Sen. Kimberly Lightford

Mourns the death of Greg L. Rieves Sr.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "33 1/3%".

Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Modifies the disclosure of economic interests Article to provide for separate provisions concerning statements of economic interests to be filed with the Secretary of State and the county clerk respectively. Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that Ethics Officers designated for an office or State agency under the jurisdiction of the Executive Ethics Commission or designated by a Regional Transit Board shall, among other responsibilities, review statements of economic interest and disclosure forms of officers, senior employees, and contract monitors before they are filed with the Secretary of State if the statements of economic interest are filed by hard copy. Provides that if such statements are filed online, the Ethics Officer shall review the statements of economic interest and disclosure forms of officers, senior employees, and contract monitors within 15 days after the filing deadline. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 420/4A-101 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-101 5 ILCS 420/4A-101.5 new 5 ILCS 420/4A-102 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-102 5 ILCS 420/4A-105 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-105 5 ILCS 420/4A-106 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-106 5 ILCS 420/4A-106.5 new 5 ILCS 420/4A-107 from Ch. 127, par. 604A-107 5 ILCS 420/4A-108 5 ILCS 430/20-23 Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 140/7.5 5 ILCS 315/6 from Ch. 48, par. 1606 5 ILCS 315/6.5 new 5 ILCS 315/10 from Ch. 48, par. 1610 15 ILCS 405/20 from Ch. 15, par. 220 40 ILCS 5/1-167 new 50 ILCS 740/8 from Ch. 85, par. 538 115 ILCS 5/3 from Ch. 48, par. 1703 115 ILCS 5/11.1 new 115 ILCS 5/11.2 new 115 ILCS 5/14 from Ch. 48, par. 1714 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Provides that an employer is required to furnish the exclusive bargaining representative with a complete list of the names and addresses of the public employees in the bargaining unit at least once each month. Provides that the employer shall not discourage employees or applicants from becoming or remaining union members or authorizing dues deductions, and shall not otherwise interfere with the relationship between employees and their exclusive bargaining representative. Provides that the employer shall refer all inquiries about union membership to the exclusive bargaining representative, with certain exceptions. Provides that the employer may not disclose certain personal information with respect to any employee, except to that employee's exclusive representative. Contains provisions concerning the collection of dues. Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Prohibits the disclosure of certain personal information regarding participants and members. Makes other changes. Correctional Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Dept of Corrections) There is no fiscal or population impact on the Department of Corrections. Land Conveyance Appraisal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Dept. of Transportation) No land conveyances are included in Senate Bill 1784 (H-AM 1); therefore, there are no appraisals to be filed. State Debt Impact Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Government Forecasting & Accountability) SB 1784 (H-AM 1) would not change the amount of authorization for any type of State-issued or State-supported bond, and, therefore, would not affect the level of State indebtedness. Balanced Budget Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Office of Management and Budget) The Balanced Budget Note Act does not apply to this bill as it is not a supplemental appropriation that increases or decreases appropriations. Under the Act, a balanced budget note must be prepared only for bills that change a general funds appropriation for the fiscal year in which the new bill is enacted. Judicial Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Admin Office of the Illinois Courts) This legislation would neither increase nor decrease the number of judges needed in the State of Illinois. Pension Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Government Forecasting & Accountability) There is no discernible fiscal impact associated with SB 1784, as amended by HA 1. Fiscal Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (IL Educational Labor Relations Board) In the event Senate Bill 1784 (H-AM 1) passes and becomes law, it is not expected to have any measurable fiscal impact on the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. Housing Affordability Impact Note, House Floor Amendment No. 1 (Housing Development Authority) This bill will have no effect on the cost of constructing, purchasing, owning, or selling a single-family residence. House Floor Amendment No. 2 Makes changes to the bill as amended by House Amendment No. 1 by providing that certain references to dues of a labor organization also include other payments to a labor organization. Makes a technical correction to change a reference from "employee" to "participant". Provides that certain provisions of House Amendment No. 1 concerning the disclosure of information by a pension fund or retirement system do no apply to a labor organization or other voluntary association affiliated with a labor organization or labor federation (in House Amendment No. 1, a labor organization or an exclusive representative).

