SB2008ham004 104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Jay Hoffman

Filed: 5/30/2025

10400SB2008ham004 LRB104 11383 HLH 27071 a

AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 2008

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend Senate Bill 2008, AS AMENDED, with reference to page and line numbers of House Amendment No. 3, on page 368, line 23 by replacing "concludes" with "commences"; and

on page 375, by replacing lines 12 through 15 with the following:

"(iv) 5% of the Illinois labor expenditures generated by employment of Illinois residents for services performed for an accredited production in one or more Illinois counties outside Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will; plus"; and

on page 384, immediately below line 24, by inserting the following:

"ARTICLE 20

Section 20-5. The River Edge Redevelopment Zone Act is amended by changing Section 10-5.3 as follows:

(65 ILCS 115/10-5.3)

Sec. 10-5.3. Certification of River Edge Redevelopment Zones.

(a) Approval of designated River Edge Redevelopment Zones shall be made by the Department by certification of the designating ordinance. The Department shall promptly issue a certificate for each zone upon its approval. The certificate shall be signed by the Director of the Department, shall make specific reference to the designating ordinance, which shall be attached thereto, and shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. A certified copy of the River Edge Redevelopment Zone Certificate, or a duplicate original thereof, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which the River Edge Redevelopment Zone lies.

(b) A River Edge Redevelopment Zone shall be effective upon its certification. The Department shall transmit a copy of the certification to the Department of Revenue, and to the designating municipality. Upon certification of a River Edge Redevelopment Zone, the terms and provisions of the designating ordinance shall be in effect, and may not be amended or repealed except in accordance with Section 10-5.4.

(c) A River Edge Redevelopment Zone shall be in effect for the period stated in the certificate, which shall in no event exceed 30 calendar years. Zones shall terminate at midnight of December 31 of the final calendar year of the certified term, except as provided in Section 10-5.4.

(d) In calendar years 2006 and 2007, the Department may certify one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of East St. Louis, one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of Rockford, and one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of Aurora.

In calendar year 2009, the Department may certify one pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of Elgin.

On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly, the Department may certify one additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zone in the City of Peoria.

On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, the Department may certify 2 additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zones, including one in the City of Joliet and one in the City of Kankakee.

On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, the Department may certify 7 additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zones, including one in the City of East Moline, one in the City of Moline, one in the City of Ottawa, one in the City of LaSalle, one in the City of Peru, one in the City of Rock Island, and one in the City of Quincy.

On or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 104th General Assembly, the Department may certify 2 additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zones, including one in the City of Alton and one in the City of Sterling.

After certifying the additional pilot River Edge Redevelopment Zones authorized by the above paragraphs, the Department may not certify any additional River Edge Redevelopment Zones, but it may amend and rescind certifications of existing River Edge Redevelopment Zones in accordance with Section 10-5.4, except that no River Edge Redevelopment Zone may be extended on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly. Each River Edge Redevelopment Zone in existence on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 97th General Assembly shall continue until its scheduled termination under this Act, unless the Zone is decertified sooner. At the time of its term expiration each River Edge Redevelopment Zone will become an open enterprise zone, available for the previously designated area or a different area to compete for designation as an enterprise zone. No preference for designation as a Zone will be given to the previously designated area.

(e) A municipality in which a River Edge Redevelopment Zone has been certified must submit to the Department, within 60 days after the certification, a plan for encouraging the participation by minority persons, women, persons with disabilities, and veterans in the zone. The Department may assist the municipality in developing and implementing the plan. The terms "minority person", "woman", and "person with a disability" have the meanings set forth under Section 2 of the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. "Veteran" means an Illinois resident who is a veteran as defined in subsection (h) of Section 1491 of Title 10 of the United States Code.

(Source: P.A. 103-9, eff. 6-7-23; 103-595, eff. 6-26-24.)

ARTICLE 25

Section 25-5. The Paid Leave for All Workers Act is amended by changing Section 10 as follows:

(820 ILCS 192/10)

Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:

"Construction industry" means any constructing, altering, reconstructing, repairing, rehabilitating, refinishing, refurbishing, remodeling, remediating, renovating, custom fabricating, maintenance, landscaping, improving, wrecking, painting, decorating, demolishing, or adding to or subtracting from any building, structure, highway, roadway, street, bridge, alley, sewer, ditch, sewage disposal plant, waterworks, parking facility, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development, real property, or improvement, or to do any part thereof, whether or not the performance of the work herein described involves the addition to or fabrication into, any structure, project, development, real property, or improvement herein described of any material or article of merchandise.

"Construction industry" also includes moving construction related materials on the job site or to or from the job site, snow plowing, snow removal, and refuse collection.

"Department" means the Illinois Department of Labor.

"Domestic work" and "domestic worker" have the same meanings as defined in Section 10 of the Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Act, except that "domestic worker" also includes independent contractors, sole proprietors, and partnerships.

"Employee" has the same application and meaning as that provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. "Employee" also includes all domestic workers, and, for the purposes of this Act, domestic workers shall not be excluded as employees under the provisions of item (1), (2), or (3) of Section 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act. "Employee" does not include:

(1) an employee as defined in the federal Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) or the Railway Labor Act;

(2) a student enrolled in and regularly attending classes in a college or university that is also the student's employer, and who is employed on a temporary basis at less than full time at the college or university, but this exclusion applies only to work performed for that college or university; or

(3) a short-term employee who is employed by an institution of higher education for less than 2 consecutive calendar quarters during a calendar year and who does not have a reasonable expectation that they will be rehired by the same employer of the same service in a subsequent calendar year; or .

(4) an employee who is engaged in the operation of a vessel that is documented by the United States under 46 U.S.C. 12105.

"Employer" has the same application and meaning as that provided in Sections 1 and 2 of the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act, except that for purposes of this Act, "employer" also means the State and units of local government, any political subdivision of the State or units of local government, or any State or local government agency.

"Employer" does not include school districts organized under the School Code or park districts organized under the Park District Code.

"Writing" or "written" means a printed or printable communication in physical or electronic format, including a communication that is transmitted through electronic mail, text message, or a computer system or is otherwise sent or stored electronically.

(Source: P.A. 102-1143, eff. 1-1-24.)".