Sen. Chuck Weaver

Amends the Service Occupation Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning taxes collected by a supplier.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds provisions concerning pricing of water assets, meaning a water utility or water distribution company and its tangible and intangible properties, by an Illinois governmental purchaser. Provides that the determination of value or price for the purchase or acquisition of water assets by the Illinois governmental purchaser: may not distinguish, penalize, or increase the value or price to be paid by an Illinois governmental purchaser based on specified characteristics of the purchaser; or may not use as a factor any excess of replacement cost new minus depreciation over the value of price based on fair market value of the water assets, as determined by what a willing buyer in the private sector would value, price, or pay for the water assets. Provides for application of the provisions to contracts already in place. Contains a severability clause. Effective immediately.

Amends the Amusement Ride and Attraction Safety Act. Repeals a provision providing that all fees collected under the Act shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund. Effective immediately.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that the waiting period for withholding delivery of a firearm after application for its purchase has been made does not apply to the transfer of an operable firearm in exchange for another operable firearm. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Provides that as to any policy of life insurance insuring the life of either spouse, or any interest in such policy, that constitutes non-marital property, or constitutes marital property but was not specifically allocated between the parties as provided in the Act, a beneficiary designation made by or on behalf of the decedent prior to the entry of the judgment for dissolution or declaration of invalidity of marriage that provides for the payment or transfer at death of any of the proceeds of the policy to or for the benefit of the decedent's former spouse is void as of the time of the judgment for dissolution or declaration of invalidity of marriage and the policy proceeds shall pass as if the decedent's former spouse predeceased the decedent.

Amends the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.

Amends provisions of the Unemployment Insurance Act prohibiting the disclosure of information obtained from an individual or employing unit during the administration of the Act. In language providing that the prohibition does not apply to communication with an individual or entity through unencrypted e-mail or unencrypted electronic means as long as the communication does not contain the individual's or entity's name in combination with specified numbers or codes, deletes "account number" from the numbers and codes. Effective immediately.

Amends Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no insurance company that is authorized to do business in this State and which issues policies for personal multiperil property coverage, commonly known as homeowners insurance, may increase the premiums on that insurance based upon claims arising from third-party fault or actions not caused by the policyholder.

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Human Services annual plan for staff training.