Rep. Emily McAsey

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Creates the Tenants Radon Protection Act. Provides that before a lease is signed, a landlord shall provide to each tenant in a dwelling unit any records or reports pertaining to radon concentrations within the dwelling unit that indicate a radon hazard. Provides that if a tenant performs a radon test, the tenant shall provide to the landlord the test result within 10 days after receiving the result. Provides that before a lease is signed a landlord shall furnish each prospective tenant with a prescribed radon hazard disclosure form. Provides that nothing implies an obligation on a landlord or tenant to conduct any radon testing. Provides that a lease may be terminated under specified circumstances involving radon hazards. Provides that this is a limitation on home rule powers. Amends the Illinois Radon Awareness Act. Repeals a provision requiring landlords to give certain disclosures to tenants. Effective January 1, 2017.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning county superintendents.

Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that when a person is charged with a violation of an order of protection or when a person is charged with domestic battery, aggravated domestic battery, kidnapping, aggravated kidnaping, unlawful restraint, aggravated unlawful restraint, stalking, aggravated stalking, cyberstalking, harassment by telephone, harassment through electronic communications, or an attempt to commit first degree murder committed against an intimate partner regardless whether an order of protection has been issued against the person and the court orders the respondent to undergo a risk assessment, a pretrial service agency or probation department shall have access to victim interviews conducted by law enforcement agencies and access for a direct interview of the victim for the purpose of determining bail. Provides that a probation officer shall not have access to any confidential communications protected the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 concerning communications between domestic violence counselors and victims. Provides that prior to any direct interview of a victim by a probation department of pretrial services agency, a victim must be informed of his or her right to decline the interview by the official who is to conduct the interview. Provides that communications between a domestic violence victim and the probation department or pretrial services agency are protected under the Code of Civil Procedure.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

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 municipality served by the utility. Provides that the utility shall certify the accuracy of the information provided in the reports. Effective immediately.

Amends the Trusts and Trustees Act. Provides that instead of furnishing a copy of the trust instrument to a person other than the beneficiary, the trustee may furnish to the person a certification of trust containing specified information. Provides that a certification of trust may be signed or otherwise authenticated by any trustee and need not contain the dispositive terms of the trust. Includes other provisions governing the form and content of the certification of trust. Contains provisions concerning persons who act in reliance upon a certification of trust. Provides that the new provisions do not limit the right of a person to obtain a copy of the trust instrument in a judicial proceeding concerning the trust. Effective immediately.