States the belief that all presidential nominees should be required to undergo a standardized medical examination including a mental health evaluation, and to publicly disclose the results before the election.
Creates the Immigration Safe Zones Act. Provides that schools, medical treatment and health care facilities, and places of worship may not grant access to State and local law enforcement agencies that have entered into an agreement with United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement or undertake other joint efforts with federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies to investigate, detain, or arrest individuals for violation of federal immigration law, unless a court has issued a warrant and appropriate personnel have reviewed that warrant and have consented to access or unless required by law and appropriate personnel have consented. Prohibits employees of elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education from asking about a student's immigration status or that of the student's family members, with exceptions. Requires the Department of Human Services to provide training or make training available to teachers, administrators, and other staff of elementary and secondary schools, as well as to medical treatment and health care facilities, on how to deal with immigration issues and how to notify families of those issues in multiple languages. Requires appropriate personnel of a facility to develop a plan to provide assistance, information, and safety to persons who are concerned about the government's immigration enforcement efforts. Provides for the removal of certain file information by State agencies, public schools, and public institutions of higher education. Contains a severability clause. Effective immediately.
Amends the Jury Act. Provides that, except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, no person who is qualified and able to serve as a juror may be excluded from jury service in any court of this State on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, marital status, order of protection status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or unfavorable discharge from military service.
Amends the School Code. In a Section concerning kindergartens, provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school board must establish a kindergarten with full-day attendance (instead of allowing a school board to establish a kindergarten with half-day attendance or with full-day attendance); makes related changes. Repeals another Section concerning kindergartens on July 1, 2019. Effective immediately.
Recognizes Dr. Steven M. Rock for his extraordinary efforts in serving the State of Illinois and its higher-education community.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Creates the Municipal Gas Use Tax Law. Provides that beginning January 1, 2019, a municipality may impose a self-assessing purchaser tax rate of the lower of 2.4 cents per therm or 5% of the purchase price for the privilege of using in the municipality gas obtained in a purchase of out-of-state gas. Provides that, in the alternative, a purchaser may elect for a tax of 2.4 cents per therm that a delivering supplier maintaining a place of business in the State collects from the purchaser. Provides for registration requirements for self-assessing purchasers and delivering suppliers. Includes procedures for self-assessing purchasers and delivering suppliers to submit returns and to remit the tax to the Department of Revenue. Effective January 1, 2019.
Amends the Presumptively Void Transfers Article of the Probate Act of 1975. Replaces references to the term "transfer instrument" with "transfer". Changes the definitions of "family member" and "transfer". Provides that if the court determines the transferor lacked the requisite capacity to convey, the entire transfer instrument shall be deemed void. Provides that if the property in question is an interest in real property, a purchaser or mortgagee for value and without notice, before the recordation of a lis pendens for an action, shall take free and clear of the action. Provides that a holder of property shall not be liable for distributing or releasing the property to the transferee if the distribution or release occurs prior to the holder being made a party to an action challenging the transfer. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that City of Chicago's Commission on Human Relations shall: (1) require all administrative hearing officers and all Commissioners who make decisions and issue rulings on pending cases to be attorneys licensed to practice law in this State; (2) follow all applicable federal, State, and local laws and regulations, including all applicable legal precedent in court decisions; and (3) establish an administrative system that ensures that administrative hearing officers are impartial when hearing cases that come before the commission. Limits home rule powers.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning block grants for school districts other than the Chicago school district.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Board of Education.
