes language providing that if there is evidence that the sexual abuse was committed by a person who holds a position of trust, authority, or supervision in relation to the minor victim, and that person fraudulently concealed a cause of action from the knowledge of the minor victim, the action may be commenced at any time within 5 years after the person entitled to bring the action discovers that he or she has such cause of action, and any repose or limitation period is tolled during that 5-year period. Effective immediately.