Amends the Procurement Code. Provides that supplies and services shall (rather than may) be procured without advertising or calling for bids from any qualified not-for-profit agency for persons with significant (rather than severe) disabilities that meet certain requirements. Provides that to participate, the not-for-profit agency must offer the individuals they serve employment opportunities in competitive, integrated settings. Includes the Director of Healthcare and Family Services or his or her designee, the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity or his or her designee, and 2 members who have a disability to the committee overseeing the preference program. Provides that the Committee consider certain factors when considering bids.
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes changes in Sections governing: interest on judgments; supplementary proceedings; wages subject to collection; summons and issuance for proceedings relating to wage collection orders; employer duties; and personal property exempt from judgment. Adds a Section providing for the upward adjustment of exempted amounts in specified situations. Amends the Illinois Wage Assignment Act. Provides that no assignment of wages earned or to be earned is valid. Repeals the remainder of the substance of the Act. Makes a corresponding change in the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $7,000,000 from the Solid Waste Management Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the purpose of implementing a recycling and composting grant program pursuant to the Illinois Solid Waste Management Act. Effective July 1, 2016.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.
Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Prompt Payment Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning interest penalties.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning licensure of educators.
Amends the State Universities Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires the System to provide advance notice to a participant in the self-managed plan of the participant's obligation to direct the investment of employee and employer contributions into one or more investment funds selected by the System at the time he or she makes his or her initial retirement plan selection. Provides that if a participant in the self-managed plan fails to direct the investment of employee and employer contributions into the various investment options offered to the participant when making his or her initial retirement election choice, the System shall invest the employee and employer contributions in a default investment fund on behalf of the participant, and the investment shall be deemed to have been made at the participant's investment direction. Provides that the participant has the right to transfer account balances out of the default investment fund during time periods designated by the System. Effective immediately.