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 January 1, 2024, the exemption for farm machinery and equipment also includes electrical power generation equipment used primarily for production agriculture. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that registered professional nursing practice is a scientific process founded on a professional body of knowledge. It is a learned profession based on the understanding of the human condition across the life span and environment, includes all nursing specialties, and means the performance of any nursing act based upon professional knowledge, judgment, and skills acquired by means of completion of an approved professional nursing education program. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate nursing interventions and tasks (rather than nursing interventions) to other registered professional nurses and licensed practical nurses based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that registered professional nurses may delegate tasks to unlicensed personnel based on a comprehensive nursing assessment. Provides that a registered professional nurse is prohibited from delegating work requiring nursing knowledge, assessment, judgment, inference, decision making (including medication administration), the development of a plan of care, and the evaluation of a plan of care to unlicensed non-nurse personnel. Removes provisions concerning delegation of nursing interventions and administration of medications in community-based or in-home care settings. Makes other changes. Effective August 1, 2023.
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Requires the Department of Public Health, within one year after the effective date of the amendatory Act, to adopt rules requiring all EMS personnel to be equipped by their employers with body cameras that record the interactions of those personnel with patients, emergency responders, and members of the public during service calls and to adopt rules requiring all ambulances, SEMSVs, and medical carriers to be equipped by their owners with dashboard cameras that record the operation of those vehicles by EMS personnel during service calls. Specifies that the rules adopted by the Department shall require the body cameras and dashboard cameras to be operational during all service calls and shall ensure that all recordings made by the body cameras and dashboard cameras are retained by employers and owners for at least 6 months after the date of the recording and are not capable of being modified or deleted during that retention period. Provides that recordings made with a body camera or dashboard camera are exempt from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act except when requested by the person who made the service call or that person's attorney or personal representative or a law enforcement official. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that, by January 1, 2024, the Department on Aging shall align the menu of services offered under the Community Care Program with the services offered under the Home Services Program administered by the Department of Human Services. Provides that the purpose of the amendatory Act is to ensure that persons 60 years of age and older who are enrolled in the Community Care Program have access to the same services available to persons 60 years of age and younger under the Home Services Program. Provides that nothing in the amendatory Act shall be construed to limit the Department on Aging from providing additional services under the Community Care Program beyond those services provided under the Home Services Program.
Amends the New Markets Development Program Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall limit the monetary amount of qualified equity investments at no more than $20,000,000 of tax credits for the primary allocation and no more than $12,000,000 of tax credits for the targeted allocation. Provides that, on or after January 1, 2024, but not more than 120 days after the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund of the United States Department of the Treasury announces allocation awards under a Notice of Funding Availability that was published in the Federal Register on November 22, 2022, $250,000,000 of qualified equity investments for the primary allocation and $150,000,000 of qualified equity investments for the targeted allocation shall be allocated by the Department. Makes other changes. Defines terms. Effective immediately.
Creates the Medication Aide Program Article in the Nurse Practice Act. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall administer and enforce a licensed medication aide program and shall license and regulate licensed medication aides. Provides standards for an applicant to qualify as a qualified employer. Includes provisions concerning: licensure requirements; exempt activities; scope of practice; unlicensed practice; violations and civil penalties; applications for original licensure; examinations; licensure by examination; expiration of a license; and titles. Provides that licenses issued under the Article are subject to the Administration and Enforcement Article of the Act, including provisions concerning grounds for disciplinary action. Provides that the Department shall file rules to administer the Medication Aide Program Article within 90 days of the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Revenue shall establish and administer a State Property Tax Relief Reimbursement Pilot Program for the purpose of reimbursing taxing districts for property tax revenue loss associated with State facilities. Sets forth the amount of the reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the salary (exclusive of any other compensation or benefits) of a clerk or recorder who is elected or appointed after the effective date of the amendatory Act shall not be less than 80% of the salary set for the State's Attorney for the county in which the county clerk or recorder is elected or appointed. Provides that the State shall furnish 66 2/3% of the total annual salary to be paid to a clerk or recorder, and the county shall furnish 33 1/3% of the total annual salary. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Makes conforming changes, including removing outdated salary references.
Amends the General Provisions and State Employee Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a security employee of the Department of Corrections or the Department of Juvenile Justice under the Tier 2 provisions is entitled to an annuity calculated under the alternative retirement formula, in lieu of the regular or minimum retirement annuity, only if the person has withdrawn from service with not less than 20 years of eligible creditable service and has attained age 55 (instead of age 60), regardless of whether the attainment of age 55 (instead of age 60) occurs while the person is still in service. Provides that any benefit increase that results from the amendatory Act is excluded from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.
Creates the Cairo Development Authority Act. Contains only a short title provision.
