Amends the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 5 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 180/1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1505/1505-215 new 30 ILCS 575/4 from Ch. 127, par. 132.604 30 ILCS 575/4f 30 ILCS 575/7 from Ch. 127, par. 132.607 720 ILCS 5/17-10.3 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Department of Labor Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Bureau on Apprenticeship Programs within the Department of labor, and provides for the powers and duties of the Bureau. Creates the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs Approved by the United States Department of Labor. Provides for the appointment of members to the Advisory Board and the powers, duties, and other requirements concerning the Advisory Board and its members. Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Further specifies the allocation of the percentage of specified State contracts to be awarded to minorities, women, and persons with disabilities under the Act. Provides further requirements concerning requests for individual contract exemptions, requests for contract class exemptions, and requests for contract goal waivers. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. In a Section concerning deception relating to certification of disadvantaged business enterprises, modifies the penalty for specified actions from a Class 2 felony to a Class 1 felony. Makes other changes. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 575/9 from Ch. 127, par. 132.609 30 ILCS 577/35-15 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes: (1) in provisions creating the Advisory Board for Diversity in Active Apprenticeship Programs, provides that the Board may request necessary information from the Department of Labor, other State agencies, or public institutions of higher education (in the engrossed bill, the Department of Labor only); (2) provides that the Department of Central Management Services shall conduct a second social scientific study measuring the impact of discrimination on minority and women business development in the State; (3) in provisions amending the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act, provides that the Business Enterprise Council may charge fees for a written request of contract exemptions; (4) extends the repeal of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act until June 30, 2024; and (5) adds provisions amending the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act to provide that the Department of Labor's report compiling and summarizing demographic trends in the State's building trades apprenticeship programs shall include certain specified information. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Provides that the bill takes effect on January 1, 2020.
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Amends the School Code. With regard to special education joint agreements, provides that under no circumstances may a petition for withdrawal from a joint agreement be presented to other member districts less than 18 months from the date of the proposed withdrawal. Provides that if a petition for withdrawal is not approved by the other member districts, any petitioning member district (rather than only a petitioning member district that is part of a Class II county school unit outside of a city of 500,000 or more inhabitants) may appeal the disapproval. Provides that the trustees of schools of the township having jurisdiction and authority over the withdrawing district or the hearing panel established by the chief administrative officer of the intermediate service center having jurisdiction over the withdrawing district shall convene and hear testimony to determine whether the withdrawing district has presented sufficient evidence that the district, standing alone, will provide a full continuum of services and support to all its students with disabilities in the foreseeable future; specifies requirements for the withdrawing district prior to the hearing. Provides that each withdrawing district shall develop a comprehensive plan that includes the administrative policies and procedures outlined in specified special education rules of the State Board of Education and all relevant portions of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Provides that the withdrawing district must also demonstrate its ability to provide education for a wide range of students with disabilities, including a full continuum of support and services. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that under no circumstances may a petition to withdraw from a joint agreement be presented to other member districts less than 12 (rather than 18) months from the date of the proposed withdrawal, unless the member districts agree to waive this timeline. Provides that upon approval by school board written resolution of all remaining member districts, the petitioning member district must submit its comprehensive plan to the State Board for review. Removes a provision providing that the petitioning member district shall be withdrawn from the joint agreement effective the following July 1. Provides that, in the event of a hearing conducted by a hearing panel, the withdrawing district must, prior to the hearing and among other requirements, hold a public hearing to allow for the opportunity to review (rather than hear) the plan for educating students after the withdrawal and prepare and provide a comprehensive plan (rather than prepare evidence that it has all of the components of a comprehensive plan).
