Sen. Doris Turner

Creates the Black Wall Street Program Act. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to create and administer the Black Wall Street Program to provide loans and financial assistance to designated communities for the creation of Black Wall Street Business Districts. Specifies further requirements concerning Program eligibility and the disbursement of loan funds under the Program. Requires each municipality receiving a loan under the Program to establish a municipal investment program by which loan funds are dispersed to qualified African American business entities and persons for the purpose of establishing Black Wall Street Business Districts. Allows for the use of loan funds to invest in, issue, or sell bonds for the purpose of the construction of Black Wall Street Business Districts and all related matters. Requires the Department to compile and make available to the public a database of qualified African American contractors and engineers. Requires the Department to create and administer a Black Wall Street Investment Hub for the purposes of providing specified assistance to African American business entities and persons in establishing Black Wall Street businesses. Provides for the adoption of administrative rules. Creates the Black Wall Street Fund as a special fund in the State treasury for specified purposes. Defines terms. Makes conforming changes.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the Code shall not apply to the process used by the Department of Agriculture to enter into contracts for concessions, vendors, marketing, space rental and camping, sponsorships, and contracts in which the Department of Agriculture does not make a payment, for the hosting of the State Fairs in Springfield and Du Quoin as prescribed by the State Fair Act.

Amends the Electricity Excise Tax Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Creates the Agritourism Liability Act. Provides that an agritourism operator is not liable for the injury or death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of agritourism activities if the agritourism operator posts the prescribed warning notice. Provides that a participant assumes the inherent risks of an agritourism activity by engaging in the agritourism activity. Provides that no participant may pursue an action or recover from an agritourism operator for injury, loss, damage, or death of the participant resulting from any of the inherent risks of agritourism activities. Provides that nothing prevents or limits the liability of an agritourism operator if the agritourism operator: (1) commits an act or omission that constitutes willful or wanton disregard for the safety of the participant and that act or omission proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant; or (2) has actual knowledge or reasonably should know of an unusual dangerous condition on the land, facilities, or equipment used in the activity or the dangerous propensity of a particular animal used in such an activity, does not make the danger known to the participant, and the danger proximately causes injury, damage, or death to the participant. Provides that an agritourism operator shall post and maintain a warning notice in a clearly visible location at or near the entrance to the agritourism activity. Effective July 1, 2022.

Amends the Invest in Kids Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 35 ILCS 40/1 Adds reference to: 35 ILCS 105/3-5.1 new 35 ILCS 105/3-10 35 ILCS 105/3-41 35 ILCS 105/3-42.5 new 35 ILCS 110/3-10 from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-10 35 ILCS 115/3-10 from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-10 35 ILCS 120/2-10 35 ILCS 505/3d new Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Makes changes concerning the exemption for biodiesel, renewable diesel, and biodiesel blends. Provides that the exemption is permanent. Changes the percentage of biodiesel that is required for the biodiesel blend to qualify for the exemption. Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Provides that a distributor who has a blender permit may blend petroleum-based diesel fuel with biodiesel and sell the blended or unblended product on any premises owned and operated by the dealer or distributor for the purpose of supporting or facilitating the retail sale of motor fuel. Provides that a refiner or supplier of petroleum-based diesel fuel or biodiesel shall not refuse to sell or transport to a distributor who is properly licensed and permitted as a blender any petroleum-based diesel fuel or biodiesel based on the distributor's or dealer's intent to use that product for blending. Effective immediately.

Amends the Specialized Mental Health Rehabilitation Act of 2013. Excludes from definition of "consumer" under the Act an individual who has been found unfit to stand trial, or not guilty by reason of insanity, and is currently subject to a court order requiring placement in secure, inpatient care in the custody of the Department of Human Services pursuant to the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 or the Unified Code of Corrections, as applicable. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 concerning defendants unfit to stand trial. Provides that a defendant whose disability is mental and the most serious offense charged against the defendant is a misdemeanor, the court shall order outpatient treatment, unless the court finds good cause on the record to order inpatient treatment. Provides that the Department shall admit the defendant to a secure facility within 60 days of the transmittal of the court's placement order, unless the Department can demonstrate good faith efforts at placement and a lack of bed and placement availability. Provides that if placement cannot be made within 60 days of the transmittal of the court's placement order and the Department has demonstrated good faith efforts at placement and a lack of bed and placement availability, the Department shall provide an update to the ordering court every 30 days until the defendant is placed. Deletes language providing that if, within 20 days of the transmittal by the clerk of the circuit court of the placement court order, the Department fails to notify the sheriff of the identity of the facility to which the defendant shall be transported, the sheriff shall notify the Department of its intent to transfer the defendant to the nearest secure mental health facility operated by the Department and inquire as to the status of the placement evaluation and availability for admission to such facility operated by the Department by contacting a designated person within the Department. Provides that, upon a determination that there is not a substantial probability that the defendant will attain fitness within the period specified in the Code from the original finding of unfitness, the court shall hold a discharge hearing within 60 days, unless good cause is shown for the delay. Makes other changes.

