Creates the Electronic Cigarette Youth Protection Act. Provides that a person who sells an electronic cigarette without a proper license under the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995 shall be subject to specified additional civil penalties. Prohibits manufacturers, distributors, or retailers of electronic cigarettes from selling, offering for sale, or distributing any electronic cigarette with labeling or packaging intended to be attractive to persons under 21 years of age and provides criteria to determine whether packaging or labeling is attractive to such persons. Requires all labeling and packaging of electronic cigarettes to include nicotine warning statements. Provides that manufacturers, distributors, or retailers of electronic cigarettes shall not sell, advertise, or market an electronic cigarette unless specified conditions have been met. Prohibits: (1) electronic cigarettes from containing more than 25 milligrams per milliliter of nicotine; and (2) vitamin E acetate from being added to a flavored solution or substance intended for use with an electronic cigarette. Prohibits a retailer serving persons under 21 years of age from selling a flavored solution or substance intended for use with an electronic cigarette. Requires a retailer to perform age verification. Provides that failure to comply with the Act's requirements or prohibitions is punishable by a civil penalty. Provides that specified provisions do not apply to any noncommercial speech. Requires moneys collected from civil penalties to be deposited into the Common School Fund. Amends the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Persons under 21 Years of Age and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act. Provides that no person under 21 years of age shall possess any cigar, cigarette, smokeless tobacco, or tobacco in any of its forms. Provides penalties for violations. Effective immediately.
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Creates the COVID-19 Immunity Act. Provides that an individual, business, or unit of local government shall not be liable in a civil action claiming an injury from exposure or potential exposure to COVID-19 if the act or omission alleged to violate a duty of care of the individual, business, or unit of local government was in compliance or consistent with federal or State regulations, a presidential or gubernatorial executive order, or guidance applicable at the time of the alleged exposure. Provides that immunity does not apply to willful misconduct, reckless infliction of harm, or intentional infliction of harm. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Provides that beginning with the first payroll of the 103rd General Assembly, the compensation to be paid per year to members of the General Assembly, including additional sums payable per year to officers of the General Assembly, shall be paid at least monthly or may be paid semi-monthly at a member's request as agreed to by the Comptroller. Provides that members who resign before completing the entire term in office shall be compensated on a prorated basis. Provides that members completing the term of a vacancy shall be compensated on a prorated basis. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Regulation of Public Pension Funds Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Creates the Task Force on Public Pension Funds and Retirement Systems to study and make recommendations for changes to public pension funds and retirement systems that can reduce the burden on taxpayers and ensure that members of public pension funds and retirement systems are treated fairly in their retirement. Requires the Task Force to report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by October 31, 2021. Repeals the provisions on October 31, 2022. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Healthy Local Food Incentives Fund for the purposes set forth in subsection (d) of Section 12-4.50 of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Telehealth Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, in consultation with the appropriate advisory board, may adopt rules to clarify applicable services and administer the Act. Changes the definition of "health care professional" to include acupuncturists.
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that, for persons dying on or after January 1, 2022, the exclusion amount shall be the applicable exclusion amount calculated under Section 2010 of the Internal Revenue Code, including any deceased spousal unused exclusion amount (currently, the exclusion amount for Illinois estate tax purposes is $4,000,000). Effective immediately.
Opposes the reduction or elimination of the vendor's discount.
Amends the Reproductive Health Act. Provides that except in the case of a medical emergency, a health care professional shall not knowingly perform, induce, or attempt to perform an abortion upon a pregnant woman when the probable gestational age of her unborn child has been determined to be at least 20 weeks. Makes conforming changes.
Opposes a graduated income tax law in Illinois. Oppose the reconsideration by the Illinois General Assembly of any constitutional measure intended to yet again reopen the flat-rate income tax language of subsection (a) of Section 3 of Article IX of the Constitution of Illinois.