Creates the Straw Purchaser Accountability Act. Provides that whenever any person engages in gun trafficking or intentionally or negligently delivers or causes to be delivered a firearm, firearm ammunition, or a laser sight accessory, firearm silencer, or muffler to: (1) any person who is not legally authorized to possess that item; (2) a person who is purchasing the item on behalf of another person; or (3) any other person the deliverer knows or has reason to know will use the item unlawfully; the deliverer shall thereafter be civilly liable for the commission of any subsequent tortious conduct that directly or indirectly involves the use, attempted use, or threatened use of the item by any person. Provides that a prevailing plaintiff shall be entitled to all relief that would make him or her whole. Provides that persons subject to liability under the Act are jointly and severally liable. Provides that any person who recovers damages under the Act may not recover the same costs or damages under any other Act. Provides that a person who recovers damages under any other Act may not recover for the same costs or damages under Straw Purchaser Accountability Act.
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Amends the Election Code. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt rules establishing a procedure to send vote by mail ballots via electronic transmission and enable a voter with a disability to independently and privately mark a ballot using assistive technology in order for the voter to vote by mail. Provides that if a request for an accessible vote by mail ballot from a voter with a disability arrives after the election authority begins transmitting vote by mail ballots and instructions to voters, the election authority shall transmit the ballot, instructions, and balloting materials to the voter within 3 business days after receipt of the application. Requires a vote by mail ballot provided to a voter with a disability to be received and marked as required by all vote by mail ballots. Makes corresponding changes throughout the Code. Effective immediately.
Creates the Unserialized Firearm Serialization Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall maintain a database of each firearm possessed in the State that does not have a serial number imprinted on the firearm by a federal firearms importer or a federal firearms manufacturer. Provides that within 180 days after the effective date of the Act, the owner of a firearm that does not have a serial number imprinted on the firearm by a federal firearms importer or a federal firearms manufacturer shall submit an application to register the firearm with the Illinois State Police. Provides that upon the filing of the application, the Illinois State Police shall assign a unique serial number and conditionally register the firearm pending confirmation that the serial number has been imprinted on the firearm. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to provide criminal penalties for a person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, or transfer a firearm that is not imprinted with a serial number issued under the Unserialized Firearm Serialization Act or by a federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer in compliance with all federal laws and regulations regulating the manufacture and import of firearms, unless the person selling and the person receiving or purchasing the firearm is a law enforcement agency, federal firearms importer, or federal firearms manufacturer. Provides other exceptions. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make conforming changes. Contains a severability provision.
Creates the Build Illinois Homes Tax Credit Act. Provides that owners of qualified low-income housing developments are eligible for credits against (i) State income taxes and (ii) any privilege tax or retaliatory tax, penalty, fee, charge, or payment imposed under the Illinois Insurance Code. Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall develop a form and include it with certain financing agreements. Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Creates an exemption for building materials to be incorporated into an 100% affordable housing project by rehabilitation or new construction. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides for a reduction in assessed value for affordable rental housing construction or rehabilitation. Amends the Affordable Housing Planning and Appeal Act. Provides that an affordable housing plan, or any revision thereof, shall not be adopted by a non-exempt local government until notice and opportunity for public hearing have first been afforded. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 35 ILCS 200/10-260 Provides that the credits and incentives created in the introduced bill apply on or after January 1, 2024 (in the introduced bill January 1, 2021). In provisions creating the Build Illinois Homes Tax Credit Act, provides that notice of recapture shall be sent to the owner of the qualified development, the Department of Revenue, and the Department of Insurance (in the introduced bill, the Department of Revenue and Department of Insurance only). Further amends the Property Tax Code. Makes changes concerning the assessment of low-income housing projects that qualify for the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit under Section 42 of the Internal Revenue Code. Makes other technical changes.
