Amends the Public Funds Statement Publication Act. Provides that all motor vehicles purchased or leased for one year or more by a State agency shall have a Vehicle Identification Number that begins with the number one, the number 2, the number 4, or the number 5. Effective January 1, 2016.
Amends the Personnel Code. Provides that all positions within the Department of Juvenile Justice that are required to have a bachelor's or advanced degree from an accredited college or university or, in the case of persons who provide vocational training, that are required to have adequate knowledge in the skill for which they are providing the vocational training are exempt from jurisdiction B. These provisions are inoperative after January 1, 2021. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Deletes a provision that provides that Department of Juvenile Justice personnel who are hired by the Department and who participate or assist in the rehabilitative and vocational training of delinquent youths, supervise the daily activities involving direct and continuing responsibility for the youth's security, welfare, and development, or participate in the personal rehabilitation of delinquent youth by training, supervising, and assisting lower level personnel who perform these duties must have a specialization in criminal justice, education, psychology, social work, or a closely related social science or 2 years of experience. Amends the Illinois Pension Code to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Creates the Forfeiture Modernization Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the primary powers of banks.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that discussion of the energy planning responsibilities and activities of the Illinois Commerce Commission and energy utilities in the Commission's annual report shall include a summary of the adoption of solar photovoltaic systems by residential and small business consumers in Illinois and a description of any and all barriers to residential and small business consumers' financing, installation, and valuation of energy produced by solar photovoltaic systems.
Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning the issuance of tax deeds, provides that the court shall insist on substantial compliance with provisions of the Code concerning notices of sale and redemption rights. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to make the Health Care Worker Registry that includes background check and training information accessible by health care employers. Allows the Department to maintain a publicly accessible registry. Makes changes regarding information that must be contained in the registry accessible to health care employers. Requires the Department to limit specific offense information on an applicant or employee. Requires that after June 30, 2016, the public registry report that an individual is ineligible for employment if he or she has a disqualifying offense under the Health Care Worker Background Check Act and has not received a waiver under that Act. Requires that the public registry report than an individual is eligible for employment if he or she has received a waiver but not the waiver information. Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Allows a health care employer to hire an individual with a disqualifying offense if the individual has received a waiver under the Act (rather than in the discretion of the Department of Public Health, no health care employer shall knowingly hire, employ, or retain any individual in a position with duties involving direct care for clients, patients, or residents, and no long-term care facility shall knowingly hire, employ, or retain any individual in a position with duties that involve or may involve contact with residents or access to the living quarters or the financial, medical, or personal records of residents, who has been convicted of committing or attempting to commit certain offenses). Creates a Health Care Worker Registry working group in the Office of the Governor. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that a party seeking judicial review of decisions of an electoral board must serve a copy of the court petition with the election authority. Amends the School Code. Removes provisions that the county clerk or the county board of election shall receive and file only those petitions for members of a board of education that include certain documents. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Eliminates mandatory sentences of natural life imprisonment for persons convicted of offenses committed before they attain 18 years of age. Provides that on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, when a person was under 18 years of age at the time of the commission of an offense, the court, at the sentencing hearing, shall consider specified factors in determining the appropriate sentence and be given greater discretion in determining an appropriate sentence.
Amends the Health Care Services Lien Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the creation and limitation of liens.
