Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Contains a declaration of policy and intent. Requires the Department of Human Services, in partnership with specified State agencies, to develop and implement a plan to phase out, by July 1, 2024, authorizations under the Minimum Wage Law to pay an employee with a disability less than the minimum wage. Requires the Department to consult with specified organizations when implementing the phase-out plan. Requires the Secretary of Human Services to submit reports to the Governor and the General Assembly on the benchmarks and status of achieving the outcomes included in the phase-out plan and recommendations for funding levels or other resources necessary to implement the phase-out plan. Amends the Department of Labor Law. Prohibits the Director of Labor from authorizing a work activities center or other sheltered workshop to pay an employee who has a disability less than the minimum wage unless certain requirements are met. Amends the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities Law. Requires the Illinois Council on Developmental Disabilities to commission an independent study of the phase-out plan; determine whether the plans are having their intended effects; and make recommendations for possible changes in State law or policy regarding the employment of individuals with disabilities. Requires the Council to report its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly by July 1, 2023. Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Provides that the State of Illinois shall not fund any entity that pays individuals less than the minimum wage under a certificate issued by the United States Department of Labor that authorizes Community Rehabilitation Programs to pay individuals less than the wage otherwise required for the individuals under federal law. Effective immediately, except that the provisions amending the Minimum Wage Law take effect July 1, 2024.
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Amends the Downstate Police and Chicago Police Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that for a person who first becomes a police officer on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, none of the benefits provided in those Articles shall be paid to any person who is convicted of any felony (instead of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as a police officer). Provides that none of the benefits provided for in those Articles shall be paid to any person who otherwise would receive a survivor benefit who is convicted of any felony (instead of any felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as a police officer) if the benefit results from the service of a police officer who first becomes a police officer on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Collection Agency Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may discipline a licensee if a finding is made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that a licensee violated the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act or its rules.
Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Provides for the dissolution of the Special Committee on Minority, Female, Persons with Disabilities, and Veterans Contracting. Creates the Task Force on Equity in State Contracting to study the effectiveness of State programs created to empower minority-owned businesses, women-owned businesses, businesses owned by persons with disabilities, and veteran-owned businesses. Provides for the membership of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall serve without compensation. Provides requirements for meetings and administrative support. Requires the Task Force to submit a report to the Governor and General Assembly with specified contents. Repeals the Task Force on January 1, 2022.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a home rule municipality with a population in excess of 1,000,000 may restructure the rates of an existing real estate transfer tax to specified amounts. Provides that if the municipality increases the real estate transfer tax rates as provided in this subsection, then of the entire proceeds received from the real estate transfer tax, 75% shall be dedicated to the city's general budget and 25% shall be dedicated to housing and services to combat homelessness.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the habitual criminal statute does not apply unless the first offense was committed when the person was 21 years of age or older. Provides that the third time offender provision concerning being sentenced as a Class X offender does not apply unless all 3 offenses were forcible felonies and the first offense was committed when the person was 21 years of age or older.
Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides for registration under the Act of a person convicted of a battery if: (1) the State's Attorney filed a notice contemporaneous with or included in the summons, complaint, or other document charging the battery to seek sex offender registration under the provision as a sexually motivated battery; (2) the complaining witness is under 17 years of age; (3) the offender is 21 years of age or older; and (4) the court finds that the battery was "sexually motivated" as defined in the Sex Offender Management Board Act.
Amends the Currency Exchange Act. Provides that for the sale or issuance of one or more money orders with an aggregate face value of $250 or more to any person in a single day, a licensee shall verify the purchaser's name and address by examination of a government-issued identification, and shall record the name and address of the purchaser and the type and number of the identification examined by the licensee. Makes other changes.
Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that administrator means a member who (i) is employed in a position that requires him or her to hold a professional educator license with an administrative endorsement issued by the State Board of Education (instead of a Type 75 Certificate issued by the State Teacher Certification Board), (ii) is not on the Chicago teachers' or the Chicago charter school teachers' salary schedule, or (iii) is paid on an administrative payroll.
Repeals the Rent Control Preemption Act.