| AM550 | APPOINT - MANUEL FLORES (SEN. ANTONIO MUÑOZ) Nominates Manuel Flores to be Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. |
| | Current Status: | 10/22/2013 - Appt Confirmed, Pursuant Article V, Sect 9(a) of the ILL Constitution Executive Appointments
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| HB75 | DCEO-BUSINESS DATABASE (REP. LA SHAWN FORD) Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish a searchable online database containing information about businesses located in Illinois. Contains provisions concerning registration of businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an initial registration fee of $100 for small businesses and $200 for businesses that are not small businesses. Provides that the Department shall charge an annual fee of $25 for each registered small business and $50 for each registered business that is not a small business. Provides that the fees shall be deposited into the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Support Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB135 | SOLICITATION CHARITY ACT-FEES (REP. JIL TRACY) Amends the Solicitation for Charity Act. Reduces specified penalty registrations to $25 from $200 and a late annual report filing fee to $50 from $100. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB199 | TRUSTS-VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION (REP. EMILY MCASEY) Amends the Trusts and Trustees Act. Defines terms. Provides that an unascertainable beneficiary may be represented by and bound by another beneficiary having a substantially similar (instead of a substantially identical) interest on a particular question or dispute. Provides that if a trust beneficiary is an unrepresented minor, disabled, or unborn person, a parent of the beneficiary may represent and bind the beneficiary, provided that there is no conflict of interest between the minor or disabled person and either of that person's parents on that particular question or dispute. Further provides that this representative may on a particular question or dispute represent and bind an unborn beneficiary or an unascertainable beneficiary who has an interest that is substantially similar to the interest of the minor or disabled person, but only if there is no conflict of interest between the minor or the disabled person and the unborn or the unascertainable person. Makes other corresponding changes. Provides that conversion of a trust to a total return trust may be made with a trustee and all primary beneficiaries (instead of with a trustee and all beneficiaries and presumptive remaindermen beneficiaries) in accordance with other provisions of the Act. Provides that changes made apply to all trusts in existence on the effective date and to all trusts created after that date. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB270 | GOVERNMENT-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| | Report Position: | Monitor |
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| HB283 | STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB336 | STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Amends the Illinois Health Information Exchange and Technology Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB374 | FINANCE-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Synopsis - House Floor Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Human Services Provider Payment Fund. Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Provides that the general obligation bond debt limit is increased by $2,500,000,000, with the proceeds from the additional bonds sold to be paid to the Human Services Provider Payment Fund, and used to pay bona fide creditors of the State. Defines "bona fide creditor". Provides that bond sale proceeds may not be used to pay contributions to any pension or retirement system of the State. Provides that priority in payment of up to $2,000,000,000 of the bond sale proceeds will be given to bona fide creditors that receive Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) matching funds. Provides that the Human Services Provider Payment Fund is not subject to fund administrative charges or chargebacks. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB864 | CIVIL LAW-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Amends the Illinois Antitrust Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| | Report Position: | Monitor |
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| HB897 | BUSINESS-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning franchise taxes payable by domestic corporations. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1048 | CORP. SERVICE OF PROCESS (REP. EMANUEL WELCH) Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983, the General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986, and the Limited Liability Company Act. Requires a limited liability company (LLC) that has converted into a different entity to file a copy of the articles of conversion with the Secretary of State. Allows the Secretary of State to accept service of process for a domestic corporation or LLC that has dissolved, faces criminal charges, has failed to appoint or maintain an agent or whose agent can not be found. Requires the articles of incorporation of an LLC to specify the company's duration, making the duration perpetual if not specified. Makes restated articles of incorporation supersede any previous articles or amendments. Expands the grounds for dissolution of an LLC or revocation of admission for a foreign LLC to failure to respond to interrogatories or failure to tender adequate payment to the Secretary of State. Creates a new Section on the process for revoking a foreign LLC's right to admission. Effective July 1, 2013. |
| | Current Status: | 8/5/2013 - Effective Date August 5, 2013
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| HB1165 | PUBLIC EMPLOYEE BENEFITS-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) House Floor Amendment No. 5 -
Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Pension Fund Solvency Act of 2013. Contains only a short title provision. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Adds an immediate effective date. -
House Floor Amendment No. 6 - Amends the Illinois Pension Code. For the General Assembly, State Employees, State Universities, and Downstate Teacher retirement systems, provides that, for a Tier I retiree, (i) the amount of each automatic annual increase in retirement annuity occurring on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act shall be the lesser of $750 ($600 if the annuity is based primarily upon service as a covered employee) or 3% of the total annuity payable at the time of the increase, including previous increases granted, and (ii) the monthly retirement annuity shall first be subject to annual increases on the January 1 occurring on or next after the attainment of age 67 or the January 1 occurring on or next after the fifth anniversary of the annuity start date, whichever occurs earlier. Defines terms. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1442 | BUSINESS MANDATE NOTE (REP. MICHELLE MUSSMAN) Creates the Business Mandate Note Act. Provides that every bill and proposed rule the purpose or effect of which is to directly increase the cost of doing business in the State shall have prepared for it a brief explanatory statement or note that shall include a reliable estimate of certain anticipated impacts. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall prepare the business mandate note. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1561 | CRIM CD-FORGERY-PENALTY (REP. TOM DEMMER) Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit of government is forged. Defines "unit of government". |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1562 | COUNTIES/MUNI-TREASURER (REP. TOM DEMMER) House Floor Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Governmental Account Audit Act. Provides that a Section regarding the creation of an audit commission shall not apply to counties and municipalities governed by certain Sections of the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a county or municipality shall (now, may) establish a finance and audit committee to review certain audit reports and other financial reports and documents. Sets forth appointments and duties. Effective immediately.
Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 - Changes a county or municipality finance and audit committee duty to review management letters prepared by or on behalf of the county or municipality from a semi-annual review to an annual review. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1563 | CRIM CD-OFFICIAL MISCONDUCT (REP. TOM DEMMER) Amends the Criminal Code of 2012 concerning official misconduct. Provides that a person who commits the offense with intent to obtain a personal advantage for himself, herself, or another and performs an act in excess of his or her lawful authority, if the personal advantage obtained for himself, herself, or another is property or has a specified monetary value, is guilty of a: (1) Class 2 felony if the value of the personal advantage obtained does not exceed $10,000; (2) Class 1 felony if the value of the personal advantage obtained exceeds $10,000 but does not exceed $100,000; and (3) Class X felony if the value of the personal advantage obtained exceeds $100,000. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1872 | STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH (REP. TOM CROSS) Amends the State Comptroller Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1877 | FINANCE-TECH (REP. TOM CROSS) Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning special funds. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB1878 | FINANCE-TECH (REP. TOM CROSS) Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning required reports and accounts. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB2328 | PROHIBIT CREDIT CARD SURCHARGE (REP. PATRICK VERSCHOORE) Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for a person to impose a surcharge upon a consumer who elects to pay by use of a credit card instead of making payment by cash, check, or similar means of payment. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB2461 | AUTOMATIC IRA PROGRAM ACT (REP. DEBORAH MELL) Creates the Automatic Individual Retirement Account Program Act. Establishes a portable retirement savings program for employees of employers that have not offered a qualified retirement plan to their employees within the last 2 years. Provides for the deduction of moneys from the wages of persons enrolled in the program. Provides for the deposit of those moneys in the Automatic IRA Program Fund. Authorizes a 7-member board to invest those moneys, choose permitted retirement program investment options, and make other programmatic decisions. Sets forth requirements pertaining to the Board and its composition and duties. Grants the Department of Employment Security administrative and enforcement powers. Also contains provisions concerning: investment firms; permissible investments; default enrollee contributions; investment policies; payroll deduction retirement savings arrangements; duties and liabilities of the State and employers; enrollee information packets; required audits and reports; penalties; rules; and program implementation. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB2816 | TAXPAYER OVERSIGHT COMMISSION (REP. NATALIE MANLEY) Creates the Commission on Taxpayer Oversight and Reduction of State Spending Act. Provides that the Commission shall conduct investigations, review the budget submitted by the Governor in order to make recommendations for reducing expenditures set forth in the budget, review activities of agencies and grant recipients, and consider State and local budgetary reductions by reduction or elimination of mandated expenditures or the consolidation of agencies and instrumentalities to eliminate waste and inefficiency. Sets forth the membership of the Commission. Provides that the Commission shall conduct at least one public hearing and may issue reports. Provides that the Governor shall respond, in writing, within 30 calendar days after the submission of the reports. Provides that the Governor's Office of Management and Budget shall provide administrative and other support to the Commission. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB2892 | ILLINOIS ENTERPRISE COMMISSION (REP. DWIGHT KAY) Creates the Illinois Enterprise Commission Act. Provides for each legislative leader to appoint 3 public members to the Commission. Authorizes employment of an executive director and staff. Requires the Commission and its staff to scrutinize the existing Illinois laws and administrative rules to see which rules are serving as a net drag on Illinois job creation and economic productivity. Requires the Commission to annually adopt, by two-thirds majority vote, and submit to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the executive director of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), an omnibus list of all of the administrative rules within the Illinois Administrative Code that the Commission believes can be repealed, abolished, or amended to maximize the wealth and productivity of Illinois. Allows for public comment. Requires the Commission to recommend replacement rules. Allows JCAR, by a single, up-or-down record vote, to accept a report by a three-fifths majority, which has the effect of prohibiting the rules on the list. Sets forth a procedure for adoption of recommended or other rules as emergency rules. Requires the Commission to annually adopt, by two-thirds majority vote, and submit to the Governor, the General Assembly, and the executive director of the Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB), an omnibus list of all of the laws, and sections of laws, within the Illinois Compiled Statutes that the Commission believes can be repealed, abolished, or amended to maximize the wealth and productivity of Illinois. Allows for public comment. Requires the Commission, in cooperation with LRB, to oversee the drafting of an omnibus revisory bill reflecting the Commission's recommendations. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2018. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB3040 | DFPR-LICENSES-SERVICE MEMBERS (REP. STEPHANIE KIFOWIT) Amends various Acts. Provides that a service member or veteran satisfies professional licensure qualifications if he or she provides the licensing Department with documentation that he or she has had substantially equivalent training or experience from his or her military service. Provides definitions of "service member", "military service", and "veteran". Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| | Priority: | High |
