Sen. Kirk W. Dillard

Amends the State Treasurer Act. In provisions concerning the investment policy for the College Savings Pool, adds that the Treasurer may publish the policy and changes to that policy in the online version of at least one newspaper of general circulation in both Springfield and Chicago. In provisions concerning the investment policy for the Public Treasurer's Investment Pool, adds that the Treasurer may publish the policy and changes to that policy in the online version of at least one newspaper of general circulation in both Springfield and Chicago. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that, for contracts with the State, a privately held entity that is exempt from Federal 10k reporting but has more than 200 (now, 400) shareholders may, in place of the prescribed disclosures, submit the information that Federal 10k reporting companies are required to report under federal regulations and list the names of any person or entity holding any ownership share greater than 5%. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections and the Sex Offender Registration Act. Includes in the requirements to submit specimens of blood, saliva, or tissue to the Illinois Department of State Police for inclusion in the DNA database: (1) a person required by an order of the court to submit a DNA specimen; (2) on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, any person arrested for any of the following offenses, after a determination by a judge or a grand jury that probable cause exists for the arrest: (A) first degree murder, (B) home invasion, (C) predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, (D) aggravated criminal sexual assault, (E) criminal sexual assault; and (3) any person required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act, regardless of the date of conviction. Increases the DNA analysis fee from $200 to $250. Increases from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony, the penalty for a person who is required to submit specimens of blood, saliva, or tissue to the Illinois Department of State Police for inclusion in the DNA database and who impedes such submission. Provides that the detention, arrest, or conviction of a person based upon a database match or database information is not invalidated if it is determined that the specimen was obtained or placed in the database by mistake. Makes other changes. Contains a severability provision.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 relating to the offense of disorderly conduct at a funeral or memorial service. Increases the time period for which the conduct at the funeral or memorial service is prohibited before and after the service from 30 minutes to 60 minutes and increases the distance from which the conduct is prohibited from 200 feet to 1,000 feet of any ingress or egress of the funeral site. Effective immediately.

Creates the School Access to Emergency Epinephrine Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to allow schools to have access to life-saving emergency epinephrine auto-injectors if and when a student has an anaphylaxis reaction and to allow the school to have personnel trained to administer an emergency epinephrine auto-injector. Provides that a school district may provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to trained personnel, and trained personnel may utilize those epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical. Provides that each public and private elementary and secondary school in the State may make emergency epinephrine auto-injectors and trained personnel available at its school and may designate one or more school personnel to receive initial and annual refresher training. Sets forth provisions concerning trained personnel, minimum standards and training, school plan, and limitation of liability. Effective immediately.

Amends the Roadside Memorial Act. Provides that the fatal accident memorial marker program is repealed on December 31, 2012 (instead of December 31, 2011). Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to work in concert with the Illinois High School Association to develop guidelines and other pertinent information and forms to inform and educate coaches, student athletes, and these athletes' parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries, including continuing to play after a concussion or head injury. Requires the concussion and head injury information sheet to be signed and returned by a student athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian prior to the student athlete's initiating practice or competition. Provides that a school board shall adopt a policy requiring a student athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury in a practice or game to be removed from competition at that time. Requires the policy to provide that a student athlete who has been removed from play may not return to play until the student athlete is evaluated by a licensed health care provider trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and head injuries and the student athlete receives written clearance to return to play from that health care provider.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that accident and health insurance policies that provide coverage for prescribed orally-administered cancer medications and intravenously administered or injected cancer medications shall ensure that the applicable financial requirements and treatment limitations are no more restrictive than the financial requirements and treatment limitations applied to intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered by the policy. Provides that an insurer cannot achieve compliance with the coverage mandate by increasing financial requirements or imposing more restrictive treatment limitations on prescribed orally-administered cancer medications or intravenously administered or injected cancer medications covered under the policy. Effective immediately.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency, within 2 years after the effective date of the amendatory Act, to make all permit applications on-line, editable, and savable files. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall publish and deliver its master plan for highway, waterway, aeronautic, mass transportation and railroad systems to the Governor and General Assembly by December 31, 2012 (instead of January 1, 1982) and every 5 (instead of 2) years thereafter. Provides that the master plan shall include a comprehensive and multimodal freight mobility plan which shall analyze commodity flows, assess the freight transportation network, and identify significant freight system trends, needs, and economic opportunities. Provides that the multimodal freight mobility plan shall recommend improvements in the operation and management of the freight system, projects that will eliminate inefficiencies in the State's freight network, methods of funding needed for freight system improvements, and policies to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient movement of goods within and through the State and to ensure the State's economic vitality. Provides that the freight mobility plan shall incorporate and maintain compatibility with any federally required rail plan affecting this State. Effective immediately.