Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Provides that the definition of "public health setting" includes a mobile dental van.
Amends the Crematory Regulation Act. Provides that "cremation" includes natural organic reduction. Defines "natural organic reduction". Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a mandatory supervised release term shall not be imposed for a Class 4 felony. Makes conforming changes. Fiscal Note (Prisoner Review Board) HB 3659 has no fiscal impact projected to the Prisoner Review Board. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 730 ILCS 5/3-3-8 730 ILCS 5/5-8-1 Adds reference to: 730 ILCS 5/3-6-3 from Ch. 38, par. 1003-6-3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Includes time served in a county jail as part of the minimum of 60 days of the sentence that must be served before the Director of Corrections may award discretionary earned sentence credit.
Creates the Racial Equity Analysis Act. Requires the Illinois Human Rights Commission to create a Racial Equity Analysis Toolkit by July 1, 2022. Requires all agencies and departments of the State implementing any new developments, initiatives, policies, or programs that will significantly affect surrounding communities and have more than $1,000,000 in State funding to use the Racial Equity Analysis Toolkit by January 1, 2023.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that it shall be the duty of the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to determine and designate disproportionately impacted areas for the purpose of the allocation of State services and for any other purpose which may be provided for under Illinois law. Provides the criteria by which the Department shall determine disproportionately impacted areas.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the powers and duties of the Department on Aging under the Act, requires the Department to work with workforce development providers through the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish and implement an affirmative action employment plan for the recruitment, hiring, training, and retraining of persons 60 or more years old for jobs for which their employment would not be precluded by law (rather than requiring the Department to make a grant to an institution of higher learning to study the feasibility of establishing and implementing an affirmative action employment plan for the recruitment, hiring, training, and retraining of persons 60 or more years old for jobs for which their employment would not be precluded by law). Requires the Department to conduct demonstration projects to identify additional ways to assist aging and minority senior citizens throughout the State (rather than requiring the Department to conduct a study of the feasibility of implementing the Senior Companion Program throughout the State). In a provision requiring the Department on Aging and the Department of Human Services to file a joint report with the Governor and the General Assembly, removes the requirement that the report be filed on or before September 30 of each year. Requires the Department on Aging and other specified agencies to submit an annual report on programs and services for minority senior citizens in the State to be filed with the Governor and the General Assembly within 12 months of the closing of the lapse period for the fiscal year included in the report.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Creates the Malicious False Reporting Liability Act. Provides that a person may bring an action against another person for malicious false reporting to a law enforcement agency. Provides that a person bringing an action may recover: an amount in actual and punitive damages or liquidated damages of at least $250 and not more than $1,500; the costs of the action; and reasonable attorney's fees.
Amends the State Property Control Act. Provides that the Director of Central Management Services as Administrator may convey any surplus real property covered by the State Property Control Act, by sale or lease, to a duly incorporated, charitable, non-profit organization or association for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables on a tract of land of less than 5 acres within any unit of local government, provided that the non-profit organization or association is not controlled, directly or indirectly, by any agricultural, commercial, or other business. Provides that the non-profit organization or association shall be authorized to sell fresh fruits and vegetables either on the land that was conveyed, off that land, or both, provided, that the sales are related or incidental to the non-profit purposes of the organization or association, and the net proceeds received by the non-profit organization or association are used to further the non-profit purposes of the organization or association. Provides that the lease of any real property to any duly incorporated non-profit organization or association shall be in accordance with the Illinois Procurement Code. Amends the Property Tax Code to provide a property tax exemption for non-profit organizations using land for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Creates the Heirs' Property Study Task Force to examine current and prospective methods to address heirs' property issues in Illinois.
