Mourns the death of Robert D. "Bob" Horner of Streator.
Sponsored bills
Designate the section of Interstate 39 in Illinois from Exit 22 to Exit 27 as the "Cpl. Robert D. Janssen Memorial Highway".
Amends the Probate Act of 1975. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning pleadings.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Mourns the death of Lois (Barrett) Hart of Georgetown.
Mourns the death of Bobby Dean Henson.
Mourns the death of Joseph M. Ambrose of Mahomet.
Mourns the death of Gladys Darlene Ryan of Gibson City.
Amends the School Code. In provisions allowing a board of education to enter into a contract with a third party for non-instructional services currently performed by any employee or bargaining unit member, removes a provision that requires any third party that submits a bid to perform the non-instructional services to provide a benefits package for the third party's employees who will perform the non-instructional services comparable to the benefits package provided to school board employees who perform those services. With respect to excusing pupils from engaging in physical education courses, provides for additional reasons why a pupil may be excused, pursuant to school board policy. Requires a public hearing on whether to adopt such a policy to be held at a regular or special school board meeting prior to adopting the policy. Provides that a school district may offer a driver education course in a school by contracting with a commercial driver training school to provide both the classroom instruction part and the practice driving part or either one without having to request a modification or waiver of administrative rules of the State Board of Education if a public hearing on whether to enter into a contract with a commercial driver training school has been held at a regular or special school board meeting prior to entering into such a contract; sets forth requirements concerning the contract.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Extends from January 1, 2018 to January 1, 2023, the date of the inoperability of the eavesdropping exemption that provides with prior request to and written or verbal approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is anticipated to occur, recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to the conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a qualified offense as defined in the exemption. Effective immediately.