Amends the Administrative Review Law of the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that: the term "parties of record" does not include individuals who are not acting in an official capacity and whose participation in proceedings before an administrative agency is limited to attendance or testimony at a public hearing or submission of written statements to the agency; the plaintiff shall send a notice of filing of the action by certified mail to each individual who is not a party of record and who submitted testimony or a written statement to the administrative agency with respect to the decision from which the action to review is taken; and an individual who submitted testimony or a written statement to the administrative agency with respect to the decision from which the action to review is taken has a right to intervene as a defendant in the action upon application made to the court within 30 days of the mailing of the notice.
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Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that the provision requiring the Department of Human Services to develop a training program for authorized direct care staff to administer medications under the supervision and monitoring of a registered professional nurse applies to (i) all residential programs (rather than all programs) for persons with a developmental disability in settings of 16 persons or fewer that are funded or licensed by the Department of Human Services and that distribute or administer medications, and (ii) all day programs certified to serve persons with developmental disabilities by the Department of Human Services. Provides that the training program for authorized direct care staff shall include educational and oversight components for staff who work in day programs that are similar to those for staff who work in residential programs. Effective January 1, 2018.
Creates the Child Abuse Awareness Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the General Assembly Compensation Act. Establishes the fiscal year 2018 mileage reimbursement rate and allowance for lodging and meals. Amends the Compensation Review Act. Prohibits cost-of-living adjustments for or during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017 for State government legislative and executive elected officers and appointees in positions for which the Compensation Review Board previously recommended or determined compensation. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code, the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, the Limited Health Service Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or managed care plan amended, delivered, issued, or renewed after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall provide coverage for treatment of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome, including, but not limited to, the use of intravenous immunoglobulin therapy. Effective immediately.
Calls upon the State of Illinois and its operating units, including but not limited to the Department of Central Management Services, to immediately suspend the drafting, negotiation, perfection, and signing of any lease on any parcel of real property, and that this suspension is to continue until the conclusion of the audit of the Department of Human Services currently being conducted under the supervision of the Legislative Audit Commission.
Mourns the death of Gertrude B. Whitton of Des Plaines.
Mourns the death of David Reinhardt Wolf.
Encourages equitable and diverse gender representation on corporate boards of directors and urges that, within the next three years, publicly held corporations in Illinois have specified minimum numbers of women on their boards.
Mourns the death of Timothy J. Murphy of Mount Prospect.