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| HB3355 | OIAG-AUDITING STANDARDS (REP. MICHAEL TRYON) Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act. Provides that oversight of the State's compliance with auditing standards and generally accepted accounting principles for governments shall be the responsibility of the Auditor General. Provides that the Auditor General's annual review shall evaluate the State's compliance with generally accepted accounting principles for governments, as promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Provides that the Auditor General shall (instead of "may") adopt rules concerning audit standards. Amends the State Comptroller Act to require to Comptroller to consult with the Auditor General and provide the Auditor General with draft copies of any proposed accounting standards. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB3430 | $WIU-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Western Illinois University for its FY14 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2013. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB3500 | $DEPT MIL AFF-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Military Affairs for its FY14 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2013. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB3518 | $DMA FY14 OCE (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Military Affairs for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, as follows: General Funds $15,504,500; Other State Funds $6,000,000; Federal Funds $34,279,400; Total $55,783,900. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB5186 | $WIU-TECH (REP. JIM DURKIN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Western Illinois University for its FY15 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2014. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB5232 | $DEPT MIL AFF-TECH (REP. JIM DURKIN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Military Affairs for its FY15 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2014. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB6030 | $WIU FY15 OCE (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Board of Trustees of Western Illinois University for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2014, as follows: General Funds $46,187,100; Other State Funds $20,000; Total $46,207,100. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB6049 | $WIU-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Western Illinois University for its FY15 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2014. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HB6116 | $DEPT MIL AFF-TECH (REP. MICHAEL MADIGAN) Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Military Affairs for its FY15 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2014. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| HR581 | URGE GOV - EXECUTIVE MANSION (REP. CHRISTOPHER DAVIDSMEYER) Urges the Governor to maintain residence at the Executive Mansion in Springfield during the entirety of the legislative session so that he may be available to work alongside leaders of the General Assembly in finding solutions to the State's problems. |
| | Current Status: | 12/3/2014 - Session Sine Die
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| SB1 | PEN CD-REFORM STATE SYSTEMS (SEN. JOHN CULLERTON) House Committee Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Includes findings. Amends the General Provisions, General Assembly, State Employee, State Universities, and Downstate Teacher Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the retirement age for certain Tier I members and participants. Changes the conditions of eligibility for, and the amount of, automatic annual increases for Tier I retirees. Increases required employee contributions for Tier I members and participants. Limits pensionable salary for Tier I participants and, in future terms, for Tier II members of the General Assembly Retirement System. Changes the required State contribution to each of the affected retirement systems so that those systems are 100% funded by 2044, and changes the actuarial cost method from projected unit credit to entry age normal. Adds State funding guarantees. Provides that the System shall not use any contribution received by the System under the applicable Article to provide a subsidy for the cost of participation in a retiree health care program. Makes other changes. Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF), Cook County, State Employees, State Universities, Downstate Teachers, and Chicago Teachers Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. For participants who first become participants on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, prohibits (i) payments for unused sick or vacation time from being used to calculate pensionable earnings and salary and (ii) unused sick or vacation time from being used to establish service credit. Imposes limitations on participation by certain persons. Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act and the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act to provide that amendments to Articles 14, 15, and 16 of the Illinois Pension Code (and to Article 1 as it applies to those Articles) are not subject to collective bargaining and take precedence. Amends the State Finance Act; to the list of standardized items of appropriation, adds "State retirement contribution for annual normal cost" and "State retirement contribution for unfunded accrued liability" and defines those terms. Amends the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Adds those terms to a list of classifications to be used in statements and estimates of expenditures submitted to the Office in connection with the preparation of a State budget. