Amends the Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities Act. Provides that a home care consumer in the Department of Human Services' Home Services Program has the right and discretion to: (1) select and hire a personal assistant or other individual provider of his or her choice; and (2) determine the number of hours per week his or her personal assistant or other individual provider may work. Provides that, subject to the Department's authority to approve the total monthly hours in a home care consumer's service plan, no limitation shall be imposed on the number of hours per week a personal assistant or other individual provider may work unless the following conditions are satisfied: (A) as an exception to any limit imposed by the Department, a personal assistant or other individual provider may work and be paid for all hours worked up to at least 66 hours per week if the personal assistant or other individual provider works for a home care consumer who: (i) receives services under a court-ordered service plan; (ii) has a Determination of Need score of 70 or above; or (iii) has an exceptional care rate; (B) the Department shall establish an exceptions and appeals process that permits a home care consumer to request an exception to any limit imposed by the Department up to a maximum of no less than 66 hours per week; and (C) if the home care consumer would face a serious risk of institutionalization, the Department shall work with the home care consumer to ensure that appropriate care in the community will be provided, whether through authorized overtime or another solution. Provides that nothing shall limit the Department's authority under any other statute to disqualify an individual from providing services in the Department's Home Services Program for reasons other than the number of weekly hours worked by the individual.
Sen. Ram Villivalam
Sponsored bills
Amends the Illinois Notary Public Act. Provides that any person who performs a notarial act concerning election nominating papers, petitions of objections to nominating papers, or certificates of withdrawal of candidacy, and is not otherwise authorized to perform notarial acts, shall, in addition to any penalties which may be imposed under the Act, also be in violation of the Election Code. Amends the Election Code. Provides that any person who performs unauthorized notarial acts concerning election nominating papers, petitions of objections to nominating papers, or certificates of withdrawal of candidacy in violation of the Illinois Notary Public Act, is also in violation of the Code, and shall be subject to a specified penalty.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Election Code. Allows the State Board of Elections to receive voter registration information provided by applicants using electronic voter registration portals (rather than the Board's website). Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person who is otherwise qualified to vote may preregister to vote on or after that person's 16th birthday, with the registration held in abeyance by the appropriate election authority until that individual attains the required age to vote. Requires preregistration to be completed using the online voter registration system or an electronic voter registration portal. Provides that for the purposes of the Code, an individual who is 16 years of age or older (rather than who is 17 years of age and who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general or consolidated election) shall be deemed competent to execute and attest to any voter registration forms.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section of the campaign finance Article concerning definitions.
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. With regard to local school council members, provides that an individual is ineligible for election or appointment to a local school council if he or she appears on the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website or the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database. Provides that if the general superintendent, upon a check, determines at any time that a local school council member or member-elect appears on the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website or the Statewide Sex Offender Database or Statewide Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Database, the general superintendent must notify the local school council member or member-elect of such determination and the local school council member or member-elect must be removed from the local school council by the school board, subject to a hearing, convened pursuant to board rule, prior to removal. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a local school council member must comply with all applicable board rules and policies regarding employees or volunteers if he or she engages in school activities beyond the scope of his or her official duty as a council member. Removes provisions regarding ineligibility for election or appointment of a local school council member based on a criminal conviction.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a credit in the amount of $25 for individual taxpayers who vote in an election during the taxable year. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that the rates and minimum mandated wage increases for homemaker services shall be, at a minimum, as of January 1, 2019, a rate of $19.96 per hour, for a minimum wage of $12 per hour, and as of July 1, 2019, a rate of $21.64 per hour for a minimum wage of $13 per hour. Provides that rates in future State fiscal years shall be no lower than the rates in effect on July 1, 2019. Provides that in-home service provider agencies shall be required to certify to the Department on Aging that they are in compliance with the mandated wage increase for direct service workers. Provides that fringe benefits, including, but not limited to, any paid time off, payment for training, health insurance, travel, or transportation payment, shall not be reduced in relation to these rate increases. Effective immediately.
Creates the Uniform Limited Cooperative Association Act. Provides for the organization and operation of limited cooperative associations. Provides that a limited cooperative association organized under the Act is an autonomous, unincorporated association of persons united to meet their mutual interests through a jointly owned enterprise primarily controlled by those persons, which authorizes the combination of ownership and receipt of benefits by members for whose interests the association is formed and permits investments by members who may receive returns on their investments and a share of control. Provides for: filing with the Secretary of State; organic rules; membership; members' interests; marketing contracts; directors; officers; indemnification and advancement of expenses; contributions; allocations; distributions; dissolution; actions; disposing of assets; foreign cooperatives; merger; interest exchange; conversion; domestication; and other matters.
Amends the Election Code. Allows an established political party to initiate a recall of one of its nominees if that nominee is (1) found to be a member of or associated with a group, directly or indirectly, with Communist, Fascist, Nazi, or other un-American principles; (2) engaged in activities or propaganda designed to teach subservience to the political principles and ideals of foreign nations or the overthrow by violence of the established constitutional form of government of the United States or the State of Illinois; (3) arrested and charged with murder or another felony; or (4) engaged in hate speech. Provides the process to recall a candidate under the provisions. Effective immediately.