Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

Amends the Deposit of State Moneys Act. Modifies a Section concerning agreements entered into by the State Treasurer with any bank or savings and loan association relating to the deposit of securities. Provides that such agreements may authorize the holding of securities in any bank or a depository trust company in the United States (rather than New York City). Adds to the classes of securities that the State Treasurer may accept as collateral for deposits not insured by an agency of the federal government. Adds to and modifies the investments in which the State Treasurer may invest or reinvest on behalf of the State. Effective immediately.

Amends the Organ Donor Leave Act. Provides that an employer shall not retaliate against an employee for requesting or obtaining a leave of absence to donate blood, an organ, or bone marrow. Amends the Illinois Insurance Act. Provides prohibitions on denial of coverage and costs of premiums for living organ donors for life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance policies. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the Secretary of State to review and update certain public service announcements, websites, and other media relating to live organ donation to educate the public on the benefits of live organ donation and the impact of live organ donation on access to insurance. Effective January 1, 2020. House Committee Amendment No. 1 In provisions amending the Illinois Insurance Code, provides that it is unlawful to refuse to insure, to refuse to continue to insure, to limit the amount, extent, or kind of coverage available for life insurance, disability insurance, or long-term care insurance to an individual, or to charge an individual a different rate for the same coverage, solely because of the individual's status as a living organ donor (rather than providing specific prohibitions on denial of coverage and cost of premiums for living organ donors for life insurance, disability insurance, and long-term care insurance policies). Provides that with respect to all other conditions, as persons who are living organ donors shall be subject to the same standards of sound actuarial principles or actual or reasonably anticipated experience as are persons who are not organ donors. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 625 ILCS 5/6-117 from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 6-117 Adds reference to: 755 ILCS 50/5-47 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the introduced bill, as amended by House Amendment 1, with the following changes: Removes provisions amending the Illinois Vehicle Code. Amends the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Requires the Secretary of State to create a database consisting of all individuals who have consented to having their names included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry who have consented to having their names included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Provides what shall be included in the database and requires the Secretary of State to update the database not less than every 7 days. Allows an organ procurement organization that has executed a data access agreement with the Secretary of State to have online access to the database to determine whether a potential organ and tissue donor is included in the First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Requires the organ procurement organization to indemnify and hold harmless the State, its officials, and employees for certain costs arising out of the organ procurement organization's use of the database. Effective January 1, 2020.

Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Provides that Illinois labor expenditures include the first $200,000 of out-of-state wages paid or incurred by a production company or loan out corporation, subject to withholding payments, and all resident wages paid or incurred by the production company or loan out corporation. Provides that the credit applies on a permanent basis. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 5/213 35 ILCS 16/10 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Provides that the credit applies on a permanent basis. Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Provides that a taxpayer may not take a credit awarded under that Act for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. Effective immediately.

Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Prohibits an employer from: (i) screening job applicants based on their wage or salary history, (ii) requiring that an applicant's prior wages satisfy minimum or maximum criteria, and (iii) requesting or requiring as a condition of being interviewed or as a condition of continuing to be considered for an offer of employment that an applicant disclose prior wages or salary. Prohibits an employer from seeking the salary, including benefits or other compensation or salary history, of a job applicant from any current or former employer, with some exceptions. Limits defenses. Provides for penalties and injunctive relief. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Equal Pay Act of 2003. Provides that the exceptions to the equal pay requirement based on sex also apply to the equal pay requirement for African-American employees. Provides that an employer may prohibit a human resources employee, supervisor, or other employee whose job responsibilities require or allow access to other employees' wage or salary information from disclosing that information without prior written consent from the employee whose information is sought or requested. Provides that specified provisions shall not be construed to prevent an employer or employment agency from: providing information about the wages, benefits, compensation, or salary offered in relation to a position; or engaging in discussions with an applicant for employment about the applicant's expectations with respect to wage or salary, benefits, and other compensation. Provides that an employer is not in violation of specified provisions when a job applicant voluntarily and without prompting discloses his or her current or prior wage or salary history, including benefits or other compensation, on the condition that the employer does not consider or rely on the voluntary disclosures as a factor in determining whether to offer a job applicant employment, in making an offer of compensation, or in determining future wages, salary, benefits, or other compensation. Makes other changes. Effective 60 days after becoming law. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that a wage differential factor that is not based on sex or a factor that would constitute unlawful discrimination under the Illinois Human Rights Act must account for the differential (instead of "the entire differential").

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 735 ILCS 5/1-106 Adds reference to: 735 ILCS 5/2-1303 from Ch. 110, par. 2-1303 735 ILCS 5/2-1602 735 ILCS 5/12-108 from Ch. 110, par. 12-108 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that consumer debt judgments of $25,000 or less shall draw interest from the date of the judgment until satisfied at the rate of 5% per annum. Provides that when a consumer debt judgment is entered upon any award, report, or verdict, interest shall be computed at the applicable rate from the time when made or rendered to the time of entering judgment upon the same, and included in the judgment. Provides that interest shall be computed and charged only on the unsatisfied portion of the consumer debt judgment as it exists from time to time. Provides that the judgment debtor may stop the further accrual of interest on the consumer debt judgment. Provides that the provisions concerning interest on consumer debt judgments apply to all consumer debt judgments entered into after the effective date of the Act. Provides that a consumer debt judgment may be revived by filing a petition to revive the consumer debt judgment no later than 10 years after its entry and by serving the petition and entering a court order for revival. Provides that if a judgment or consumer debt judgment becomes dormant during the pendency of an enforcement proceeding against wages under specified Articles, the enforcement may continue to conclusion if the enforcement is done under court supervision and includes a wage deduction order or turn over order and is against an employer, garnishee, or other third party respondent. Makes a corresponding change. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Removes the immediate effective date.

