Rep. Lamont J. Robinson, Jr.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Creates a small and mid-sized business enterprise initiative program. Provides that the program shall apply to construction contracts and contracts for goods and services by the Department of Transportation and Capital Development Board. Establishes a race and gender-neutral program to increase small and mid-sized business participation in those contracts. Allows the applicable chief procurement officer to set aside certain contracts for exclusive participation of small and mid-sized businesses. Sets forth reporting requirements and penalties for violations of the provisions. Allows the Department of Central Management Services to adopt rules to implement the program. Includes severability provisions.

Amends the Transmitters of Money Act. Provides that the Director of Financial Institutions of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall not issue an order against a money transmitter for practices contrary to the Act solely because the entity provides or has provided financial services to a cannabis-related legitimate business. Provides that the Director shall not prohibit, penalize, or otherwise discourage a money transmitter from providing financial services to a cannabis-related legitimate business solely because the entity provides or has provided financial services to a cannabis-related legitimate business. Provides that the Director shall not recommend, incentivize, or encourage a money transmitter not to offer financial services or to downgrade or cancel the financial services offered to an account holder solely because of specified reasons related to owning or operating a cannabis-related legitimate business.

Amends the African-American HIV/AIDS Response Act. Provides that the Act may be cited as the African-American and Latinx HIV/AIDS Response Act. Throughout the Act, refers to Latinxs in conjunction with African-Americans. Amends the State Finance Act. Changes the name of the African-American HIV/AIDS Response Fund to the African-American and Latinx HIV/AIDS Response Fund. Effective immediately.

Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Requires the Department of Central Management Services to establish a credit program where certain contractors may receive credit applicable to meeting the requirements of the Act based on their utilization of minority owned businesses and female owned businesses. Requires the Department to review the program annually. Sets forth requirements of the program.

Creates the State Agency and Grantee Bonus Prohibition Act. Provides that no State agency or hospital shall pay from State funds, in whole or in part, and no employee of a State agency or hospital may receive a bonus as all or part of his or her compensation, including such bonuses as may be received for work on capital projects. Provides that no grantee shall pay and no employee or contract worker of a grantee may receive a bonus paid from grant funds awarded for operational expenses as all or part of his or her compensation, including such bonuses as may be received for work on capital projects. Effective immediately.

Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires long-term care facilities and hospitals licensed under the Act to prove upon inspection by the Department of Public Health that the long-term care facility or hospital has provided testing for Legionnaires' disease and to provide the results of that testing to the Department.

Creates the Transportation Benefit Program Act. Provides that an employer that is situated in Cook County and for which an average of 20 or more full-time employees work for compensation shall offer a program that allows a covered employee to elect to exclude from taxable wages and compensation the employee's commuting costs incurred for the purchase of a transit pass to use public transit up to a maximum level allowed by federal tax law. Provides that a covered employer may comply by participating in a program offered by the Chicago Transit Authority or the Regional Transit Authority. Provides that all transit agencies shall market the existence of the program to their riders. Establishes penalties for violations of the Act. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Transportation Benefits Program Fund. Effective January 1, 2020.

Amends the Real Estate Transactions Article of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation to refuse to sell, rent, or otherwise make unavailable or deny, or to alter the terms, conditions, or privileges of the sale or rental, of a housing accommodation or dwelling to any buyer or renter due to the fact of an arrest, juvenile record, or criminal history record information ordered expunged, sealed, or impounded under the Criminal Identification Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Energy Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning eligibility for and participation in the energy assistance program.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that, for State Fiscal Year 2020, the Department of Children and Family Services shall increase reimbursement rates payable to each private agency with a purchase of service contract or grant from the Department to an amount that equals the sum of all increases in general inflation during State Fiscal Years 2014 through 2018 as determined by the consumer price index-u published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor, less any rate increases, previously provided by the Department. Sets forth the types of services eligible for the increased reimbursement rate, including, (i) residential services, (ii) specialized, adolescent, treatment, or other non-traditional or Home-of-Relative foster care services, and (iii) intact family services. Provides that beginning in State Fiscal Year 2020, and for every State fiscal year thereafter, the Department shall implement the rate reimbursement methodology outlined in a specified provision of the Illinois Administrative Code when calculating and determining the payment rates for private agencies that contract with the Department to provide specified services. Provides that, for State Fiscal Year 2021, and for every State fiscal year thereafter, foster parent rates and payment rates for other specified services shall be adjusted each year to an amount that equals any increase in general inflation as determined by the consumer price index-u. Effective immediately.