Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that, on and after July 1, 2023, all non-controlled FDA-approved prescription medications for the treatment of a serious mental illness shall be covered under the medical assistance program for persons otherwise eligible for medical assistance who are diagnosed with a mental disorder that meets criteria established in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) and which is the focus of the treatment provided, including, but not limited to, schizophrenia, schizo-affective disorders, bipolar disorders, or major depression. Exempts medications covered under the amendatory Act from any prior authorization or lifetime restriction limit mandate. Provides that, for any covered medication that contains an opioid antagonist, the prescriber shall check the Illinois Prescription Monitoring Program to determine if the patient is being actively prescribed an opioid. Requires a prescriber of any medication covered under the amendatory Act to be a board-certified psychiatrist or a medical professional with prescribing authority that routinely treats patients with a serious mental illness. Effective July 1, 2023.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Human Services Professional Loan Repayment Program Act. Provides that a community-based human services agency may contract with, receive funding from, or be grant-funded by a State agency (instead of may contract with or be grant-funded by a State agency). Provides that the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, in awarding grants under the Act, may grant preference to applicants based on need or income levels. Removes the provision limiting the grant to an applicant for a cumulative maximum of 4 years. In provisions regarding the eligibility of an applicant, provides that the applicant shall have been a full-time employee for at least 24 consecutive months as a human services professional and the community-based human services agency shall currently have or have had a contract with, receive funding from, or be grant-funded by a State agency for the purpose of providing human services during the applicant's 24 consecutive month tenure (instead of shall have worked for at least 24 consecutive months as a full-time employee as a human services professional in a community-based human services agency that currently has or did have a contract with a State agency to provide human services during the duration of applicant's 24 consecutive month tenure). Effective July 1, 2023.

Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the Department of Revenue may deny a certificate of registration to an applicant or refuse to issue, reissue, or renew a certificate of registration, permit, or license authorized to be issued by the Department of Revenue if certain owners, partners, officers, managers, or members of the applicant fail to file a return, on or before the due date prescribed for filing that return, that the person is required to file under any tax or fee Act administered by the Department of Revenue.

Amends the General Assembly Operations Act. Provides that if a witness slip is filed in either chamber on a bill or amendment, and all of the text of that bill or amendment is subsequently incorporated into another bill or amendment, then that witness slip shall, with the consent of the person filing it, be associated in the database of witness slips maintained by the Legislative Information System with the bill or amendment into which the text is incorporated. Provides that the Legislative Information System shall establish and maintain a database for tracking witness slips.

Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides, in a provision that prohibits retaliatory action against residents, that "retaliatory action" means an action that is taken in retaliation for a resident's involvement in certain protected activities and that interferes with a resident's quality of life at the facility or results in either the imposition of selective restrictions or the resident's neglect or reduced access to services. Prohibits a facility, licensee of a facility, or an employee of a facility from threatening to take or taking a retaliatory action against a resident of the facility because the resident engages in one or more of the specified protected activities. Authorizes a resident of a facility who alleges a violation by a facility, the licensee of a facility, or an employee of a facility to bring a civil action for damages against the facility, the licensee who is responsible for the facility, or both, within 2 years after the date of the last violation that is alleged in the resident's complaint. Provides that, for each claimed violation by a facility, a licensee of a facility, or an employee of a facility, the facility, the licensee who is responsible for the facility, or both may also be liable to the resident for additional damages in an amount equal to the average monthly billing rate for Medicaid recipients in the facility. Requires a copy of residents' complaints under these provisions to be filed with the Department of Public Health. Provides that each licensee shall annually provide, to the residents of its facilities and their next of kin, a document containing a description of the retaliation complaint procedures and remedies established under the Act. Contains provisions concerning retaliation-prevention training. Requires every facility to conspicuously post for display in an area of its offices accessible to residents, employees, and visitors a description of the retaliation complaint procedures and remedies established under the Act. Makes a conforming change.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to annually review and update the underlying data for, and use of, indicators used to determine whether a community is designated as an environmental justice community and to establish a process by which communities not designated as environmental justice communities may petition for such a designation. Provides that an applicant for a permit for the construction of a new source that will become a major source subject to the Clean Air Act Permit Program to be located in an environmental justice community or a new source that has or will require a federally enforceable State operating permit and that will be located in an environmental justice community must conduct a public meeting prior to submission of the permit application and must submit with the permit application an environmental justice assessment identifying the potential environmental and health impacts to the area associated with the proposed project. Provides requirements for the environmental justice assessment. Provides that a supplemental fee of $100,000 for each construction permit application shall be assessed if the construction permit application is subject to the requirements regarding the construction of a new source located in an environmental justice community. Contains provisions regarding public participation requirements for permitting transactions in an environmental justice community. Provides that, if the Agency grants a permit to construct, modify, or operate a facility that emits air pollutants and is classified as a minor source, a third party may petition the Pollution Control Board for a hearing to contest the issuance of the permit. Contains provisions regarding environmental justice grievances. Defines terms. Contains other provisions.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall provide each managed care organization with the quarterly fee-for-service facility-specific nursing component (rather than facility-specific RUG-IV nursing component) per diem along with any add-ons for enhanced care services, support component per diem, and capital component per diem effective for each nursing home under contract with the managed care organization. Provides that no managed care contract shall provide for a level of reimbursement lower than the fee-for-service rate in effect for the facility at the time service is rendered. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction in an amount equal to the amount received by the taxpayer in gratuities during the taxable year. Provides that the deduction is exempt from the Act's automatic sunset provision. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Provides that any contractor involved in programs and procurements for the construction of State-funded solar and utility-scale wind projects must have 50% or more of the contractor's employees be residents of the State. Provides that the contractor must also participate in a registered apprenticeship program approved by the federal Department of Labor.

Creates the Illinois Election Integrity Act. Amends the Election Code. Requires that each election authority (i) conduct an election day audit of a random sample of 10% of votes cast and (ii) provide by contract or employment for the performance by one or more independent auditors of post-election parallel tabulations and audits. Provides for the scope of the audits and the resulting reports. Requires that optical scan technology and direct recording electronic voting systems meet certain federal and independent testing standards. Creates a voluntary tax checkoff for the Fund. With respect to early voting, requires that an election authority using only direct recording electronic voting systems have paper ballots available for voters wishing to use them. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Election Integrity Fund as a special fund in the State treasury.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that child care facilities, within the facilities' discretion, may accept a sincerely held religious exemption to a specific vaccination from an employee if the employee presents to the employer a signed statement of objection, detailing the grounds for the sincerely held objection. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $ 5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of making grants to socially-disadvantaged farmers to provide funding for startup capital and for costs associated with farming operations and equipment. Effective July 1, 2023.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the long-time occupant homestead exemption applies in all counties beginning in taxable year 2023. Effective immediately.

Amends various Acts relating to the governance of public universities and community colleges in Illinois. Requires the governing board of each public university and community college district to provide an adjunct professor or part-time or non-tenure track faculty member hired to teach a class on campus during an academic term with free campus parking or full reimbursement for the cost of campus parking for that academic term.