Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a Division of the Code concerning the assessment of wind energy devices applies through assessment year 2021 (instead of 2016). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Seed Law. Provides that specified provisions do not apply to seed distributed within this State by means of noncommercial, interpersonal seed sharing activities, including, but not limited to, seed libraries, seed exchanges, or other formal or informal seed sharing activities. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State's Attorneys' representation of the State in court proceedings.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that a community college district board of trustees may, in the board's discretion, suspend, expel, or remove a student for any act of sexual abuse, as defined in certain provisions of the Criminal Code of 2012, while enrolled at the community college, regardless of whether the act occurred on or off the community college campus or whether the act is related to a college activity or college attendance.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Includes highways on public school property in the classification of non-designated highways. Requires vehicles to stop before meeting or overtaking, from either direction, any school bus stopped on a public school highway.
Amends the School Code. Provides that children and adolescents who are registered in the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services database before their 17th birthday shall be placed higher on the waiting list than adolescents who are registered on or after their 17th birthday within the same level of priority. Requires the State Board of Education and the Department of Human Services to issue an annual report detailing the number of students who have enrolled in the database broken down by age and grade level. Requires the report to be made available online.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that certificates of title issued by the Secretary of State shall contain an expiration date of one calendar year after the end of the term of the lien and an identification number corresponding to the lienholder, to go along with the names and addresses of any lienholders. Provides that the corresponding identification number shall appear on the certificate of title in order for the Secretary to inform the lienholder that the Secretary has received a lien release for a particular motor vehicle. Provides that an expiration date of up to one calendar year after a perfected security interest in a motor vehicle expires shall be included on each certificate of title issued in which a lienholder has perfected a security interest in the motor vehicle. Provides that if the recorded lienholder has not reaffirmed the lien by applying for a corrected title with a new expiration date before the expiration date on the original certificate of title, then the owner of the motor vehicle may apply for a corrected certificate of title without the lienholder appearing on the certificate of title. Provides that beginning with the 2017 registration year, permanent vehicle registration plates shall be issued, for a one time fee of $8.00, to vehicles that do not require a school bus driver permit to operate, and are owned by a public school district from grades K-12 or a public community college. Provides that beginning with the 2017 registration year, permanent vehicle registration plates shall be issued, for a one time fee of $8.00, to vehicles of the first division or vehicles of the second division weighing not more than 8,000 pounds that are owned by a medical facility or hospital of a municipality, county, or township. Effective immediately.
Creates the Child Bereavement Leave Act and amends the State Finance Act. Provides that an employee may use specified amounts of bereavement leave to grieve the death of the employee's child, attend services in relation to the death of the employee's child, or make arrangements necessitated by the death of the employee's child. Provides for enforcement by the Department of Labor. Provides for civil penalties. Authorizes the Attorney General to collect penalties. Creates the Child Bereavement Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
