Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section defining "Associate Procurement Officers".
Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning the application of the Act.
Amends the Alcoholism and Other Drug Abuse and Dependency Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning funding for addiction treatment programs. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act to provide that a graduate student employed by his or her institution of higher education is an "educational employee" within the meaning of the Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Occupational Therapy Practice Act, the Illinois Physical Therapy Act, the Sexual Assault Survivors Emergency Treatment Act, the Prenatal and Newborn Care Act, the AIDS Confidentiality Act, the Illinois Sexually Transmissible Disease Control Act, and the Consent by Minors to Medical Procedures Act. Allows an advanced practice nurse to engage in activities permitted under a written collaborative agreement with a collaborating physician and a physician assistant to engage in the provision of health services that the physician assistant's supervising physician has delegated to that physician assistant. Effective immediately.
Creates the Energy Efficient Commercial Building Act. Establishes an Energy Efficient Commercial Building Code that applies to commercial buildings in this State. Provides for technical assistance to certain design professions to explain the requirements of the Code. Preempts home rule powers. Effective one year after becoming law.
Creates the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. Provides that an employer may not order a mass layoff, relocation, or termination of an industrial or commercial facility without first giving 60 days' notice (subject to specified exceptions) to the Department of Labor and the chief elected official of each municipal and county government within which the termination, relocation, or mass layoff occurs. Provides for the imposition of civil penalties for violations and gives remedies to employees. Provides for the reduction of an employer's liability under specified circumstances. Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act to provide that payments to a person by an employer who is liable to that person under the new Act are not considered wages for purposes of unemployment insurance eligibility. Effective immediately.
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes changes regarding the Department of Children and Family Service's obligation to inform child care facilities of unsafe children's products. Requires the Department to make the comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available to those facilities that do not have Internet access. Requires child care facilities to maintain any written information provided in a file accessible to both facility staff and parents of children attending the facility and to post in prominent locations regularly visited by parents written notification of the existence of the comprehensive list of unsafe children's products available on the Internet. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Deletes a provision that includes beginning and ending dates for the operation of a Great START (Strategy to Attract and Retain Teachers) program. Deletes provisions (i) requiring a working committee of the Child and Development Advisory Council of the Department of Human Services to make certain recommendations concerning the Great START program by October 1, 2000 and (ii) requiring the Department to evaluate the Great START program, gather data on the program, and submit a report to the General Assembly by December 31, 2002. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Ed Marciniak of Chicago.