Provides that the Act may be referred to as the Anthony Gay Law. Creates the Isolated Confinement Restriction Act. Provides that a committed person may not be placed in isolated confinement for more than 10 consecutive days. Provides that a committed person may not be placed in isolated confinement for more than 10 days in any 180-day period. Provides that while out of cell, committed persons may have access to activities, including, but not limited, to: job assignments, educational classes, vocational classes, meals, recreation, yard or gymnasium, day room, medical appointments, visits, and group therapy. Provides exceptions. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall post on the Department's official website quarterly reports on the use of isolated confinement. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections to make conforming changes. Effective January 1, 2022, except that some provisions are effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Sets forth provisions concerning short-term, limited-duration insurance. Provides that on and after January 1, 2023, no company shall issue, deliver, amend, or renew short-term, limited-duration insurance to any natural or legal person that is a resident or domiciled in the State. Provides that the Department of Insurance may adopt rules as deemed necessary that prescribe specific standards for or restrictions on policy provisions, benefit design, disclosures, and sales and marketing practices for excepted benefits. Provides that the Director of Insurance's authority under specified provisions is extended to group and blanket excepted benefits. Provides that the language does not apply to limited-scope dental, limited-scope vision, long-term care, Medicare supplement, credit life, credit health, or any excepted benefits that are filed under specified provisions. Provides that nothing in the language shall be construed to limit the Director's authority under other statutes. Makes conforming changes in the Health Maintenance Organization Act and the Limited Health Service Organization Act. Repeals the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act. Effective January 1, 2023. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 215 ILCS 5/352c new 215 ILCS 125/5-3 215 ILCS 130/4003 215 ILCS 190/Act rep. Adds reference to: 215 ILCS 5/424 215 ILCS 5/425 from Ch. 73, par. 1032 215 ILCS 5/500-70 215 ILCS 190/2 new 215 ILCS 190/5 215 ILCS 190/10 215 ILCS 190/15 215 ILCS 190/20 215 ILCS 190/25 new 215 ILCS 190/30 new 215 ILCS 190/35 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that any failure to make a disclosure or obtain a signed confirmation required under specified provisions of the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act is an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance. Provides that the Director of Insurance shall have the power to examine and investigate into the affairs of every person subject to specified provisions of the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act. Provides that the Director may place on probation, suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew an insurance producer's license or may levy a civil penalty or take any combination of actions for any failure to make a disclosure or obtain a signed confirmation required or any unlawful practice described under specified provisions of the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act. Amends the Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance Coverage Act. Sets forth provisions concerning the purpose and scope of the Act. Provides that the Act applies to health insurance issuers that offer short-term, limited-duration health insurance coverage to groups and individuals (rather than only individuals) in the State. Sets forth provisions concerning duration of coverage; cancellation; and disclosure, filing, and coverage requirements of short term, limited-duration health insurance coverage. Sets forth provisions concerning unfair or deceptive practices relating to the sale of supplemental or short-term, limited-duration health insurance coverage. Provides that the Department of Insurance may adopt any rules necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act. Defines terms. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2023.
Amends the State Property Control Act. Provides that the Director of Central Management Services as Administrator may convey any surplus real property covered by the State Property Control Act, by sale or lease, to a duly incorporated, charitable, non-profit organization or association for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables on a tract of land of less than 5 acres within any unit of local government, provided that the non-profit organization or association is not controlled, directly or indirectly, by any agricultural, commercial, or other business. Provides that the non-profit organization or association shall be authorized to sell fresh fruits and vegetables either on the land that was conveyed, off that land, or both, provided, that the sales are related or incidental to the non-profit purposes of the organization or association, and the net proceeds received by the non-profit organization or association are used to further the non-profit purposes of the organization or association. Provides that the lease of any real property to any duly incorporated non-profit organization or association shall be in accordance with the Illinois Procurement Code. Amends the Property Tax Code to provide a property tax exemption for non-profit organizations using land for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides for a new board of trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago beginning with the 2023 consolidated election. Sets forth provisions concerning nominating petitions and ballots. Provides that the City of Chicago shall be subdivided into 20 trustee districts by the General Assembly for seats on the board of trustees, in addition to one at-large trustee. Provides that the City of Chicago trustee districts must be drawn on or before May 31, 2022. Provides that in the year following each decennial census, the General Assembly shall redistrict the trustee districts to reflect the results of each decennial census. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $8,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Treasurer for the Illinois Higher Education Savings Program. Effective July 1, 2022.
Urges Governor Pritzker to express written support for the destruction of the National Archives and Record Administration's immorally obtained surveillance tapes on Dr. Martin Luther King. Urges Governor Pritzker to work with the Illinois General Assembly to pass legislation that will prevent similar abuses of power from being perpetrated for immoral and defamatory reasons.