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Makes other changes. Includes an inseverability provision. Effective immediately. - House Floor Amendment No. 3 - In each of the funding guarantees, provides that the State pledges not to impair the rights and remedies of the boards of trustees as set forth in the funding guarantees (rather than any rights and remedies of the boards of trustees); also makes changes in the State funding pledge. Provides that the changes, the impact of changes, and the implementation of changes made to the State Employees, State Universities, or Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code, or to the General Provisions Article of that Code as it applies to those Articles, made by the amendatory Act, and those Articles thereafter, are not subject to interest arbitration or any award issued pursuant to interest arbitration. In the Budget Stabilization Act, deletes the reference to terminating transfers into the Pension Stabilization Fund if any provision of the amendatory Act is held invalid, which duplicates the effect of the inseverability provision. Makes changes in the Findings Section. Makes changes to the inseverability provision. Also makes technical and other changes. |
| | Current Status: | 12/5/2013 - Effective Date June 1, 2014
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| SB712 | VIDEO GAMING-DISCLOSURE (SEN. JOHN CULLERTON) Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Video Gaming Act. Makes changes to certain provisions concerning background investigations and disclosure requirements for persons or entities that hold a financial interest in a person seeking licensure under the Act. Provides that the Gaming Board has the discretion to determine whether to conduct the background investigation of a person or entity that holds an indirect interest in a person seeking licensure under the Act if the person or entity holds such interest for investment purposes only, does not exercise control over the activities of the person seeking and possessing a license, and is a limited partner in a partnership whose general partner is controlled by an investment adviser registered under the federal Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Further provides that the Board has the discretion to determine whether to apply the disclosure requirement as it relates to the beneficiaries of a trust, the stockholders and directors of a corporation, the members of a limited liability company, or the partners in a partnership if the entity holds an indirect interest for investment purposes only, does not exercise any control over the activities of the person seeking and possessing a license, and is a limited partner in a partnership whose general partner is controlled by an investment adviser registered under the federal Investment Advisers Act. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| SB1673 | GOMB-FUNDS-TRANSPARENT WEBSITE (SEN. MATT MURPHY) Amends the Election Code. Prohibits campaign contributions to General Assembly members from recipients of their legislative member initiatives for 5 years after initial disbursement of moneys. Amends the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Requires GOMB to establish a single updated searchable database website accessible by the public at no cost that includes information concerning each entity that receives Illinois funding. Requires GOMB to report to the General Assembly concerning the website. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| | Report Position: | Neutral |
| | Priority: | Medium |
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| SB1739 | CHICAGO CASINO DEVELOPMENT (SEN. TERRY LINK) Synopsis - Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Creates the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act. Provides for the creation of the Chicago Casino Development Authority, whose duties include promotion and maintenance of a casino. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Gaming Facilities Fee Revenue Fund. Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Establishes the Division of Internet Gaming within the Department of the Lottery for the purpose of administering, regulating, and enforcing a system of Internet gaming (and makes conforming changes in other Acts). Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975 and the Riverboat Gambling Act to authorize electronic gaming at race tracks (and makes conforming changes in various Acts). Further amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Makes various changes concerning Board members. Contains provisions concerning testing of horses at county fairs and standardbred horses. Provides that the Illinois Racing Board shall submit a report to the General Assembly on or before December 31, 2014 that examines the feasibility of conducting electronic gaming at the Illinois State Fairgrounds. Further amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Changes the short title to the Illinois Gambling Act and changes corresponding references to the Act. Adds additional owners licenses, one of which authorizes the conduct of casino gambling in the City of Chicago. Makes changes in provisions concerning the admission tax and privilege tax. Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975, the Riverboat Gambling Act, and the Video Gaming Act to prohibit political contributions from certain licensees. Makes other changes. Contains a severability provision. Effective immediately. - Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 amends the Chicago Casino Development Authority Act. Adds provisions concerning legislative intent. Defines "entity". Makes changes in provisions concerning duties of the Authority, the Casino Board, the executive director, rights and powers of the Authority, ethical conduct, casino management contracts, revenues, local regulation, bonds, and derivative products. Removes provisions amending the Illinois Lottery Law that establish the Division of Internet Gaming within the Department of the Lottery for the purpose of administering, regulating, and enforcing a system of Internet gaming; makes conforming changes. Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Depressed Communities Economic Development Board and the Commission on the Future of Economic Development of the Latino Community. Further amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Deletes language defining the term "purse" and deletes various references to breeders. Further amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Replaces provisions regarding a revenue-sharing agreement between the City of Rockford and Winnebago County with provisions dividing admission taxes and 5% of adjusted gross receipts equally between the City of Rockford and Winnebago County. Replaces provisions regarding the division of 5% of adjusted gross receipts equally between Park City, Waukegan, and North Chicago with provisions dividing those amounts as follows: 50% to Waukegan, 25% to Park City, and 25% to North Chicago. Restores certain provisions regarding payments into the Horse Racing Equity Fund, each home rule county with a population of over 3,000,000 inhabitants, and Chicago State University. Adds additional distributions of moneys from the State Gaming Fund. Makes changes in provisions amending the Video Gaming Act prohibiting political contributions from certain licensees and applicants. Makes other changes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| SB1826 | PROFESSIONS - E SIGNATURE (SEN. EMIL JONES, III) Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 - Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Electronic Commerce Security Act. Provides that in the course of exercising any permitting, licensing, or other regulatory function, a municipality may accept, but shall not require, documents with an electronic signature, including, but not limited to, the technical submissions of a design professional with an electronic signature. Amends the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989, the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989, and the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989. In provisions concerning seals, provides that licensees may provide, at their sole discretion, an original signature in the licensee's handwriting, a scanned copy of the document bearing an original signature, or a signature generated by a computer. Removes prohibition on signatures generated by computer. Further amends the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989. Provides that it is unlawful to affix one's seal to documents if it masks the true identity of the person who actually exercised direction, control, and supervision of the preparation of that work. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2014 - Senate Bills on Second Reading
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| SB1841 | DFPR-REMOVE PUBLIC RECORD (SEN. JOHN MULROE) Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that any licensee disciplined under a licensure Act administered by the Division of Professional Regulation for an offense relating to the failure to pay taxes, child support, or student loans or relating to continuing education or advertising may file a petition with the Department on forms provided by the Department, along with the required fee of $200, to have the records of that offense removed from public view on the Department's website if certain conditions are met. Provides that nothing shall prohibit the Department from using a previous discipline for any regulatory purpose or from releasing records of a previous discipline upon request from law enforcement, other governmental body, or the public. Provides that removal of records of a disciplinary offense from the Department's website shall not be considered a vacating or expunging of the offense from the licensee's disciplinary record. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 8/1/2014 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-0816
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| SB1904 | DEDICATED FUND IMPACT NOTE ACT (SEN. PAMELA ALTHOFF) Creates the Dedicated Fund Impact Note Act. Requires every bill that provides for the transfer of moneys from a special fund in the State treasury to any other fund in the State treasury through sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or another other fiscal or budgetary maneuver to have prepared for it, prior to second reading in each chamber, a brief explanatory statement or note that discloses the amount to be transferred from each special fund and an estimate of the programmatic impact of that transfer. Authorizes any member of the General Assembly to request one of these notes. Requires the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to respond to requests for these notes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| | Report Position: | Support |
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| SB1905 | DEDICATED FUND TRACKER (SEN. PAMELA ALTHOFF) Amends the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Requires the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to establish, by July 1, 2014, and to maintain, thereafter, on its internet website a database, to be known as the "Dedicated Fund Tracker", through which members of the public may access detailed information regarding the balance of moneys in each special fund in the State treasury and the amounts transferred from each of those funds to any other fund in the State treasury by sweeps, administrative charge-backs, or any other fiscal or budgetary maneuver. For each special fund, the website shall list the current balance in the Fund, any amount that is transferred from the fund by a sweep, administrative charge-back, or other fiscal or budgetary maneuvers, the date upon which each of those transfers occurs, and the fund to which moneys in the fund are transferred. Also provides that, with the publication of each proposed State budget, the Office shall also post in the database a list of each sweep, administrative charge-back, or other fiscal or budgetary maneuvers that will be required to implement that budget and that will result in the transfer of moneys from a special fund in the State treasury to any other fund in the State treasury. Requires data in the database to be updated no less frequently than once each month. Requires the database to be capable of compiling reports to identify amounts transferred from each fund on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| SB1906 | REGULATORY FUNDS-CREDIT (SEN. PAMELA ALTHOFF) Amends the State Finance Act, the Medical Practice Act of 1987, and the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions related to the Financial Institution Fund, Insurance Financial Regulation Fund, the Insurance Producer Administration Fund, and the Illinois State Medical Disciplinary Fund, provides that the appropriation Department shall calculate its administrative expenses related to the enforcement of the Acts associated with the funds and, as soon after those calculations are made as is practical, amounts in those funds that are in excess of those calculated administrative expenses shall be credited to licensees under those Acts for the following year. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| SB1907 | GOMB-BUDGET TRANSPARENCY (SEN. PAMELA ALTHOFF) Amends Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Requires, beginning in State fiscal year 2015, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to post on its publicly accessible internet website in a commonly-used spreadsheet format a secure copy of all tables, charts, and quantitative data used in the preparation of the Governor's proposed State budgets. Requires the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to establish on its website a geographic information system to provide members of the public with detailed information regarding State revenues and expenditures at different geographic scales. Creates the Governmental Transparency Task Force. Directs the Task Force to study proposals to make the State budgeting process the most transparent, publicly-accessible budgeting process in the nation and to report its findings to the Governor and General Assembly by no later than January 1, 2015. Directs the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to provide administrative support to the Task Force. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| | Report Position: | Neutral |
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| SB1941 | UNIFORM ELECTR LEGAL MATERIAL (SEN. JOHN MULROE) Creates the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act to provide for the utilization of legal material in an electronic record. Applies to all legal material designated as official under the Act and published after its effective date. Defines legal material and other terms. Includes court reports, statutes, session laws, rules, and agency decisions. Provides for an official publisher for the material, including the Supreme Court and the Secretary of State. Provides for authentication of official electronic records and for their preservation. Establishes standards for implementing the Act. - House Floor Amendment No. 2 - In the definition of "legal material", includes reported decisions of the Illinois Court of Claims (rather than including the "Illinois Court of Claims" without any reference to its reported decisions). |
| | Current Status: | 8/26/2014 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 98-1097
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| SB2400 | AUTOMATIC IRA PROGRAM ACT (SEN. DANIEL BISS) Creates the Automatic Individual Retirement Account Program Act. Establishes a portable retirement savings program for employees of employers that have not offered a qualified retirement plan to their employees within the last 2 years. Provides for the deduction of moneys from the wages of persons enrolled in the program. Provides for the deposit of those moneys in the Automatic IRA Program Fund. Authorizes a 7-member board to invest those moneys, choose permitted retirement program investment options, and make other programmatic decisions. Sets forth requirements pertaining to the Board and its composition and duties. Grants the Department of Employment Security administrative and enforcement powers. Also contains provisions concerning: investment firms; permissible investments; default enrollee contributions; investment policies; payroll deduction retirement savings arrangements; duties and liabilities of the State and employers; enrollee information packets; required audits and reports; penalties; rules; and program implementation. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| SB2411 | $DFPR FY14 OCE (SEN. JOHN CULLERTON) Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, as follows: Other State Funds $108,539,200. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| | Priority: | High |
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| SB2427 | $IL INDEP TAX TRIBNL FY14 OCE (SEN. JOHN CULLERTON) Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois Independent Tax Tribunal for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2013, as follows: General Funds $662,900; Other State Funds $79,400; Total $742,300. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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| | Priority: | High |
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| SB2931 | MILITARY CODE-DIRECTOR-GRANTS (SEN. MICHAEL HASTINGS) Amends the Military Code of Illinois. Changes the required grade for the position of Adjutant General from Major General to Lieutenant General. Provides that the Adjutant General shall serve as both the Director of the Department of Military Affairs and as the Commander of the Illinois National Guard; makes a conforming change. In the Section concerning the Department of Military Affairs' power to make grants from the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, provides that the Department has the power to make grants to (1) members of the Illinois National Guard or Illinois residents who are members of the reserves of the armed forces of the United States who have been called to active duty as a result of an emergency declared by the President or Congress or as defined by administrative rule of the Department (rather than as a result of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks) and (2) members of the Illinois National Guard who have been called to State Active Duty for 30 or more consecutive days of duty; makes conforming changes. Effective immediately. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2015 - Session Sine Die
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