Full Text of HB1726 102nd General Assembly
HB1726sam001 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY | Sen. Napoleon Harris, III Filed: 5/14/2021
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| 1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1726
| 2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1726 on page 1, | 3 | | immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:
| 4 | | "(15 ILCS 20/50-7 rep.) | 5 | | Section 3. The State Budget Law of the Civil | 6 | | Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by repealing | 7 | | Section 50-7."; and | 8 | | on page 5, immediately below line 13, by inserting the | 9 | | following: | 10 | | "Section 18. The Capital Spending Accountability Law is | 11 | | amended by changing Section 805 as follows: | 12 | | (20 ILCS 3020/805)
| 13 | | Sec. 805. Reports on capital spending. On or before the | 14 | | forty-fifth day after the end first day of each quarterly |
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| 1 | | period in each fiscal year, the Governor's Office of | 2 | | Management and Budget shall provide to the Comptroller, the | 3 | | Treasurer, the President and the Minority Leader of the | 4 | | Senate, and the Speaker and the Minority Leader of the House of | 5 | | Representatives a report on the status of all capital projects | 6 | | in the State. The report may be provided in both written and | 7 | | electronic format. The report must include all of the | 8 | | following: | 9 | | (1) A brief description or stated purpose of each | 10 | | capital project where applicable (as referred to in this | 11 | | Section, "project"). | 12 | | (2) The amount and source of funds (whether from bond | 13 | | funds or other revenues) appropriated for each project, | 14 | | organized into categories including roads, mass transit, | 15 | | schools, environment, civic centers and other categories | 16 | | as applicable (as referred to in this Section, "category | 17 | | or categories"), with subtotals for each category. | 18 | | (3) The date the appropriation bill relating to each | 19 | | project was signed by the Governor, organized into | 20 | | categories. | 21 | | (4) The date the written release of the Governor for | 22 | | each project was submitted to the Comptroller or is | 23 | | projected to be submitted and, if a release for any | 24 | | project has not been submitted within 6 months after its | 25 | | appropriation became law, an explanation why the project | 26 | | has not yet been released, all organized into categories. |
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| 1 | | (5) The amount of expenditures to date by the State | 2 | | relating to each project and estimated amount of total | 3 | | State expenditures and proposed schedule of future State | 4 | | expenditures relating to each project, all organized into | 5 | | categories. | 6 | | (6) A timeline for completion of each project, | 7 | | including the dates, if applicable, of execution by the | 8 | | State of any grant agreement, any required engineering or | 9 | | design work or environmental approvals, and the estimated | 10 | | or actual dates of the start and completion of | 11 | | construction, all organized into categories. Any | 12 | | substantial variances on any project from this reported | 13 | | timeline must be explained in the next quarterly report. | 14 | | (7) A summary report of the status of all projects, | 15 | | including the amount of undisbursed funds intended to be | 16 | | held or used in the next quarter.
| 17 | | (Source: P.A. 98-692, eff. 7-1-14.)"; and | 18 | | on page 15, immediately below line 5, by inserting the | 19 | | following: | 20 | | "Section 37. The Higher Education Veterans Service Act is | 21 | | amended by changing Section 15 as follows: | 22 | | (110 ILCS 49/15)
| 23 | | Sec. 15. Survey; coordinator; best practices report; best |
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| 1 | | efforts.