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 Illinois. Provides that the credit does not apply to equipment and materials placed in service after December 31, 2024. 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 Illinois from taxation under the Acts. Defines terms. Effective immediately.

Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Provides that emergency medical (EMS) personnel may provide preveterinary emergency care to a dog or cat to the extent the EMS personnel has received commensurate training and is authorized by his or her employer to provide care. Provides that requirements governing the circumstances under which EMS personnel may provide preveterinary emergency care to dogs and cats may be specified in the employer's policies governing the provision of care. Contains language stating that nothing in the Act imposes upon EMS personnel any obligation to provide care to a dog or cat or to provide care to a dog or cat before a person. Amends the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. Provides that nothing in that Act shall apply to EMS personnel who provide preveterinary emergency care to a dog or cat under the amended provisions of the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Provides that "preveterinary emergency care" means the immediate medical stabilization of a dog or cat by EMS personnel, in an emergency to which the EMS personnel is responding, through means including oxygen, bandaging, or basic first aid (rather than oxygen, fluids, medications, or bandaging), with the intent of enabling the dog or cat to be treated by a veterinarian. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 50/3.260 new 225 ILCS 115/4 Adds reference to: 210 ILCS 50/1 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 5501 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 210 ILCS 50/1 Adds reference to: 720 ILCS 570/401 from Ch. 56 1/2, par. 1401 720 ILCS 570/414 720 ILCS 570/415 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that for various offenses involving the manufacture or delivery of a fentanyl analog, 3 years shall be added to the term of imprisonment imposed by the court, and the maximum sentence for the offense shall be increased by 3 years. Provides that the 3-year penalty enhancement applies when the person knew or should have known that the substance containing the controlled substance contains any amount of fentanyl or a fentanyl analog. Provides that provisions regarding limited immunity from prosecution for a victim of sexual assault for the use, possession, and consumption of a controlled substance and limited immunity from prosecution for a person who is experiencing a drug overdose or for a person who in good faith seeks or obtains emergency medical assistance for someone experiencing an overdose, in relation to fentanyl, only apply to a person possessing less than 3 grams of a substance containing fentanyl or an analog thereof. Effective immediately.

Creates the Unserialized Firearm Serialization Act. Provides that the Illinois State Police shall maintain a database of each firearm possessed in the State that does not have a serial number imprinted on the firearm by a federal firearms importer or a federal firearms manufacturer. Provides that within 180 days after the effective date of the Act, the owner of a firearm that does not have a serial number imprinted on the firearm by a federal firearms importer or a federal firearms manufacturer shall submit an application to register the firearm with the Illinois State Police. Provides that upon the filing of the application, the Illinois State Police shall assign a unique serial number and conditionally register the firearm pending confirmation that the serial number has been imprinted on the firearm. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 to provide criminal penalties for a person to knowingly sell, offer to sell, or transfer a firearm that is not imprinted with a serial number issued under the Unserialized Firearm Serialization Act or by a federal firearms importer or federal firearms manufacturer in compliance with all federal laws and regulations regulating the manufacture and import of firearms, unless the person selling and the person receiving or purchasing the firearm is a law enforcement agency, federal firearms importer, or federal firearms manufacturer. Provides other exceptions. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to make conforming changes. Contains a severability provision.

Amends the State Property Control Act. Provides that the Director of Central Management Services as Administrator may convey any surplus real property covered by the State Property Control Act, by sale or lease, to a duly incorporated, charitable, non-profit organization or association for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables on a tract of land of less than 5 acres within any unit of local government, provided that the non-profit organization or association is not controlled, directly or indirectly, by any agricultural, commercial, or other business. Provides that the non-profit organization or association shall be authorized to sell fresh fruits and vegetables either on the land that was conveyed, off that land, or both, provided, that the sales are related or incidental to the non-profit purposes of the organization or association, and the net proceeds received by the non-profit organization or association are used to further the non-profit purposes of the organization or association. Provides that the lease of any real property to any duly incorporated non-profit organization or association shall be in accordance with the Illinois Procurement Code. Amends the Property Tax Code to provide a property tax exemption for non-profit organizations using land for the cultivation and sale of fresh fruits and vegetables.