Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In addition to other specified actions required under the Code, requires a managed care community network that contracts with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to establish, maintain, and provide a fair and reasonable reimbursement rate to pharmacy providers for pharmaceutical services, prescription drugs and drug products, and pharmacy or pharmacist-provided services. Provides that the reimbursement methodology shall not be less than the current reimbursement rate utilized by the Department for prescription and pharmacy or pharmacist-provided services and shall not be below the actual acquisition cost of the pharmacy provider. Requires a managed care community network to ensure that the pharmacy formulary used by the managed care community network and its contract providers is no more restrictive than the Department's pharmaceutical program. Effective July 1, 2018.
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Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that, upon determining that centerline striping or shoulder striping of a highway is necessary for the safety and welfare of highway users and the public, the highway authority of that highway may, with the approval of the Department of Transportation, utilize State funds, including, but not limited to, funds granted through the federal State Highway Safety Program, to conduct the striping. Effective immediately.
Condemns the Governor's Office's response to the developing health crisis in Southeast DuPage County and demands the Governor's Office and the Illinois EPA's prompt and unreserved cooperation with the Illinois Attorney General's Office, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, local governments, and stakeholders affected in order to expeditiously resolve this crisis.
Creates the Naming Public Buildings for Elected Officials Act. Provides that no public building or other public asset owned or exclusively leased by the State or by any political subdivision of the State shall be named in honor of any elected official, unless that official has either retired from public office for a minimum of 10 consecutive years or is deceased for a minimum of 5 years. Defines "elected official" and "public office".
Amends the Video Gaming Act. Provides that, of the after-tax profits from a video gaming terminal located in a licensed veterans establishment, 45% (rather than 50%) shall be paid to the terminal operator, 50% shall be paid to the licensed veterans establishment, and 5% shall be paid to veterans service organizations with which the licensed veterans establishment is affiliated in proportion to that veterans service organizations previous year's claims processed, notwithstanding any agreement between the terminal operator and the licensed veterans establishment to the contrary. Of the 5% paid to a veterans service organization, provides that 75% must be used by the veterans service organization's veterans services offices. Upon request of the Illinois Gaming Board, the veterans service organization must provide documentation that the spending of any moneys received is in compliance with these provisions.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Telecommunications Article.
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In a provision relating to purchasing service credit for certain military service, deletes the requirement of paying an additional amount representing the employer's normal cost of the benefit plus interest. Provides that this change does not entitle any person to a refund of contributions or interest already paid. Excludes the change from the definition of "new benefit increase". Effective immediately.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Alters an exemption in the definition of "firearm" to exempt a pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or B-B gun which expels a single globular projectile from the requirement of a Firearm Owner's Identification Card to possess the pneumatic gun, spring gun, paint ball gun, or B-B gun (currently the exemption only covers those that expel a single globular projectile not exceeding .18 inch in diameter or which have a maximum muzzle velocity of less than 700 feet per second). Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that an Electing Provider that has at any time been subject to a certain condition of a specified order issued by the Illinois Commerce Commission shall be subject to specified provisions of the Illinois Administrative Code. Extends the repeal date of the Telecommunications Article to July 1, 2020.
Amends the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Regulation Act. Provides that no legal action shall be commenced or maintained against any person engaged in the business of selling at retail, supplying, handling, or transporting liquefied petroleum gas in this State if the alleged injury, damage, or loss was caused by: (1) the alteration, modification, or repair of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum gas appliance if done without the knowledge and consent of the liquefied petroleum gas seller, supplier, handler, or transporter; or (2) the use of liquefied petroleum gas equipment or a liquefied petroleum gas appliance in a manner or for a purpose other than that for which the equipment or appliance was intended and that could not reasonably have been expected.