| 2 | | (a) All public colleges and universities shall, within 60 | 3 | | days after the effective date of this Act, conduct a survey of | 4 | | the services and programs that are provided for veterans, | 5 | | active duty military personnel, and their families, at each of | 6 | | their respective campuses. This survey shall enumerate and | 7 | | fully describe the service or program that is available, the | 8 | | number of veterans or active duty personnel using the service | 9 | | or program, an estimated range for potential use within a | 10 | | 5-year and 10-year period, information on the location of the | 11 | | service or program, and how its administrators may be | 12 | | contacted. The survey shall indicate the manner or manners in | 13 | | which a student veteran may avail himself or herself of the | 14 | | program's services. This survey must be made available to all | 15 | | veterans matriculating at the college or university in the | 16 | | form of an orientation-related guidebook. | 17 | | Each public college and university shall make the survey | 18 | | available on the homepage of all campus Internet links as soon | 19 | | as practical after the completion of the survey. As soon as | 20 | | possible after the completion of the survey, each public | 21 | | college and university shall provide a copy of its survey to | 22 | | the following: | 23 | | (1) the Board of Higher Education; | 24 | | (2) the Department of Veterans' Affairs; | 25 | | (3) the President and Minority Leader of the Senate | 26 | | and the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House of |
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| 1 | | Representatives; and | 2 | | (4) the Governor. | 3 | | (b) Each public college and university shall, at its | 4 | | discretion, (i) appoint, within 6 months after the effective | 5 | | date of this Act, an existing employee or (ii) hire a new | 6 | | employee to serve as a Coordinator of Veterans and Military | 7 | | Personnel Student Services on each campus of the college or | 8 | | university that has an onsite, daily, full-time student | 9 | | headcount above 1,000 students. | 10 | | The Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student | 11 | | Services shall be an ombudsperson serving the specific needs | 12 | | of student veterans and military personnel and their families | 13 | | and shall serve as an advocate before the administration of | 14 | | the college or university for the needs of student veterans. | 15 | | The college or university shall enable the Coordinator of | 16 | | Veterans and Military Personnel Student Services to | 17 | | communicate directly with the senior executive administration | 18 | | of the college or university periodically. The college or | 19 | | university shall retain unfettered discretion to determine the | 20 | | organizational management structure of its institution. | 21 | | In addition to any responsibilities the college or | 22 | | university may assign, the Coordinator of Veterans and | 23 | | Military Personnel Student Services shall make its best | 24 | | efforts to create a centralized source for student veterans | 25 | | and military personnel to learn how to receive all benefit | 26 | | programs and services for which they are eligible. |
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| 1 | | Each college and university campus that is required to | 2 | | have a Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student | 3 | | Services shall regularly and conspicuously advertise the | 4 | | office location and , phone number of , and Internet access to | 5 | | the Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student | 6 | | Services, along with a brief summary of the manner in which he | 7 | | or she can assist student veterans. The advertisement shall | 8 | | include, but is not necessarily limited to, the following: | 9 | | (1) advertisements on each campus' Internet home page; | 10 | | and | 11 | | (2) any promotional mailings for student application. | 12 | | The Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student | 13 | | Services shall facilitate other campus offices with the | 14 | | promotion of programs and services that are available. | 15 | | (c) Upon receipt of all of the surveys under subsection | 16 | | (a) of this Section, the Board of Higher Education and the | 17 | | Department of Veterans' Affairs shall conduct a joint review | 18 | | of the surveys . The Department of Veterans' Affairs shall and | 19 | | post, on any Internet home page it they may operate, a link to | 20 | | each survey as posted on the Internet website for the college | 21 | | or university. The Board of Higher Education shall post, on | 22 | | any Internet home page it may operate, a link to each survey as | 23 | | posted on the Internet website for the college or university | 24 | | or an annual report or document containing survey information | 25 | | for each college or university. Upon receipt of all of the | 26 | | surveys, the Office of the Governor, through its military |
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| 1 | | affairs advisors, shall similarly conduct a review of the | 2 | | surveys and post the surveys on its Internet website . | 3 | | Following its review of the surveys, the Office of the | 4 | | Governor shall submit an evaluation report to each college and | 5 | | university offering suggestions and insight on the conduct of | 6 | | student veteran-related policies and programs. | 7 | | (d) The Board of Higher Education and the Department of | 8 | | Veterans' Affairs may issue a best practices report to | 9 | | highlight those programs and services that are most beneficial | 10 | | to veterans and active duty military personnel. The report | 11 | | shall contain a fiscal needs assessment in conjunction with | 12 | | any program recommendations. | 13 | | (e) Each college and university campus that is required to | 14 | | have a Coordinator of Veterans and Military Personnel Student | 15 | | Services under subsection (b) of this Section shall make its | 16 | | best efforts to create academic and social programs and | 17 | | services for veterans and active duty military personnel that | 18 | | will provide reasonable opportunities for academic performance | 19 | | and success. | 20 | | Each public college and university shall make its best | 21 | | efforts to determine how its online educational curricula can | 22 | | be expanded or altered to serve the needs of student veterans | 23 | | and currently-deployed military, including a determination of | 24 | | whether and to what extent the public colleges and | 25 | | universities can share existing technologies to improve the | 26 | | online curricula of peer institutions, provided such efforts |
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| 1 | | are both practically and economically feasible.
