Amends the County Executive Form of Government Division of the Counties Code. Provides that county board members shall receive compensation as fixed by the county board in accordance with the method of compensation selected by the county board. Provides that the compensation shall be set before the general election at which county board members are elected. Allows the county board chair to receive a larger salary than other county board members upon approval of the county board. Provides that county board members and the county board chair may receive, as approved by the county board, travel and expense allowances and stipends.

Mourns the passing of John B. "Jack" Klaus Jr. of Des Plaines.

Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act. Provides that a lobbyist or lobbying entity may not promise anything of value to an official, State employee, or a candidate for a State executive or State legislative office for the person's support, action, or inaction for a specific legislative action or executive action, including, but not limited to, campaign contributions, endorsement of candidacy, or any in-kind contributions supporting an official, State employee, or candidate for a State executive or State legislative office. Prohibits a lobbyist or lobbying entity from soliciting an official or State employee to violate similar provisions of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Provides that nothing in the provisions prevents the making or accepting of voluntary contributions otherwise in accordance with law.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to compile and make available to the public a report identifying the types and volumes of waste treated at authorized recycling facilities, the types and volumes of waste treated at authorized organic waste composting facilities, the total volumes of food scraps processed at municipal solid waste landfills, the total permitted capacity for compost volume on municipal solid waste (MSW) sites, and the total emissions of methane from MSW landfills. Sets forth findings, purposes, and goals. Establishes organic waste composting goals. Requires specified commercial food wholesalers, commercial food distributors, industrial food manufacturers or processors, supermarkets, restaurants, resorts, and conference centers to begin arranging for: (1) source separation of organic wastes from other solid wastes; and (2) recycling of the source-separated organic waste at an authorized source-separated organic material composting facility. Amends the Solid Waste Planning and Recycling Act. Requires each county waste management plan to include a composting program for organic waste as a part of the basic waste disposal plan. Allows a unit of local government to collect fees or rates for the organic waste composting services. Includes exemptions. Makes corresponding changes in the Solid Waste Hauling and Recycling Program Act.

Authorizes the People of the State of Illinois to release specified property located in Monroe County from all dedication and easement rights and interest acquired for highway purposes for the sum of $2,700. Authorizes the People of the State of Illinois to release or restore any rights of easements of access, crossing, light, air, and view from, to, and over specified property in Kane County for $152,835. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Central Management Services, in conjunction with the State Employees Retirement System, shall enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced administrator to establish and conduct a State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify retirees who are eligible for Medicare, but not enrolled in Medicare, and to assist those retirees in enrolling in Social Security and Medicare. Provides further duties and requirements for the program. Amends the Department of Healthcare and Family Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced administrator to establish and conduct a Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify Medicaid recipients who could benefit from Social Security Disability Insurance representation that could provide them with income and ultimately Medicare benefits. Provides further duties and requirements for the program. Sets forth reporting requirements. Effective January 1, 2025.

Amends the Illinois Freedom to Work Act. Provides that a covenant not to compete or a covenant not to solicit is void and illegal with respect to individuals employed in construction, regardless of whether an individual is covered by a collective bargaining agreement.

Amends the Firearms Restraining Order Act and the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that if the petitioner for a firearms restraining order, domestic violence order of protection, or civil no contact order is a law enforcement officer or agent of a law enforcement officer, the petitioner shall be referred to as the law enforcement agency in which the officer is employed on all public records concerning the petition and not the individually named officer or agent who filed the petition. Effective immediately.

Creates the Safe Patient Limits Act. Provides the maximum number of patients that may be assigned to a registered nurse in specified situations. Provides that nothing shall preclude a facility from assigning fewer patients to a registered nurse than the limits provided in the Act. Provides that the maximum patient assignments may not be exceeded, regardless of the use and application of any patient acuity system. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt rules governing the implementation and administration of the Act. Provides that all facilities shall adopt written policies and procedures for the training and orientation of nursing staff and that no registered nurse shall be assigned to a nursing unit or clinical area unless that nurse has, among other things, demonstrated competence in providing care in that area. Provides requirements for the Act's implementation. Establishes recordkeeping requirements. Provides rights and protections for nurses. Contains a severability provision and other provisions. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that a hospital shall not mandate that a registered professional nurse delegate nursing interventions. Makes changes concerning staffing plans. Amends the Nurse Practice Act. Requires the exercise of professional judgment by a direct care registered professional nurse in the performance of his or her scope of practice to be provided in the exclusive interests of the patient. Ratifies and approves the Nurse Licensure Compact, which allows for the issuance of multistate licenses that allow nurses to practice in their home state and other compact states. Provides that the Compact does not supersede existing State labor laws. Provides that the State may not share with or disclose to the Interstate Commission of Nurse Licensure Compact Administrators or any other state any of the contents of a nationwide criminal history records check conducted for the purpose of multistate licensure under the Nurse Licensure Compact.

