102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
HB3959

 

Introduced 2/22/2021, by Rep. William Davis

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
15 ILCS 20/50-7 rep.
20 ILCS 1305/10-25
20 ILCS 3020/805
30 ILCS 105/5k
110 ILCS 49/15
730 ILCS 5/5-4-3a

    Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to repeal provisions concerning the online budget survey. Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Removes a requirement that the Department of Human Services must report quarterly to the Governor and the General Assembly on certain expenditures under the WIC nutrition program. Amends the Capital Spending Accountability Law. Provides that reports on capital spending are due on or before the forty-fifth day after the end of each quarter (currently, the first day of each quarter). Amends the State Finance Act to eliminate a report on certain transfers. Amends the Higher Education Veterans Service Act to eliminate a requirement that certain survey results must be posted on an Internet website. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections concerning the DNA testing backlog. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    (15 ILCS 20/50-7 rep.)
5    Section 3. The State Budget Law of the Civil
6Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by repealing
7Section 50-7.
 
8    Section 5. The Department of Human Services Act is amended
9by changing Section 10-25 as follows:
 
10    (20 ILCS 1305/10-25)
11    Sec. 10-25. Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition
12Program.
13    (a) The Department shall participate in the Women, Infants
14and Children Nutrition program of the federal government to
15the maximum extent permitted by the federal appropriation and
16allocation to the State of Illinois. In order to efficiently
17process electronically issued WIC benefits, the Department may
18use an account held outside of the state treasury for the
19deposit and issuance of WIC benefits. The Department shall
20report quarterly to the Governor and the General Assembly the
21status of obligations and expenditures of the WIC nutrition
22program appropriation and make recommendations on actions

 

 

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1necessary to expend all available federal funds. Other
2appropriations and funds from any public or private source in
3addition to federal funds may be used by the Department for the
4purpose of maximum participation in the WIC nutrition program.
5    (b) The Department shall maintain a drug abuse education
6program for participants in the Women, Infants and Children
7Nutrition Program. The program shall include but need not be
8limited to (1) the provision of information concerning the
9dangers of drug abuse and (2) the referral of participants who
10are suspected drug abusers to drug abuse clinics, treatment
11programs, counselors or other drug abuse treatment providers.
12    (c) The Department shall cooperate with the Department of
13Public Health for purposes of the smoking cessation program
14for participants in the Women, Infants and Children Nutrition
15Program maintained by the Department of Public Health under
16Section 2310-435 of the Department of Public Health Powers and
17Duties Law (20 ILCS 2310/2310-435).
18    (d) The Department may contract with any bank as defined
19by the Illinois Banking Act to redeem bank drafts issued by the
20Department under the United States Department of Agriculture
21Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and
22Children (WIC). Any bank with which the Department has entered
23into a contract to redeem bank drafts may receive, pursuant to
24an appropriation to the Department, an initial advance and
25periodic payment of funds for the Women, Infants and Children
26Program in amounts determined by the Secretary.

 

 

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1Notwithstanding any other law, such funds shall be retained in
2a separate account by the bank. Any interest earned by monies
3in such account shall accrue to the USDA Women, Infants and
4Children Fund and shall be used exclusively for the redemption
5of bank drafts issued by the Department. WIC program food
6funds received by the bank from the Department shall be used
7exclusively for the redemption of bank drafts. The bank shall
8not use such food funds, or interest accrued thereon, for any
9other purpose including, but not limited to, reimbursement of
10administrative expenses or payments of administrative fees due
11the bank pursuant to its contract or contracts with the
12Department.
13    Such initial and periodic payments by the Department to
14the bank shall be effected, pursuant to an appropriation, in
15an amount needed for the redemption of bank drafts issued by
16the Department under the United States Department of
17Agriculture Special Supplemental Food Program for Women,
18Infants and Children in any initial or succeeding period. The
19State Comptroller shall, upon presentation by the Secretary of
20adequate certification of funds needed for redemption of bank
21drafts, promptly draw a warrant payable to the bank for
22deposit to the separate account of the bank. Such
23certification may be in magnetic tape or computer output form,
24indicating the amount of the total payment made by the bank for
25the redemption of bank drafts from funds provided to the bank
26under this Section.

