Sen. Sue Rezin

Maddy summaryThis bill updates the Illinois Criminal Code to refine the legal definition of stalking and clarify how technology is used in such cases. It directly affects individuals accused of stalking by adding specific provisions that criminalize the use of electronic tracking systems to monitor a person's location without consent, as well as threats transmitted via electronic communications. The law also expands the definition of stalking to include situations where a person with a prior stalking conviction follows or surveils their victim just once after transmitting a threat. Additionally, the bill clarifies exemptions for lawful activities like labor picketing and protects telecommunications companies from liability unless they act with willful misconduct.

Appropriates the sum of $200,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to reimburse an eligible electric utility serving adversely impacted residential and small commercial customers. Effective July 1, 2023.

Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources may lease land on property of which the Department has jurisdiction for the purpose of creating, operating, or maintaining a commercial solar energy system or a clean energy project. Provides that the lease shall be for a period not longer than 25 years. Provides that, if practical, the Department shall require that any land or property over which the Department has jurisdiction and that is used for the purpose of creating, operating, or maintaining a commercial solar energy system shall have implemented on it and maintained management practices that would qualify the land or property as a beneficial habitat under the Pollinator-Friendly Solar Site Act. Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Defines "clean energy". Provides that the Department may provide for at least one electric vehicle charging station, as defined in the Electric Vehicle Act, at any State park or other real property that is owned by the Department where electrical service will reasonably permit. Provides that the Department is authorized to charge user fees for the use of an electric vehicle charging station. Amends the State Parks Act to make conforming changes. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Exempts certain expenditures by the Department of Natural Resources from the Code.

Amends the Election Code. Requires a person who has not timely filed valid nomination papers and who intends to become a write-in candidate for a political party's nomination for any office for which the nomination is uncontested to file a written statement or notice of that intent with the local election official where the candidate is seeking to appear on the ballot (rather than to file a written statement or notice of that intent with the State Board of Elections or the local election official with whom nomination papers for such office are filed).

Amends the Election Code. Replaces some instances of annual or semi-annual reports with quarterly reports. In provisions relating to limitations on campaign contributions, removes provisions inoperative beginning July 1, 2013. Removes a reference to the dissolved Task Force on Campaign Finance Reform. Removes references to a temporary filing system effective through August 1, 2009. Removes references to specified committees and the county clerk in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices. Repeals provisions relating to contributions by a medical cannabis cultivation center or medical cannabis dispensary organization to any political action committee created by any medical cannabis cultivation center or dispensary organization to make a campaign contribution to any political committee established to promote the candidacy of a candidate or public official. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Modifies the definition of "affiliated entity" and removes the definition of "sponsoring entity".

Specifies that the amendatory Act may be referred to as Sami's Law. Amends the Equitable Restrooms Act. Provides that the owner or operator of each public building and State-owned building shall install and maintain in that building at least one adult changing station that is publicly accessible if the building is constructed 2 or more years after the effective date of the amendatory Act or if certain alterations or additions are made to the building 4 or more years after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Requires the owner or operator of a public building and the owner or operator of a State-owned building to ensure that certain information about the location of adult changing stations in the buildings is provided. Defines terms.

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 Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a child care credit in an amount equal to 25% of the federal tax credit for each qualifying child. 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.

Maddy summarySB 914 updates the definition of who qualifies for free hunting licenses in Illinois by clarifying rules for landowners, tenants, and business owners. The bill establishes specific criteria for "bona fide equity" members of corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships, requiring them to hold their interest for at least five years and hunt only on the business's land. It also expands eligibility to include family members who collectively own at least 40 acres but do not all live on the property. These changes aim to streamline the process for issuing free permits to eligible individuals while maintaining restrictions on non-resident fees and hunting outside the specified land.