Sen. Bill Cunningham

Urges the State of Illinois to fully fund the Guidehouse final rate recommendations in FY 22.

Appropriates $8,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the State Treasurer for the Illinois Higher Education Savings Program. Effective July 1, 2022.

Amends the Biometric Information Privacy Act. Changes the definitions of "biometric identifier" and "written release". Defines "biometric lock", "biometric time clock", "electronic signature", "in writing", and "security purpose". Provides that if the biometric identifier or biometric information is collected or captured for the same repeated process, the private entity is only required to inform the subject or receive consent during the initial collection. Waives certain requirements for collecting, capturing, or otherwise obtaining a person's or a customer's biometric identifier or biometric information under certain circumstances relating to security purposes. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to: conflict with information captured by an alarm system installed by a licensed person; and apply to information captured by a biometric time clock or biometric lock that converts a person's biometric identifier to a mathematical representation. Provides that the Department of Labor shall provide on its website information for employers regarding the requirements of the Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Energy Conservation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 1115/1 from Ch. 96 1/2, par. 7601 Adds reference to: New Act 20 ILCS 3501/801-1 20 ILCS 3501/801-5 20 ILCS 3501/801-10 20 ILCS 3501/801-40 20 ILCS 3501/Art. 850 heading new 20 ILCS 3501/850-5 new 20 ILCS 3501/850-10 new 20 ILCS 3501/850-15 new 5 ILCS 100/5-45.9 new 5 ILCS 420/1-121 new 5 ILCS 420/4A-102 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-102 5 ILCS 420/4A-103 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-103 5 ILCS 430/5-50 20 ILCS 605/605-1075 new 20 ILCS 627/15 20 ILCS 627/40 new 20 ILCS 627/45 new 20 ILCS 627/50 new 20 ILCS 627/55 new 20 ILCS 627/60 new 20 ILCS 655/5.5 from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 609.1 20 ILCS 1505/1505-215 20 ILCS 1505/1505-220 new 20 ILCS 3125/10 20 ILCS 3125/15 20 ILCS 3125/20 20 ILCS 3125/30 20 ILCS 3125/45 20 ILCS 3125/55 new 20 ILCS 3855/1-5 20 ILCS 3855/1-10 20 ILCS 3855/1-20 20 ILCS 3855/1-35 20 ILCS 3855/1-56 20 ILCS 3855/1-70 20 ILCS 3855/1-75 20 ILCS 3855/1-92 20 ILCS 3855/1-125 20 ILCS 3855/1-128 new 30 ILCS 105/5.935 new 30 ILCS 105/5.936 new 30 ILCS 105/5.937 new 30 ILCS 500/1-10 30 ILCS 575/4f 30 ILCS 575/7 from Ch. 127, par. 132.607 35 ILCS 5/206 rep. 35 ILCS 173/5-10 35 ILCS 200/10-5 35 ILCS 200/10-610 35 ILCS 615/2 from Ch. 120, par. 467.17 35 ILCS 640/2-2 35 ILCS 640/2-4 105 ILCS 5/10-22.11 from Ch. 122, par. 10-22.11 110 ILCS 305/120 new 220 ILCS 5/4-604 new 220 ILCS 5/4-604.5 new 220 ILCS 5/4-605 new 220 ILCS 5/5-117 220 ILCS 5/8-103B 220 ILCS 5/8-201.8 new 220 ILCS 5/8-201.10 new 220 ILCS 5/8-218 new 220 ILCS 5/8-402.2 new 220 ILCS 5/8-406 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 8-406 220 ILCS 5/8-512 new 220 ILCS 5/9-228 new 220 ILCS 5/9-229 220 ILCS 5/9-241 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-241 220 ILCS 5/16-105.5 new 220 ILCS 5/16-105.6 new 220 ILCS 5/16-105.7 new 220 ILCS 5/16-105.10 new 220 ILCS 5/16-105.17 new 220 ILCS 5/16-107.5 220 ILCS 5/16-107.6 220 ILCS 5/16-108 220 ILCS 5/16-108.18 new 220 ILCS 5/16-108.19 new 220 ILCS 5/16-108.20 new 220 ILCS 5/16-108.21 new 220 ILCS 5/16-108.25 new 220 ILCS 5/16-108.30 new 220 ILCS 5/16-111.5 220 ILCS 5/16-111.10 new 220 ILCS 5/16-127 220 ILCS 5/16-135 new 220 ILCS 5/17-900 new 305 ILCS 20/13 305 ILCS 20/18 415 ILCS 5/3.131 new 415 ILCS 5/9.15 415 ILCS 5/9.18 new 415 ILCS 5/22.59 820 ILCS 65/10 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Energy Transition Act. Includes provisions regarding: Regional Administrators; the Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program; the Clean Jobs Curriculum; the Energy Transition Barrier Reduction Program; the Energy Transition Navigators; the Illinois Climate Works Preapprenticeship Program; the Clean Energy Contractor Incubator Program; the Returning Residents Clean Jobs Training Program; the Clean Energy Primes Contractor Accelerator Program; the Jobs and Environmental Justice Grant Program; and the Energy Workforce Advisory Council. Makes conforming changes in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act and the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Creates the Energy Community Reinvestment Act. Includes provisions regarding: the Energy Transition Workforce Commission; the Energy Transition Community Grants; the Displaced Energy Workers Bill of Rights; the Dislocated Energy Worker Dependent Transition Scholarship; consideration of energy worker employment; an Energy Community Investment Report; and administrative review. Creates the Community, Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning Act. Includes provisions regarding: the creation of Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Plans; the Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning process; and joint Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Plans. Creates the Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund Act. Includes provisions regarding: the Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund; the board of directors; powers and duties; primary responsibilities in early program development; executive director and fund management; and dissolution of the