Amends the ID/DD Community Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 47/1-101 Adds reference to: 215 ILCS 5/355 from Ch. 73, par. 967 215 ILCS 125/4-12 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1409.5 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Insurance Code and the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Provides that all individual and small group accident and health policies written subject to certain federal standards must file rates with the Department of Insurance for approval. Provides that unreasonable rate increases or inadequate rates shall be disapproved. Requires the Department to provide a report to the General Assembly on or after January 1, 2021 regarding both on and off exchange individual and small group rates in the Illinois market. Requires that the Department approve or deny rate filings within 45 calendar days of submission unless the Director of Insurance extends the period by following specific procedures. Provides that a rate increase that is not approved or denied by the Department by the applicable deadline shall be automatically approved on the following calendar day. Provides that no less than 30 days after the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has certified the plans described in this Section for the upcoming plan year, the Department shall publish on its website a report explaining the rates for that plan year's certified health care plans. Defines "inadequate rate" and "unreasonable rate increase".

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires certain group health insurance policies and other specified policies to provide coverage of medically necessary treatment for postpartum complications as determined by the woman's treating physician. Makes conforming changes in the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Adds provisions regarding birthing facilities and neonatal and maternal care designations. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services may establish the Nurse-Family Partnership Pilot Program. Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that women during pregnancy and during a 12-month (rather than 60-day) period are eligible for medical assistance. Provides that otherwise eligible women shall receive coverage for doula services, perinatal depression screenings, and other services. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall seek approval of a State Plan amendment to expand coverage for family planning services to women whose income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. Makes other changes. Amends the Adoption Act. Removes a rebuttable presumption regarding a parent's unfitness if, at birth, the urine, blood, or meconium of the parent's child contains any amount of specified controlled substances. Makes conforming changes to the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 20 ILCS 1305/10-23 new 410 ILCS 50/3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5403 Further amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services' High Risk Infant Follow-Up program shall be expanded to serve any pregnant or post-partum woman identified as high-risk by a Level I, Level II, or Level III hospital. Provides that the services shall be provided by registered nurses. Requires the Department, in conjunction with the Department of Public Health and specified entities, to develop rules and appropriate revisions to the High Risk Infant Follow-Up program to expand existing services provided by registered nurses to pregnant and postpartum women. Provides that such rules shall be adopted no later than January 1, 2021. Amends the Medical Patient Rights Act. Provides that, with the exception of medical emergencies with inadequate time to obtain consent, each patient has the right to specific informed consent, or informed permission in the case of an infant, including information regarding the health and legal benefits and risks regarding biochemical testing for controlled substances. Provides that health care providers shall provide to patients, or patients' representatives, in writing, specified information. Senate Committee Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 20 ILCS 2310/2310-455 new Adds reference to: 410 ILCS 250/11.2 new In provisions expanding the Department of Public Health's High Risk Infant Follow-Up program, provides that the registered nurses may collaborate with other providers, including, but not limited to, obstetricians, gynecologists, and pediatricians, when providing the services to the patient. Adds the provisions concerning maternal care designations at birthing facilities to the Developmental Disability Prevention Act (rather than to the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois) and makes the following changes to those provisions: provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt rules to implement specified provisions; requires the Department to hold multiple public hearings with representatives from diverse geographical regions and professional backgrounds (rather than in diverse geographic regions of the State); Removes language regarding neonatal care; requires the Department to adopt rules to implement the amendatory Act's provisions by June 1, 2021 (rather than January 1, 2021); and removes language requiring a birthing facility to report to the Department its appropriate level of neonatal care designation and maternal care designation. Senate Committee Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 325 ILCS 5/3 410 ILCS 50/3 705 ILCS 405/2-3 705 ILCS 405/2-18 750 ILCS 50/1 Removes Sections amending the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act, the Medical Patient Rights Act, the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, and the Adoption Act. Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 Adds reference to: 215 ILCS 5/356z.4a new Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill as amended by Senate Amendment Nos. 1, 2, and 3 with the following changes: Further amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that insurers shall allow hospitals separate reimbursement for a long-acting reversible contraceptive device provided immediately postpartum in the inpatient hospital setting before hospital discharge. Provides that coverage shall be subject to other general exclusions, limitations, and financial requirements of the policy, including coordination of benefits, participating provider requirements, and utilization review of health care services, including review of medical necessity, case management, experimental and investigational treatments, managed care provisions, and other terms and conditions. Provides that nothing shall prevent an insurer from applying concurrent and post-service utilization review of health care services, including review of medical necessity, case management, experimental and investigational treatments, managed care provisions, and other terms and conditions of the insurance policy. Removes language providing that benefits for days 29 and thereafter of inpatient care, detoxification/withdrawal management, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient treatment, and outpatient treatment shall be subject to concurrent review. Provides that an independent utilization review organization shall make a determination within 72 (rather than 24) hours. Removes language regarding when the benefits for outpatient prescription drugs to treat mental, emotional, nervous, or substance use disorder or conditions shall be provided. Removes language requiring the first 180 days per plan year of benefits to be computed based on inpatient days. In provisions amending the Department of Human Services Act, provides that the Department of Human Services shall expand and update its maternal child health programs to serve any pregnant or postpartum woman identified as high-risk by her primary care provider or hospital according to the standards developed by the Department of Public Health under the Developmental Disability Prevention Act. Provides that the services shall be provided by registered nurses, licensed social workers, or other staff with behavioral health or medical training, as approved by the Department of Human Services. Provides that the persons providing the services may collaborate with other providers, including, but not limited to, obstetricians, gynecologists, or pediatricians, when providing services to a patient. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health, in collaboration with the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and other key providers of maternal child health services, shall, on or before June 1, 2021, revise or add to the rules of the Maternal and Child Health Services Code of the Illinois Administrative Code that govern the High Risk Infant Follow-up, using current scientific and national and State outcomes data, to expand existing services to improve both maternal and infant outcomes overall and to reduce racial disparities in outcomes and services provided. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 375/6.11 20 ILCS 1305/10-23 new 20 ILCS 1305/10-24 new 20 ILCS 2310-455 new 55 ILCS 5/5-1069.3 65 ILCS 5/10-4-2.3 105 ILCS 5/10-22.3f 215 ILCS 356z.4a new 215 ILCS 5/356z.33 new 215 ILCS 125/5-3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 1411.2 215 ILCS 165/10 from Ch. 32, par. 604 305 ILCS 5/5-2 from Ch. 23, par. 5-2 305 ILCS 5/5-5 from Ch. 23, par. 5-5 305 ILCS 5/5-5.24 410 ILCS 250/11.2 new Adds reference to: 410 ILCS 410/3 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 6903 410 ILCS 410/3.2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Alzheimer's Disease Research Act. Provides that, if funding is available, moneys in the Alzheimer's Disease Research, Care, and Support Fund shall be used by the Department of Public Health to cover costs associated with executing appropriate modules of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and otherwise administering relevant data collection and implementing recommendations outlined in the Alzheimer's Disease State Plan. Makes other changes concerning the Fund. Effective January 1, 2020.

Amends Public Act 101-7. Provides that up to 15% of the amounts appropriated to the Department of Human Services for grants to community providers and local governments for the purposes of encouraging full participation in the 2020 federal decennial census may be used for administrative and operational expenses. Effective immediately.

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, November 14, 2019, the House of Representatives stands adjourned until Wednesday, January 08, 2020, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Monday, January 13, 2020, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Thursday, January 16, 2020, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, January 22, 2020, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Monday, January 27, 2020, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Tuesday, January 28, 2020, or until the call of the Speaker; and the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, January 28, 2020, or until the call of the President.

Amends the Nurse Practice Act and the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules to include implicit bias training in the continuing education requirements for licensees under the Acts. Defines "implicit bias". Effectively immediately.

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, the House of Representatives stands adjourned until Tuesday, November 12, 2019, or until the call of the Speaker; and the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, November 12, 2019, or until the call of the President.

Thanks State Senator Toi Hutchinson for her service to the people of Illinois.