Creates the Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Act. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant plan for the preservation and enhancement of forests, prairies, and wetlands in Illinois. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources, pursuant to the comprehensive plan and subject to appropriation, shall establish and administer a Forests, Wetlands, and Prairies Grant Program to restore degraded forest lands and native prairies, and to promote the growth of native vegetation that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and help to mitigate the impact of climate change. Provides that units of local government are eligible to submit a grant proposal in a format and at a time prescribed by the Department of Natural Resources. Provides that grants may be used by units of local government to fund: (1) local projects restoring or expanding forests, wetlands, prairies, or other natural landscapes demonstrated to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; (2) education and marketing regarding local projects or steps community members may take to promote the growth of native vegetation that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; and (3) any other purpose approved by the Department of Natural Resources that advances the State goal that there be no overall net loss of the State's existing forest, prairie, or wetland acres or their functional value due to State-supported activities. Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act and the State Finance Act to make conforming changes.

Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that beginning January 1, 2025, renal dialysis services provided within a skilled nursing facility by a certified home dialysis provider shall receive a per-claim add-on payment of $95 per treatment. Defines "certified home dialysis provider" to mean an end stage renal disease facility that (i) provides dialysis treatment or dialysis training to caregivers or individuals with end stage renal disease and (ii) has been approved to provide dialysis home training support services by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Effective January 1, 2025.

Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that it is a civil rights violation: (1) to inquire into a person's conviction record before making a conditional offer to sell, lease, or rent real property; (2) for an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or for a real estate broker or salesman, because of conviction record, to refuse to engage in a real estate transaction with a person or to discriminate in making available such a transaction; (3) use a conviction record as a basis to rescind a conditional offer to sell, lease, or rent real property, unless there is a substantial relationship between one or more of the previous criminal offenses and the offer made, the granting or continuation of the offer would involve an unreasonable risk to property or to the safety or welfare of specific individuals or the general public, or the use is otherwise authorized by law; and (4) for a third-party loan modification service provider, because of a conviction record to refuse to engage in loan modification services, alter the terms, conditions, or privileges of such services, or discriminate in making such services available. Provides that nothing shall prohibit: the owner of an owner-occupied residential building with 4 or fewer units from making decisions regarding whether to rent to a person based upon that person's conviction record; inquiry into or the use of a conviction record if the inquiry or use is otherwise authorized by State or federal law; and use of a criminal conviction that results in a current sex offender registration requirement or a current child sex offender residency restriction.

Amends the Illinois Local Library Act and the Public Library District Act of 1991. Requires competitive bidding for contracts in excess of $35,000 (rather than $25,000) for specified improvements and equipment purchases.

Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county shall indemnify and hold harmless a physician who has been appointed or designated by the county or the coroner's office to perform autopsies for all of the physician's acts, omissions, decisions, or conduct arising out of the scope of the physician's duties of performing autopsies for the county, except those involving willful or wanton misconduct. Requires the physician to provide specified notice to the State's Attorney and the county clerk within 10 days after service of process upon the physician. Provides that the county that is or may be liable to indemnify the physician may intervene in the action against the physician and shall be permitted to appear and defend. Provides that the duty of the county to indemnify any physician for any judgment recovered against the physician is conditioned upon receiving notice of the filing of any such action in the manner and form specified.

Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Removes all amendatory changes requiring the Child Protective Service Unit to send a notification letter to a child's school following an investigation and finding of physical or sexual abuse. Instead provides that the Child Protective Service Unit shall send a copy of its final finding report to the school that the child, who is the indicated victim of child abuse (rather than the indicated victim of the report), attends. Requires the report to be sent during the summer to the last school that the child attended. Provides that the final finding report shall provide the date of expungement from the central register and the school shall purge the final finding report from the student's record in accordance with the Illinois School Student Records Act.