 

 

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1    The separate account of the bank established under this
2Section, any payments to that account, and the use of such
3account and funds shall be subject to (1) audit by the
4Department or a private contractor authorized by the
5Department to conduct audits, including but not limited to
6such audits as may be required by State law, (2) audit by the
7federal government or a private contractor authorized by the
8federal government, and (3) post audit pursuant to the
9Illinois State Auditing Act.
10    (e) The Department may include a program of lactation
11support services as part of the benefits and services provided
12for pregnant and breast feeding participants in the Women,
13Infants and Children Nutrition Program. The program may
14include payment for breast pumps, breast shields, or any
15supply deemed essential for the successful maintenance of
16lactation, as well as lactation specialists who are registered
17nurses, licensed dietitians, or persons who have successfully
18completed a lactation management training program.
19    (f) The Department shall coordinate the operation of the
20Women, Infants and Children program with the Medicaid program
21by interagency agreement whereby each program provides
22information about the services offered by the other to
23applicants for services.
24(Source: P.A. 101-636, eff. 6-10-20.)
 
25    Section 10. The Capital Spending Accountability Law is

 

 

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1amended by changing Section 805 as follows:
 
2    (20 ILCS 3020/805)
3    Sec. 805. Reports on capital spending. On or before the
4forty-fifth day after the end first day of each quarterly
5period in each fiscal year, the Governor's Office of
6Management and Budget shall provide to the Comptroller, the
7Treasurer, the President and the Minority Leader of the
8Senate, and the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of
9Representatives a report on the status of all capital projects
10in the State. The report may be provided in both written and
11electronic format. The report must include all of the
12following:
13        (1) A brief description or stated purpose of each
14    capital project where applicable (as referred to in this
15    Section, "project").
16        (2) The amount and source of funds (whether from bond
17    funds or other revenues) appropriated for each project,
18    organized into categories including roads, mass transit,
19    schools, environment, civic centers and other categories
20    as applicable (as referred to in this Section, "category
21    or categories"), with subtotals for each category.
22        (3) The date the appropriation bill relating to each
23    project was signed by the Governor, organized into
24    categories.
25        (4) The date the written release of the Governor for

 

 

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1    each project was submitted to the Comptroller or is
2    projected to be submitted and, if a release for any
3    project has not been submitted within 6 months after its
4    appropriation became law, an explanation why the project
5    has not yet been released, all organized into categories.
6        (5) The amount of expenditures to date by the State
7    relating to each project and estimated amount of total
8    State expenditures and proposed schedule of future State
9    expenditures relating to each project, all organized into
10    categories.
11        (6) A timeline for completion of each project,
12    including the dates, if applicable, of execution by the
13    State of any grant agreement, any required engineering or
14    design work or environmental approvals, and the estimated
15    or actual dates of the start and completion of
16    construction, all organized into categories. Any
17    substantial variances on any project from this reported
18    timeline must be explained in the next quarterly report.
19        (7) A summary report of the status of all projects,
20    including the amount of undisbursed funds intended to be
21    held or used in the next quarter.
22(Source: P.A. 98-692, eff. 7-1-14.)
 
23    Section 15. The State Finance Act is amended by changing
24Section 5k as follows:
 

 

 

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1    (30 ILCS 105/5k)
2    Sec. 5k. Cash flow borrowing and general funds liquidity;
3FY15.
4    (a) In order to meet cash flow deficits and to maintain
5liquidity in the General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance
6Reserve Fund, on and after July 1, 2014 and through June 30,
72015, the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall make
8transfers to the General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance
9Reserve Fund, as directed by the Governor, out of special
10funds of the State, to the extent allowed by federal law. No
11such transfer may reduce the cumulative balance of all of the
12special funds of the State to an amount less than the total
13debt service payable during the 12 months immediately
14following the date of the transfer on any bonded indebtedness
15of the State and any certificates issued under the Short Term
16Borrowing Act. At no time shall the outstanding total
17transfers made from the special funds of the State to the
18General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund
19under this Section exceed $650,000,000; once the amount of
20$650,000,000 has been transferred from the special funds of
21the State to the General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance
22Reserve Fund, additional transfers may be made from the
23special funds of the State to the General Revenue Fund and the
24Health Insurance Reserve Fund under this Section only to the
25extent that moneys have first been re-transferred from the
26General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund to

