Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 549)

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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3589

Introduced
2/9/24  
Creates the Abuse and Corruption by Public Officials in the City of Chicago Task Force Act. Creates the Abuse and Corruption by Public Officials in the City of Chicago Task Force and provides that the Task Force shall study the economic and social impact that abuse and corruption committed by public officials has on the City of Chicago and develop and propose policies and procedures to prevent future misuse of power. Sets forth the membership of the Task Force, who shall serve without compensation. Includes provisions on Task Force meetings and administrative support. Requires the Task Force to review available research, data, and best practices and take expert witness testimony and to produce and submit a report detailing the Task Force's findings, recommendations, and needed resources to the General Assembly and the Governor on or before June 30, 2026. Repeals the Act and dissolves the Task Force on January 1, 2027. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3637

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Creates the Municipal and Cooperative Electric Utility Planning and Transparency Act. Provides that, by November 1, 2024, and by November 1 every 3 years thereafter, all electric cooperatives with members in the State, municipal power agencies, and municipalities shall file with the Illinois Power Agency an integrated resource plan. Sets forth provisions concerning the plan. Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Authorizes the Illinois Power Agency to develop capacity procurement plans and conduct competitive procurement processes for the procurement of capacity needed to ensure environmentally sustainable long-term resource adequacy across the State at the lowest cost over time. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Changes the cumulative persisting annual savings goals for electric utilities that serve less than 3,000,000 retail customers but more than 500,000 retail customers for the years of 2024 through 2030. Provides that the cumulative persisting annual savings goals beyond the year 2030 shall increase by 0.9 (rather than 0.6) percentage points per year. Changes the requirements for submitting proposed plans and funding levels to meet savings goals for an electric utility serving more than 500,000 retail customers (rather than serving less than 3,000,000 retail customers but more than 500,000 retail customers). Provides that an electric utility that has a tariff approved within one year of the amendatory Act shall also offer at least one market-based, time-of-use rate for eligible retail customers that choose to take power and energy supply service from the utility. Sets forth provisions regarding the Illinois Commerce Commission's powers and duties related to residential time-of-use pricing. Provides that each capacity procurement event may include the procurement of capacity through a mix of contracts with different terms and different initial delivery dates. Sets forth the requirements of prepared capacity procurement plans. Requires each alternative retail electric supplier to make payment to an applicable electric utility for capacity, receive transfers of capacity credits, report capacity credits procured on its behalf to the applicable regional transmission organization, and submit the capacity credits to the applicable regional transmission organization under that regional transmission organization's rules and procedures. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3629

Introduced
2/9/24  
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a defendant who, prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act, had been barred by time limitations from filing a motion to vacate because the court failed to advise the defendant and the defendant shows that conviction of the offense to which the defendant pleaded guilty, guilty but mentally ill, or nolo contendere may have the consequence for the defendant of deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization under the laws of the United States, may pursue the following remedies. Provides that any person, regardless of criminal custody status, may file a petition to vacate a conviction or sentence if the person asserts any of the following reasons: (1) the conviction or sentence is legally invalid due to prejudicial error damaging the petitioner's ability to meaningfully understand, defend against, or knowingly accept the actual or potential adverse immigration consequences of a conviction or sentence; or (2) newly discovered evidence of actual innocence exists that requires vacation of the conviction or sentence as a matter of law or in the interests of justice. Establishes time periods for filing the petition and establishes when the petitions are not timely filed. Provides that there is a presumption of legal invalidity if the petitioner pleaded guilty or nolo contendere under a statute that provided that, upon completion of specific requirements, the arrest and conviction shall be deemed never to have occurred, if the petitioner complied with these requirements, and if the disposition under the statute has been, or potentially could be, used as a basis for adverse immigration consequences. Provides that crime victims shall be given notice by the State's Attorney's office of petitions filed under this provision as required in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act. Provides that remedies under this provision shall apply to convictions and sentences in existence prior to the effective date of the amendatory Act.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3605

