Creates the Insulin for All Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall offer a discount program that allows participants to purchase insulin at a discounted, post-rebate price. Sets forth provisions concerning an insulin urgent-need program. Provides that by July 1, 2022, each manufacturer shall establish procedures to make insulin available to eligible individuals who are in urgent need of insulin or who are in need of access to an affordable insulin supply. Sets forth provisions concerning insulin urgent-need program exceptions, eligibility, forms, applications, claims and reimbursement, copayments, information sheets, navigators, and penalties. Sets forth provisions concerning an insulin patient assistance program and manufacturer responsibilities and process of the patient assistance program. Sets forth provisions concerning dispute resolution, reports, and penalties for insulin programs. Creates the Insulin Assistance Fund. Defines terms. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning cost sharing in prescription insulin drugs, provides that an insurer that provides coverage for prescription insulin drugs under the terms of a health coverage plan the insurer offers shall limit the total amount that an insured is required to pay for a 30-day supply of covered prescription insulin drugs at an amount not to exceed $35 (rather than $100). Makes a conforming change in the State Finance Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Removes a provision that repeals the Internet program for the sale of lottery tickets on July 1, 2022. Effective immediately.
Creates the End Youth Solitary Confinement Act. Provides that the use of room confinement of a person under 21 years of age at a juvenile or correctional facility for discipline, punishment, retaliation, or any reason other than as a temporary response to a juvenile's behavior that poses a serious and immediate risk of physical harm to any individual, including the juvenile, is prohibited. Provides that if a covered juvenile poses a serious and immediate risk of physical harm to any individual, including the juvenile, before a staff member of the facility places a covered juvenile in room confinement, the staff member shall attempt to use other less restrictive options, unless attempting those options poses a threat to the safety or security of any minor or staff. Establishes procedures for placing a covered juvenile in room confinement because the covered juvenile poses a serious and immediate risk of physical harm to himself or herself, or to others. Provides that each facility detaining covered juveniles shall report the use of each incident of room confinement to the Attorney General each month. Defines "covered juvenile". House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes a reference to the Department of Corrections. Provides that the reporting agency for certain provisions shall be an independent ombudsperson for the Department of Juvenile Justice, rather than the Attorney General. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that "confinement" does not include medical isolation or quarantine. House Floor Amendment No. 3 Defines "administrative hold", "behavioral hold", "chief administrative officer", "confinement", and "investigative status". Provides that a covered juvenile may be placed on an administrative hold and confined when temporarily being housed in a particular covered juvenile center or for administrative or security purposes as personally determined by the chief administrative officer. Provides that placement on administrative hold shall be subject to the following time limitations: (1) when the covered juvenile is awaiting transfer to the Department of Corrections or a more secure setting, the administrative hold may not exceed 3 business days; and (2) the administrative hold may not exceed 7 calendar days when the covered juvenile is temporarily transferred to a different facility for the purposes of placement interviews, court appearances, or medical treatment. Provides that whenever a covered juvenile is on an administrative hold, the Department of Juvenile Justice, Department of Corrections, or county or municipality holding the covered juvenile shall provide the covered juvenile with access to the same programs and services received by covered juveniles in the general population. Provides that any restrictions on movement or access to programs and services shall be documented and justified by the chief administrative officer. House Floor Amendment No. 4 Defines "covered juvenile" as any person under 18 (rather than 21) years of age incarcerated in a correctional facility, jail, or detention facility of any kind operated by the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, a county, or a municipality. House Floor Amendment No. 5 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill, as amended by House Amendments Nos. 1, 3, and 4. Specifies that "confinement" does not include medical isolation or quarantine.