Amends the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 5 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 180/1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1505/1505-215 new 30 ILCS 575/4 from Ch. 127, par. 132.604 30 ILCS 575/4f 30 ILCS 575/7 from Ch. 127, par. 132.607 720 ILCS 5/17-10.3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Bureau on Apprenticeship Programs within the Department of labor, and provides for the powers and duties of the Bureau. Creates the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs Approved by the United States Department of Labor. Provides for the appointment of members to the Advisory Board and the powers, duties, and other requirements concerning the Advisory Board and its members. Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Further specifies the allocation of the percentage of specified State contracts to be awarded to minorities, women, and persons with disabilities under the Act. Provides further requirements concerning requests for individual contract exemptions, requests for contract class exemptions, and requests for contract goal waivers. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In a Section concerning deception relating to certification of disadvantaged business enterprises, modifies the penalty for specified actions from a Class 2 felony to a Class 1 felony. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 575/9 from Ch. 127, par. 132.609 30 ILCS 577/35-15 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: (1) in provisions creating the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs, provides that the Board may request necessary information from the Department of Labor, other State agencies, or public institutions of higher education (in the engrossed bill, the Department of Labor only); (2) provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall conduct a second social scientific study measuring the impact of discrimination on minority and women business development in the State; (3) in provisions amending the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act, provides that the Business Enterprise Council may charge fees for a written request of contract exemptions; (4) extends the repeal of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act until June 30, 2024; and (5) adds provisions amending the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act to provide that the Department of Labor's report compiling and summarizing demographic trends in the State's building trades apprenticeship programs shall include certain specified information. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that the bill takes effect on January 1, 2020.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a prosecution for criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or aggravated criminal sexual abuse may be commenced at any time (rather than within 10 years of the commission of the offense if the victim reported the offense to law enforcement authorities within 3 years after the commission of the offense). Makes conforming changes.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that in order to intercept and divert youth in care from experiencing homelessness, incarceration, unemployment, and other similar outcomes the Department of Children and Family Services and several specified agencies shall enter into an interagency agreement for the purpose of providing preventive services to youth in care and young adults who are aging-out of or have recently aged out of the custody or guardianship of the Department. Provides that the intergovernmental agreement shall require the Department and the other specified agencies to: (i) establish an interagency liaison to review cases of at-risk youth in care and young adults; and (ii) connect such youth in care and young adults to the appropriate supportive services and treatment programs to stabilize them during their transition out of State care. Requires the Department and the other specified agencies to determine how best to provide housing, education, and employment services to at-risk youth in care and young adults. Requires the Department and other agencies to submit annual reports to the General Assembly on: (1) the number of youth in care and young adults who were intercepted during the reporting period and the supportive services and treatment programs they were connected with; and (2) the duration of the services such youth received in order to stabilize them during their transition out of State care. Requires the Department to submit annual reports to the General Assembly on: (a) the number of youth in care and young adults who are aging out or have aged out of State care during the reporting period; and (b) the length and type of services that were offered to such and the youth's status. Effective immediately.

Amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Includes in the definition of "facility" a facility that provides housing to individuals with dementia. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 210 ILCS 32/10 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further amends the Authorized Electronic Monitoring in Long-Term Care Facilities Act. Provides that a facility that houses dementia residents may allow electronic monitoring devices only in rooms that are located in a building that is entirely dedicated to dementia care or that are located in a building that is solely dedicated to dementia care. Effective immediately.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services, in coordination with specified entities, to develop and process a standardized survey to gather feedback from children who are aging out of foster care and from children who have transitioned out of the foster care system. Provides that the survey shall include requests for information regarding the children's experience with and opinion of State foster care services, the children's recommendations for improvement of such services, the amount of time the children spent in the foster care system, and any other information deemed relevant by the Department. Provides that after the survey is created the Department shall circulate the survey to all youth participating in transitional living programs, independent living programs, or Youth in College and to all youth receiving scholarships or tuition waivers under the DCFS Scholarship Program. Requires the Department to conduct the survey every 5 years and to submit a report to the Governor and the General Assembly at the completion of each survey. Provides that the first report shall be submitted no later than December 1, 2021 and shall provide a detailed review of the survey results. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 505/39.3 Further amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to place a locked suggestion box in each group home, shelter, and transitional living arrangement that accepts youth in care for placement by the Department. Requires the Department to submit a report to the General Assembly each year outlining the issues and concerns submitted to the locked suggestion box and the solution to each issue and concern.