Sen. Chapin Rose

Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Governor to create a Management Improvement Initiative Committee that shall include the Management Improvement Initiative Departmental Leadership Team to implement the recommendations made in the report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as required under Public Act 96-1141. Provides that the Team shall be comprised of a representative from the Department on Aging and the Departments of Children and Family Services, Healthcare and Family Services, Human Services, and Public Health, and that the Team members shall integrate the Committee's objectives into their respective departmental operations and shall submit a progress report to the General Assembly by May 1, 2011 on the progress made in implementing the recommendations made in the report submitted to the General Assembly on January 1, 2011 as required under Public Act 96-1141. Provides that additional duties of the Committee shall include reviewing contracts held with community health and human service providers on the regulations and work processes required by the departments and their divisions; and describing how improved regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes are measured at the community vendor, contractor, and departmental levels, and how they have reduced redundant regulations, reporting, monitoring, compliance, auditing, certification, licensing, and work processes. Contains provisions concerning the composition of the Committee. Effective immediately.

Amends the Disaster Service Volunteer Leave Act and the Local Government Disaster Service Volunteer Act. Provides that "disaster" includes any disaster declared by proclamation of the Governor under a specific provision of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. With respect to the Board's analysis of formulating the annual budget request for State universities and colleges, provides that, beginning with Fiscal Year 2013, the annual budget request must incorporate performance-based funding, pursuant to the report of the Board's Higher Education Finance Study Commission. Provides that the Board shall have 2 fiscal years to implement this performance-based funding, and thereafter must update how this funding is calculated every 6 months, which updates must be reported to the Governor and the General Assembly. Effective immediately.

Amends the Community Living Facilities Licensing Act, the MR/DD Community Care Act, Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, Child Care Act of 1969, and the Community Services Act. Provides that for the various facilities licensed or established under those Acts, the Departments responsible for enforcement shall review the necessity of State Fire Marshal inspections if local fire authorities enforce codes that are more stringent than those applied by the State Fire Marshal and the local fire authorities issue a clearance of the various sites. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging, the Children and Family Services Act, the Department of Human Services Act, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, and the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department on Aging, the Department of Children and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, and the Department of Public Health shall have the authority and are hereby directed to collaboratively adopt joint rules to establish (i) a cross-agency prequalification process for contracting with privately owned or operated human service providers; (ii) a cross-agency master service agreement of standard terms and conditions for contracting with privately owned or operated human service providers; and (iii) a cross-agency common service taxonomy for human service providers to streamline the processes outlined in the amendatory Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall be the lead agency in this matter. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes reference to neighborhood vehicles from the definition of "non-highway vehicle". Provides that a unit of local government may authorize the operation of low-speed vehicles on streets that have a speed limit of more than 30 miles per hour but not greater than 35 miles per hour, provided that it first considers the volume, speed, and character of traffic on the street and whether low-speed vehicles may travel safely on that street. Provides that if a street is under the jurisdiction of more than one unit of government, each unit of government must agree to allow low-speed vehicles on that street. Provides that upon authorization of low-speed vehicles on a street, appropriate signs shall be posted. Removes signs or decal requirements for low-speed vehicles. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Stephen Ray Hartman of St. Joseph.

Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Resolves that each public university in this State shall report to the General Assembly on its efforts with respect to the use of energy and water at its facilities and have a target goal of reducing its expense footprint for power, gas, and water consumption by at least 15% within 2 years.

Designates the new building at the Illinois Fire Service Institute as the "Richard L. Jaehne Building" in honor of Mr. Jaehne and his many accomplishments as director of the Illinois Fire Service Institute.