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Requires proof that each party to the marriage has attained the age of 18 years in order to obtain a license to marry and a marriage certificate from the county clerk. Deletes language allowing proof that each party to the marriage will have attained the age of 18 years at the time the marriage license is effective or will have attained the age of 16 years and has either the consent to the marriage of both parents or his guardian or judicial approval. Makes corresponding changes. Repeals a provision regarding judicial approval of underage marriages. Effective immediately, except that specified provisions take effect 2 years after the Act becomes law.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2022, a store may not sell or distribute in this State a disposable food service container that is composed in whole or in part of polystyrene foam. Directs the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt rules to implement the amendatory Act's provisions. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 415 ILCS 5/52.10 new Adds reference to: 415 ILCS 5/52.11 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that the prohibition regarding polystyrene foam food service containers shall not apply to specified entities until one year after the amendatory Act's effective date. Removes language requiring the Agency to adopt rules to implement the provisions. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Expressway Camera Act. Includes Boone, Bureau, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Henry, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Madison, McHenry, St. Clair, Will and Winnebago counties among the counties in which the Illinois State Police, the Department of Transportation, and the Toll Highway Authority shall increase the amount of expressway and highway cameras. Provides that any funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways shall be taken from the Road Fund or Illinois State Toll Highway Authority funds and shall be included in requests for qualification processes for both agencies. Repeals the Act on July 1, 2025 (rather than July 1, 2023). House Committee Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill, and makes the following changes: Includes Champaign, Macon, Morgan, Peoria, and Sangamon counties among the counties in which the Illinois State Police, the Department of Transportation, and the Toll Highway Authority shall increase the amount of expressway and highway cameras. Provides that images from expressway cameras may be used by any municipal police department, county sheriff's office, State Police officer, or other law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the expressway in Cook County in the investigation of any violent offenses, including, but not limited to, offenses involving the use of a firearm and vehicular hijacking. Provides that images from expressway cameras may be used by any law enforcement agency conducting an active law enforcement investigation involving a violent offense. Deletes language providing that any funds needed to conduct the program shall be included in requests for qualification processes. Provides that any funds needed to conduct the program for use on expressways under the jurisdiction of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority shall be paid for by funds from the Illinois State Tollway Highway Authority.
Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Provides that any natural person who, for compensation or other pecuniary interest, communicates with any unit of local government for the ultimate purpose of influencing official action of the unit of local government concerning an automated traffic law enforcement system, or any person or entity who employs or compensates another person for the purposes of such communications, shall register as a lobbyist under the Act. Specifies that the provisions do not apply to communications made to judicial bodies or administrative courts regarding the prosecution or defense of specified alleged violations. Defines "automated traffic law enforcement system".
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is an aggravated assault if a person when, in committing an assault, threatens to kill a person who is under 13 years of age if the person committing the assault was at least 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. Provides that it is harassment by telephone to knowingly make a telephone call or to knowingly induce a person to make a telephone call for the purpose of threatening to kill another person who is under 13 years of age, regardless of whether the person under 13 years of age consents to the threat, if the defendant is at least 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. Provides that it is harassment through electronic communications to knowingly transmit an electronic communication or to knowingly induce a person to transmit an electronic communication for the purpose of threatening to kill another person who is under 13 years of age, regardless of whether the person under 13 years of age consents to the threat, if the defendant was at least 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense. Provides that these offenses are Class 3 felonies.
Amends the Dietitian Nutritionist Practice Act. Provides for the licensure of nutritionists. Makes changes in provisions concerning unlicensed practice; other activities subject to licensure; exemptions; the Dietitian Nutritionist Practice Board; dietitian nutritionists; inactive status; reciprocity; use of titles and advertising; grounds for discipline; and injunctions and cease and desist orders. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may require that applicants have their fingerprints submitted to the Department of State Police. Defines terms. Makes other changes. Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Dietitian Nutritionist Practice Act to January 1, 2032. Effective January 1, 2022, except provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act take effect immediately.
Creates the Relieve College Costs Pilot Program Act. Creates a pilot program for a 4-year degree pathway based on texts that served as the core foundational basis for western civilization and the Enlightenment, under which one public high school, one public community college, and one public university shall develop a competency-based baccalaureate degree program for a Fundamental Issues and Texts Humanities Degree. Includes as goals of the program: (1) preparing students with skills relating to critical thinking, problem solving, rational inquiry, and oral and written communication needed for employment or further graduate study; (2) using open educational resources if available; (3) using online course options if available to reduce costs; (4) identifying pathway courses to promote dual credit course enrollment in the participating high school; and (5) having a $20,000 maximum tuition rate for the entirety of the degree pathway. Contains provisions concerning a program director, the curriculum, open educational resources, reporting, and rulemaking. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 In provisions concerning the panel created by the State Board of Education, Illinois Community College Board, and Board of Higher Education, requires the panel to seek and identify initiatives to support the use of foundational materials and original sources that reside in the public domain or open educational resource materials in support of the degree program (rather than only to seek and identify initiatives to support the use of open educational resource materials). Provides that the panel is dissolved on January 31, 2023. Provides that a public institution, at the request of its board of trustees, must highlight the courses that use low-cost digital or print options for students (rather than courses that may have a lost-cost option for print versions).