Amends the Paid Leave for All Workers Act. Provides that the definition of "employee" does not include: (1) an employee who is employed by an institution of higher education (i) for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and who does not have a reasonable expectation that he or she will be rehired by the same employer of the same service in a subsequent calendar year or (ii) as a temporary appointment as described in the State Universities Civil Service Act; (2) higher education faculty and instructors who have teaching, research, and extension faculty contracts or appointments of less than 12 consecutive months of the year; or (3) an employee employed by a public community college or other public institution of higher education in the State of Illinois whose position is covered by a bona fide collective bargaining agreement. Provides that the definition of "employer" does not include laboratory schools as defined in the School Code. Makes conforming changes. Effective January 1, 2024.
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, if a public institution of higher education or a State agency uses a value-added reseller for the purchase of any information technology hardware under the Code, then that public institution of higher education or State agency may require the value-added reseller to include in its bid an attestation from the manufacturer of the goods stating that the manufacturer offers the goods for sale to all value-added resellers at substantially the same terms that apply to the bidder's purchase of the goods. Requires the Department of Innovation and Technology and the University of Illinois each to include those requirements when making at least one procurement of information technology hardware during State fiscal year 2025. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $9,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for continued funding to the Illinois Association of Free and Charitable Clinics. Effective July 1, 2024.
Appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for grants to community learning centers under the Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that the amendatory Act may be referred to as the Uniform Alcohol Direct-Shipping Compliance Act. Provides for the registration of third-party providers that ship wine to residents of this State on behalf of winery shippers. With regard to third-party providers, sets forth provisions concerning registration applications; recordkeeping; reporting; and suspending, revoking, or refusing to issue or renew a registration. Provides that a carrier may not deliver to a consumer a package known by the carrier to contain wine unless the consignor is a licensed winery shipper or registered third-party provider and the carrier has verified that license or registration for the current license period. Requires winery shippers, third-party providers, and carriers to file with the Illinois Liquor Control Commission a monthly report containing specified information concerning wine shipments. Provides that the State Commission may suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license to manufacture, distribute, or sell alcoholic liquor issued by the State Commission if the State Commission finds, after notice and an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing, that the person holding the license has shipped alcoholic liquor into another state in violation of that state's law. Makes other changes. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make a conforming change.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that any person licensed as a brewer, class 1 brewer, or class 2 brewer shall be permitted to sell on the licensed premises to non-licensees for on-premises or off-premises consumption (instead of for on or off-premises consumption for the premises in which he or she actually conducts such business). Provides that any person licensed as a brewer, class 1 brewer, or class 2 brewer may sell wine or spirits on the licensed premises for off-premises consumption. Provides that any person licensed as a brewer may designate, contract with, use, and pay reasonable compensation to a management company, including a retail licensee, to provide services to the licensed brewer for the licensed premises if: (1) the compensation paid to the management company represents fair market value for the services provided; (2) the agreements under which the arrangements are made were approved by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission; and (3) the arrangements are not a subterfuge to provide any retailer with a prohibited thing of value.
Amends the Governmental Joint Purchasing Act. Provides that a governmental unit may award contracts based on its own ranking of the offerors without regard to whether or not a cooperative purchasing program has ranked the offerors. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Illinois Farm to Food Bank Program. Effective July 1, 2024.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Sets forth certain protections that must be provided to the parent or guardian of a child at the center of an abuse or neglect investigation whenever the Department of Children and Family Services refers a child to a board-certified child abuse pediatrician for a medical opinion. Provides that the board-certified child abuse pediatrician must explain to the parent or guardian of the child, whenever the pediatrician has direct contact with the child or the family of the child, that the pediatrician is completing the examination of the child at the request of the Department for the purpose of providing an opinion to the Department regarding whether the mechanism of injury is suspicious for child maltreatment. Provides that the parent or guardian of the child of the center of an investigation shall: (i) be informed of the referral and his or her right to request and receive a copy of the opinion; (ii) be notified that the parent or guardian of the child has the right to obtain, at his or her own expense, and submit to the Department a second medical opinion at any time; (iii) be informed that any second medical opinion submitted to the Department prior to the Department rendering a final determination in the investigation will be considered as inculpatory or exculpatory evidence; and (iv) be notified of the Department's time frames for the investigative process. Requires the Department to annually prepare and make available on the Department's Reports and Statistics webpage a report on the number of children or families referred by the Department to a board-certified child abuse pediatrician as part of an investigation of abuse or neglect by the Department. Sets forth the information that must be contained in the annual reports. Provides that the first report must be posted within 9 months after the effective date of the amendatory Act.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that a construction business with annual sales and receipts in excess of $45,000,000 but not over $67,500,000.00 is a mid-size business. Provides that each chief procurement officer has authority to designate a fair proportion of construction, supply, and service contracts as mid-size business set-asides for award to mid-size businesses in Illinois. Requires advertisements for bids or offers for those contracts to specify designation as mid-size business set-asides. Provides that, in awarding the contracts, only bids or offers from qualified mid-size businesses shall be considered.