Amends the Strengthening the Child Welfare Workforce for Children and Families Act. Increases the membership of the Task Force on Strengthening the Child Welfare Workforce for Children and Families to include 2 persons who each serve as a chief executive officer or chief administrator of a private sector child welfare provider. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services (rather than the Children and Family Research Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) to provide administrative and other support to the Task Force. Requires the Department to engage the services of the Children and Family Research Center to aid in the collection, cataloguing, and analysis of child welfare data. Extends the deadline date by which the Task Force must submit certain reports to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the State's child welfare workforce. Changes the date the Task Force is dissolved from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022. Changes the date the Act is repealed from January 1, 2021 to January 1, 2022. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 325 ILCS 70/10 325 ILCS 70/15 Adds reference to: P.A. 101-121, Sec. 99 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends Public Act 101-121 by adding an immediate effective date. Effective immediately.
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Amends the State Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 160/1 Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 440/1 from Ch. 1, par. 3201 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Time Standardization Act. Provides that daylight saving time shall be the year-round standard time of the entire State. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2019.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Modifies the content of the statement of economic interests required to be filed by members of the General Assembly and candidates for nomination or election to the General Assembly. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that any communication regarding a State agency contract received by an agency, agency head, or other agency employee from a member of the General Assembly shall promptly be reported to that agency's ethics officer by the recipient of the communication and by any other employee of that agency who responds to the communication. Provides that the ethics officer shall require that the communication be promptly made a part of the record of the General Assembly, and the communication shall be made publicly available on the Illinois General Assembly website. Specifies further information to be provided by the ethics officer. Amends the Legislative Information System Act. Requires the Legislative Information System to establish a page for electronic public access on the General Assembly's website that provides information on any communication regarding a State agency contract received by an agency, agency head, or other agency employee from a member of the General Assembly. Effective immediately.
Condemns President Donald J. Trump's Migrant Protection Protocols denying entry to refugees at the Southern border and calls on him to immediately rescind this abhorrent policy that is placing vulnerable people at further risk of harm, and calls on the U.S. Congress to put an end to the Migrant Protection Protocols by defunding the program in its upcoming budget vote before the end of this calendar year. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Corrects a date.
Creates the Joint Commission on Ethics and Lobbying Reform to review and make recommendations for changes to the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act, the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act, the Lobbyist Registration Act, the Public Officers Prohibited Activities Act, and Article 50 of the Illinois Procurement Code. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the heading. Reinserts the provisions of the Resolution as introduced, with technical changes regarding appointments by the Governor, the Attorney General, and the Secretary of State.
Calls upon the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health to expeditiously participate in legislative public hearings, as well as hearings within the communities so affected, in order to provide expert and public testimony concerning the amelioration of this disturbing and reversible public health threat. Urges additional appropriations in State funding, along with any available federal dollars, to provide necessary preventative diagnostic and treatment services to mitigate the harmful effects of HIV among at-risk African American and Latinx populations.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the court shall add 5 years of imprisonment to the sentence imposed upon a defendant who, at the time of the commission of the offense, was a member of the General Assembly and who is convicted of a felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as a member of the General Assembly. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code and the Public Community College Act. Moves provisions governing classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted from the School Code to the Public Community College Act. Amends the Adult Education Act. Defines "Adult Education" (rather than "Adult and Continuing Education") to mean academic instruction and educational services below the postsecondary level that increase an individual's ability to (i) read, write, and speak in English and perform mathematics or other activities necessary for the attainment of a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent and (ii) transition to postsecondary education and training or obtain employment. Provides for apportionment for adult education courses for the instruction of those persons who (i) are 16 years of age or older, are not enrolled or required to be enrolled in a secondary school under State law, and are basic-skills deficient, (ii) do not have a secondary school diploma or its recognized equivalent and have not achieved an equivalent level of education, or (iii) are an English language learner (rather than persons over 21 years of age and youths under 21 years of age whose schooling has been interrupted). Repeals the Adult Education Reporting Act. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 With regard to classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted, restores a School Code provision requiring the cost of the instruction to be assumed in its entirety from funds appropriated by the State to the Illinois Community College Board. House Committee Amendment No. 1 With regard to classes for adults and youths whose schooling has been interrupted, provides that the Illinois Community College Board shall reimburse adult education providers from funds appropriated (rather than just reimburse adult education providers) for approved expenses that are established and determined by the Board in compliance with the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and other State and federal requirements.
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Prohibits the State from applying for any federal waiver that would reduce or eliminate any protection or coverage required under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was in effect on January 1, 2017, including, but not limited to, any protection for persons with pre-existing conditions and coverage for services identified as essential health benefits under the ACA. Provides that the State or an agency of the executive branch may apply for such a waiver only if granted authorization by the General Assembly through joint resolution. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Prohibits the State from applying for any federal waiver that would permit an individual or group health insurance plan to reduce or eliminate any protection or coverage required under the ACA that was in effect on January 1, 2017, including, but not limited to, any protection for persons with pre-existing conditions and coverage for services identified as essential health benefits under the ACA. Provides that the State or an agency of the executive branch may apply for such a waiver only if granted authorization by the General Assembly through joint resolution. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Prohibits the State or an agency of the executive branch from applying for any federal Medicaid waiver that would result in more restrictive standards, methodologies, procedures, or other requirements than those that were in effect in Illinois as of January 1, 2017 for the Medical Assistance Program, the Children's Health Insurance Program, or any other medical assistance program in Illinois operating under any existing federal waiver authorized by specified provisions of the Social Security Act. Provides that the State or an agency of the executive branch may apply for such a waiver only if granted authorization by the General Assembly through joint resolution. Effective immediately.