Urges the Illinois State Board of Education to establish and manage a program designating Purple Star Schools in Illinois.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that any member of the General Assembly who takes office on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act shall not, within a 2-year period immediately following termination of the member's most recent term of office, register as a lobbyist and engage in lobbying with members of the General Assembly. Effective immediately.
Opposes a graduated income tax law in Illinois. Oppose the reconsideration by the Illinois General Assembly of any constitutional measure intended to yet again reopen the flat-rate income tax language of subsection (a) of Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution of Illinois.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Repeals the Commission on the Elimination of Poverty Act. Effective July 1, 2021.
Appropriates $1 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Employer Innovation Fund. Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that in addition to other specified filings of economic interests, persons holding elective office in the Executive Branch of State government, persons serving as the head of a department of State government, and members of a Commission or Board created by the Illinois Constitution shall be required to file, on a quarterly basis, a statement regarding specified ownership interest in any entity doing business in the State of Illinois. Provides that such persons shall file the required statement on or before February 1, May 1, August 1, and November 1 of each year. Requires the Secretary of State to provide notice on or before January 1 of each year of the requirement to file the specified statement of economic interests on a quarterly basis. Makes other changes.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Office of the Apprenticeship Coordinator within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to implement programs and strategies related to apprenticeships and to provide assistance to individuals and groups in the State that have interest in or are qualified to be placed in an apprenticeship program. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to create a credit for qualified apprentices.
Amends the College Campus Press Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Urges the Governor and the Illinois Department of Revenue to explore administrative or legislative options that will allow Illinois residents to voluntarily contribute any amount in excess of what they are required to pay the State of Illinois under Illinois income tax laws.
