Creates the Rural Development Task Force to study the conditions, needs, issues, and problems in the agriculture industry and evaluate any action or legislation that may be necessary to promote economic development in the rural areas of the State.
Amends the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 of the Public Utilities Act. In provisions concerning infrastructure investment and modernization: Provides that beginning in 2022, a participating utility other than a combination utility shall pay $10,000,000 per year for 5 years and a participating utility that is a combination utility shall pay $1,000,000 per year for 10 years to the energy low-income and support program, which is intended to fund customer assistance programs with the primary purpose being avoidance of imminent disconnection and reconnecting customers who have been disconnected for nonpayment and makes conforming changes. Makes a change concerning the computation of the performance-based formula rate beginning with the rates applicable for the rate year commencing January 1, 2023, and each rate year thereafter. Removes provisions requiring that, by December 31, 2017, the Illinois Commerce Commission shall prepare and file with the General Assembly a report on the infrastructure program and the performance-based formula rate; provisions making the infrastructure investment and modernization, Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure Deployment Plan, Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Trust, and Illinois Smart Grid test bed provisions inoperative after December 31, 2022; and provisions limiting the ability of a participating utility to annually update the performance-based formula rate. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Teachers and State Universities Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires an employer to make an additional employer contribution for a participant whose earnings for any academic year used to determine the final rate of earnings exceed the amount of his or her earnings with the same employer for the previous academic year by more than 6% (instead of 3%). Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Judy Scott for her recent act of heroism that saved the lives of many students and chaperones.
Congratulates Matthew Eugene Thery of Sesser on being elected as Illinois' 70th Youth Governor.
Recognizes May 2, 2019 as the National Day of Prayer.
Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Defines "servicemember" and "veteran". Provides that a person commits aggravated assault or aggravated battery when he or she commits an assault or a battery against a servicemember or veteran. Provides that an aggravated assault committed against a servicemember or veteran is a Class A misdemeanor. Provides that an aggravated battery committed against a servicemember or veteran is a Class 3 felony. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Reorganizes and makes technical changes to provisions concerning aggravated assault or aggravated battery against a servicemember or veteran.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if a veteran with a surviving spouse was in the process of review to receive the homestead exemption for veterans with disabilities, but the veteran died before the exemption was approved, then the application process shall continue and any subsequent approval granted to the veteran shall carry over to the spouse as long as the spouse meets the requirements for carry over.
Directs the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, on behalf of the State of Illinois and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, to convey by quitclaim deed described property in Williamson County. Effective immediately. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill, and makes the following changes: Provides that the property shall be conveyed in exchange for infrastructure development, as agreed by the parties (rather than upon the payment of the sum of $1), to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Deletes language providing that the quitclaim deed shall state on its face and be subject to the conditions that the real property shall be used for a public purpose and if the property is used for any purpose other than a public purpose, then title shall revert to the State. Effective immediately. Senate Floor Amendment No. 2 Replaces everything after the enacting clause with the provisions of the introduced bill, and makes the following changes: Provides that the property shall be conveyed in exchange for specified infrastructure development (rather than upon the payment of the sum of $1), to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Deletes language providing that the quitclaim deed shall state on its face and be subject to the conditions that the real property shall be used for a public purpose and if the property is used for any purpose other than a public purpose, then title shall revert to the State. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Kody Vanfossan.