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning the supportive living facilities program, provides that, upon application to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, existing supportive living program settings may convert non-dementia care setting units to dementia care setting units if the total dementia care units do not exceed the total number of non-dementia care units within the building. Provides that all conversions must be operational within 180 days of approval and meet criteria specific to certification for dementia care setting units outlined in the Illinois Administrative Code.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3566

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Engrossed
4/12/24  
Refer
4/15/24  
Refer
4/24/24  
Report Pass
4/30/24  
Enrolled
5/23/24  
Chaptered
8/9/24  
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2025, landfills in counties with a population over 250,000 (rather than landfills in counties with a population over 275,000) shall provide and operate facilities to clean the wheels and undercarriages of vehicles departing the landfill.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3561

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Expands the categories of families eligible for child care assistance to include families with a parent or guardian who is employed as a mental health care worker, teacher, or health care provider and has income below the specified income threshold established for such families. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law or administrative rule to the contrary, beginning in State Fiscal Year 2025, for families with a parent or guardian who is employed as a mental health care worker, teacher, or health care provider, the specified income threshold shall be no less than 300% of the then-current federal poverty level for each family size. Defines terms. Effective July 1, 2024.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3610

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
Refer
5/3/24  
Amends the School Code. Deletes provisions stating that: the Department of Juvenile Justice School District Board of Education shall adopt an annual budget for the use of education moneys for the next school year which it deems necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of the district; the budget shall contain a statement of cash on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, an estimate of the cash expected to be received during such fiscal year from all sources, an estimate of the expenditure contemplated for such fiscal year, and a statement of the estimated cash expected to be on hand at the end of such year; and this budget shall be submitted to the Department of Corrections and the State Board of Education for incorporation. Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Deletes a provision that permits a guilty minor to be committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice for an offense that is a Class 3 or Class 4 felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act if the commitment occurs upon a third or subsequent judicial finding of a violation of probation for substantial noncompliance with court-ordered treatment or programming. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3719

Introduced
2/9/24  
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a group or individual policy of accident and health insurance or a managed care plan that is amended, delivered, issued, or renewed on or after July 1, 2024 shall provide coverage for the full cost of an annual PET scan for insureds age 35 or older who elect to get a PET scan, regardless of whether the PET scan was ordered by a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches and regardless of whether the insured displays symptoms. Sets forth findings and definitions. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3797

Introduced
2/9/24  
Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall follow specified requirements of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act regarding the administration of cultivation center agent identification cards. Repeals provisions regarding cultivation center agent identification cards and dispensing organization agent identification cards. Makes other changes. Amends the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall issue all agent identification cards under the Act via an online application portal. Provides that all notifications of acceptance or denial for applications under specified provisions shall be sent directly to the agent applicant.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3684

Introduced
2/9/24  
Amends the Educator Licensure Article of the School Code. Provides that if the State Board declares a teacher shortage, then an applicant shall be deemed to have passed a test of content area knowledge. Provides that the State Board shall adopt rules to define a teacher shortage, and shall post and publicly display this definition on the State Board's Internet website.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3538

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Report Pass
3/7/24  
Engrossed
4/11/24  
Refer
4/15/24  
Refer
4/24/24  
Report Pass
4/30/24  
Enrolled
5/24/24  
Chaptered
8/9/24  
Reinserts the provisions of the engrossed bill with the following changes. Provides that the mental health counseling shall be included in the health insurance coverage for employees on and after June 1, 2025. Provides that the first responders eligible to receive the mental health counseling also include emergency medical services personnel dispatched pursuant to a 9-1-1 call (rather than medical services personnel, in the engrossed bill), public safety telecommunicators, emergency medical dispatchers, and mental health professionals employed and dispatched by any unit of local government in response to emergency crisis calls received on public emergency service lines instead of or in conjunction with law enforcement. Defines mental health counseling.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3739

