Amends the Open Meetings Act. Requires certain specified information to be posted on Internet websites maintained by units of local government or school districts with an operating budget of $1,000,000 or more. Requires units of local government and school districts to develop, maintain, and make publicly available, in any format the unit of local government or school district would otherwise utilize for its own purposes, information concerning moneys collected and expended by the unit of local government or school district. Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Provides that any record or information that a unit of local government or school district maintains an electronic copy of on its Internet website in order to comply with the Open Meetings Act is exempt from inspection and copying. Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Illinois Transparency and Accountability Portal shall have the capability to compile and update its database with information received from all school districts and units of local government. Amends the Notice by Publication Act. Provides that whenever an officer of a court, unit of local government, or school district is required by law to provide notice by publication in a newspaper, it is sufficient to publish certain specified information in lieu of the entire text of the notice. Contains a severability clause and a mandate exemption. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, as follows: General Funds $638,900; Other State Funds $168,700; Total $807,600.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission, in coordination with the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, to issue a report evaluating the degree to which public utilities' support of job education and training leads to job creation and economic growth in the State. Provides for repeal of the provisions on January 1, 2020. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Educational Labor Relations Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, as follows: Other State Funds $1,777,800.
Creates the Home Rule Administrative Procedure Act. Provides that home rule municipalities and home rule counties shall adopt all rules through the procedures required by the Act. Provides for procedures for general rulemaking, implementing discretionary powers, incorporation by reference, emergency rulemaking, and peremptory rulemaking. Provides for the creation of a Designated Review Committee composed of 5 members of the governing board of the home rule unit. Provides for agenda, notice, public hearing, and publication requirements. Limits home rule powers. Defines terms. Amends the Counties Code and Illinois Municipal Code making conforming changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective January 1, 2018.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall develop, publish, and disseminate a brochure to educate the general public on the effects of concussion in children and discuss how to look for concussion warning signs in children. The brochure shall be distributed free of charge by schools to any child or the parent or guardian of a child who may have sustained a concussion, regardless of whether or not the concussion occurred while the child was participating in an interscholastic athletic activity. Amends the School Code. Provides that, amongst other duties, the regional office of education (rather than the district superintendent or chief school administrator) of a public elementary or secondary school or charter school shall supervise an athletic trainer or other person responsible for compliance with the return-to-play or return-to-learn concussion protocol established under the Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall (rather than may) adopt rules governing concussion protocol under the Code, including, but not limited to, rules governing the informal or formal accommodation of a student who may have sustained a concussion during an interscholastic athletic activity.
Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act of 2008. Provides that a taxpayer shall not be entitled to take a credit under that Act for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. Removes a provision from that Act providing that the General Assembly may extend the sunset date by 5-year intervals. Effective immediately.
Amends the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. Modifies a Section concerning the adoption of federal rules applicable to grants and provides that specified provisions do not apply to for-profit subrecipients because for-profit subrecipients are not subject to the requirements of a specified provision of the Code of Federal Regulations. Provides that if a Program Audit Guide is not available, the State awarding agency must prepare a Program Audit Guide in accordance with the audit requirements of specified provisions of the Code of Federal Regulations. Requires the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to adopt supplemental rules pertaining to, among other subjects, specific conditions for individual recipients, including (rather than requiring) the use of a fiscal agent and additional corrective conditions. Applies provisions in the Code of Federal Regulations concerning federal agencies that make federal awards to non-federal entities to State grant-making agencies under the Act. Provides that the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit shall be responsible for providing technical assistance and assuring the Administrative Code proposed by State grant agencies comply with the Act. Repeals the Section specifying a repeal date for the Act. Makes other changes.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Arts Council for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2017, as follows: General Funds $9,901,700; Federal Funds $1,000,000; Total $10,901,700.