Declares March 27, 2019 as Elderly Women of Wisdom Day in Illinois to honor all women residing in skilled nursing facilities for their lifelong service to their families and communities.
Declares the month of March 2019 as Social Work Month in the State of Illinois.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act to provide that in the case of sexual assault or sexual abuse by a school district employee or volunteer, nothing in the Act prohibits a school district from disclosing the disciplinary records of that person. Amends the School Code to require a school board to report all credible cases of sexual assault or sexual abuse by a licensed educator to the State Board of Education, to establish a hearing procedure for student victims, and to ensure that a licensed educator under investigation by the State Superintendent of Education is reassigned to non-classroom duty. Provides that, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the State Board of Education must monitor all fingerprint-based criminal history records checks and any other database checks conducted by a school district or regional superintendent for applicants for employment with a school district. Makes changes concerning educator licensure and allegations of physical or sexual abuse. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to create the criminal offense of sexual conduct or sexual relations with a student by an authority figure. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 to require an arresting enforcement agency to share its reports pertaining to the arrest of a licensed educator with the superintendent of any school district that employs the educator (or, in the case of the arrest of a superintendent, with the school board of any school district that employs the superintendent). Amends the Personnel Record Review Act to provide that the Act does not prohibit a school district from divulging internal investigative findings and discipline to another school district. Effective immediately.
Declares the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Day at the Capitol on March 27, 2019.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment exemption includes production related tangible personal property. Provides that a Manufacturer's Purchase Credit may not be taken on or after July 1, 2019. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Youth Training and Education in the Building Trades Program to award grants to community-based organizations for the purpose of establishing training programs for youth with an interest in the building trades. Provides that under the training programs, each youth shall receive: (1) formal training and education in the fundamentals and core competencies in the youth's chosen trade; and (2) hands-on experience in the building trades by participating in community improvement projects involving the rehabilitation of vacant and abandoned residential property. Requires selected organizations to use the grant money to establish an entrepreneurship program to provide eligible youth with the capital and business management skills necessary to launch their own businesses. Contains provisions concerning residential property that is eligible for acquisition under the Program; the selection criteria for community-based organizations; and the Youth Training and Education in the Building Trades Fund. Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Requires the Illinois Housing Development Authority to establish a Training Youth in the Building Trades Program that is substantially similar to the Youth Training and Education in the Building Trades Program. Contains provisions concerning residential property that is eligible for acquisition under the Program; the selection criteria for community-based organizations; and the Training Youth in the Building Trades Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Youth Training and Education in the Building Trades Fund and the Training Youth in the Building Trades Fund. Effective January 1, 2020.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish, by rule, minimum quality standards for providers of medical supplies, equipment, and related services applicable to contracted managed care organizations for all services rendered to MCO enrollees. Requires the minimum quality standards to be based upon recognized national standards promulgated by national bodies and by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Requires the Department to set a rate of reimbursement payable by contracted managed care organizations to contracted, in-network providers of medical supplies, equipment, and related services at the default rate of reimbursement paid under the Illinois Medicaid fee-for-service program methodology for such medical supplies, equipment, and related services in effect as of June 30, 2017. Requires contracted managed care organizations to offer a reimbursement rate to contracted, in-network providers of medical supplies, equipment, and related services at not less than 90% of the default rate of reimbursement paid under the Illinois Medicaid fee-for-service program methodology, including all policy adjusters, for such medical supplies, equipment, and related services of similar quality. Provides that these provisions shall not be construed to allow the Department or its contracted MCOs to enter into sole source contracts for the provision of durable medical equipment, supplies, or related services to Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid managed care enrollees. Effective immediately.
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Deletes language allowing exceptions to the provision that all fees shall be paid in advance and disbursed by each clerk on a monthly basis. Provides that units of local government and school districts in counties with more than 3,000,000 inhabitants shall: have a filing fee for a complaint, petition, or other pleading initiating a civil action in an amount not to exceed $202 (rather than not to exceed $190 through December 31, 2021 and $184 on and after January 1, 2022); and have a filing fee for an appearance in a civil action in an amount not to exceed $177 (rather than $75). Provides that if a record contains 200 or more pages, the clerk may collect an additional fee not to exceed 35 cents (rather than 25 cents) per page. Removes filing fee provisions for cases involving debt collection. Amends the Criminal and Traffic Assessment Act. Deletes the definition of "offense". Effective July 1, 2019.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires managed care organizations (MCOs) to publish, at least quarterly for the preceding quarter, on their websites: (1) the total number of claims received by the MCO; (2) the number and monetary amount of claims payments made to a service provider; (3) the dates of services rendered for the claims payments made under item (2); (4) the dates the claims were received by the MCO for the claims payments made under item (2); and (5) the dates on which claims payments under item (2) were released. Effective July 1, 2019.
Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Justice Reinvestment Fund in the State treasury. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Increases the threshold amounts of value of the property involved that enhances a misdemeanor to a felony or to a greater felony to exceeding $2,500 for theft, retail theft, deceptive practices, criminal damage to property, and criminal defacement of property. Amends the Cannabis Control Act. Provides that the knowing possession of more 10 grams of any substance containing cannabis is a Class A misdemeanor, Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, and the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that the knowing possession of these substances, other than anabolic steroids, is a Class A misdemeanor. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides for the adjustment of sentences as misdemeanors if before the effective date of the amendatory Act these offenses were classified as felonies. Establishes procedures in which an offender sentenced as a felon for these offenses may petition to have his or her sentence reclassified as a misdemeanor. Provides that on or before July 31, 2020, and on or before July 31 of each fiscal year thereafter, the Illinois Sentencing Policy Advisory Council shall calculate the savings that accrued to the State during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, as compared to the fiscal year preceding the enactment of this amendatory Act, due to the re-classification of felony offenses as misdemeanors. Provides that on or before August 31, 2020, and before August 31 of each fiscal year thereafter, the Comptroller shall transfer from the General Fund to the Justice Reinvestment Fund 85% of the total savings calculated minus any necessary deductions. Makes other changes.
