Rep. Ryan Spain

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that, on April 1 of each year beginning the year after the effective date of the amendatory Act, privately held public water utilities shall provide annual reports to the Illinois Commerce Commission with specified information for each district served by the utility. Provides that privately held public water utilities shall provide to the local emergency services disaster agency any reports discussing the condition of the system in each district for the previous calendar year with information relevant to public safety. Provides that the utilities shall certify the accuracy of the information provided in the reports. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an employer is not chargeable for benefit charges that result from the payment of benefits to an individual if the payments were the result of the individual voluntarily leaving work to participate in certain training programs. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Creates the Downstate Police Pension Investment Board and the Downstate Firefighter Pension Investment Board. Moves the investment authority of downstate police and firefighter pension funds to those Investment Boards. Includes provisions relating to the transfer and investment of the affected assets, auditing and reporting requirements, and the operation and administration of the Investment Boards. Reduces the amount of training required for trustees of those pension funds. Changes all downstate police and firefighter pension funds to a fiscal year beginning May 1. Doubles the annual compliance fee paid by the funds to the Department of Insurance. Requires the Department of Insurance to impose penalties of up to $2,000 per day for noncompliance with certain provisions relating to the transfer of investment assets. Makes conforming and other changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that an employer with fewer than 25 employees shall make returns for withholding taxes annually. Effective immediately.

Urges the Illinois Department of Transportation to consider that a higher percentage of all new revenues and new transportation investments be distributed for local roads.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds provisions concerning pricing of water assets, meaning a water utility or water distribution company and its tangible and intangible properties, by an Illinois governmental purchaser. Provides that the determination of value or price for the purchase or acquisition of water assets by the Illinois governmental purchaser: may not distinguish, penalize, or increase the value or price to be paid by an Illinois governmental purchaser based on specified characteristics of the purchaser; or may not use as a factor any excess of replacement cost new minus depreciation over the value of price based on fair market value of the water assets, as determined by what a willing buyer in the private sector would value, price, or pay for the water assets. Provides for application of the provisions to contracts already in place. Contains a severability clause. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited transactions.

Creates the Innovations for Transportation Infrastructure Act. Contains a statement of legislative policy. Defines terms. Adds provisions governing: authorization of project delivery methods; preconditions to commencement of procurement; procurement; evaluation and selection of proposals; project records; confidentiality; public disclosure; design-build contracts; construction manager/general contractor contracts; funding and financing; minority, disadvantaged, and women-owned businesses; acquisition of property; federal requirements; powers of the Department of Transportation and the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority; and rulemaking. Makes corresponding changes in the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois; the Illinois Finance Authority Act; the Illinois Procurement Code; the Public Construction Bond Act; the Employment of Illinois Workers on Public Works Act; the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act; the Toll Highway Act; the Eminent Domain Act; and the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning official Acts of the Authority, meetings of the Authority and the Advisory Councils, and audits by the Auditor General.