Amends the Election Code. Provides that members of the General Assembly and the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer shall be elected by ranked-choice voting. Provides for ranked-choice ballots to be produced. Provides that voters may rank their choice for candidates for those offices and provides for interpretations of certain ballot marks. Provides that tallying ranked-choice votes proceeds in rounds. Provides that in each round, the number of votes for each continuing candidate must be counted, that each continuing ballot counts as one vote for its highest-ranked continuing candidate for that round, and that exhausted ballots are not counted for any continuing candidate. Provides that if only 2 candidates remain, the candidate with the higher vote total wins, and that if more than 2 candidates remain, the last-place candidate is eliminated and another round of tallying is to commence. Provides that rounds continue until a winner is found. Makes conforming changes.
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Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for the YouthBuild Illinois program. Effective July 1, 2021.
Amends the Health Facilities Planning Act. Modifies provisions concerning Safety Net Impact Statements. Provides for Emergency Medicine and Trauma Systems Impact Statements and Maternal and Child Health Impact Statements. Provides further requirements concerning the discontinuance of a hospital facility or a category of service. Provides requirements for hospital closure during a pandemic. Provides for a right of action under the Act. Specifies and modifies penalties for a violation of the Act. Allows a health facility to be placed under receivership. Specifies further powers and duties of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board under the Act. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires a general acute care hospital that ceases to provide hospital services before January 1, 2022 to pay specified amounts. Provides further requirements concerning the payments. Defines terms. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 3960/4 20 ILCS 3960/14.2 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Modifies provisions and requirements concerning Safety Net Impact Statements, Emergency Medicine and Trauma Systems Impact Statements, and Maternal and Child Health Impact Statements. Makes changes concerning requirements for applications for permits, exemptions, and certificates for changes in ownership of a health care facility and discontinuation of health care facilities or services thereof. Further modifies the powers and duties of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board (State Board). Makes changes in provisions concerning the revision of criteria, standards, and rules. Modifies provisions concerning State Board notice of hospital reduction in health care services. Restores provisions allowing the State Board to accept in-kind services or donations instead of or in combination with the imposition of a fine. Removes provisions concerning membership of the State Board and receivership. Modifies defined terms. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to long-term care insurance. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 215 ILCS 5/351A-4 Adds reference to: New Act 215 ILCS 5/356z.41 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Access to Affordable Insulin Act. Sets forth provisions concerning an insulin urgent-need program. Provides that by July 1, 2022, each manufacturer shall establish procedures to make insulin available to eligible individuals who are in urgent need of insulin or who are in need of access to an affordable insulin supply. Sets forth provisions concerning insulin urgent-need program exceptions, eligibility, forms, applications, claims and reimbursement, copayments, information sheets, navigators, and penalties. Defines terms. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions concerning cost sharing in prescription insulin drugs, provides that an insurer that provides coverage for prescription insulin drugs under the terms of a health coverage plan the insurer offers shall limit the total amount that an insured is required to pay for a 30-day supply of covered prescription insulin drugs at an amount not to exceed $35 (rather than $100). Effective immediately.
Declares March 24, 2021 as Equal Pay Day.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates an income tax credit in an amount equal to $500 for individuals who serve as volunteer emergency workers for or on behalf of a volunteer fire protection association. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with changes. Provides that, to qualify for the credit, the volunteer emergency worker may not receive compensation for his or her services of more than $10,000 for the taxable year. Removes provisions concerning volunteer fire protection associations. Makes changes to the definition of "volunteer emergency worker". Effective immediately.
Amends the Mental Health Early Action on Campus Act. Provides that the General Assembly shall appropriate $19,000,000 in Fiscal Year 2023 for the purposes of this Act. Provides that the funds shall be distributed to the public colleges and universities according to the recommendations of a specified report of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. Provides that the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, in conjunction with the Illinois Community College Board and the Board of Higher Education, must make recommendations to the General Assembly on the amounts necessary to implement this Act for Fiscal Years 2024 through 2027, and may make such recommendations for Fiscal Years thereafter. Deletes provisions making the Act subject to appropriation. Effective July 1, 2022.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to annually review and update the underlying data for, and use of, indicators used to determine whether a community is designated as an environmental justice community and to establish a process by which communities not designated as environmental justice communities may petition for such a designation. Provides that an applicant for a permit for the construction of a new source that will become a major source subject to the Clean Air Act Permit Program to be located in an environmental justice community or a new source that has or will require a federally enforceable State operating permit and that will be located in an environmental justice community must conduct a public meeting prior to submission of the permit application and must submit with the permit application an environmental justice assessment identifying the potential environmental and health impacts to the area associated with the proposed project. Provides requirements for the environmental justice assessment. Provides that a supplemental fee of $200,000 for each construction permit application shall be assessed if the construction permit application is subject to the requirements regarding the construction of a new source located in an environmental justice community. Contains provisions regarding public participation requirements for permitting transactions in an environmental justice community. Provides that, if the Agency grants a permit to construct, modify, or operate a facility that emits air pollutants and is classified as a minor source, a third party may petition the Pollution Control Board for a hearing to contest the issuance of the permit. Contains provisions regarding environmental justice grievances. Defines "environmental justice community". Contains other provisions. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 415 ILCS 5/39.5 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1039.5 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes language requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to annually review and update the underlying data for, and use of, indicators used to determine whether a community is designated as an environmental justice community. Requires the Agency to conduct an evaluation of a prospective CAAPP permit owner's or operator's prior experience in owning and operating sources of air pollution. Provides that the Agency may deny such a permit if the prospective owner or operator or any employee or officer of the prospective owner or operator or any employee or board member has a history of specified criminal actions. Removes language requiring the air dispersion modeling to examine air quality related impacts to determine estimated emissions of specified pollutants. Makes other changes.