Sen. Jacqueline Y. Collins

Mourns the death of Dorothy D. Mosley.

Mourns the death of Freddie Moss.

Mourns the death of Carolyn Ann Clark.

Urges Little League International to rescind its decision to strip the Jackie Robinson West Little League team of its 2014 United States Championship and to investigate the other teams that play in the Little League tournament.

Mourns the death of Betty Jean Harris.

Declares February of 2015 as Thirteenth Amendment Ratification Month and encourages schools, civic organizations, and other institutions to study the passage of the amendment.

Resolves that the following people are appointed to the Standing Committee of correspondents: Doug Finke, State Journal Register; Monique Garcia, Chicago Tribune; Mike Riopell, Chicago Daily Herald; Amanda Vinicky, WUIS Radio and Matt Porter, WCIA TV .

If and only if House Bill 6193 of the 97th General Assembly becomes law in the form it passed the House, amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act to provide that schools that comply with the requirement that the Comprehensive Health Education Program include age-appropriate sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education in grades pre-kindergarten through 12 may, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, opt out of complying with another instructional mandate in the Act or the School Code that requires an equal amount of instruction time and has a lesser value. Effective immediately or on the date House Bill 6193 of the 97th General Assembly takes effect, whichever is later.

Amends the Department of Employment Security Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that whenever the State determines that asset verification is necessary for a determination of eligibility on the basis of being aged, blind, or disabled, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall require the applicant for or recipient of medical assistance and any other person whose resources are required by law to be disclosed to determine the eligibility of the applicant or recipient for such assistance to provide authorization for the State to obtain any financial records held by any financial institution with respect to the applicant's or recipient's or such other person's resources, as applicable, from any financial institution holding such records. Provides that the Department shall pay a reasonable fee, not to exceed the actual cost incurred, to the financial institution producing the records. Provides that the records shall be produced at no cost to the applicant, recipient, or such other person. Defines "financial institution" and "financial records". Amends the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, the Savings Bank Act, and the Illinois Credit Union Act. Permits the financial institutions subject to those Acts to furnish information in accordance with the federal requirement of asset verification as set forth in the Social Security Act and pursuant to authorization by a medical assistance applicant or recipient or by any other person whose resources are required by law to be disclosed to determine the eligibility of the applicant or recipient for such assistance.