Rep. Ryan Spain

Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that provisions of the Code concerning erroneous homestead exemptions apply to all counties (currently, only counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants). Contains provisions concerning an amnesty period in counties with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants for taxpayers who owe property taxes due to an erroneous homestead exemption.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds provisions concerning pricing of water assets, meaning a for profit 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 Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall be responsible for collecting any use or occupation taxes imposed by a unit of local government on online sales of tangible personal property. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that any person who drives or is in actual control of a motor vehicle upon the public highways of this State and who has been involved in a fatal motor vehicle accident shall be deemed to have given consent, regardless of whether an arrest takes place, to tests of blood, breath, other bodily substance, or urine to detect alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds. Provides that both a test of the concentration of alcohol in the person's breath and a test of blood, other bodily substance, or urine for the purpose of determining the content of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds of the person's blood shall be administered. Provides that the required tests be conducted within one hour of the arrival of law enforcement personnel at the scene of the accident or, if the driver has fled the scene of the accident, within one hour of apprehending the driver.

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

Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that no tax shall be imposed under the Act for persons dying on or after the effective date or for transfers made on or after the effective date.

Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2017, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code, including any deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that municipalities may waive the requirement that a person may not operate a non-highway vehicle unless he or she has a valid driver's license issued in his or her name for golf cart owners upon municipality approved roads.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if the county board of a county with fewer than 3,000,000 inhabitants passes an ordinance providing that provisions of the Code concerning erroneous homestead exemptions shall apply in that county, then those provisions shall apply in that county beginning in the first tax year to occur after the effective date of the ordinance. Contains provisions concerning an amnesty period for those counties.