Rep. Mark Batinick

Amends the General Assembly Operations Act. Provides that no person may serve more than 10 consecutive years in any of the following leadership roles: Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and Minority Leader of the Senate. Provides that the limitations imposed by the amendatory Act apply to service beginning on and after the second Wednesday in January of 2023.

Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Provides that beginning January 1, 2023, the clerk of the circuit court must report to the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts and every 30 days thereafter a list of offenders in the clerk's circuit who were charged with a violation of the Deadly Weapons Article of the Criminal Code of 2012 and whether they were detained or released on pretrial release. Provides that the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts shall publish the information on a public database providing the offense type, date of the offense, and whether there was an order for detention or pretrial release. Provides that the offenders' names shall not be listed on the public database. Provides that the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts shall determine the manner in which the information is reported to the Office from the clerks. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in addition to other factors in which the court may deny a defendant pretrial release, the court may deny a defendant pretrial release if: (1) the defendant is charged with an offense that involves the discharge of a firearm; or (2) the defendant is charged with any felony offense listed in the Deadly Weapons Article of the Criminal Code of 2012 and has a prior conviction for a weapons offense. Effective immediately.

Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides for registration under the Act of a person who committed a violation or attempted violation of the unauthorized video recording and live video transmission offense if the court: (1) finds that the offense was sexually motivated as defined in the Sex Offender Management Board Act; and (2) in its discretion requires the person to register under the Act.

Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that a taxing district shall reduce its aggregate extension base for the purpose of lowering its limiting rate for future years upon referendum approval initiated by the submission of a petition by the voters of the district. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for an employer who hires a qualified employee to work at a location in the State. Sets forth the amount of the credit. Provides that the credit shall be increased if (i) the qualified employee is hired to work at a location in a disproportionately impacted area or (ii) on the date the qualified employee is hired, the qualified employee resides in a disproportionately impacted area. Limits the total amount of income tax credits that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may issue over the duration of the program. Provides that the term "qualified employee" means a resident of the State who is hired by the taxpayer to fill a full-time net new job and was unemployed as a result of COVID-19 prior to the date he or she was hired by the taxpayer. Provides that the term "qualified employee" does not include an individual who was furloughed by the taxpayer. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides for increased penalties for involuntary servitude if the victim was recruited, enticed, or obtained by any means from a shelter, safe house, or facility, including, but not limited to, a residential treatment center that serves runway youth, foster children, the homeless, or victims of trafficking, or those subjected to domestic violence or sexual assault. Provides that a person also commits the offense of involuntary sexual servitude of a minor when he or she knowingly recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, or obtains by any means, or attempts to recruit, entice, harbor, provide, or obtain by any means, another person under 18 years of age, knowing that the minor will engage in commercial sexual activity, a sexually-explicit performance, or the production of pornography, or causes or attempts to cause a minor to engage in one or more of those activities and the minor is under 18 years of age and was recruited, enticed, or obtained by any means from a shelter, safe house, or facility, including, but not limited to, a residential treatment center that serves runway youth, foster children, the homeless, or victims of trafficking, or those subjected to domestic violence or sexual assault. Provides that solicitation of a sexual act is a Class 4 felony and a second or subsequent offense is a Class 3 felony (rather than a Class A misdemeanor). Provides that solicitation of a sexual act from a person who is under 18 years of age or who is a person with a severe or profound intellectual disability is a Class 3 (rather than a Class 4) felony and a second or subsequent offense is a Class 2 felony.

Creates the Health Care Billing Equity Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall research, accept information on, and maintain a database of any and all billing information, billing codes, and CPT codes used to bill health care plans, providers of policies of health insurance, and individual patients for health care procedures carried out in this State. Provides that, effective on January 1, 2024, any health care bill that contains any element in which the charge upon an individual who has received care billed by health care plans or providers of policies of health insurance that exceeds the bill for the same element of health care when billed to individual patients is prohibited. Provides that the Department of Insurance and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall cooperate with the Department of Public Health to further the implementation of the Act. Creates the Health Care Billing Equity Act Disciplinary Committee to study the implementation of the Act and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly, no later than March 31, 2023, on ways and means to discipline health care licensees who fail to comply with the requirements of the Act. Contains other provisions. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a company authorized to do business in this State or accredited by the State to issue policies of health insurance must disclose to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services any and all CPT codes and billing codes used by health care providers to bill insurers for health care services rendered. Effective immediately.

Proposes to amend the Suffrage and Elections Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides and establishes procedures for the recall of all State Executive Branch officers, legislative leaders, the Auditor General, members of the General Assembly, and local government officials. Makes changes to the procedures for the recall of the Governor. Effective upon being declared adopted.

Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that a unit of local government or school district with an operating budget of $1,000,000 or more shall maintain an Internet website and post to its website for the current calendar or fiscal year specified information. Provides that the information required to be posted must be easily accessible from the unit of local government's or school district's website home page and searchable. Provides penalties for noncompliance. Provides that no home rule unit may adopt posting requirements that are less restrictive than those provided in the Act. Provides that all local records required to be posted shall remain posted on the entity's website, or subsequent websites, for 10 years. Exempts the School District of the Department of Juvenile Justice. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides an exemption from inspection and copying of any record or information that a unit of local government or school district maintains an electronic copy of on its Internet website in order to comply with the Open Meetings Act. Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act, the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal shall have the capability to compile and update its database with information received from all school districts and units of local government. Authorizes the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal to provide direct access to information compiled under specified provisions of the Open Meetings Act. Provides an exempt mandate provision. Provides a severability clause. Effective immediately.

Creates the COVID-19 Workplace Vaccination Program Limitation Act. Provides that it is unlawful for an employer in the State of Illinois to create, implement, or otherwise enforce a workplace vaccination program that requires any employee to demonstrate to the employer that he or she has received a vaccine that was approved under emergency use authorization by the United States Food and Drug Administration. Provides for repeal of the Act on January 1, 2023. Effective immediately.