Amends the Counties Code. Provides that an 8-commissioner County Apportionment Commission in each county that has county board districts shall create an apportionment plan after each federal decennial census. Provides that specified Supreme Court Justices shall select the commissioners. Removes provisions allowing county boards to develop and file an apportionment plan. Provides requirements for districts formed in the apportionment plan, public hearings, filing requirements, and the selection of an additional commissioner if an apportionment plan isn't filed in a timely manner. Provides that the Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction over action concerning apportionment of county districts. Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act and the Election Code making conforming changes.
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Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Urges the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, and the Illinois Department of Labor to investigate the culture of harassment at Ford's Illinois plants and to provide increased support for the brave women who have come forward to make their voices heard, and further calls upon the Governor of Illinois to review all state contracts with Ford Motor Company for compliance with the Illinois Human Rights Act, the Illinois Procurement Code, and other laws and regulations governing state contractors.
Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Creates the Illinois Higher Education Savings Program. Provides for the implementation of and requirements for the Program. Provides for the State Treasurer's duties under the Program. Provides that the State Treasurer may adopt any rules that may be necessary to implement the Program. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Illinois Higher Education Savings Program Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Defines terms.
Amends the Department of Veterans' Affairs Act. Provides that a Veterans Home shall notify the residents of the Veterans Home, the families of residents at the Veterans Home, employees of the Veterans Home, and individuals working on contract at the Veterans Home within 24 hours of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at the Veterans Home. Effective immediately.
Creates the Wage Lien Act. Provides that a lien exists on an employer's property for the amount of unpaid wages owed to an employee. Defines terms and includes provisions concerning creation of the lien; exemptions; notice; limitations; recording of the lien; enforcement; other claims on the employer's property; successor obligations; and construction.