 

 

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1those special funds of the State. Notwithstanding any other
2provision of this Section, no such transfer may be made from
3any special fund that is exclusively collected by or
4appropriated to any other constitutional officer without the
5written approval of that constitutional officer.
6    (b) If moneys have been transferred to the General Revenue
7Fund and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund pursuant to
8subsection (a) of this Section, this amendatory Act of the
998th General Assembly shall constitute the continuing
10authority for and direction to the State Treasurer and State
11Comptroller to reimburse the funds of origin from the General
12Revenue Fund by transferring to the funds of origin, at such
13times and in such amounts as directed by the Governor when
14necessary to support appropriated expenditures from the funds,
15an amount equal to that transferred from them plus any
16interest that would have accrued thereon had the transfer not
17occurred. When any of the funds from which moneys have been
18transferred pursuant to subsection (a) have insufficient cash
19from which the State Comptroller may make expenditures
20properly supported by appropriations from the fund, then the
21State Treasurer and State Comptroller shall transfer from the
22General Revenue Fund to the fund only such amount as is
23immediately necessary to satisfy outstanding expenditure
24obligations on a timely basis.
25    (c) (Blank). On the first day of each quarterly period in
26each fiscal year, until such time as a report indicates that

 

 

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1all moneys borrowed and interest pursuant to this Section have
2been repaid, the Governor's Office of Management and Budget
3shall provide to the President and the Minority Leader of the
4Senate, the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of
5Representatives, and the Commission on Government Forecasting
6and Accountability a report on all transfers made pursuant to
7this Section in the prior quarterly period. The report must be
8provided in electronic format. The report must include all of
9the following:
10        (1) The date each transfer was made.
11        (2) The amount of each transfer.
12        (3) In the case of a transfer from the General Revenue
13    Fund to a fund of origin pursuant to subsection (b) of this
14    Section, the amount of interest being paid to the fund of
15    origin.
16        (4) The end of day balance of the fund of origin, the
17    General Revenue Fund and the Health Insurance Reserve Fund
18    on the date the transfer was made.
19(Source: P.A. 98-682, eff. 6-30-14; 99-523, eff. 6-30-16.)
 
20    Section 20. The Higher Education Veterans Service Act is
21amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
 
22    (110 ILCS 49/15)
23    Sec. 15. Survey; coordinator; best practices report; best
24efforts.

 

 

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1    (a) All public colleges and universities shall, within 60
2days after the effective date of this Act, conduct a survey of
3the services and programs that are provided for veterans,
4active duty military personnel, and their families, at each of
5their respective campuses. This survey shall enumerate and
6fully describe the service or program that is available, the
7number of veterans or active duty personnel using the service
8or program, an estimated range for potential use within a
95-year and 10-year period, information on the location of the
10service or program, and how its administrators may be
11contacted. The survey shall indicate the manner or manners in
12which a student veteran may avail himself or herself of the
13program's services. This survey must be made available to all
14veterans matriculating at the college or university in the
15form of an orientation-related guidebook.
16    Each public college and university shall make the survey
17available on the homepage of all campus Internet links as soon
18as practical after the completion of the survey. As soon as
19possible after the completion of the survey, each public
20college and university shall provide a copy of its survey to
21the following:
22        (1) the Board of Higher Education;
23        (2) the Department of Veterans' Affairs;
24        (3) the President and Minority Leader of the Senate
25    and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of
26    Representatives; and

 

 

