Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued the following announcement on July 9.
Governor JB Pritzker took the following bill action:
Bill Number: HB 19
Description: Makes technical changes amending membership within the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services' Direct Child Welfare Service Employee License Board. Requires staff answer call requests within one business day for post-placement and post-adoption questions and services.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 51
Description: Removes the City of Chicago's exemption from the Smoke Detector Act and requires all newly installed smoke alarms to contain sealed, long-term batteries.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 53
Description: Amends the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act by requiring that employers who solely rely on artificial intelligence for analysis of a video interview to report the race and ethnicity of the people interview and hired to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO). DCEO will analyze and report the data by July 1 of every year.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 56
Description: Requires that compensation of each county elected officer be fixed and listed separately by ordinance or resolution of the county board or board of commissioners.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 115
Description: Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983, the General Not for Profit Corporation Act of 1986, and the Limited Liability Company Act. Requires the Secretary of State to publish the reports collected under the named acts in a machine-readable form that is freely available to the public.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 118
Description: Entitles an employee to recover damages of 5%, rather than 2%, of the amount of any underpayments in wages for each month following the date of payment during which such underpayments remain unpaid.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 120
Description: Requires schools, public universities, and community colleges to allow students to modify their athletic or team uniform in accordance with their religious or cultural preferences without prior approval from institutions governing board. The bill specifies changes must not pose a safety hazard to the student or other players, and the student is responsible for all costs associated with the modification of the uniform.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 161
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code by requiring that a suspended driver's license must remain suspended until the statute of limitations has expired and the person seeking reinstatement provides evidence that, during the statute of limitations period, no action for damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident had been filed.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 185
Description: Amends the Eminent Domain Act. Provides that quick-take proceedings may be used for a period of no more than 2 years after the effective date by the City of Woodstock for the acquisition of certain described property for the purpose of widening the right-of-way proximate to the intersection of Madison Street, South Street, and Lake Avenue to construct a traffic roundabout.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 226
Description: Prohibits Illinois institutions of higher learning from requiring applicants who are residents of the State of Illinois to submit standardized test scores as a part of the admissions process. Provides that the submission of standardized test scores to the institution shall be at the option of the applicant.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 234
Description: Requires public high schools to provide a unit of instruction on media literacy.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 282
Description: Allows a superintendent of a Veterans' Assistance Commission to ask a State's Attorney to render an opinion, free of charge.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 290
Description: Requires the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Department of Human Services, to provide to parents and guardians of students a copy of the Department of Human Services' guide titled "Understanding PUNS: A Guide to Prioritization for Urgency of Need for Services" each year.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 343
Description: Provides that the school day begins at 6:30 a.m., instead of 7 a.m., for purposes of speed limits.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 351
Description: Requires the fire chief of a secondary employer to report any injury, illness, or exposure incurred by a secondary employee during his or her employment to the Department of Insurance (DOI). Also requires the secondary employers to transmit to DOI a certified copy of their report accounting for all hours worked by the secondary employees.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 365
Description: Makes minor changes to DUI memorial marker messages.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 368
Description: Amends the Illinois State Auditing Act by allowing contracted auditors to review Illinois income tax returns and federal tax information. Requires that the contract auditors adhere to federal requirements in place regarding access to federal tax information. Federal tax information disclosed under the Act shall only be provided in accordance with federal law.
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 374
Description: Authorizes community colleges to develop affordable housing for community college students.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 381
Description: Authorizes an active downstate firefighter to transfer up to 8 years of service credit from the Police Officers' Pension Investment Fund if the member was not subject to disciplinary action when his or her police service terminated. The firefighter may reinstate creditable service with the police pension fund that was refunded by paying the amount of the refund plus 6% interest. The pension service transfer provision applies only during the 6 months following enactment.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 395
Description: Changes the name of the Ivory Ban Act to the Animal Parts and Products Ban Act and expands the scope of the Act to include multiple other species of animals.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: HB 410
Description: Clarifies that a person who has served as a judge in Illinois is not required to complete a formal training program before becoming administrative hearing officers.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 449
Description: Requires the Division of Mental Health at DHS to create and administer the Housing is Recovery Pilot Program to prevent institutionalization and overdose deaths, improve health outcomes and access to recovery support and reduce state costs.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: HB 3139
Description: Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Program Act to allow the administration of a medical cannabis infused product to a person who is a registered patient who participates in a summer camp or similar program in a public park.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 47
Description: Amends the Illinois Residential Real Property Transfer on Death Instrument Act by making technical changes and changes the rules under which real property is transferred.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 61
Description: Clarifies that insurers must pay the replacement vehicle use or occupation tax, title, and transfer fees required in Section 154.9, and that failure to do so will result in insurers being considered guilty of improper claims practice.
