Sen. Dave Syverson

Maddy summaryThis bill creates a temporary task force to improve how Illinois agencies report information about people legally prohibited from owning firearms. The group will consist of representatives from various state departments, law enforcement agencies, courts, and local governments. Its main job is to find funding, identify reporting weaknesses, and recommend ways to make data collection more accurate and timely. The task force must submit an initial report by July 2022 and provide annual updates until the section is repealed in 2027.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Requires each officer or member who, on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, is elected or appointed to office to complete, within 2 years after the date that he or she is first elected or appointed and every 2 years thereafter for as long as he or she remains an officer or member, an 8-hour continuing education program that has been developed by the Illinois Council on Economic Education and has been approved by the Illinois Community College Board. Provides that an officer or member who is currently licensed by the State in a financial field and is already required to take continuing education classes concerning accounting, economics, or finance shall be exempt from this continuing education requirement. Authorizes an administrative fine to be levied against an officer or employee who fails to timely complete the amendatory Act's continuing education requirement. Prohibits an officer or employee from being elected or appointed to public office if he or she fails to timely pay the fine and complete the required continuing education. Amends the Election Code. Requires candidates to state in their petitions for nomination that they are not barred from being elected or appointed by a violation of the continuing education requirement established by the amendatory Act.

Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a commercial wind energy facility, a commercial solar energy facility, or both may not be approved by a county within an unincorporated area of the county that is within a 3-mile radius surrounding a municipality unless both the county board and the city council of the municipality approve the facility, regardless of whether or not the municipality has adopted zoning ordinances or is regulating wind farms and electric-generating wind devices. Effective immediately.

Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that any minor 15 years of age or older arrested or taken into custody under the Act for aggravated vehicular hijacking shall be detained in an authorized detention facility until a detention or shelter care hearing is held to determine if there is probable cause to believe that the minor is a delinquent minor and: (1) secure custody is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection of the minor or of the person or property of another; (2) the minor is likely to flee the jurisdiction of the court; or (3) the minor was taken into custody under a warrant. Provides that if the court makes that determination, the minor shall continue to be held until the disposition of an adjudicatory hearing under the Delinquent Minors Article of the Act.

Amends the Electric Vehicle Charging Act. Exempts new single-family residences and tiny homes specifically constructed for veterans from the Act's electric vehicle charging system requirements. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Effective immediately.

Amends the Dual Credit Quality Act. Makes changes concerning high school and community college partnership agreements, the Dual Credit Committee, instructor and other standards for dual credit courses, and the data in reports made by institutions of higher learning. Provides that a Dual Credit Instructor Endorsement Framework shall be developed through a committee involving collaboration between the Illinois Community College Board and the State Board of Education by December 31, 2024. Sets forth the membership of the committee. Provides that the Framework shall establish criteria for evaluating instructors on the basis of academic credentials, progress toward academic credentials, equivalent experience, or some combination of these. Sets forth what the criteria shall include and what the Framework may do. Effective immediately.

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution congratulates Janet Bernice Runkel Anderson on reaching her 100th birthday. The measure expresses wishes for her continued health and happiness but does not create any new laws or policies. It is a ceremonial gesture intended to honor an individual's milestone rather than address a specific legislative issue.

Appropriates $3,100,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for costs associated with the Crop Insurance Rebate Initiative to provide incentives for at least 500,000 acres of eligible land. Effective July 1, 2024.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that it is a deceptive practice for a person to knowingly represent that he or she is the owner or agent of residential property for the purpose of entering into a lease agreement with another or to collect a security deposit, move-in fee, or rent from another. Specifies that a violation of that requirement is a Class 4 felony. Authorizes the award of actual damages and punitive damages in an amount no less than 2 times the actual damages. Provides that it is a criminal trespass to a residence for a person, without authority, to knowingly enter or remain within a residence that the person knows is the primary residence of another. Makes a violation of that requirement a Class 4 felony. Provides that nothing in the Eviction Article of the Code of Civil Procedure may be construed to prohibit law enforcement officials from (i) enforcing criminal trespass to real property or any other provision of the Criminal Code of 2012; or (ii) removing persons or property from the premises when there is a criminal trespass. Defines illegal possession of property in the Criminal Code of 2012.

Amends Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a legacy tax credit for businesses that are headquartered in the State. Creates an employee tax credit and a collective bargaining employee tax credit. Effective immediately.