Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that services performed by an oil field contract pumper do not constitute "employment" for purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act. Provides that it is not the intent of the Act that task forces, cooperative groups, or delivery systems created under the Act be treated as separate entities that may be sued. Effective immediately.
Amends the Use Tax Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes in Sections concerning block grants.
Amends the Electric Supplier Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning existing lines.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Cook County Forest Preserve District.
Creates the Firearms Dealer Licensing Act. Requires a person who engages in the business of selling or transferring firearms to be licensed by the Department of State Police. Establishes qualifications for licenses. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony to engage in the business of selling or transferring firearms without a license. Requires a licensed firearms dealer who sells or transfers a firearm to a person who is not a licensed dealer to report that sale or transfer to the Department of State Police.
Amends the Fiscal Note Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning the vote upon the necessity of a fiscal note.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to the application of the Act.
Amends the Eliminate the Digital Divide Law (i) concerning use of moneys in the Digital Divide Fund and interest being retained in the Fund and (ii) to increase the amount of a grant that a Community Technology Center may receive from $50,000 to $100,000 per fiscal year. Amends the Public Utilities Act to provide for the Department of Revenue (instead of Commerce and Economic Opportunity) to make deposits into the Digital Divide Elimination Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the exemption from an eavesdropping violation for recordings made simultaneously with a video recording of an oral conversation between a peace officer who has identified his or her office and a person stopped for an investigation of an offense under the Illinois Vehicle Code applies only if the recordings are used: (1) as evidence of traffic or criminal law violations that arise from the same stop for the investigation of an offense under the Illinois Vehicle Code; (2) to investigate the veracity of a complaint against the peace officer if the complainant was a participant at the traffic stop in which the incident that gave rise to the complaint occurs; or (3) to evaluate the peace officer's performance for the sole purpose of providing continuous training to members of the police department. Provides that each police department that uses a recording for any of these purposes must have adopted a policy describing the procedures to be followed by a peace officer of the department who conducts investigative stops and makes these recordings. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Funds Investment Act. Makes a technical change concerning the grant of authority under the Act.
