Creates the Short-Term Rental Act. Provides that units of local government may not enact or enforce an ordinance, regulation, or plan that has the express or practical effect of prohibiting short-term rentals. Restricts the use of or regulation of short-term rentals based on their classification, use, or occupancy. Allows the regulation of short-term rentals to protect public health, safety, sanitation, traffic control, solid or hazardous waste control, pollution control, and other specified circumstances. Provides that a unit of local government may not tax a short-term rental marketplace or require them to collect taxes from occupants, but the short-term rental marketplace may voluntarily apply, calculate, collect, and remit any tax imposed by the unit of local government on the owner or occupant of a short-term rental. Limits home rule powers. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the "Medicaid" Article.
Amends the State Police Act. Provides that on and after July 1, 2019, the Director of State Police, in conjunction with the State Police Merit Board, shall annually appoint between one and 3 cadet classes with a goal of a minimum of 50 cadets per class. Provides that the appointments shall continue until the Department of State Police's total sworn headcount meets or exceeds 2,500 sworn State Police officers. Provides that the Governor, in consultation with the General Assembly and the Director of State Police, shall review every 4 years, beginning 4 years after the effective date of the bill, the number of State Police officers. Provides that the Director, in conjunction with the Department of State Police Merit Board, shall add State Police officers to the Department as needed to maintain the allowable number of State Police officers.
Amends the Capital Development Board Act. Provides that the Capital Development Board has the power to construct and repair, or to contract for and supervise the construction and repair of, buildings under the control or for the use of any public institution of higher education when non-appropriated funds are used and both the Capital Development Board and the public institution of higher education mutually agree to that construction or supervision. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. Provides continuing education requirements for a private detective and a registered private detective employee in order to renew a license. Lists individuals who are exempt from the continuing education requirements. Provides criteria for continuing education courses, sponsors, and programs. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may adopt rules to implement the provisions (rather than adopt rules for continuing education). Effective immediately.
Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Includes the purpose of ownership and operation of a public wastewater service or system on a mutual or cooperative basis to the list of purposes for which a not-for-profit corporation may be organized under the Act. Exempts any director of a corporation that is organized for the purpose of (i) operating water supply facilities for drinking and general domestic use on a mutual or cooperative basis or (ii) ownership and operation of a public wastewater service or system on a mutual or cooperative basis from liability for damages resulting from the exercise of judgment or discretion in connection with his or her duties or responsibilities, with certain exceptions.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that mobile specialty care providers that serve children enrolled in a managed care organization shall not be required to obtain prior authorization in order to receive reimbursement for all services within the normal scope of chronic disease management, including, but not limited to, asthma, diabetes, obesity, and reproductive health. Requires mobile specialty care providers to make all reasonable attempts, as defined by rule of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to connect the children they serve to their primary care physician or an appropriate hospital defined as a Safety-Net Hospital under the Code to maintain a proper medical home. Defines "mobile specialty care provider". Requires the Department to adopt any rules necessary to implement these provisions. Effective July 1, 2017.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Extends from January 1, 2018 to January 1, 2023, the date of the inoperability of the eavesdropping exemption that provides with prior request to and written or verbal approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a qualified offense as defined in the exemption. Effective immediately.