Sen. Emil Jones

Creates the Flavored Electronic Cigarette Ban Act. Prohibits the sale, offering for sale, or possession with intent to sell of any flavored electronic cigarette or related flavor product. Provides an exception for products that have obtained a tobacco product clearance order. Prohibits the ordering or purchasing or shipping of a flavored electronic cigarette or related flavor product to any person in this State. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall enforce the Act and may adopt rules or guidelines for the implementation and enforcement of the Act. Amends the Cigarette Tax Act, the Cigarette Use Tax Act, and the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995. Permits the Department of Revenue to suspend the licenses of entities licensed under those Acts that violate the Flavored Electronic Cigarette Ban Act. Amends the Prevention of Cigarette Sales to Persons under 21 Years of Age Act. Refers to cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, and related flavor products (instead of only cigarettes) in various defined terms. Includes electronic cigarettes and related flavor products in provisions regarding unlawful shipment or transportation of cigarettes. Effective June 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 Nurse Practice Act. Provides that registered professional nursing practice is a scientific process founded on a professional body of knowledge; it is a learned profession based on the understanding of the human condition across the life span and environment and includes all nursing specialties and means the performance of any nursing act based upon professional knowledge, judgment, and skills acquired by means of completion of an approved professional nursing education program. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate nursing interventions and tasks (rather than nursing interventions) to other registered professional nurses and licensed practical nurses based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate tasks to unlicensed personnel based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that a registered professional nurse is prohibited from delegating work requiring nursing knowledge, assessment, judgment, inference, decision making (including medication administration), the development of a plan of care, and the evaluation of a plan of care to unlicensed non-nurse personnel. Removes provisions concerning delegation of nursing interventions and administration of medications in community-based or in-home care settings. Makes other changes. Effective August 1, 2021.

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 Counties Code. Removes language that provides that: if a township located within a county with a population of less than 600,000 has a plan commission and the plan commission objects to the proposed zoning of property in the unincorporated areas of the township, the township board of trustees may submit its written objections to the county board within 30 days after the submission of a proposed zoning ordinance or resolution by the County Zoning Commission to the county board; and, in such case, the county board shall not adopt zoning provisions which affect the unincorporated areas of the township, except by the favorable vote of 3/4 of all the members of the county board.

Amends the Counties Code. In provisions regarding additional duties of county auditors in counties of 200,000 population or less (currently, 275,000 population or less), provides that the following duties are permissive rather than mandatory: being the general accountant of the county and keeping its general accounts; and devising and installing a system of financial records in the offices and divisions of the county. Effective immediately.

Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 from January 1, 2022 to January 1, 2032. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Chicago Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Removes an age limitation on eligibility for a refund of contributions. Deletes language providing that a policeman may receive a refund until the annuity to which he is entitled has been fixed. Provides that any refund under the Article shall be calculated based on the policeman's contributions to the fund, less the amount of any annuity benefit previously received by the policeman and his beneficiaries. Provides that a policeman shall have no such right of refund if the sum of the annuity benefits the policeman and his beneficiaries have received exceeds the sum to which the policeman has contributed to the fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.