Rep. Barbara Wheeler

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that any parent or guardian who tests positive for the presence of a drug or drugs in his or her system during a drug screen test administered as part of a case plan shall have the opportunity to make a written request to the Department of Children and Family Services for a confirmation drug test to be performed on the parent or guardian. Requires the Department to provide written instructions on how to request and receive a confirmation drug test to all parents or guardians who test positive during a drug screen test administered as part of a case plan. Grants the Department rulemaking authority.

Amends the Charter Schools Article of the School Code. Removes provisions providing that the total number of charter schools operating under this Article at any one time shall not exceed 120. Removes a provision limiting the number of charter schools to 70 in any city having a population exceeding 500,000. Removes a provision limiting the number of charter schools to 45 in the remainder of the State. Removes a provision providing that the State Board of Education shall assign a number to each charter submission it receives for its review and certification, based on the chronological order in which the submission is received by it.

Urges Congress to swiftly promulgate laws that ensure members of the military are adequately armed for their protection.

Recognizes Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month, being held from May 15 through June 15, 2016 and declares May 31, 2016 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day in the State of Illinois.

Creates the College Admission Inquiries Act. Provides that during the admission decision-making process, a college (defined as an institution of higher education authorized to confer degrees in this State) may not inquire about arrests that did not result in a criminal conviction and criminal convictions that have been sealed or expunged or make any inquiry or consider information about any arrest or criminal accusation of an individual that was followed by a termination of that criminal action or proceeding in favor of the individual. Provides that a college may not make any inquiry or consider information about an individual's past criminal conviction or convictions at any time during the admission decision-making process. Provides that after an individual has been admitted as a student, a college may make inquiries about and consider information about the individual's past criminal conviction history for the purpose of offering support counseling, services, and work-study employment. Provides that a college may also make inquiries about and consider information about the individual's past criminal conviction history for the purpose of making decisions about participation in activities and aspects of campus life associated with the individual's status as a student. Provides that a college may not use the information to rescind an offer of admission. Provides that a college is not required to make inquiries into or consider an individual's criminal conviction history for any reason. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides for electronic surveillance risk assessment evaluation hearings which the State's Attorney may initiate after the defendant has been arraigned, or at any other stage in the criminal proceedings, after communication with and upon the request of the victim, if the person is charged with an attempt to commit first degree murder committed against an intimate partner, kidnapping, aggravated kidnaping, unlawful restraint, domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, stalking, aggravated stalking, cyberstalking, harassment by telephone, or harassment through electronic communications. After the court grants a hearing, and considers various factors of the case, the court may order the defendant to undergo a risk assessment evaluation using a recognized, evidence-based instrument conducted by an Illinois Department of Human Services approved partner abuse intervention program provider, pretrial service, probation, or parole agency. Using this information and other factors of the case, the court will determine if the defendant shall be placed on electronic surveillance, and shall document appropriate findings in the record. The cost of the electronic surveillance and risk assessment shall be paid by, or on behalf, of the defendant, but under no circumstances shall be paid by the victim. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall compile data on deaths or complications resulting from abortions if more than 5 deaths or complications result from abortions in a county or in the State. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall annually publish that data by State and county and make the data available to the public. Excludes from the data made available to the public personal identifying data.

Amends the Downstate Police and Downstate Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning mistakes in benefit amounts, removes provisions that define "mistake". Effective immediately.

Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that upon adjudication of a person as a delinquent minor for an act if committed by an adult would be a non-violent crime, the person may petition the court for automatic expungement of law enforcement records and juvenile court records relating to the incident that was a non-violent crime and that occurred before his or her 18th birthday, if the minor was placed under supervision under the Delinquency Article of this Act and pays the required fees for expungement of his or her records relating to the incident. Provides that if all juvenile court proceedings relating to that incident have been terminated, supervision has been successfully completed, and the minor has not been charged with another crime since the disposition of the non-violent charge, the court must expunge all law enforcement records and juvenile court records relating to the incident that was a non-violent crime.

Creates the House Education Funding Advisory Committee to conduct a thorough review of the existing distribution methods and expenditures of education funding and make recommendations to implement an education funding system.