Sen. Ram Villivalam

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services shall create a 4-year outdoor preschool pilot program. Provides that 10 pilot locations shall be selected for the first year of the pilot program, with additional locations able to apply after the first year. Requires the Department to convene an advisory group to inform and support the implementation of the pilot program. Requires the Department to provide the General Assembly and Governor with reports on the participation of providers and children in the program and recommendations on modifying or expanding the availability of outdoor preschools. Repeals the provisions on June 30, 2026. Effective immediately.

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to increase rates and reimbursements to fund a minimum of a $0.58 per hour wage increase, for front-line personnel for services provided in the City of Chicago, and $0.62 per hour, for front-line personnel for services provided in the rest of the State, above the wage rates published by the Department effective July 2019. Provides that the Department shall publish an annual mandatory wage chart with wage requirements for direct service personnel containing either a single statewide wage for all direct support personnel or one wage each for direct support personnel in Chicago and the rest of the State. Provides that future wage requirements shall be no less than the percent increased by the consumer price index-u. Includes compliance provisions for service providers. Defines terms.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that the terms of commissioners of the Legislative Ethics Commission serving on the Commission prior to January 1, 2021 shall be terminated on December 31, 2020. Provides for the appointment of new commissioners to the Legislative Ethics Commission on and after January 1, 2021. Provides for the appointment of 10 commissioners (currently, 8). Provides further appointment and eligibility requirements. Makes conforming and other changes.

Creates the Personalized Firearms Act. Establishes within the Illinois State Police the Personalized Firearm Authorization Commission. Provides that the Commission shall be responsible for establishing performance standards for personalized firearms and maintaining a roster of personalized firearms authorized for sale to the public. Provides that the Personalized Firearm Authorization Commission shall maintain a roster of all personalized firearms for retail sales to the public by the Commission as meeting the personalized firearm performance standards and qualifying criteria established under the Act. Provides that within 12 months of the first personalized firearm being included on the roster established under the Act, each licensed firearms retail dealer shall: (1) only make available for purchase personalized firearms approved by the Commission and listed on the roster as eligible for sale; (2) post in one or more locations in the dealer's place or places of business in a conspicuous manner that makes them easily visible and accessible to customers: (A) copies of the personalized firearm roster; and (B) a sign that includes a clear and conspicuous statement disclosing the features of personalized firearms that are not offered by traditional firearms and advising customers that those firearms may be purchased through the licensed retail dealer; and (3) accept and process orders to enable customers to purchase through the licensed retail dealer any of the personalized firearms included in the roster.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code.

Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Expands the definition of "mandated reporter" to include a person who performs the duties of a banker, broker, investor, investment advisor, attorney, financial consultant or financial advisor, broker-dealer, or administrator, regulator, or supervisor of any of the foregoing.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions concerning the powers and duties of the Department on Aging under the Act, requires the Department to work with workforce development providers through the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish and implement an affirmative action employment plan for the recruitment, hiring, training, and retraining of persons 60 or more years old for jobs for which their employment would not be precluded by law (rather than requiring the Department to make a grant to an institution of higher learning to study the feasibility of establishing and implementing an affirmative action employment plan for the recruitment, hiring, training, and retraining of persons 60 or more years old for jobs for which their employment would not be precluded by law). Requires the Department to conduct demonstration projects to identify additional ways to assist aging and minority senior citizens throughout the State (rather than requiring the Department to conduct a study of the feasibility of implementing the Senior Companion Program throughout the State). In a provision requiring the Department on Aging and the Department of Human Services to file a joint report with the Governor and the General Assembly, removes the requirement that the report be filed on or before September 30 of each year. Requires the Department on Aging and other specified agencies to submit an annual report on program and services for minority senior citizens in the State to be filed with the Governor and the General Assembly within 12 months of the closing of the lapse period for the fiscal year included in the report.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Dual Credit Quality Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning child care.