Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that if an applicant for a Firearm Owner's Identification Card: (1) is 18 years of age or older but under 21 years of age, (2) is not an active duty member of the United States Armed Forces, and (3) does not have a parent or legal guardian to give written consent to his or her application, he or she must provide 2 signed, dated, and notarized personal references regarding his or her suitability to possess firearms and a signed, dated, and notarized statement detailing the reasons he or she does not have a parent or legal guardian. Provides that, if applicable, the applicant must provide death certificates or any applicable court orders regarding his or her circumstances resulting in his or her lack of a parent or legal guardian.
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Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Requires specified personnel of a child care facility to be present at the open or close of the facility. Provides that early childhood teachers shall meet specified qualifications. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall adopt rules on the qualifications of persons directly responsible for the care and welfare of children served in accordance with the qualifications for early childhood teachers. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Prohibits a life insurance company from denying coverage to an individual, limiting the amount, extent, or kind of coverage available to the individual, or charging an individual or group to which the individual belongs a different rate solely because the individual has been prescribed or has obtained through a standing order an opioid antagonist.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a unit of local government, including a home rule unit, may not impose a tax, fee, or other assessment other than a retailers' occupation tax rate for goods on a firearm, firearm attachment, or firearm ammunition. Provides that the provisions of any ordinance or resolution, in effect or adopted, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act by any unit of local government, including a home rule unit, that imposes a tax, fee, or other assessment other a retailers' occupation tax rate for goods on a firearm, firearm attachment, or firearm ammunition are invalid and void. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Deletes language requiring certain applicants for temporary visitor's driver's licenses to demonstrate that they are ineligible to obtain a social security number. Provides that such applicants must present documentation, issued by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, authorizing the person's entry into (instead of "presence in") this country. Provides that a temporary visitor's driver's license, issued to a person who presents documentation from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services authorizing the person's presence in this country, is valid for 3 years (rather than 3 years or for the period of time the individual is authorized to remain in this country, whichever ends sooner). Effective immediately.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that, except as otherwise provided by law, the Director of State Police shall act upon a request for relief from the denial, revocation, or seizure of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card within 60 business days of receipt of documentation as required by the Director from the person whose application for a Firearm Owner's Identification Card has been denied or whose Firearm Owner's Identification Card has been revoked or seized.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Extends the repeal date of the Cable and Video Competition Law of 2007 from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2025. Extends the expiration date of Illinois Commerce Commission authorizations to provide cable and video services from December 31, 2023 to December 31, 2028. Extends the repeal date of the Universal Telephone Service Protection Law of 1985 from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2025. Effective immediately.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act, the State Employee Indemnification Act, the Illinois Identification Card Act, the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, the Peace Officer Fire Investigation Act, the Illinois Police Training Act, the Uniform Crime Reporting Act, the Police and Community Relations Improvement Act, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Illinois Insurance Code, the Child Care Act of 1969, the Liquor Control Act of 1934, the Suicide Prevention, Education, and Treatment Act, the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act, the Alternate Fuels Act, the Burn Injury Reporting Act, the Illinois Public Health and Safety Animal Population Control Act, the Illinois Highway Code, the Toll Highway Act, the Roadside Memorial Act, the Illinois Vehicle Code, the Child Passenger Protection Act, the Renter's Financial Responsibility and Protection Act, the Transportation Network Providers Act, the Criminal Code of 2012, the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act, the Unified Code of Corrections, the Cannabis and Controlled Substances Tort Claims Act, the Crime Victims Compensation Act, and the Automotive Collision Repair Act. Replaces the term "accident", in relation to automobiles, motor vehicles, and traffic accidents, with the term "crash". Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Repeals a Section providing authority to use automated traffic law enforcement systems at intersections in which cameras are used to photograph or video record a motor vehicle's failure to stop and yield as required by traffic control signals. Imposes limits on the power of local governments to use automated speed enforcement systems to provide recorded images of a motor vehicle for the purpose of recording its speed. Denies home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement from the State. Makes conforming and other technical changes.
Declares April 2020 as Ambucs Appreciation Month in the State of Illinois.