Amends the Professional Service Corporation Act. Provides that the certificate of registration shall expire on January 1, 2019, and on January 1 of every third year thereafter, for any professional service corporation that renders services that are regulated by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Establishes a renewal fee of $40 for a certificate of registration issued by the Department. Makes similar changes to the Medical Corporation Act. Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Defines "professional limited liability company". Removes provisions prohibiting a limited liability company from rendering certain professional services, and instead provides that a limited liability company that intends to provide a professional service licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation must be formed in compliance with the Professional Limited Liability Company Act. Amends the Professional Limited Liability Company Act. Defines "license". Provides that one or more individuals may organize a professional limited liability company by filing articles of organization with the Secretary of State on forms furnished by the Secretary. Sets forth certain requirements the articles of organization must satisfy. Provides that the company name of a professional limited liability company must contain the terms "professional limited liability company", "P.L.L.C.", or "PLLC". Lists the professional services a professional limited liability company may render, with certain exceptions. Provides that a professional limited liability company's certificate of registration shall expire on January 1, 2019 and on January 1 of every third year thereafter; and that the renewal fee for a certificate of registration shall be $40 (rather than calculated at the rate of $40 per year). Effective immediately.
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Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to make available on its website general information on how the Department uses criminal history information in its decisions on licensure applications, including a list of enumerated offenses that bar licensure (rather than requiring the Department to have rules on how a person with criminal history would apply for a non-binding, advisory opinion from the Department as to whether his or her criminal history would bar licensure). Effective immediately.
Amends the Missing Persons Identification Act. Provides that the definition of "high-risk missing person" includes a person who is a veteran or active duty member of the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or any reserve component of the United States Armed Forces who is believed to have a physical or mental health condition that is related to his or her service.
Amends the State Construction Minority and Female Building Trades Act. Provides that by March 31 (currently, March 1) of each year, the Illinois Department of Labor shall publish and make available on its official website a report compiling and summarizing demographic trends in the State's building trades apprenticeship programs, with particular attention to race, gender, ethnicity, and national origin of apprentices in labor organizations and other entities in Illinois. Effective immediately.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act from January 1, 2019 to January 1, 2029. Amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. Provides that applicants and licensees shall provide the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation with a valid address and email address and inform the Department of any changes within 14 days. Makes changes to the grounds by which the Department may refuse to issue, renew, revoke, suspend, or discipline a license because of the applicant's or licensee's criminal history. Removes duplicate provisions concerning record of proceedings. Adds provisions concerning confidentiality of a complaint against a licensee. Replaces "Director" with "Secretary" in order to update references to the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987. Provides that mortgage loan advertisements must reference the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System and Registry's Consumer Access website, except where exempted by the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. Provides that a licensee shall not advertise its services in Illinois in any media, whether print or electronic, without including its unique identifier. Replaces "Commissioner" with "Secretary" in order to update references to the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act and the Professional Counselor and Clinical Professional Counselor Licensing and Practice Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall (rather than may) issue a license as a clinical social worker, social worker, professional counselor, or clinical professional counselor, without the required examination, to an applicant licensed under the laws of another jurisdiction if the requirements for licensure in that jurisdiction are, on the date of licensure, substantially equivalent to the requirements under the Act or to any person who, at the time of his or her licensure, possessed individual qualifications that were substantially equivalent to the requirements then in force in this State. Requires the Department to issue the license not more than 60 days after a completed application is received by the Department. Effective immediately.
Amends the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act. Adds various provisions concerning requirements for hospitals and pediatric health care facilities in relation to pediatric sexual assault care. Provides that a hospital licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act or operated under the University of Illinois Hospital Act (rather than licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act) that provides general medical and surgical hospital services shall provide either transfer services to all sexual assault survivors, medical forensic services to all sexual assault survivors, or transfer services to pediatric sexual assault survivors and medical forensic services to sexual assault survivors 13 years old or older (rather than transfer services or hospital emergency services and forensic services in relation to injuries or trauma resulting from sexual assault). Provides that a pediatric health care facility may provide medical forensic services to pediatric sexual assault survivors. Adds provisions concerning requirements placed on the Department of Public Health; consent to jurisdiction for pediatric health care facilities; storage, retention, and dissemination of photo documentation relating to medical forensic services; sexual assault services vouchers; pediatric sexual assault care; and requirements placed on the Attorney General. Makes other changes.
Amends the Government Electronic Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Tax Lien Registration Act. Provides that the notice of tax lien shall also include the county or counties where the real property of the debtor to which the lien will attach is located. Provides that a tax lien that is filed in the registry shall be attached to all of the existing and after-acquired real and personal property of the debtor. Effective immediately.