Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Revenue to prepare an annual report listing all revenue and fee collections and distributions and all expenditures of the Department for the prior fiscal year. Provides that, no later than October 1 of each year, the Department must submit the annual report to the Governor and the General Assembly and make an electronic copy of the report available on its Internet website. Effective immediately.

Creates the Autism Spectrum Disorders Reporting Act. Provides that a qualified professional who diagnoses any individual who resides in Illinois with an autism spectrum disorder shall report within 30 days the existence of an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis along with all such additional information as determined in rules promulgated pursuant to the Act. Provides that the reports shall be designated an autism spectrum disorder report and shall contain information which the Director of Public Health considers necessary to identify, locate, and investigate the occurrence, frequency, incidence, cause, effect, and prognosis of autism spectrum disorder, and other relevant data and findings. Provides that the Department of Public Health may enter into contracts with individuals, corporations, hospitals, universities, not-for-profit corporations, governmental entities or other organizations whereby such individuals, organizations or agencies agree to provide assistance in the compilation of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Registry or to conduct research on behalf of the Department of Public Health consistent with the purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, if a defendant is convicted of aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds because his or her DUI violation was the cause of the death of one or more persons, the defendant shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment, unless the court determines that extraordinary circumstances exist and require probation.

Amends the State Employment Records Act. Provides that each State agency shall include in its annual report a description of the agency's Hispanic employment plan and its bilingual employment plan; the financial data from the most recent fiscal year about the expenditures for the Hispanic and bilingual plans; the effectiveness of the plans, programs, methods, or strategies developed by the agency to meet the purpose of the Act; reports or information about the agency's Hispanic and bilingual programs that the agency received from the Department of Human Rights, Department of Central Management Services, the Auditor General, or the Governor; information about the agency's studies and monitoring success about the increase of Hispanics and bilingual persons at the supervisory, technical, professional, and managerial levels; and information about the agency's budget allocations for the Hispanic and bilingual employment programs.

Creates the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to engage in the manufacture of methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated manufacture of methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver methamphetamine precursors or a substance containing methamphetamine precursors with the intent that they or it be used to manufacture methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to engage in the possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to possess methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to dispose of methamphetamine manufacturing waste. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to deliver or possess with intent to deliver methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver anhydrous ammonia in an unauthorized container. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Repeals the provision prohibiting tampering with anhydrous ammonia equipment, containers, and facilities. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Eliminates from the Act provisions relating to the illegal manufacture, delivery, and possession of methamphetamine and relating to the possession of methamphetamine manufacturing chemicals. Effective 30 days after becoming law.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that State benefits fraud is a Class 3 felony if $300 or less is obtained and a Class 2 felony if more than $300 is obtained (rather than a Class 4 felony if the amount of benefits obtained is $300 or less and a Class 3 felony if more than $300 is obtained) if a person knowingly misrepresents oneself as a veteran or as a dependent of a veteran with the intent of obtaining benefits or privileges provided by the State or its political subdivisions to veterans or their dependents.

Amends the Election Code. Requires each public university and college in Illinois, at the beginning of each academic year, to ask each student who is an Illinois registered voter if the student wishes to change his or her voter registration address. If so, requires the school to submit those changes to the appropriate election authorities electronically. Requires election authorities to accept such changes of student address and waives any signature requirement for a change of address with respect to those students.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that persons who were engaged in active military or naval service of the United States for at least one year (now, at any time during certain stated periods) and who were honorably discharged shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, positions, and places of employment in the classified service of a municipality that is subject to Division 1 of the Code. Provides that the municipality's civil service commission shall give preference points for original appointments to qualified veterans, whose names appear on any register of eligibles resulting from a civil service entrance exam, by adding 5 points to their final grade averages. Provides that qualified veterans shall be preferred for promotional civil service appointments and that the preference that the qualified veterans will receive shall be seven-tenths of one point for each 6 months or fraction thereof of active military or naval service not exceeding 30 months (now, no requirement that the service be active). Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Township Code. Provides that a township with an open space plan may receive and retain funds in surplus of the amount actually necessary to maintain that township's open spaces. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the State's Attorney, or a person designated in writing or by law to act for the State's Attorney and to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or disability, may authorize, in writing, an ex parte application to the chief judge of a court of competent jurisdiction for an order authorizing the interception of a private communication (rather than a private oral communication) in specified cases. Effective immediately.