Sen. Melinda Bush

Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Public Officer Simultaneous Tenure Act. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to simultaneously hold the office of county board member and township supervisor or township trustee (currently, it is lawful to be a county board member and a township supervisor and, in counties of less than 100,000 population, a county board member and township trustee). Provides that it is unlawful (currently, lawful) for any person to simultaneously hold the office of a county board member and a township assessor or town clerk. Validates lawful actions of individuals who were previously allowed to simultaneously hold specified offices before the effective date of this amendatory Act.

Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the amount of the credit.

Amends the Child Support Payment Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning work restriction.

Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.

Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires a unit of local government that employs a firefighter who is a full-time firefighter in a different downstate firefighter pension fund to make specified contributions to that downstate firefighter pension fund. Requires a specified additional contribution to the pension fund from that firefighter's primary employer. Establishes reporting requirements. Authorizes the State comptroller to intercept State funds in the event the unit of local government does not make its required contribution to the primary employer's downstate pension fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes changes concerning children attending nonpublic schools or special education facilities, public out-of-state schools, public school residential facilities, or county special education facilities. Removes certain provisions referring to public school residential facilities or nonpublic schools. Removes certain minimums on funding levels. With respect to funding for children requiring special education services, makes changes to the required deadline for filing certain claims. Adds provisions concerning funding for children with excess cost that apply beginning July 1, 2018. Provides that payments to school districts and State-authorized charter schools for children requiring special education services may be used only for the provision of special educational facilities and services. Requires school districts and State-authorized charter schools to keep accurate, detailed, and separate accounts of all expenditures for the maintenance of each of the authorized facilities, classes, and schools. Requires claims to be submitted in a certain manner. Allows school districts to classify certain payments as funds received in connection with a funding program for which it is entitled to receive funds from the State, regardless of the source or timing of the receipts. Repeals provisions concerning an account of expenditures, cost reports, and reimbursement. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Urges the State Board of Elections to decline any request to turn over or share personal data or confidential voter registration data to the Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.