Sen. Don Harmon

Creates the Care of Students with Diabetes Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Redefines "public record" to include settlement agreements entered into by or on behalf of a public body, provided that information exempt under the Act from disclosure may be redacted.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning definitions.

Creates the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Contains a short title only.

Creates the Work Group on the Care and Protection of Adults and Children to study and recommend to the General Assembly how Illinois' systems of regulating, licensing, investigating, and reporting the treatment and care of vulnerable adults and children, and of investigating and reporting and otherwise addressing the abuse, neglect, exploitation, and/or victimization of adults and children, can be changed to provide a unified, comprehensive, cohesive, and more effective and efficient system that affords the maximum protection for the safety and well-being of vulnerable persons of all ages in all settings of care and/or support.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the applicability of the common law.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Property Tax Appeal Board.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Raises the maximum age of a dependent child that a policy of accident and health insurance may insure, originally or by subsequent amendment, upon the application of an adult member of a family who shall be deemed the policyholder, from 19 to 24. Provides that if the limiting age under the policy is less than 25 years of age, then the insurer shall, upon application of the dependent child, provide coverage after that specific age, until the dependent child is 25 years of age.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school counselors.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, upon the filing of any tax objection complaint that would, if allowed, reduce the assessed valuation of any property by more than $100,000, the plaintiff must give notice of the tax objection complaint by mailing a copy of it to any municipality, school district, and community college district in which the property is situated, by certified mail, return receipt requested. Provides that the plaintiff must attach a certification to the tax objection complaint that the notice to taxing districts has been made and that the courts have no jurisdiction to hear any tax objection complaint if proper certification of notice is not filed. Provides that, upon receipt of notice of the filing of a tax objection complaint, a taxing district has an unconditional right to intervene in the tax objection proceedings and has the right to participate fully in the proceedings in the same manner as the named party defendant. Effective immediately.