Amends the Illinois Identification Card Act and the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that for the purpose of issuing an identification card or driver's license with a veteran designation, acceptable forms of proof shall include, among other documents, Department of Defense form DD-2 (Retired) or a United States Department of Veterans Affairs summary of benefits letter. Provides new requirements for verification of veteran status. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a Restaurant Meals Program to permit individuals who are elderly, persons with a disability, and homeless individuals to redeem their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits at private establishments that contract with the Department to offer meals for eligible SNAP recipients at concessional prices. Requires the Restaurant Meals Program to be operational no later than January 1, 2020. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Effective immediately.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Permits hospitals that admit patients for treatment of mental illness to grant medical staff privileges to licensed prescribing psychologists. Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Requires a psychologist applying for a prescribing psychologist license to have completed 30 psychology doctoral graduate credit hours and 31 credit hours in a Master of Science degree program. Provides that clinical rotation training requirements for prescribing psychologists shall be completed under the administrative supervision of a Director or other faculty member of a regionally approved University that provides training for the master's degree in clinical psychopharmacology. Requires the clinical rotation training to be housed in a healthcare setting and to meet certain academic standards. Provides that all prescriptions written by a prescribing psychologist must contain the prescribing psychologist's name and signature. Provides that physicians may provide collaboration and consultation with prescribing psychologists via telehealth. Permits persons who have 5 years of experience as a prescribing psychologist in another state or at a federal medical facility to apply for an Illinois prescribing psychologist license by endorsement. Makes changes to the Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board. Amends the Telehealth Act. Expands the definition of "health care professional" to include prescribing psychologists. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to reimburse prescribing psychologists for behavioral health services provided via telehealth. Requires the Department to, by rule, establish rates to be paid for specified services provided by clinical psychologists and prescribing psychologists. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 85/10.4 225 ILCS 15/4.5 225 ILCS 15/7 305 ILCS 5/5-5.25 305 ILCS 5/5-5.27 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Requires a psychologist applying for a prescribing psychologist license to have completed a full-time residency (rather than a practicum) of 14 months' supervised clinical training (removing a requirement of at least 36 credit hours). Adds medical centers, health care facilities located at federal and State prisons, patient-centered medical homes or family-centered medical homes, women's medical health centers, and Federally Qualified Health Centers as possible instructional settings for the residency. Adds specified clinical training standards to the residency requirements. In provisions regarding delegation of prescriptive authority, provides that all prescriptions written by a prescribing psychologist must contain the prescribing psychologist's name and signature. Amends the Telehealth Act. Expands the definition of "health care professional" to include prescribing psychologists. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 In a provision concerning requirements for a psychologist applying for a prescribing psychologist license, removes a reference to a full-time residency and restores a reference to a full-time practicum. Makes conforming changes.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Creates a homestead exemption in the amount of a reduction of $5,000 from the equalized assessed value of property of police officers and firefighters with duty-related disabilities. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 200/15-169.1 new Adds reference to: 30 ILCS 105/5.891 new 30 ILCS 105/6z-107 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Illinois Property Tax Relief Fund. Provides that moneys in the Illinois Property Tax Relief Fund shall be used to pay rebates to residential property taxpayers in the State. Provides that the Fund may accept moneys from any lawful source. Provides that the State Comptroller shall calculate a property tax rebate amount for the applicable property tax year by dividing the total amount appropriated from the Illinois Property Tax Relief Fund by the total number of homestead exemptions granted for homestead property in the State. Provides that the property tax bills of non-delinquent taxpayers who received a general homestead exemption under the Property Tax Code shall be reduced by the property tax rebate amount. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Provides that an approved waiver from or modification to a physical education mandate may remain in effect for a period not to exceed 2 school years (rather than 5 school years like other mandate waivers) and may be renewed no more than 2 times upon application by an eligible applicant. Provides that an approved waiver from or modification to a physical education mandate may be changed within the 2-year period by the school board or regional superintendent of schools, whichever is applicable, following the procedure set forth in the Code for the initial waiver or modification request. Provides that a school board may determine the schedule or frequency of physical education courses, provided that an elementary school pupil engage in a course of physical education for a minimum of 150 minutes per week and a middle school, junior high school, or high school pupil engage in a course of physical education for a minimum of 225 minutes per week (rather than engage in a course of physical education for a minimum of 3 days per 5-day week). Provides that if a student non-attendance day is scheduled for a day that would otherwise include a physical education class or if the school building is not otherwise open to students on a day that would otherwise include a physical education class, a student is not required to make up the minutes from that class; defines "student non-attendance day". Effective July 1, 2019.
Urges Governor JB Pritzker and the Director of the Department of Central Management Services to conduct three independent appraisals required by state law in order to further the sale of the Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
Amends the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Minors and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Prevention of Tobacco Use by Persons under 21 Years of Age and Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products Act. Raises the age for whom tobacco products, electronic cigarettes, and alternative nicotine products may be sold to and possessed by from at least 18 years of age to at least 21 years of age. Defines "electronic cigarette". Repeals the Smokeless Tobacco Limitation Act. Amends various other Acts to make conforming changes. Effective July 1, 2019.
Directs the Auditor General to conduct a performance audit of the Department of State Police's administration of the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act.