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1        (4) the Governor.
2    (b) Each public college and university shall, at its
3discretion, (i) appoint, within 6 months after the effective
4date of this Act, an existing employee or (ii) hire a new
5employee to serve as a Coordinator of Veterans and Military
6Personnel Student Services on each campus of the college or
7university that has an onsite, daily, full-time student
8headcount above 1,000 students.
9    The Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student
10Services shall be an ombudsperson serving the specific needs
11of student veterans and military personnel and their families
12and shall serve as an advocate before the administration of
13the college or university for the needs of student veterans.
14The college or university shall enable the Coordinator of
15Veterans and Military Personnel Student Services to
16communicate directly with the senior executive administration
17of the college or university periodically. The college or
18university shall retain unfettered discretion to determine the
19organizational management structure of its institution.
20    In addition to any responsibilities the college or
21university may assign, the Coordinator of Veterans and
22Military Personnel Student Services shall make its best
23efforts to create a centralized source for student veterans
24and military personnel to learn how to receive all benefit
25programs and services for which they are eligible.
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1have a Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student
2Services shall regularly and conspicuously advertise the
3office location and , phone number of , and Internet access to
4the Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student
5Services, along with a brief summary of the manner in which he
6or she can assist student veterans. The advertisement shall
7include, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:
8        (1) advertisements on each campus' Internet home page;
9    and
10        (2) any promotional mailings for student application.
11    The Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student
12Services shall facilitate other campus offices with the
13promotion of programs and services that are available.
14    (c) Upon receipt of all of the surveys under subsection
15(a) of this Section, the Board of Higher Education and the
16Department of Veterans' Affairs shall conduct a joint review
17of the surveys and post, on any Internet home page they may
18operate, a link to each survey as posted on the Internet
19website for the college or university. Upon receipt of all of
20the surveys, the Office of the Governor, through its military
21affairs advisors, shall similarly conduct a review of the
22surveys and post the surveys on its Internet website.
23Following its review of the surveys, the Office of the
24Governor shall submit an evaluation report to each college and
25university offering suggestions and insight on the conduct of
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1    (d) The Board of Higher Education and the Department of
2Veterans' Affairs may issue a best practices report to
3highlight those programs and services that are most beneficial
4to veterans and active duty military personnel. The report
5shall contain a fiscal needs assessment in conjunction with
6any program recommendations.
7    (e) Each college and university campus that is required to
8have a Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student
9Services under subsection (b) of this Section shall make its
10best efforts to create academic and social programs and
11services for veterans and active duty military personnel that
12will provide reasonable opportunities for academic performance
13and success.
14    Each public college and university shall make its best
15efforts to determine how its online educational curricula can
16be expanded or altered to serve the needs of student veterans
17and currently-deployed military, including a determination of
18whether and to what extent the public colleges and
19universities can share existing technologies to improve the
20online curricula of peer institutions, provided such efforts
21are both practically and economically feasible.
22(Source: P.A. 96-133, eff. 8-7-09; revised 7-16-19.)
 
23    Section 25. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by
24changing Section 5-4-3a as follows:
 

 

 

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1    (730 ILCS 5/5-4-3a)
2    Sec. 5-4-3a. DNA testing backlog accountability.
3    (a) On or before August 1 of each year, the Department of
4State Police shall report to the Governor and both houses of
5the General Assembly the following information:
6        (1) the extent of the backlog of cases awaiting
7    testing or awaiting DNA analysis by that Department,
8    including but not limited to those tests conducted under
9    Section 5-4-3, as of June 30 of the previous fiscal year,
10    with the backlog being defined as all cases awaiting
11    forensic testing whether in the physical custody of the
12    State Police or in the physical custody of local law
13    enforcement, provided that the State Police have written
14    notice of any evidence in the physical custody of local
15    law enforcement prior to June 1 of that year; and
16        (2) what measures have been and are being taken to
17    reduce that backlog and the estimated costs or
18    expenditures in doing so.
19    (b) The information reported under this Section shall be
20made available to the public, at the time it is reported, on
21the official web site of the Department of State Police.
22    (c) Beginning January 1, 2016, the Department of State
23Police shall quarterly report on the status of the processing
24of forensic biology and DNA evidence submitted to the
25Department of State Police Laboratory for analysis. The report
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1and shall be posted on the Department of State Police website.
2The report shall include the following for each State Police
3Laboratory location and any laboratory to which the Department
4of State Police has outsourced evidence for testing:
5        (1) For forensic biology submissions, report both
6    total assignments case and sexual assault or abuse
7    assignment case (as defined by the Sexual Assault Evidence
8    Submission Act) figures for:
9            (A) The number of cases received in the preceding
10        quarter.
11            (B) The number of assignments cases completed in
12        the preceding quarter.
13            (C) The number of assignments cases waiting
14        analysis.
15            (D) The number of assignments cases sent for
16        outsourcing.
17            (E) The number of assignments cases waiting
18        analysis that were received within the past 30 days.
19            (F) The number of assignments cases waiting
20        analysis that were received 31 to 90 days prior.
21            (G) The number of assignments cases waiting
22        analysis that were received 91 to 180 days prior.
23            (H) The number of assignments cases waiting
24        analysis that were received 181 to 365 days prior.
25            (I) The number of assignments cases waiting
26        analysis that were received more than 365 days prior.

