Amends the Property Tax Code, the Community Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, the Counties Code, and the Community Mental Health Act. Contains provisions validating certain tax levies for community mental health boards. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 200/18-103 new 50 ILCS 835/1.2 55 ILCS 5/5-25025 405 ILCS 20/5 Adds reference to: 50 ILCS 70/5 50 ILCS 70/10 50 ILCS 70/20 50 ILCS 70/25 30 ILCS 805/8.47 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Decennial Committees on Local Government Efficiency Act. Defines "governing board" to mean the governing body of a governmental unit, including, but not limited to, the governing body of a road district. Provides that "governmental unit" means all entities that levy taxes and are also units of local government, as defined in Section 1 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution, except municipalities and counties (rather than includes all units of local government that may levy any tax, except municipalities and counties). Provides that a highway commissioner of a township road district in a county with a population under 400,000 and the township board of the same township may form a joint committee on local government efficiency (currently, the governmental unit must form a single committee). Makes other changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Rep. Maurice West
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Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board may not enter into or authorize an employment, equipment, or service contract, with the exception of a contract negotiated with a labor union, that would extend 90 days past the next township election. Provides that employment, equipment, or service contracts entered into or authorized in violation of the provisions are voidable. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township board of trustees or township official may not enter into or authorize an employment, equipment, or service contract during the 14 days before a consolidated election through the third Monday in May following the consolidated election. Provides that a township board or township official may enter into a contract that does not extend more than 60 days after the third Monday of May following the consolidated election to address an emergency. Provides that an employment, equipment, or service contract entered into or authorized in violation of the Section is voidable. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 60 ILCS 1/85-70 new Adds reference to: New Act Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Tourism Preservation and Sustainability District Act. Provides that hotel owners can petition a governmental unit (a municipality, county, or township) to create a tourism preservation and sustainability district if the hotel owners believe their businesses would represent more than 50% of transaction charges collected inside the district. Requires the owners to create a district plan. Provides for the governmental unit to pass a resolution of intent to create the district within 60 days after the filing of the petition if the governmental unit wants to proceed with the district. Provides that, in certain circumstances, a governmental unit must enter into an intergovernmental agreement with another governmental unit if territory of the other governmental unit is included within the territory of the district. Requires a public hearing with the opportunity for hotel owners to object to the formation. Provides that, if not enough objections are received by the governmental unit's clerk, then the governing body of the governmental unit may form the district. Provides that transaction charges (charged either on a fixed dollar or percentage rate per hotel room per night) collected by a governmental unit shall be transferred to the local tourism and convention bureau included in formation ordinance which shall use the moneys for improvements and services within the district. Includes requirements for annual reports; modification; renewal, and termination of the district; and contesting the formation of the district or transaction charges in court. Contains other provisions relating to the operation of the district. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging, the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act, and the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that individuals with a score of 29 or higher based on the determination of need (DON) assessment tool shall be eligible to receive services through the Community Care Program, services to prevent unnecessary or premature institutionalization, and services through the program of supportive living facilities. Further amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that on and after July 1, 2025, level of care eligibility criteria for home and community-based services for medically fragile and technology dependent children shall be no more restrictive than the level of care criteria in place on January 1, 2023. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to execute, relative to the nursing home prescreening project, written agreements with the Department of Human Services and the Department on Aging to effect, on and after July 1, 2025, an increase in the DON score threshold to 37 for applicants for institutional long term care, subject to federal approval. Provides that on and after July 1, 2025 but before July 1, 2027, continuation of a nursing facility stay that began on or before June 30, 2025 by a person with a DON score between 29 and 36 may be covered when such stay would be otherwise eligible under this Code, provided the nursing facility performs certain actions. Requires the Department to, by rule, set a maximum total number of individuals to be covered and other limits on utilization that it deems appropriate. Effective July 1, 2025.
Amends the Fair Food and Retail Delivery Act. Provides that beginning January 1, 2024, no third-party delivery service may charge a merchant a fee, commission, or charge per order through a digital network that totals more than 15% of the purchase price of the order, unless: (1) the third-party delivery service offers all merchants the option to obtain core delivery services for a fee, commission, or charge not to exceed 15% of the purchase price of the order without requiring the purchase of additional services; and (2) no later than November 1, 2023, the third-party delivery service notifies all merchants that have an existing contract with the third-party delivery service of this option. Defines "core delivery service". Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that, except for certain convictions for first degree murder, the court may, in its discretion, sentence a defendant who was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the offense to a sentence that is less than the applicable minimum determinate sentence of imprisonment for the offense authorized by the Code.
Amends the Secretary of State Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that General Election Day (rather than Columbus Day) is a State holiday for the purpose of extending date requirements in the Election Code. Makes similar changes in the Illinois Procurement Code, the School Code, and the Promissory Note and Bank Holiday Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires school districts with a population of 3,000 or more students to interview a minimum percentage of minority candidates for teaching positions. Exempts teaching positions within an English as a Second Language program from the requirement. Sets forth the formula for the school district to use to calculate the minimum percentage required. Provides that if the school district is unable to interview the required minimum percentage of minority candidates for 2 consecutive years, the school district must implement a program for school district employees interested in obtaining a Professional Educator License. Effective immediately.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. To provide for the safety of mental health care patients and staff members, provides for no fewer than 2 registered nurses and no fewer than 2 mental health technicians to be assigned to any unit at any time in the following State-operated hospitals: (1) the Alton Mental Health Center, at Alton; (2) the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center, at Chicago; (3) the Clyde L. Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center, at Anna; (4) the Elgin Mental Health Center, at Elgin; (5) the John J. Madden Mental Health Center, at Hines; and (6) the Andrew McFarland Mental Health Center, at Springfield. Provides that, if a registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned to 2 or more units, the calculation of the number of registered nurses or mental health technicians who are assigned to a unit shall be calculated for each registered nurse or mental health technician as one divided by the number of units to which the registered nurse or mental health technician is assigned. Effective immediately.