Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds provisions concerning making diligent efforts to procure surplus line insurance contracts through authorized insurers, including for master policy insurance contracts and program business. Makes changes to provisions concerning reports on surplus line insurance and fire insurance that must be filed by licensed surplus line producers with the Director of Insurance. Changes the date by which a surplus line producer shall file a report on all fire insurance procured from unauthorized insurers and submitted to the Surplus Line Association of Illinois to February 1 (rather than March 31) of each year. Adds provisions concerning submission and recording of premium-bearing endorsements. Provides that an individual officer or partner must be a licensed surplus line producer to represent a member of the Surplus Line Association of Illinois in the exercise of association affairs. Makes other changes. Defines terms. Effective January 1, 2021.
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Amends the Children and Family Services Act. In provisions requiring the Department of Children and Family Services to submit annual reports to the General Assembly concerning youth in care who are awaiting placement, provides that the reports are to be submitted no later than December 31, of each year (rather than on December 31 of each year through December 31, 2023). Requires the reports to be posted on the Department's website and to include specified information, including: (i) the number of youth in care placed in out-of-state residential treatment facilities, whether each youth was referred to any in-state programs for placement and, if so, the number of in-state referrals for each youth prior to referring the youth to out-of-state programs; and (ii) the number of youth not in the temporary custody or guardianship of the Department who are the subjects of open child protection cases, intact family cases, or any other type of child welfare case, including, but not limited to, those youth for whom the Department is required to make medical assistance payments because they were hospitalized in inpatient psychiatric hospitals or units and were beyond medical necessity during the Department's involvement with the case. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that cable or video providers shall cease charging customers for modems and routers, whether rented together or separately, when the customer has paid to the provider the wholesale cost of the modem or router, or modem and router if rented together, plus a reasonable mark-up not to exceed 5% of the modem, router, or modem and router wholesale cost to the provider. Provides that the cable and video provider shall provide notice regarding the discontinuance of rental charges to the customer in each billing statement. Provides that the notice shall include a disclosure of rights and responsibilities relating to the maintenance of modems and routers.
Amends the Public Community College Act. Requires the Illinois Community College Board to publish on its website online textbooks and supplementary learning materials, including faculty resources, for the 20 most common courses taught at community colleges for any community college student or faculty member to access free of charge and without limitation. Requires the Board to consult with community college faculty members in the development of these online textbooks and materials. Requires the online textbooks and materials to be published no later than December 1, 2020 and to be updated, as the Board determines is necessary, on an annual basis. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall provide written notice not less than 60 days (rather than 30 days) before an election to selected jurisdictions of its intent to conduct a test of the automatic tabulating equipment and program. Provides that within 15 days (rather than 5 days) of receipt of the State Board of Elections' written notice of intent to conduct a test, the selected jurisdictions shall forward a copy of all specimen ballots to the State Board of Elections. Changes the title of the Direct Recording Electronic Voting Systems Article to the Direct Recording Electronic Tabulators and Electronic Ballot Marking Devices Article. Changes references to "direct recording voting system" to "direct recording electronic tabulator" throughout the Article. Changes references to "marking device" to "electronic ballot marking device" throughout the Article. Changes references to "public measures" to "public questions" throughout the Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Stalking No Contact Order Act. Includes electronic communication in the definition of "contact". Amends the Civil No Contact Order Act. Provides that the court may provide relief in a civil no contact order by restraining the respondent from having any electronic communication with the petitioner. Amends the Internet Dating, Internet Child Care, Internet Senior Care, and Internet Home Care Safety Act. Changes the definition of "internet dating service" to remove the qualifier that such services be performed for a fee. Makes a corresponding change to the Dating Referral Services Act.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Code shall not apply to procurements made by or on behalf of public institutions of higher education for procurement expenditures for the search and placement of medical practitioners necessary for clinical and academic staffing at the teaching hospitals located at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Provides that a lease for real property owned by Southern Illinois University to be used by the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine for an ambulatory surgical center may exceed 10 years in length under specified circumstances, but may not exceed 30 years in length.
Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Provides that data collectors that maintain or store, but do not own or license, computerized data that includes personal information and that are required to issue notice pursuant to this Section to the owner or licensee of the information that there has been a breach of the security of the data shall notify the Attorney General regarding the breach. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall reduce all application fees and examination fees by 50% for veterans. Provides that nothing in the provisions waives the requirement that the veteran meet all other licensing requirements, including paying other fees in full as otherwise required during the licensing process.
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides that "step-parent" includes a person joined in a civil union to a child's parent. Deletes language providing that: all counseling sessions shall be confidential; and communications in counseling shall not be used in any manner in litigation nor relied upon by any expert appointed by the court or retained by any party. Effective immediately.