Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Judicial Inquiry Board for its FY 18 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the Senior Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the findings of the General Assembly.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Central Management Services for its FY 18 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for its FY 18 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the Illinois Coal Technology Development Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Limitations on Forced Arbitration Act. Defines terms and contains statements of findings, purpose, and policy. Places conditions limiting the use of forced arbitration agreements on entities doing business with the State. Creates a rebuttable presumption that specified contract terms relating to forced arbitration agreements are unconscionable. Prohibits arbitration agreements in specified situations. Provides that, with specified exceptions, appellate courts do not have jurisdiction to review a trial court's interlocutory order denying a motion to compel arbitration or otherwise concluding that an arbitration agreement is unenforceable or does not apply to a particular claim. Makes other changes, including a corresponding change in the Uniform Arbitration Act. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person may initiate on behalf of the State an action alleging violations of the Act to recover civil penalties on behalf of the State and to seek injunctive, declaratory, or other equitable relief that the State would itself be entitled to seek. Allows such a person a percentage of the recovery. Adds provisions governing: the State's opportunity to intervene and proceed with the action; discovery; prohibition of duplicative actions; settlement; limitations on State actions initiated by a private party; res judicata; relationship to forced arbitration; and severability.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax. Imposes a privilege tax at a rate of 20% on partnerships and S corporations engaged in the business of conducting investment management services, until such time as a federal law with an identical effect has been enacted. Provides for the determination of the tax due, defines "investment management services". Effective immediately, but this Act does not take effect at all unless the states of Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York enact laws having an effect identical to this Act.
Amends the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sales of tobacco products that are exempt from the tax imposed by the Act.
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Trustees of Eastern Illinois University for its FY 18 ordinary and contingent expenses.