Action: Signed
Effective: July 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 63
Description: Amends the Children & Family Services Act. Requires DCFS to ensure that all youth-in-care entering their final year of high school have completed a FAFSA form or an application for state financial aid. Requires DCFS to help youth obtain all documents necessary to submit the applications.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 71
Description: Makes changes to real estate installment sales contracts.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 80
Description: Makes technical clarification changes regarding the adult guardianship statutes.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 81
Description: Creates an income tax checkoff for donations to the Ronald McDonald House Charities Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 100
Description: Allows a person who uses spend-down to qualify for Medicaid to have up to six, rather than three, consecutive months to submit medical receipts and bills processed by the Illinois Healthcare and Families Services (HFS) as evidence of eligibility.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 105
Description: Requires that a collaborative physician verify clinical experience for an advanced practice nurse registration. If the physician is unable to provide this verification, the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (DFPR) may accept other evidence of clinical experience.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 106
Description: Requires DCFS to report additional information in their annual reports for youth-in-care waiting for placement and that the report be posted on DCFS's website.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 110
Description: Codifies current practice that regional wage adjusters in the Medicaid nursing home reimbursement methodology shall be no lower than 1.0,
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 119
Description: Allows a lemonade stand to be operated by a person under 16 without regulation and without the need to apply for a temporary food permit with the local health department.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 121
Description: Allows paramedics and emergency medical technicians to complete initial OSHA questionnaires.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 136
Description: Creates the Pat McGuire Child Welfare Education Fellowship Pilot Program to provide financial assistance to eligible students obtaining a social work degree who commit to seek and maintain employment at a purchase of service agency that contracts with DCFS.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 167
Description: Clarifies that Article 4, Tier 2 firefighter members are eligible for reciprocity of creditable service in firefighter pensions.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 189
Description: Requires each state agency that purchases food through a contract to adopt a policy that permits the donation of leftover food purchased with public funds.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 190
Description: Creates the Higher Education Housing and Opportunities Act. Requires an institution of higher education (including a business, technical, or vocational school) to designate at least one employee to serve as a liaison to assist enrolled homeless students.
Action: Signed
Effective: August 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 194
Description: Allows a student pharmacist or licensed pharmacy technician to access an employer pharmacy's database from a remote location while under the supervision of a pharmacist.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 215
Description: Limits the ability of a unit of local government or school district to file or become a party to opioid litigation against an opioid defendant if that defendant has an on-going intrastate opioid litigation unless authorized by the Attorney General.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 255
Description: Makes technical changes to the Mortgage Foreclosure Article to clean up language.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 258
Description: Makes technical changes to the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Acts to remove conflicting provisions.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 267
Description: Requires the Board of Higher Education, in consultation with the Illinois Community College Board and public institutions of higher education, to collect and report data from its students for the purpose of determining the parental status or legal guardian status of each of its enrolled students.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 277
Description: Allows the Supreme Court to provide mandatory arbitration of civil actions for a claim not exceeding $75,000 (rather than $50,000).
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 295
Description: Adds an additional member of the judiciary to the Commission on Poverty Elimination and Economic Security.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 307
Description: Allows Chicago firefighters who have retired and meet certain conditions to temporarily put their pensions on hold and claim occupational disability status for the purpose of care.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 332
Description: Requires that an insurer or network plan shall make available, in electronic or print form, information related to the provider's use of telehealth and telemedicine.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 335
Description: Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act to include additional dental practices.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 337
Description: Expands the jurisdiction of Supreme Court marshals to cover the Appellate Courts.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 346
Description: Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code to include provisions requiring Medicaid to cover certain dental procedures.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Bill Number: SB 363
Description: Creates a task force to study best practices and licensing of non-transplant organ donation organizations.
Action: Signed
Effective: Immediately
Bill Number: SB 460
Description: Requires all state and local retirement systems and pension funds to award investment services contracts through a competitive process.
Action: Signed
Effective: January 1, 2022
Original source can be found here.