Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that retired police officers may serve summons for violations of ordinances occurring within their municipalities (currently, only active duty police officers may do so). Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall require every provider of mammography services to, if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue, provide notification to the patient in any summary of the mammography report sent to the patient pursuant to the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act that shall include, but not be limited to, certain information.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Childhood Cancer Research Board. Sets forth the membership of the Board. Provides that the Board must review grant applications, make recommendations and comments, and consult with the Department of Public Health in making grants from amounts appropriated from the Childhood Cancer Research Fund to public or private not-for-profit entities for the purpose of conducting childhood cancer research.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act and the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that upon a petition by a person who has been convicted of a Class 3 or Class 4 felony and who has served in the United States Armed Forces or in the National Guard of this or another state and has received an honorable discharge from the Armed Forces or National Guard and who meets specified requirements, the Prisoner Review Board shall hear by at least 3 members and, with the unanimous vote of a panel of 3 members, issue a certificate of eligibility for expungement recommending that the court order the expungement of all official records of the arresting authority, the circuit court clerk, and the Department of State Police concerning the arrest and conviction for the Class 3 or 4 felony. Excludes a person convicted of a sex offense, crime of violence, or firearm offense. Provides that if a person has applied to the Board for a certificate of eligibility for expungement and the Board denies the certificate, the person must wait at least 4 years before filing again or filing for a pardon with authorization for expungement from the Governor unless the Governor or Chairman of the Prisoner Review Board grants a waiver. Effective immediately.
Amends the Hospice Program Licensing Act. Provides that on and after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the number of licensed hospice residences shall not exceed the following: (i) five hospice residences located in counties with a population of 700,000 or more; (ii) five hospice residences located in counties with a population of 200,000 or more but less than 700,000; and (iii) five hospice residences located in counties with a population of less than 200,000. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In regard to a nursing home prescreening program administered by the Department on Aging for individuals with Alzheimer's Disease and related disorders, provides that case coordination units shall employ pre-screeners to perform all functions assigned to case coordination units under the Act and that in addition to information needed to properly assess an individual's need for services, the pre-screener shall be responsible for soliciting asset, income, and resource information needed to comply with federal spousal impoverishment requirements. Requires the pre-screener to (i) inform the individual and the individual's spouse, if any, of the consequences of failing to comply with full disclosure and (ii) enter asset, income, and resource information into the same database used to enter the Determination of Need score to ensure that the Department of Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services have open access to such information. Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to federal approval, the community spouse resource allowance shall be established and maintained, based on asset, income, and resource information collected by a pre-screener, at the higher of $109,560 or the minimum level permitted pursuant to certain federal guidelines, as now or hereafter amended, or an amount set after a fair hearing, whichever is greater (rather than the community spouse resource allowance shall be established and maintained at the higher of $109,560 or the minimum level permitted pursuant to certain federal guidelines, as now or hereafter amended, or an amount set after a fair hearing, whichever is greater). Effective immediately.
Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Provides that there must be an open meeting and vote of the membership before a residential housing cooperative may be dissolved.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Allows a person to petition the court and the court to order the sealing of: (1) Class 2 felony conviction records for burglary, delivery of a controlled substance, and possession of a stolen motor vehicle; (2) Class 3 felony conviction records for theft, retail theft, deceptive practices, and forgery; and (3) Class 4 felony conviction records for possession of cannabis, possession of a controlled substance, violation of the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act, violation of the Steroid Control Act, prostitution, theft, retail theft, deceptive practices, forgery, and possession of burglary tools (rather than only Class 4 felony convictions for possession of cannabis, possession of a controlled substance, Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act, Steroid Control Act, and prostitution). The sealing is allowed 4 years after termination of the person's last sentence. Requires a person petitioning to seal a drug offense to pass a drug test within the 30 days preceding the filing of the petition to seal.
Amends the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Females, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Provides that a business owned and controlled by females shall be certified as a "Female owned business". Further provides that a business owned and controlled by females who are also minorities shall be certified as both a "Female owned business" and a "Minority owned business". Effective immediately.