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
Amends the Network Adequacy and Transparency Act. Adds definitions. Provides that the minimum ratio for each provider type shall be no less than any such ratio established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law or by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Provides that the maximum travel time and distance standards and appointment wait time standards shall be no greater than any such standards established for qualified health plans in Federally-Facilitated Exchanges by federal law or by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Makes changes to provisions concerning network adequacy, notice of nonrenewal or termination, transition of services, network transparency, administration and enforcement, provider requirements, and provider directory information. Amends the Managed Care Reform and Patient Rights Act. Makes changes to provisions concerning notice of nonrenewal or termination and transition of services. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to authorize the Department of Insurance to adopt emergency rules implementing federal standards for provider ratios, time and distance, or appointment wait times when such standards apply to health insurance coverage regulated by the Department of Insurance and are more stringent than the State standards extant at the time the final federal standards are published. Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to make a conforming change. Effective immediately.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3798

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Amends the Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act. Provides that each year, at least 30 days prior to the beginning of the responsible public entity's fiscal year, the responsible public entity shall submit to the General Assembly a description of potential projects that the responsible public entity is considering undertaking under the Act to each county, municipality, and metropolitan planning organization, with respect to each project located within its boundaries. Requires any new transportation facility developed as a project under the Act to be consistent with the regional plan then in existence of any metropolitan planning organization in whose boundaries the project is located. Provides that, prior to the approval of the public-private agreement, the responsible public entity must notify the public at least 60 days prior to the approval of the public-private agreement for any projects under the Act and must hold at least one public meeting within the impacted community. Sets forth additional notice requirements. Sets forth public meeting requirements. Requires the responsible public entity to create a meeting summary including issues raised by the public and respond to all questions in writing no later than 14 days after the meeting. Requires the responsible public entity to post the summary and responses to the responsible public entity's publicly accessible website. Makes other changes.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3713

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Engrossed
4/10/24  
Refer
4/11/24  
Refer
4/24/24  
Report Pass
5/15/24  
Enrolled
5/23/24  
Chaptered
8/9/24  
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to provide that law enforcement agencies may disclose law enforcement reports and records to the Attorney General to comply with the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Defines "applicant", "crime of violence", "victim", "pecuniary loss", "dating relationship", and other terms. Provides that no compensation may be granted to an applicant under the Act while the applicant is held in a correctional institution. Provides that an applicant who is held in a correctional institution may apply for assistance under this Act at any time, but no award of compensation may be considered until the applicant is released. Authorizes the Attorney General to issue subpoenas to compel the production of law enforcement reports maintained by the enforcement agencies. Provides that if the victim or applicant has obtained an order of protection, a civil no contact order, or a stalking no contact order or the crime was allegedly committed by law enforcement use of force, it is appropriate notification if the applicant or victim has been treated by the medical provider or mental health provider. Creates criteria to determine whether an applicant has cooperated with law enforcement. Provides that an applicant may provide notification by being treated by a mental health provider for psychological injuries for injuries arising from violations of the Criminal Code of 2012 for trafficking, sex crimes, and bodily harm. Requires the mental health provider to perform an independent medical evaluation and provide an opinion regarding causation of those injuries. Creates criteria for the Attorney General to use in evaluating an applicant's cooperation. Provides that an applicant's failure to respond to the Attorney General or Court of Claims may result in the claim being closed without compensation. Provides that an award shall be reduced or denied to the extent by which the victim's behavior posed an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to a law enforcement office and the victim's behavior was direct and proximate cause of the victim's injury in claims that a law enforcement officer's use of force caused the victim's injury or death. Makes other changes. Effective immediately, except certain provisions take effect January 1, 2025.
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Illinois 2023-2024 Regular Session

Illinois Senate Bill SB3732

Introduced
2/9/24  
Refer
2/9/24  
Refer
2/28/24  
Amends the Prior Authorization Reform Act. Provides that the Act applies to the program of group health benefits under the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971. Provides that a health insurance issuer shall not require prior authorization: where a medication is prescribed for a chronic condition, long-term condition, or mental health condition, has been prescribed for 6 months or more, or is a treatment for the clinical indication as supported by peer-reviewed medical publications; or for patients currently managed with an established treatment regimen. Removes language requiring a health insurance issuer to periodically review its prior authorization requirements and consider removal of prior authorization requirements under certain circumstances. Makes a conforming change. Effective July 1, 2024.
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