Creates the Domestic Violence Task Force Act. Creates the Domestic Violence Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall: (1) conduct a comprehensive review of the process, operation, and enforcement of current domestic violence laws across the State; (2) identify gaps in the process, operation, and enforcement of those laws; (3) develop recommendations to address those gaps; (4) establish a framework for specialized protective networks for victims, treatment options for victims and offenders, and specialty courts for the accumulation of specialized domestic violence skills for courts; and (5) review the need for special consideration for conditions of bail in cases involving domestic violence within the ongoing changes brought on bail reform. Establishes membership and appointment of the Task Force. Provides that the Attorney General shall provide administrative support to the Task Force. Provides that the Attorney General, or the Attorney General's designee, shall be the chair of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall review available research, best practices, and effective interventions to formulate recommendations. Provides that the Task Force shall produce a report detailing the Task Force's findings and recommendations. Provides that the Task Force shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before September 1, 2022. Repeals the Act on September 1, 2027. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Election Code. Prohibits a member of the State Board of Elections, or a spouse of a member, from serving as an officer of a political committee or directing the actions of or the funds of a political committee. Requires any member of the State Board of Elections, prior to appointment to the State Board of Elections, to dissolve any political committee associated with the member as a candidate for office. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Provides that a member of the General Assembly, his or her spouse, and any immediate family member living with that member of the General Assembly shall not, for compensation: (1) act as a lobbyist or otherwise act in a capacity that would require that person to register as a lobbyist; or (2) communicate with any official of the executive or legislative branch of State government or any official of any unit of local government or school district for the ultimate purpose of influencing any executive, legislative, or administrative action. Provides that any person who violates the provisions commits a Class A misdemeanor and, if a member of the General Assembly, shall forfeit his or her office. Defines terms. Repeals current provisions banning members of the General Assembly from lobbying. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate and Chicago Teacher Articles of the Illinois Pension Code to require school districts to pay the employer normal cost of benefits beginning in fiscal year 2021. Amends the State Pension Funds Continuing Appropriation Act to appropriate from the Common School Fund to the State Board of Education, on a continuing annual basis beginning with fiscal year 2021, the amount certified as the employer normal cost, to be distributed by the State Board of Education under the evidence-based funding formula provisions of the School Code. Amends the evidence-based funding formula provisions of the School Code to make changes concerning the employee benefit investments calculation and the Base Funding Minimum calculation. Effective immediately.
Urges Governor JB Pritzker to instruct the Illinois Department of Corrections to comply with federal law and allow the DOC to continue to work with ICE and local law enforcement agencies.
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the amendatory Act shall constitute an irrevocable continuing appropriation of all amounts necessary for the implementation the Department of State Police's Division of Forensic Services and the irrevocable and continuing authority for the Department and the State Treasurer to make the necessary transfers for that purpose. Effective immediately.
Amends the Disposal of Refuse, Garbage and Ashes Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may not enter into a contract or franchise under the Division exclusively with one provider of disposal services or provide for an exclusive method or methods for the disposition of garbage, refuse, or ashes if the exclusive method or methods may displace competition or may have an anti-competitive effect. Limits home rule powers. Makes conforming changes.
Creates the Regulatory Sandbox Act. Creates the regulatory sandbox to enable persons to obtain limited access to the Illinois marketplace in order to test innovations in financial products or services. Provides requirements for approval to enter the regulatory sandbox, the application fee, and approval or denial time. Provides requirements for operating an innovation in the regulatory sandbox and extending a test period. Contains provisions regarding rules and judicial review of the administration of this Act. Makes conforming changes in the State Finance Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Assembly Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that no person first elected or appointed to the General Assembly on or after November 3, 2020 shall be eligible to become a participant in the General Assembly Retirement System.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Changes the definition of "gambling device" to include any vending or other electronic machine or device, including, without limitation, a machine or device that awards credits and contains a circuit, meter, or switch capable of removing and recording the removal of credits that offers a person entry into any contest, competition, sweepstakes, scheme, plan, or other selection process that involves or is dependent upon an element of chance for which the person may receive a gift, award, or other item or service of value if that offer is incidental to or results from: (A) the purchase of an item or service of value; or (B) the purchase or gratuitous receipt of a coupon, voucher, certificate, or other similar credit that can be redeemed for or applied towards an item or service of value from such machine or device or elsewhere. Provides that participants in a game of skill or chance where money or other things of value can be won but no payment or purchase is required to participate shall not be convicted of gambling except where participation in such game of skill or chance is accomplished using a gambling device prohibited by these changes to the definition. Further provides that a gambling offense involving such a gambling device is a Class 4 felony. Amends the Video Gaming Act. Removes a provision allowing for the use of a game device without a license if the game device is used in an activity that is not gambling under the Criminal Code of 2012. Effective immediately.