Amends the School Code. Beginning with the 2022-2023 school year, requires school boards to report, on their school district's website, a list of the learning materials and activities to be used for student instruction during the school year. Requires that the report also include any procedures that are in effect at each school for the documentation, review, or approval of the learning materials and activities used for student instruction. Specifies the minimum information that must be included in the report. Allows a school district to update the report on an ongoing basis, but requires the report to be updated by January 1 and August 1 of each year. Allows a school district to utilize collaborative online document or spreadsheet software to update or make additions to the report. Sets forth other requirements. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall develop a form and include it with certain financing agreements. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides for a reduction in assessed value for affordable rental housing construction or rehabilitation. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with various technical, grammatical, and formatting corrections. Provides that the reduced valuation applies through December 31, 2031 (in the introduced bill, December 31, 2030). Provides that the special assessment program applies in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Makes various grammatical and technical corrections.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Establishes standards with respect to cannabis for impairment sufficient to bar compensation for injuries to employees who are intoxicated. Provides that the presence of 5 nanograms of tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood or 10 nanograms of tetrahydrocannabinol in other bodily substances shall create a rebuttable presumption that intoxication is the proximate cause of the injury. Contains the statement: "Authorized use may be evidenced only by written consent by the employer to the employee, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld".
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of possession of a relay vehicle theft device. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly possesses a relay vehicle theft device. Exempts from a violation: (1) an employee of a facility subject to the Automotive Repair Act or the Automotive Collision Repair Act; (2) a new vehicle dealer or used vehicle dealer licensed under the Illinois Vehicle Code; (3) a locksmith licensed under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004; (4) a repossession agent; or (5) a federal, State, or local law enforcement officer. Provides that possession of a relay vehicle theft device is a Class 3 felony. Defines "relay vehicle theft device". Effective immediately.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Finance Act, the Motor Fuel Tax Law, the Emergency Telephone System Act, the Illinois Gambling Act, and the Video Gaming Act. Provides that, in the absence of an appropriation for any State fiscal year, moneys that are required to be distributed to units of local government and other entities from the State and Local Sales Tax Reform Fund, the Motor Fuel Tax Fund, the State Gaming Fund, the Local Government Video Gaming Distributive Fund, and the Statewide 9-1-1 Fund are subject to a continuing appropriation. Effective immediately.
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Removes the requirement for each Legislative District to be divided into 2 Representative Districts. Modifies provisions concerning legislative redistricting. Provides specified requirements for each Legislative District, Representative District, and Congressional District for redistricting purposes. Replaces the current method of legislative redistricting with a 17-member Commission, appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the most senior Supreme Court Justice of a different political party in accordance with specified criteria. Specifies requirements for the Commission concerning redistricting plans. Adds provisions concerning the membership of the Commission and budgetary matters related to the Commission. Provides the Supreme Court with original and exclusive jurisdiction over redistricting matters. Defines terms. Makes conforming and other changes. Effective upon being declared adopted and applicable to redistricting beginning in 2023 and to the election of General Assembly members beginning in 2024.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that when "another" or "another person" as used in the identity theft and aggravated identity theft statute includes, but is not limited to, an individual, whether living or deceased or real or fictitious. Provides that it also includes any entity, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, professional corporation, or other private or public entity.
Amends the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides for a referendum to reject any Public Act by a petition signed by a number of electors. Provides signature and content requirements for the petition. Provides requirements for the validity and sufficiency of petitions. Provides that if a petition is valid and sufficient, the proposed referendum shall be submitted to the electors at the general election specified in the petition. Provides that if the voters in a specified election reject a Public Act, it shall cease to be in effect on the date specified in the referendum. Effective upon being declared adopted.