| 2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-133, eff. 8-7-09; revised 7-16-19.)"; and | 3 | | on page 38, line 6, by replacing "Section 5-9-1.22" with | 4 | | "Sections 5-4-3a and 5-9-1.22"; and | 5 | | on page 38, immediately below line 6, by inserting the | 6 | | following: | 7 | | "(730 ILCS 5/5-4-3a) | 8 | | Sec. 5-4-3a. DNA testing backlog accountability. | 9 | | (a) On or before August 1 of each year, the Department of | 10 | | State Police shall report to the Governor and both houses of | 11 | | the General Assembly the following information: | 12 | | (1) the extent of the backlog of cases awaiting | 13 | | testing or awaiting DNA analysis by that Department, | 14 | | including but not limited to those tests conducted under | 15 | | Section 5-4-3, as of June 30 of the previous fiscal year, | 16 | | with the backlog being defined as all cases awaiting | 17 | | forensic testing whether in the physical custody of the | 18 | | State Police or in the physical custody of local law | 19 | | enforcement, provided that the State Police have written | 20 | | notice of any evidence in the physical custody of local | 21 | | law enforcement prior to June 1 of that year; and | 22 | | (2) what measures have been and are being taken to | 23 | | reduce that backlog and the estimated costs or |
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| 1 | | expenditures in doing so. | 2 | | (b) The information reported under this Section shall be | 3 | | made available to the public, at the time it is reported, on | 4 | | the official web site of the Department of State Police.
| 5 | | (c) Beginning January 1, 2016, the Department of State | 6 | | Police shall quarterly report on the status of the processing | 7 | | of forensic biology and DNA evidence submitted to the | 8 | | Department of State Police Laboratory for analysis. The report | 9 | | shall be submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly, | 10 | | and shall be posted on the Department of State Police website. | 11 | | The report shall include the following for each State Police | 12 | | Laboratory location and any laboratory to which the Department | 13 | | of State Police has outsourced evidence for testing: | 14 | | (1) For forensic biology submissions, report both | 15 | | total assignment case and sexual assault or abuse | 16 | | assignment case (as defined by the Sexual Assault Evidence | 17 | | Submission Act) figures for: | 18 | | (A) The number of assignments cases received in | 19 | | the preceding quarter. | 20 | | (B) The number of assignments cases completed in | 21 | | the preceding quarter. | 22 | | (C) The number of assignments cases waiting | 23 | | analysis. | 24 | | (D) The number of assignments cases sent for | 25 | | outsourcing. | 26 | | (E) The number of assignments cases waiting |
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| 1 | | analysis that were received within the past 30 days. | 2 | | (F) The number of assignments cases waiting | 3 | | analysis that were received 31 to 90 days prior. | 4 | | (G) The number of assignments cases waiting | 5 | | analysis that were received 91 to 180 days prior. | 6 | | (H) The number of assignments cases waiting | 7 | | analysis that were received 181 to 365 days prior. | 8 | | (I) The number of assignments cases waiting | 9 | | analysis that were received more than 365 days prior. | 10 | | (J) (Blank). The number of cases forwarded for DNA | 11 | | analyses. | 12 | | (2) (Blank). For DNA submissions, report both total | 13 | | case and sexual assault or abuse case (as defined by the | 14 | | Sexual Assault Evidence Submission Act) figures for: | 15 | | (A) The number of cases received in the preceding | 16 | | quarter. | 17 | | (B) The number of cases completed in the preceding | 18 | | quarter. | 19 | | (C) The number of cases waiting analysis. | 20 | | (D) The number of cases sent for outsourcing. | 21 | | (E) The number of cases waiting analysis that were | 22 | | received within the past 30 days. | 23 | | (F) The number of cases waiting analysis that were | 24 | | received 31 to 90 days prior. | 25 | | (G) The number of cases waiting analysis that were | 26 | | received 91 to 180 days prior. |
