Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Eliminates the requirement that the State and county highway authorities adopt strategies and practices that include the delivery of 5-year programs, annual programs, and the establishment of coordination councils in the locales. Provides that each utility shall designate in writing to the Secretary of Transportation or his or her designee an agent for notice and the delivery of State or county projects. Provides that the 90-day deadline for removal, relocation, or modification of the ditches, drains, track, rails, poles, wires, pipe line, or other equipment shall be enforceable by the State or county, instead of by a coordination council. Provides that the total cost of modification may include changes made during construction to avoid or minimize impact to known, or unknown utility's facilities. Provides that costs incurred by the State or county due to the untimely relocation of the utility's facilities, and the State's or county's need to meet a project completion date, shall be paid by the utility upon request from the State or county.
Sen. John Curran
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Amends the Local Records Act. Provides that the use of any application, software, or other technology that prevents the maintenance or preservation of a public record through encryption, automatic deletion, or other means, or that results in a public record existing outside the possession or control of the applicable public body, shall be considered the concealment of a public record that is prohibited.
Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Provides that a local public entity is not liable for the bodily injury or death of a driver or passenger in a stolen vehicle if the plaintiff was, during the course of the alleged negligence, in flight or fleeing apprehension during the commission of the offense of fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer or aggravated fleeing or attempting to elude a peace officer. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Division of Professional Regulation of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall waive all application fees and examination fees for active military personnel and their spouses. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act waives the requirement that the person or spouse meet all other licensing requirements, including other fees required during the licensing process.
Urges the General Assembly and the Governor to invest the money received through the American Rescue Plan Act to encourage women to return to the work force and to help stimulate the growth of women in the workforce, and particularly, urges the Child Care Funds be used to help fund child care and make it easily accessible for working mothers.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Creates the offense of extortion when a person knowingly obtains, or causes to be obtained, property, services, something of value, advantage or immunity, from another person, with that person's consent, when the consent is induced by wrongful use of the threat of fear or actual or threatened force, violence, or under color of official right. Provides that extortion is a Class 3 felony.
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Nurse Licensure Compact does not supersede existing State labor laws. Provides that the State may not share with or disclose to the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators or any other state any of the contents of a nationwide criminal history records check conducted for the purpose of multistate licensure under the Nurse Licensure Compact.
Proposes to amend the Suffrage and Elections Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides for the recall of all State Executive Branch officers, legislative leaders, the Auditor General, members of the General Assembly, and local government officials. Makes changes to the procedures for the recall of the Governor. Effective upon being declared adopted.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that the Department of Transportation shall establish and solely fund bicycle and pedestrian ways in conjunction with the construction, reconstruction, or other change of any State transportation facility in or within one mile of an urban area (instead of in or within one mile of a municipality with a population of over 1,000 people). Allows a county (in addition to a municipality) to opt out of bicycle and pedestrian way construction by passing a resolution stating that a bicycle or pedestrian way does not fit within its development plan.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.