Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Provides that beginning in calendar year 2022, for all competitive procurements and any procurements of renewable energy credits from new utility-scale wind and new utility-scale photovoltaic projects, the Illinois Power Agency shall procure indexed renewable energy credits and direct respondents to offer a strike price. Provides that the value of the indexed renewable energy credit payment shall be calculated for each settlement period. Provides for a procedure to ensure adequate funding in the Agency's annual budget for indexed renewable energy credit procurements. Provides that the Agency shall not assume an obligation in excess of the estimated annual cost of the contracts for indexed renewable energy credits. Defines terms. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit for taxpayers who are employed as law enforcement officers in an amount equal to 100% of the unreimbursed expenses paid by the taxpayer during the taxable year for: (1) professional certifications required for the performance of the taxpayer's duties as a law enforcement officer; (2) equipment used by the taxpayer in the performance of his or her duties as a law enforcement officer; and (3) mental health training. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to cooperate with the Chicago school district to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Requires a regional superintendent of schools to increase the regional office of education's capacity to work with school districts to locate students that stopped attending school since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and to address issues of truancy and chronic absenteeism. Effective immediately.
Amends the Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Licensing Act. Provides that "home services" includes assistance with: bathing without client self-direction, including areas of the body other than those areas with special skin care needs; applying topical prescription lotions to rashes, skin tears, stage 1 or 2 decubiti, and first and second degree burns; applying compression stockings; assisting with normal feeding, including pre-measured, thickened liquids; applying shampoo in hair care treatment requiring a prescription; permitting nail filing of clients with conditions that might involve peripheral circulatory conditions; assisting with personal, mechanical, or electronic transfers of clients when the client can assist with transfer; assisting with ambulation of clients using adaptative equipment for ambulation; assisting with changing oxygen tanks, adjusting oxygen flow, and turning oxygen tanks on and off; and repositioning clients every 2 hours or as instructed by the plan of care.
Amends the Technology Development Act. Provides for additional specified information to be reported by a TDA II-Recipient Fund to the State Treasurer on a quarterly or annual basis for all investments. Provides for the allocation of the aggregate dollar amount available for new investments. Requires the State Treasurer to disclose on the website of the State Treasurer specified aggregate financial performance information for TDA II-Recipient Funds. Provides that the Technology Development Fund is a nonappropriated trust fund within the State treasury (rather than a special fund outside of the State treasury with the State Treasurer as custodian). Requires the State Treasurer to publish on his or her official website specified information regarding the Technology Development Fund for the previous fiscal year. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 30 ILCS 265/11 30 ILCS 265/20 Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 105/5.970 new 30 ILCS 105/6z-130 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that the Department of Human Services must make grants, from appropriations made from the Fund, to units of local government and Illinois public universities for the purposes of providing mental health and substance abuse prevention to people who are incarcerated and providing mental health and substance abuse prevention for those encountering the criminal justice system with a primary focus to people who are incarcerated in the county jail or recently discharged. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, moneys in the Fund Mental Health and Substance Use Prevention Fund may not be appropriated, assigned, or transferred to another State fund. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Specifies that it is the Department of Human Services that must make grants to units of local government and Illinois public universities.
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that a "supervisor" shall be considered an educational employee under the definition of "educational employee" unless the supervisor is also a managerial employee. Modifies the definition of "managerial employee" to mean an individual who has a significant role in the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements or who formulates and determines employer-wide management policies and practices (rather than an individual who is engaged predominantly in executive and management functions and is charged with the responsibility of directing the effectuation of such management policies and practices). Effective immediately. House Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the contents of the bill, but makes the amendatory language applicable only to an educational employer of a school district organized under the Article the School Code concerning the boards of education in cities of over 500,000 inhabitants. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abandoned Refrigerator Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that beginning July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 150 paid days (instead of 120 paid days) or 750 paid hours (instead of 600 paid hours) in each school year. Provides that beginning July 1, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 120 paid days (instead of 100 paid days) or 600 paid hours (instead of 500 paid hours) in each school year. Makes a conforming change. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Provides that beginning July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023, an annuitant may accept employment as a teacher without impairing his or her retirement status if that employment is not within the school year during which service was terminated and does not exceed 140 paid days (rather than 150 paid days) or 700 paid hours (rather than 750 paid hours) in each school year, but not more than 100 paid days in the same classroom.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that there shall be at least one public hearing during which public comment shall be taken regarding the application for siting approval or a special use permit for a commercial wind energy facility. Provides that the public hearing shall be noticed and commence not more than 45 days after the filing of an application for siting approval or a special use permit for a commercial wind energy facility. Provides that the county board shall make its siting decision not more than 30 days after the conclusion of the public hearing or the conclusion of the special use permit hearing by the zoning board of appeals. Removes a provision that allows any part of a county zoning ordinance pertaining to wind farms that was in effect before August 16, 2007 to continue in effect notwithstanding the provision of the Section. Provides that a county with an existing zoning ordinance in conflict with the provisions shall amend such zoning ordinance to be in compliance within 120 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Specifies setback requirements, blade tip height limitations, and sound limitations. Provides that a county may not place any restriction on the installation or use of a commercial wind energy facility, except by adopting an ordinance that complies with the provisions, and may not establish siting standards for supporting facilities that preclude development of commercial wind energy facilities. Limits home rule powers. Defines terms. Makes other changes.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that an amount equal to the sum of (i) 8% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon individuals, trusts, estates, and electing pass-through entities and (ii) 9.11% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon corporations shall be deposited into the Local Government Distributive Fund (currently, an amount equal to the sum of (i) 6.06% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon individuals, trusts, and estates and (ii) 6.85% of the net revenue realized from the tax imposed upon corporations shall be deposited into the Local Government Distributive Fund). Amends the State Revenue Sharing Act to provide that amounts paid into the Local Government Distributive Fund are appropriated on a continuing basis. Effective July 1, 2022.