Makes appropriations to the Department of Human Services for the Child Care Assistance Program and for grants associated with employment and training programs and other social services. Effective July 1, 2015.
Creates the Lincoln Act. Contains a short title only.
Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service of process on a foreign limited liability company.
Creates the Car Loan Title Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Use of Credit Information in Personal Insurance Act. Provides that an insurer authorized to do business in the State shall not use a consumer's credit information or credit report to calculate an insurance score for private passenger automobile insurance policies amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act.
Amends the Green Buildings Act. Provides that the Capital Development Board may: (1) annually conduct energy efficiency audits of State-owned real property; (2) annually rank State-owned real properties according to their energy efficiency; and (3) encourage energy efficiency audits of State-owned real properties based on those rankings. Provides that State agencies may elect to conduct energy efficiency audits of State-owned real property and may retain the amount of savings realized from energy improvements and conservation measures, subject to certain limitations.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act and the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall establish reimbursement rates which build toward livable wages for front line personnel in residential and day programs serving persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including but not limited to intermediate care facilities for persons with developmental disabilities, community integrated living arrangements, developmental training programs, employment, and other residential and day programs for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities supported by State funds or funding under Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act. Provides that the Department shall increase rates and reimbursements so that direct support persons earn a base wage of not less than $15 per hour and so that other front line personnel earn a commensurate wage. Defines "front line personnel". Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of William Garth Sr. of Chicago.
Mourns the death of Kenneth Allen Whitney.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of firearms trafficking. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she has not been issued a currently valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card and knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, into the State, a firearm or firearm ammunition, or both, for the purpose of sale, delivery, or transfer to any other person or with the intent to sell, deliver, or transfer the firearm or firearm ammunition to any other person. Provides that firearms trafficking is a Class 1 felony for which the person, if sentenced to a term of imprisonment, shall be sentenced to not less than 4 years and not more than 20 years. Provides that firearms trafficking by a person who has been previously convicted of firearms trafficking, gunrunning, or a felony offense for the unlawful sale, delivery, or transfer of a firearm or firearm ammunition in this State or another jurisdiction is a Class X felony. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a period of probation, a term of periodic imprisonment or conditional discharge shall not be imposed when the person has been found guilty of firearms trafficking involving both a firearm and firearm ammunition. Provides that the court shall sentence the offender to not less than the minimum term of imprisonment for the offense. Effective immediately.
