Rep. Larry Walsh

Creates the Community Services Impact Note Act. Provides that every bill, except those making a direct appropriation, that creates a State mandate on privately owned or operated facilities and community service providers funded through the Department of Human Services for the purpose of serving individuals with developmental disabilities and mental illness, shall have prepared for it prior to second reading in the house of introduction a brief explanatory statement or note that shall include a reliable estimate of the probable impact of its provisions on those facilities and providers and the probable impact that the bill will have upon the Department's annual budget. Provides that these statements or notes shall be known as "community services impact notes". Sets forth provisions concerning the preparation of the written statements by the Department of Human Services, votes on the necessity of community services impact notes, contents of a note, note comments and worksheets, committee appearances, amendments, and confidentiality. Effective immediately.

Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning penalties.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Adds to the mortgage foreclosure provisions a definition of "abandoned residential property". Provides requirement and procedures for an expedited judgment and sale of abandoned residential property. Provides that the period of redemption ends for abandoned residential property on the date of the judgment confirming the judicial sale. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Confidentiality Act. Adds the Departments of Corrections and Juvenile Justice to the government officials or agencies to which there can be disclosure of the mental health records of a person who received services or who was evaluated, investigated, or prosecuted pursuant to the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, without the consent of the person or the treatment provider involved. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal shall provide direct access to a database of the State's annual workforce characteristics, compensation, and employee mobility, organized searchably by State agency, by job classification, by union, and in aggregate.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Includes disabled persons within the provisions granting an assessment freeze homestead exemption to senior citizens and changes the title of the exemption to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that every person who has been twice convicted in any state or federal court of a felony offense that contains the same element of the intentional or knowing infliction of great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement as the felony offense for which the person is now to be sentenced and the current offense was committed after the 2 prior convictions, shall be adjudged an habitual violent offender. Provides that, except when the death penalty is imposed, anyone adjudged a habitual violent offender shall be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment.

Recognizes the 2013 celebration of Martin Luther King Day.

Congratulates Bette Reed on her retirement from Cornerstone Services, Inc.

Congratulates Ron Schweizer on the occasion of his retirement as President of the Elwood Fire Protection District Board and thanks him for his 52 years of service with the Elwood Fire Protection District.