Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Deletes language providing that "employee" does not include members of the immediate personal staffs of elected public officials.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that any person required to report under the Act shall complete no less than 4 hours of training every year to recognize signs of domestic violence against minors and non-minors. Provides that training may be conducted by any local domestic violence shelter, hospital, or other domestic violence advocacy group.
Amends the Park District Code. Provides that park districts shall have the power to enter into licensing or management agreements to operate park district facilities (currently, enter into licensing or management agreements with not-for-profit corporations) if the agreement contains a covenant to use the facilities to provide public park or recreational programs (currently, if the not-for-profit corporation covenants to use the facilities to provide public park or recreational programs for youth). Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that by January 31 of each year, each election authority shall submit a form with specified information to the State Board of Elections. Provides that the Board, in coordination with advocacy groups, shall develop the form an election authority shall use to submit the specified information. Provides that the Board shall provide a way for an election authority to submit the form online, by mail, or by facsimile. Provides that the Board shall make the information collected available to the public on request.
Proposes to amend the Legislative and Executive Articles of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that a person who has served four two-year terms as Speaker of the House of Representatives, President of the Senate, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, or Minority Leader of the Senate may not be reelected to the same office. Provides that service before the second Wednesday in January of 2019 shall not be considered in the calculation of a person's service. Provides that a person may not be elected to the office of Governor or Lieutenant Governor for terms totalling more than eight years for each office. Provides that service before the second Monday in January of 2019 shall not be considered in the calculation of a person's service.
Amends the Seizure and Forfeiture Reporting Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Changes the Section concerning the declaration of policy to include preventing discrimination based on source of income. Provides that "source of income" means the source of any lawful income or any lawful rent payment that can be verified as to its amount, length of time received, regularity, or receipt, including any subsidy authorized under Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and any other local, State, or federal subsidy or benefit. Provides that it is a civil rights violation for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or a real estate broker or salesman, to engage in specified behaviors because of source of income. Provides that specified provisions of the Act do not prohibit persons engaged in the business of furnishing appraisals of real property from taking into consideration factors other than those based on, among other factors, source of income in furnishing appraisals.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that no seller may discriminate, with respect to the price charged for services of similar or like kind, against a person because of the person's gender. Provides that nothing in the provisions of the amendatory Act: (1) prohibits price differences based specifically upon the amount of time, difficulty, or cost of providing the services; or (2) alters or affects the provisions of the Illinois Insurance Code or other laws that govern health care service plan or insurer underwriting or rating practices. Requires certain sellers to: (a) clearly and conspicuously disclose to consumers in writing the pricing for each standard service provided; (b) provide consumers with a complete written price list upon request; and (c) display in a conspicuous place at least one clearly visible sign, which reads: "ILLINOIS LAW PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION WITH RESPECT TO THE PRICE CHARGED FOR SERVICES OF SIMILAR OR LIKE KIND, AGAINST A PERSON BECAUSE OF THE PERSON'S GENDER. A COMPLETE PRICE LIST IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST." Contains provisions concerning remedies and civil liabilities. Defines "standard service".
Amends the Election Code. Requires loan agreements to be included in certain campaign filings. Requires loans made to the committee to have an interest rate, which must be at the prevailing market interest rate at the time the agreement is executed. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Creates the Working Group on Local Government Consolidation.
