Amends the Massage Licensing Act. Changes the name of the Act to the Massage Therapy Practice Act. Provides that all applicants and licensees under the Act shall provide a valid address and email address to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which shall serve as the address and email address of record. Authorizes certain notices to be emailed to the licensee's email address of record. Removes a provision that allows an applicant to satisfy licensure requirements by holding a current license from another jurisdiction having licensure requirements that include the completion of a massage therapy program of at least 500 hours. Provides that a massage therapist shall include the current license number issued by the Department on all advertisements and that failure to do so is grounds for discipline. Makes changes in provisions concerning exemptions under the Act. Provides that every displayed license shall have the license number visible. Makes other changes. Amends the Professional Service Corporation Act to make corresponding changes. Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal date of the Massage Therapy Practice Act to January 1, 2032. Effective January 1, 2022, except provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act take effect immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 80/4.41 new Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 80/4.37 In provisions amending the Regulatory Sunset Act, changes the repeal date of the Massage Therapy Practice Act from January 1, 2032 to January 1, 2027. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 5 ILCS 80/4.32 5 ILCS 80/4.37 225 ILCS 57/10 225 ILCS 57/12 new 225 ILCS 57/15 225 ILCS 57/25 225 ILCS 57/32 225 ILCS 57/45 225 ILCS 57/50 225 ILCS 57/60 225 ILCS 57/95 805 ILCS 10/3.6 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Massage Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Deletes reference to: 225 ILCS 57/1 Adds reference to: 5 ILCS 100/5-45.20 new 210 ILCS 50/3.50 210 ILCS 50/3.85 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall have the authority and responsibility to adopt rules permitting immediate reciprocity to all emergency medical services personnel who have received a certification issued by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, allowing such individuals to operate in a provisional status until the Illinois license is issued. Provides that to operate as EMS personnel on provisional status, an individual must have applied for licensure with the Department and meet all requirements for licensure. Provides that, until October 1, 2022, the Department must require each EMS System Program Plan to permit the utilization of alternative staffing models. Provides that each EMS System Program Plan shall be required to implement alternative staffing models no later than January 1, 2022. Exempts local governments and local government employees who provide EMS services from being required to implement alternative staffing models. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to authorize emergency rulemaking. Effective immediately.
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Creates the Carpet Stewardship Act. Provides that within 60 days after the effective date of the Act, the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency shall appoint specified members to a clearinghouse to administer and implement the carpet stewardship program. Specifies the duties of the clearinghouse. Requires the clearinghouse to be incorporated as a nonprofit. Provides that for all carpet sold in this State, the clearinghouse shall implement, and producers shall finance, a statewide carpet stewardship program that manages the product by reducing the product's waste generation, promotes its carpet recovery and reutilization, and provides for negotiation and execution of agreements to collect, transport, process, and market the old carpet for end-of-life carpet recovery or carpet reutilization. Requires the clearinghouse to submit, by July 1, 2023 and by July 1 every 3 years thereafter, a 3-year plan to the Agency for approval. Specifies the requirements for the plan. Establishes requirements for review of the plan and requirements for producers, retailers, and distributors of carpet. Requires the clearinghouse to submit annual reports to the Agency and pay specified administrative fees. Includes enforcement provisions for the Act. Establishes requirements for State procurement of carpet in the future. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $30,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Department of Public Health for the purpose of making Local Health Protection Grants to Certified Local Health Departments. Effective July 1, 2021.
Directs the Auditor General to conduct an audit of Medicaid MCOs.
Amends the Public Community College Act. Allows the board of trustees of a community college district to establish and offer a baccalaureate-level early childhood education program and confer a bachelor of applied science degree in early childhood education and a Professional Educator License with endorsements in early childhood education and early childhood special education under certain conditions. Provides for an application for approval from the Illinois Community College Board. Sets forth college requirements and prohibitions. Provides that a candidate for educator licensure must successfully complete applicable testing requirements prior to the issuance of an educator license and any endorsements. Provides for a statewide evaluation of such programs.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that a child protective investigator is authorized to carry and use personal protection spray devices, such as mace, pepper mace, or pepper gas, for self-defense purposes while investigating a report of child abuse or neglect if the child protective investigator has been trained on the proper use of such personal protection spray devices by the Illinois State Police. Requires the Illinois State Police to establish a training program for child protective investigators on the proper use of personal protection spray devices for self-defense purposes. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to provide funding for the training program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, beginning on July 1, 2022, breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, and breast pump kits are exempt from the taxes imposed under those Acts. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Code does not apply to the leasing of State-owned facilities by a wireless carrier. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates credit for the cost of equipment and materials used in the business of providing broadband services in a county in the State with a population of fewer than 40,000 people or a township in the State with a population density of less than 50 households per square mile in a county with a population of less than 300,000 people. Provides that the credit does not apply to equipment and materials placed in service after December 31, 2026. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act to exempt equipment and materials used to provide broadband services in a county in the State with a population of fewer than 40,000 people or a township in the State with a population density of less than 50 households per square mile in a county with a population of less than 300,000 people. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that if a municipality approves a special use permit for a facility regulated under the Livestock Management Facilities Act located within 1.5 miles of the border of the municipality, the parameters of the special use permit supersede the zoning powers of the county for that property. States that the provisions shall not be construed as to prevent a county from zoning property for any other agricultural use allowed under the Counties Code. Limits home rule powers. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that facilities permitted under the Livestock Management Facilities Act may be permitted as a special use by the corporate authorities of a municipality and such special uses may be part of specified intergovernmental agreements.
Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Provides that the provisions of the Act apply to the construction or demolition of public works performed by an employee of a public body engaged in the construction or demolition of public works on behalf of another public body. Makes conforming changes.