Fund. Makes additional and conforming changes in: the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act; the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act; the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois; the Electric Vehicle Act; the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act; the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois; the Energy Efficient Building Act; the Illinois Power Agency Act; the State Finance Act; the Illinois Procurement Code; the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act; the State Property Control Act; the Gas Use Tax Law; the Property Tax Code; the Gas Revenue Tax Act; the Electricity Excise Tax Law; the School Code; the University of Illinois Act; the Public Utilities Act; the Environmental Protection Act; and the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 627/50 new 35 ILCS 173/5-10 35 ILCS 615/2 (from Ch. 120, par. 467.17) 35 ILCS 640/2-2 35 ILCS 640/2-4 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 3125/40 In the Energy Transition Act, makes changes to provisions concerning the Clean Jobs Workforce Network Program, the Energy Transition Barrier Reduction Program, Energy Transition Navigators, the Illinois Climate Works Preapprenticeship Program, and the Jobs and Environmental Justice Grant Program. In the Energy Community Reinvestment Act, makes changes to provisions concerning the Energy Transition Workforce Commission, Energy Transition Community Grants, and the Displaced Energy Workers Bill of Rights. Repeals the Energy Transition Act, the Energy Community Reinvestment Act, the Community Energy, Climate, and Jobs Planning Act, and the Illinois Clean Energy Jobs and Justice Fund Act 24 (rather than 14) years after the effective date of the Act. Makes additional changes in the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. In the Electric Vehicle Act, makes changes to provisions concerning rulemaking and resources, beneficial electrification, and the charging rebate program. In the Energy Efficient Building Act, makes changes to provisions concerning input from interested parties and the Illinois Stretch Energy Code. In the Illinois Power Agency Act, makes changes to provisions concerning legislative declarations and findings, the Illinois Power Agency Renewable Energy Resources Fund and the Illinois Solar for All Program, agency officials, the Planning and Procurement Bureau, and aggregation of electrical load by municipalities, townships, and counties. Makes additional changes in the Illinois Procurement Code. Deletes changes to the Gas Use Tax Law and the Gas Revenue Tax Act. In the Public Utilities Act, makes changes in provisions concerning electric and gas public utilities ethical conduct and transparency, energy efficiency and demand-response measures, utility-scale pilot projects, distributed generation rebate, recovery of costs associated with the provision of delivery and other services, accelerated repayment of excess deferred income tax, the Energy Transition Assistance Fund, the Equitable Energy Upgrade Program, and the Energy Storage Program. Makes additional changes in the Environmental Protection Act. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Adds reference to: 35 ILCS 200/1-130 In the Illinois Power Agency Act, in a provision regarding the procurement of renewable energy credits from new renewable energy facilities installed at or adjacent to the sites of electric generating facilities that burn or burned coal as their primary fuel source, provides that the first procurement event shall be conducted no later than January 30, 2022, unless the Agency elects to delay it, until no later than May 1, 2022 (rather than March 31, 2022), due to its overall volume of work. In the Property Tax Code, provides that spent fuel pools and dry cask storage systems in which nuclear fuel is stored and is pending further or final disposal from a nuclear power plant that was decommissioned before January 1, 2021 shall be considered real property and be assessable. In the Public Utilities Act, provides that the rules adopted by the Illinois Commerce Commission to carry out the provisions regarding the Multi-Year Integrated Grid Plan may (rather than shall) be effective no later than 90 days after the effective date of the amendatory Act. In the Environmental Protection Act: Deletes language providing that all public GHG-emitting units that use coal as a fuel source shall reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 105% of the unit's 2021 annual carbon emission amount, that at least 95% of the carbon dioxide emission reductions shall be attained through carbon capture and sequestration or unit retirement by 2045, that the remainder of the total carbon dioxide emission reductions required by 2045 and thereafter shall be attained through direct air carbon capture or any other available technology proven to directly remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and that all EGUs and large greenhouse gas-emitting units that use coal as a fuel and are public GHG-emitting units that are greater than 700 megawatts of nameplate capacity shall follow specified requirements. Provides instead that all EGUs and large greenhouse gas-emitting units that use coal as a fuel and are public GHG-emitting units shall permanently reduce carbon dioxide and copollutant emissions to zero no later than December 31, 2045. Makes other changes to the Public Utilities Act and the Environmental Protection Act. Makes additional changes to the Energy Transition Act and the Illinois Procurement Code.

Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Provides that a person who uses teledentistry practices dentistry within the meaning of the Act. Provides that a dentist may utilize and delegate dental services to a dental hygienist or dental assistant using telehealth only under the supervision requirements as specified in the Act for in-person patient care. Provides that a dental assistant who has at least 2,000 hours of direct clinical patient care experience and who has completed a structured training program provided by a continuing education provider approved by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation may perform specified procedures. Provides that a dental assistant who has completed specified training may perform coronal scaling and intracoronal temporization of a tooth under the supervision of a dentist. Changes the definition of "public health setting" to include a prison. Changes the definition of "teledentistry" to include limited patient diagnosis and treatment planning (rather than patient care) using synchronous and asynchronous communications under an Illinois licensed dentist's authority (rather than a dentist's authority).

Amends the Telephone Solicitations Act. Provides that a person, business, or organization may not spoof a caller's information or otherwise misrepresent the origin of a telemarketing call unless the person, business, or organization has the right to use the name and phone number displayed. Requires telephone solicitations placed in a manner other than by a live operator to immediately disclose their identity and the purpose of the call and prompt the recipient of the call to consent to the solicitation. Defines terms.

Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Provides that the amount an organization licensee racing standardbred horses places in a purse account from gaming pursuant to an organization gaming license shall be held in reserve by the organization gaming licensee to be expended at the direction of the Illinois Standardbred Breeders Fund Advisory Board (rather than paid to the Illinois Standardbred Breeders Fund) and shall solely be used for standardbred racing as authorized.

Amends the Service Use Tax Act and the Service Occupation Tax Act. Extends the 1% rate of tax to food prepared for immediate consumption and transferred incident to a sale of service at a facility subject to the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act or the Life Care Facilities Act.

Creates the Fix the FOID Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning the certification of alternative retail suppliers, provides that the Illinois Commerce Commission shall consider the applicant's commitment of resources to the management of sales and marketing staff, through affirmative managerial policies, independent audits, technology, hands-on field monitoring, and training. In provisions concerning the obligations of alternative retail electric suppliers, provides that an alternative retail electric supplier shall maintain sufficient managerial resources and abilities to provide the service for which it has a certificate of service authority. Provides that an alternative retail electric supplier shall file with the Commission a notification of any material change to the information supplied in a certification application within 30 days after the material change.