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| 1 | | (H) The number of cases waiting analysis that were | 2 | | received 181 to 365 days prior. | 3 | | (I) The number of cases waiting analysis that were | 4 | | received more than 365 days prior. | 5 | | (3) For all other categories of testing (e.g., drug | 6 | | chemistry, firearms/toolmark, footwear/tire track, latent | 7 | | prints, toxicology, and trace chemistry analysis): | 8 | | (A) The number of assignments cases received in | 9 | | the preceding quarter. | 10 | | (B) The number of assignments cases completed in | 11 | | the preceding quarter. | 12 | | (C) The number of assignments cases waiting | 13 | | analysis. | 14 | | (4) For the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), report | 15 | | both total assignment case and sexual assault or abuse | 16 | | assignment case (as defined by the Sexual Assault Evidence | 17 | | Submission Act) figures for subparagraphs (D), (E), and | 18 | | (F) of this paragraph (4): | 19 | | (A) The number of new offender samples received in | 20 | | the preceding quarter. | 21 | | (B) The number of offender samples uploaded to | 22 | | CODIS in the preceding quarter. | 23 | | (C) The number of offender samples awaiting | 24 | | analysis. | 25 | | (D) The number of unknown DNA case profiles | 26 | | uploaded to CODIS in the preceding quarter. |
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| 1 | | (E) The number of CODIS hits in the preceding | 2 | | quarter. | 3 | | (F) The number of forensic evidence submissions | 4 | | submitted to confirm a previously reported CODIS hit. | 5 | | (5) For each category of testing, report the number of | 6 | | trained forensic scientists and the number of forensic | 7 | | scientists in training. | 8 | | As used in this subsection (c), "completed" means | 9 | | completion of both the analysis of the evidence and the | 10 | | provision of the results to the submitting law enforcement | 11 | | agency. | 12 | | (d) The provisions of this subsection (d), other than this | 13 | | sentence, are inoperative on and after January 1, 2019 or 2 | 14 | | years after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the | 15 | | 99th General Assembly, whichever is later. In consultation | 16 | | with and subject to the approval of the Chief Procurement | 17 | | Officer, the Department of State Police may obtain contracts | 18 | | for services, commodities, and equipment to assist in the | 19 | | timely completion of forensic biology, DNA, drug chemistry, | 20 | | firearms/toolmark, footwear/tire track, latent prints, | 21 | | toxicology, microscopy, trace chemistry, and Combined DNA | 22 | | Index System (CODIS) analysis. Contracts to support the | 23 | | delivery of timely forensic science services are not subject | 24 | | to the provisions of the Illinois Procurement Code, except for | 25 | | Sections 20-60, 20-65, 20-70, and 20-160 and Article 50 of | 26 | | that Code, provided that the Chief Procurement Officer may, in |
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| 1 | | writing with justification, waive any certification required | 2 | | under Article 50 of the Illinois Procurement Code. For any | 3 | | contracts for services which are currently provided by members | 4 | | of a collective bargaining agreement, the applicable terms of | 5 | | the collective bargaining agreement concerning subcontracting | 6 | | shall be followed. | 7 | | (Source: P.A. 99-352, eff. 1-1-16; 99-801, eff. 1-1-17 .)".
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