Sen. Adriane Johnson

Amends the Counties Code. Changes the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge a county recorder must collect on each real-estate related document from $9 to $18. Increases the fee a county may charge for recording documents. Makes conforming changes. Amends the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Provides that annual receipts distributed under the Rental Housing Support Program shall be distributed with priority to local administering agencies from the county in which the annual receipts were collected. Provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall wait at least 6 months after annual receipts are deposited into the Rental Housing Support Program Fund before distributing the annual receipts. Provides that the Authority shall work with each county to ensure that at least one local administering agency is located within each county. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 310 ILCS 105/10 Adds reference to: 310 ILCS 105/30 new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes: provides that, as part of the request-for-proposal process and subject to specified requirements, best efforts will be used to prioritize local administering agencies that serve the county in which annual receipts were collected upon receipt of current data from the Department of Revenue applicable to the annual receipts (rather than annual receipts shall be distributed with priority to local administering agencies from the county in which the annual receipts were collected); removes a provision requiring the Illinois Housing Development Authority to wait at least 6 months after annual receipts are deposited into the Rental Housing Support Program Fund before distributing the annual receipts; provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall use best efforts through outreach to local administering agencies to encourage at least one local administering agency to serve each county in the State (rather than the Authority shall work with each county to ensure that at least one local administering agency is located within each county); and creates the Illinois Rental Housing Support Program Funding Allocation Task Force, which shall study and make recommendations regarding the equitable distribution of rental housing support funds across the State and shall also work with the Authority as funding allocations will be required to be adjusted due to data released by the United States Census Bureau on the 2020 decennial census. Effective January 1, 2022. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Changes the effective date of the bill to July 1, 2023 (rather than January 1, 2022). Makes conforming changes to the date the Illinois Rental Housing Support Program Funding Allocation Task Force is required to submit its report (from March 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023) and the date the Task Force provisions are repealed (from March 31, 2023 to September 30, 2024). Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Provides that the Governor shall appoint 3 members (rather than one member) to the Task Force from an organization representing Illinois county clerks and recorders (rather than Illinois clerks and recorders), including appointments from the Chicago suburbs, from a small metropolitan area, and from a rural area. Makes technical corrections in provisions about appointment of a member representing a local administering agency from a rural area to the Task Force.

Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Architect of the Capitol for its FY24 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2023.

Creates the Obscene Electronic Unsolicited Message Act. Provides that a person may file a private cause of action against another person 18 years of age or older who knowingly sends an image, that the person knows or reasonably should know is unsolicited, by electronic means, depicting obscene material. Provides that a prevailing plaintiff who suffers harm as a result of receiving an image, the receipt of which had been expressly forbidden by the plaintiff, in violation of these provisions, may recover the following: (1) actual damages proximately caused by the receipt of the image, including damages for emotional distress not exceeding $25,000; (2) attorney's fees; and (3) injunctive relief. Provides that the remedies under these provisions are cumulative and shall not be construed as restricting a remedy that is available under any other law. Provides exemptions. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of unsolicited transmission of sexually explicit material. Provides that a person commits the offense when: (1) he or she intentionally transmits by electronic means an image depicting a person engaged in a sexual act or whose intimate parts are exposed, in whole or in part; and (2) the image is not sent at the request of or with the consent of the recipient or the recipient has expressly forbidden receipt of such materials. Provides that nothing in these provisions preclude the imposition of other criminal penalties for that conduct. Provides exemptions. Provides that a violation is a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that a person who commits a third or subsequent violation is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor.

Mourns the passing of JoHaan Parise Cotton Wilson.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Juvenile Justice. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 730 ILCS 5/3-2.5-1 Adds reference to: 730 ILCS 5/5-4.5-115 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person who was under the age of 21 and is serving a sentence for first degree murder or a term of natural life imprisonment shall be eligible for parole review by the Prisoner Review Board after serving 40 years or more of his or her sentence or sentences.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Extends the income tax credit for certain hospitals through taxable years ending on or before December 31, 2027 (currently, December 31, 2022). Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the credit for personal property sold to or used by certain hospitals is exempt from the Acts' automatic sunset provisions. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 5/223 35 ILCS 105/3-8 35 ILCS 110/3-8 35 ILCS 115/3-8 35 ILCS 120/2-9 Adds reference to: New Act 5 ILCS 100/5-45.35 new 20 ILCS 655/4 from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 604 20 ILCS 655/5.5 from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 609.1 20 ILCS 655/6 from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 610 20 ILCS 686/1 20 ILCS 686/5 20 ILCS 686/10 20 ILCS 686/20 20 ILCS 686/30 20 ILCS 686/40 20 ILCS 686/45 30 ILCS 750/10-6 from Ch. 127, par. 2710-6 35 ILCS 5/236 35 ILCS 5/237 35 ILCS 5/704A 35 ILCS 10/5-5 35 ILCS 10/5-25 35 ILCS 10/5-50 35 ILCS 16/10 35 ILCS 16/42 35 ILCS 45/110-15 35 ILCS 45/110-20 35 ILCS 45/110-30 35 ILCS 45/110-40 35 ILCS 105/3-87 new 35 ILCS 110/3-72 new 35 ILCS 120/5m 35 ILCS 200/18-184.15 35 ILCS 630/2 from Ch. 120, par. 2002 35 ILCS 635/10 35 ILCS 636/5-7 35 ILCS 640/2-4 220 ILCS 5/9-222 from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-222 220 ILCS 5/9-222.1A Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Invest in Illinois Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity may make non-competitive economic incentive awards, including, but not limited to, grants and loans, to assist applicants that pledge to make capital investments and create new jobs in this State or retain jobs in this State. Provides that certain businesses that are engaged in manufacturing, processing, assembling, warehousing, or distributing products, conducting research and development, providing tourism services, or providing commercial services in office industries or agricultural processing are eligible for those incentives. Amends the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. Increases the required geographic area of the enterprise zone. Amends the Reimagining Electric Vehicles in Illinois Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Reimagining Energy and Vehicles in Illinois Act. Provides that renewable energy manufacturers are also eligible for credits under the Act. Provides that agreements under the Act may be renewed for an additional 15-year term. Provides that business enterprises certified under the Reimagining Electric Vehicles in Illinois Act or the Manufacturing Illinois Chips for Real Opportunity (MICRO) Act are exempt from the Telecommunications Infrastructure Maintenance Fee Act and the Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act. Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Makes changes concerning the conditions under which nonresident wages are considered Illinois labor expenditures. Provides that a taxpayer shall not be awarded any new credits under the Act for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2033 (currently, January 1, 2027). Amends the Use Tax Act and the Service Use Tax Act. Creates a Sustainable Aviation fuel credit in the amount of $1.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel purchased. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Removes language providing that a person who has been convicted of a felony is not qualified to act as an executor or an administrator.

Amends the Burial Rights Act. Provides that contracts between cemetery authorities and cemetery workers' associations prohibiting in any manner dedications of monuments or headstones, family visitations, or visitations to veterans memorials on Sundays or legal holidays shall be deemed to be void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. Makes conforming changes.