Designates the section of Illinois Route 98 from its intersection with Illinois Route 29 to its intersection with McNaughton Park Drive as the "Sgt. Dean Russel Shaffer Memorial Highway".
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning water and sewer utilities.
Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. Requires an applicant for a clinical social worker license to hold a license as a social worker when completing the required clinical experience.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the applicability of the Civil Service in Cities division of the Municipal Code.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall, by rule, prescribe retention periods of no longer than 2 years for indicated reports involving inadequate food, inadequate shelter, inadequate supervision, inadequate clothing, environmental neglect, lockout, and other categories as may be determined by the Department. Provides that nothing in this provision shall prohibit the Department from retaining an indicated report for up to 5 years in the foregoing categories of reports when there exist aggravated circumstances, as defined by rule. In a provision concerning appeals, provides that the Department shall, by rule, establish conditions under which an indicated report that has been properly appealed may be expunged upon completion of a course of services prescribed by the Department. Provides that notwithstanding the expiration of the deadline for appealing an indicated report and notwithstanding the previous issuance of a final administrative decision, the Director of the Department or his or her designee shall expunge from the central register either an indicated report or the name of a specified perpetrator if a court of law has found that either the alleged abuse or neglect, or the responsibility of the individual, was not established either by probable cause or by a preponderance of the evidence, provided that such court finding arises from the same nucleus of operative facts as the indicated report. Requires the Department to establish, by rule, a process for requesting relief on the basis of such court findings. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Sgt. Douglas J. Riney of Fairview.
Mourns the death of Jim Mamer of East Peoria.
Mourns the death of James K. Polk of Peoria.
Mourns the death of Arturo Silva Jr. of Mapleton.
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Provides that, unless mutually agreed otherwise, any party to a collective bargaining agreement who fails to timely comply with an arbitration award or who, after timely demand, fails to submit a grievance dispute concerning the administration or interpretation of an agreement to arbitration shall pay to the prevailing party all reasonable costs of the proceeding in the trial and reviewing courts, including reasonable attorneys' fees. Provides that a charging party or person who, pursuant to an application for judicial review of an order of the Board issued in relation to an unfair labor practice proceeding, obtains a stay of the Board's order pending judicial review shall pay all reasonable costs of the proceedings in the reviewing courts, including reasonable attorneys' fees, as determined by the court, in the event the final unappealable decision of the reviewing courts is adverse to the party obtaining the stay. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
