Sen. Don Harmon

Amends the Voluntary Payroll Deductions Act of 1983. Requires the Comptroller (rather than the Governor) to perform specified duties concerning the designation of organizations qualified to receive payroll deductions and the creation of an Advisory Committee under the Act. Amends the State Comptroller Act. Removes a provision requiring the Department of Central Management Services to transmit to the Comptroller a certified copy of all reports it may issue concerning State property. Provides for Comptroller recess appointments. Amends the State Finance Act. Makes changes concerning fiscal year limitations. Repeals provisions concerning contracts signed by State agencies with procurement authority. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes changes concerning the filing of contracts with the Comptroller. Amends the State Prompt Payment Act. Requires specified information under the Vendor Payment Program to be disclosed on August 1 of each year (currently, July 1 of each year) for the previous fiscal year. Amends the Property Tax Code. Requires the State Comptroller to make available on the Comptroller's website a Fiscal Responsibility Report Card (currently, submit to the General Assembly and the clerk of each county a Fiscal Responsibility Report Card). Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the University Credit and Retail Sales Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning enforcing the Act.

Amends the Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act. Provides that any municipality may establish and collect a nuclear storage impact fee from the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee shall only be imposed on nuclear facilities that ceased generating electricity on or before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Provides that the fee shall be charged to the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality immediately before the nuclear facility ceased to generate electricity. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee can only be applied prospectively. Provides that in any calendar year, the nuclear storage impact fee shall not exceed 25% of the average annual amount of property taxes paid to the municipality by the entity that operated the nuclear facility during the last 5 years that the nuclear facility was operational. Provides that the municipality shall conduct a public hearing before imposing the nuclear storage impact fees. Provides that the revenue collected from the fees shall be used to offset property taxes for owners of property within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that no sale, assignment, lease, or decommissioning agreement that was executed after a nuclear facility ceased generating electricity and before the effective date of the amendatory Act shall assign or transfer the obligation to pay any nuclear storage impact fee imposed.

Amends the Attorney General Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Replaces provisions concerning the written collaborative agreement required of a certified registered nurse anesthetist providing anesthesia services outside the hospital, ambulatory surgical treatment center, or hospital affiliate with provisions that require the certified registered nurse anesthetist to enter into a written collaborative agreement with a physician, podiatric physician, or dentist. Exempts the delivery of anesthesia during the surgical procedure performed by a physician, dentist, or podiatrist from the requirement that the collaborative relationship under an agreement not be construed to require the personal presence of a collaborating physician at the place where services are rendered. Makes corresponding changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Methamphetamine Precursor Control Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Election Code. Prohibits the use of a political committee's fund for the legal defense of a public official or candidate in connection with offenses involving or reflecting upon a public entity's officer or employee. Effective immediately.

Amends the Electric Supplier Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.

Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, if a person who is licensed as a retailer of alcoholic liquor under the Liquor Control Act has had the renewal of his or her certificate of registration denied or revoked by the Department of Revenue, then distributors licensed under the Liquor Control Act are prohibited from selling alcoholic liquor to that retailer, and that retailer is prohibited from purchasing alcoholic liquor from distributors, pending notification by the Department of Revenue that the denied renewal or revocation has been resolved to the Department of Revenue's satisfaction. Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires applicants for a certificate of registration to pay a nonrefundable application fee of $30.