Amends the Arthritis Prevention, Control, and Cure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State may issue special registration plates designated as Defense Superior Service license plates to recipients awarded the Defense Superior Service Medal by a branch of the armed forces of the United States. Provides that no registration fee shall be charged for the issuance or renewal of a Defense Superior Service plate.
Amends the Raffles and Poker Runs Act. Authorizes fire protection agencies and statewide associations that represent fire protection agencies to organize raffles. Provides that raffles organized by a fire protection agency or statewide association that represents fire protection agencies must only be licensed by the governing body of the county or municipality in which the key location for that raffle is located, even if raffle tickets are sold beyond the borders of that governing body of the county or municipality. Provides that raffles organized by a fire protection agency or a statewide association that represents fire protection agencies must abide by any restrictions established by the governing body of the county or municipality in which the key location is located.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a prosecution for theft by deception of a victim 60 years of age or older or a person with a disability under the theft statute may be commenced within 7 years of the last act committed in furtherance of the crime (rather than 3 years after the commission of the offense).
Amends the Downstate Teachers and State Universities Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires an employer to make an additional employer contribution for a participant whose earnings for any academic year used to determine the final rate of earnings exceed the amount of his or her earnings with the same employer for the previous academic year by more than 6% (instead of 3%). Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the North Shore Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that connection fees owed at the time of a property's sale shall be a lien on real estate. Provides that if the district participates in a nutrient trading program, the district shall give preference to trading investments: (i) that will benefit low income or rural communities; and (ii) where local water quality improvements can be realized. Increases the maximum dollar amount of an emergency contract to no more than $500,000 (rather than $350,000). Provides that if the board of trustees determine there is an emergency affecting the public health or safety, the district may immediately acquire the necessary right-of-way and authority to work within or adjacent to a public highway right-of-way or easement, public or private utility property or easement, railroad right-of-way, or other public property or easement. Effective immediately. House Floor Amendment No. 1 Deletes reference to: 70 ILCS 2305/16 Removes language providing that, if the board of trustees determine there is an emergency affecting the public health or safety, the district may immediately acquire the necessary right-of-way and authority to work within or adjacent to a public highway right-of-way or easement, public or private utility property or easement, railroad right-of-way, or other public property or easement. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Adds reference to: 70 ILCS 2305/4 from Ch. 42, par. 280 70 ILCS 2305/16 from Ch. 42, par. 292 Provides that the president of the board of trustees shall not receive more than $18,000 (rather than $14,000) per year and each other member of the board shall not receive more than $15,000 (rather than $11,000) per year. Provides that a connection fee or connection-related fee (rather than connection fees owed at the time of a property's sale) shall be a lien on real estate. Allows termination of all connections and service to any real property or structure thereon if any connection fee or connection-related fee is not paid within 60 days from the date such payment is due. Provides that if a board of trustees determines there is an emergency affecting the public health or safety and the emergency requires approval from the governing authority of any public property or public or private utility or railroad for permission to enter upon the property, right-of-way, or easement and if the approval is not acted upon within 48 hours from the time the sanitary district's request is served on the entity, then the request for entry is deemed granted; includes procedures for sending and approval of a request, including limitation of fees that an entity receiving a request may charge. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Removes language providing for immediate acquiring of rights-of-way, property, or easements in an emergency. Senate Floor Amendment No. 3 Deletes reference to: 70 ILCS 2305/4 70 ILCS 2305/7.6 70 ILCS 2305/7.8 new 70 ILCS 2305/11 70 ILCS 2305/16 Adds reference to: 55 ILCS 5/5-12012.1 60 ILCS 1/110-50.1 65 ILCS 5/11-13-25 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Counties Code, Township Code, and Illinois Municipal Code. Exempts facial challenges to a zoning ordinance governing the challenger's own property from a 90-day statute of limitation for commencing an action for judicial review of zoning actions of a county board, township board, or corporate authorities of a municipality. Effective immediately.
Creates the Illinois Trust Code. Provides that the Code applies to express trusts, charitable or noncharitable, and trusts created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree that requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust. Defines terms. Adds provisions governing: judicial proceedings; representation; creation, validity, modification, and termination of trusts; creditor's claims; spendthrift and discretionary trusts; revocable trusts; the office of trustee; duties and powers of the trustee; the Illinois Prudent Investor Law; life insurance; affiliated investments; liability of trustees and rights of persons dealing with a trustee; total return trusts; trust decanting; the Uniform Powers of Appointment Law; perpetuities; and application of the Code to existing trusts. Repeals the Trusts and Trustees Act, the Trusts and Dissolutions of Marriage Act, the Uniform Powers of Appointment Act (added by Public Act 100-1044), the Statute Concerning Perpetuities, the Perpetuities Vesting Act, and the Trust Accumulation Act. Makes corresponding changes in the Public Use Trust Act, the Township Code, the Corporate Fiduciary Act, the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act, the Title Insurance Act, the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act, the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Probate Act of 1975, the Illinois Power of Attorney Act, the Common Trust Fund Act, the Religious Corporation Act, and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. Effective January 1, 2020.
Amends the Title Insurance Act Provides that the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation may refuse to issue and may suspend or revoke a certificate of authority, registration, or license under the Act or discipline the holder of such for referring a consumer to another producer of title business on the express or implicit condition that the producer of title business to whom that consumer is referred use a particular title insurance company or title insurance agent. Effective immediately.
Amends the Title Insurance Act. Provides for enforcement of the Act by the Department of Insurance (rather than the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation). Provides that all powers, duties, rights, and responsibilities of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Act are transferred to the Department of Insurance and Director of Insurance, respectively. Provides for the transfer of books, records, papers, documents, property, contracts, causes of action, pending business, and certain funds from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to the Department of Insurance. Provides that rules and proposed rules by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Act shall become rules and proposed rules of the Department of Insurance. Provides that all moneys received by the Department of Insurance under the Act shall be deposited into the Insurance Financial Regulation Fund (rather than the Financial Institution Fund). Makes conforming and grammatical changes throughout the Act and in the State Finance Act.
Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Deletes a provision that provides that all or specified members of a limited liability company are liable in their capacity as members for all or specified debts, obligations, or liabilities of the company if: (i) a provision to that effect is contained in the articles of organization and (ii) a member so liable has consented in writing to the adoption of the provision or to be bound by the provision. Provides that with respect to imposing liability upon a member because of a member's personal conduct, nothing in the Act shall be deemed to limit the effect of law other than the Act. Provides that a limited liability company's operating agreement may not restrict the duty to act fairly as described in the Act. Provides that the operating agreement may identify the standards by which the obligation to act fairly is measured.