 

 

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1            (J) (Blank). The number of cases forwarded for DNA
2        analyses.
3        (2) (Blank). For DNA submissions, report both total
4    case and sexual assault or abuse case (as defined by the
5    Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act) figures for:
6            (A) The number of cases received in the preceding
7        quarter.
8            (B) The number of cases completed in the preceding
9        quarter.
10            (C) The number of cases waiting analysis.
11            (D) The number of cases sent for outsourcing.
12            (E) The number of cases waiting analysis that were
13        received within the past 30 days.
14            (F) The number of cases waiting analysis that were
15        received 31 to 90 days prior.
16            (G) The number of cases waiting analysis that were
17        received 91 to 180 days prior.
18            (H) The number of cases waiting analysis that were
19        received 181 to 365 days prior.
20            (I) The number of cases waiting analysis that were
21        received more than 365 days prior.
22        (3) For all other categories of testing (e.g., drug
23    chemistry, firearms/toolmark, footwear/tire track, latent
24    prints, toxicology, and trace chemistry analysis):
25            (A) The number of assignments cases received in
26        the preceding quarter.

 

 

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1            (B) The number of assignments cases completed in
2        the preceding quarter.
3            (C) The number of assignments cases waiting
4        analysis.
5        (4) For the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), report
6    both total assignment case and sexual assault or abuse
7    assignment case (as defined by the Sexual Assault Evidence
8    Submission Act) figures for subparagraphs (D), (E), and
9    (F) of this paragraph (4):
10            (A) The number of new offender samples received in
11        the preceding quarter.
12            (B) The number of offender samples uploaded to
13        CODIS in the preceding quarter.
14            (C) The number of offender samples awaiting
15        analysis.
16            (D) The number of unknown DNA case profiles
17        uploaded to CODIS in the preceding quarter.
18            (E) The number of CODIS hits in the preceding
19        quarter.
20            (F) The number of forensic evidence submissions
21        submitted to confirm a previously reported CODIS hit.
22        (5) For each category of testing, report the number of
23    trained forensic scientists and the number of forensic
24    scientists in training.
25    As used in this subsection (c), "completed" means
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1provision of the results to the submitting law enforcement
2agency.
3    (d) The provisions of this subsection (d), other than this
4sentence, are inoperative on and after January 1, 2019 or 2
5years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the
699th General Assembly, whichever is later. In consultation
7with and subject to the approval of the Chief Procurement
8Officer, the Department of State Police may obtain contracts
9for services, commodities, and equipment to assist in the
10timely completion of forensic biology, DNA, drug chemistry,
11firearms/toolmark, footwear/tire track, latent prints,
12toxicology, microscopy, trace chemistry, and Combined DNA
13Index System (CODIS) analysis. Contracts to support the
14delivery of timely forensic science services are not subject
15to the provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code, except for
16Sections 20-60, 20-65, 20-70, and 20-160 and Article 50 of
17that Code, provided that the Chief Procurement Officer may, in
18writing with justification, waive any certification required
19under Article 50 of the Illinois Procurement Code. For any
20contracts for services which are currently provided by members
21of a collective bargaining agreement, the applicable terms of
22the collective bargaining agreement concerning subcontracting
23shall be followed.
24(Source: P.A. 99-352, eff. 1-1-16; 99-801, eff. 1-1-17.)
 
25    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
26becoming law.