Mourns the death of Michael McElroy of Decatur.
Sponsored bills
Mourns the death of Robert Charles Howald of Bunker Hill.
Amends the Food Handling Regulation Enforcement Act. Provides that a home kitchen operation does not include a person who produces or packages non-potentially hazardous baked goods for sale by a religious, charitable, or nonprofit organization for fundraising purposes. Adds additional requirements in order to qualify as a home kitchen operation. Makes changes concerning the jurisdiction of the local governing body over home kitchen operations. Defines a term. Removes a provision prohibiting certain types of jams and jellies from cottage food operations. Increases the gross receipt threshold of exempt food from $25,000 to $36,000. Allows the Department to adopt rules to implement the requirements of the amendatory Act.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Adds to the offense of institutional vandalism infliction of damage on a church, synagogue, mosque, cemetery, mortuary, school, educational facility, community center, similar structure, or grounds adjacent to, and owned or rented by an above designated place, because of the actual or perceived sexual orientation of another person or group. Provides that for purposes of the hate crime statute, the institutional vandalism statute, and the statute concerning aggravating factors in sentencing, "sexual orientation" has the meaning ascribed to it in the Illinois Human Rights Act (rather than heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality).
Mourns the death of Betsy W. Stockard-Odeneal of Decatur.
Mourns the death of Andrew J. Bray of Gillespie.
Mourns the death of Janet A. Dudley of Shelbyville.
Mourns the death of James Paul Meisenheimer of Bunker Hill.
Mourns the death of Danny Dale Manning of Decatur.
Urges President Barack Obama and members of the United States Senate and House of Representatives to reauthorize the United States Export-Import Bank before June 30, 2015.