Illinois

Amends the Gubernatorial Boards and Commissions Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Declares April 25, 2025 as Parental Alienation Awareness Day to encourage increased understanding, prevention, and intervention efforts to support healthy family relationships. Expresses a commitment to equipping communities, educators, and caregivers with tools to identify and respond to behaviors that may negatively impact family relationships, while promoting the mental health and well-being of children.

Amends the Community Service Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Provides that the chief procurement officer may not award a contract to a vendor if more than 10% of the services contracted, based on the cost of services, are to be performed outside of the United States.

Amends the Student Online Personal Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Hunger-Free Students' Bill of Rights Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Transportation to establish an information portal on its website for challenges to the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program. Requires the portal to include: (1) all active and pending litigation against the DBE program; (2) information on the Department's procedures and policies to comply with any court orders; (3) the names of any prime contractors or subcontractors who have brought claims against the Department or exercised any rights pursuant to a court order to eliminate any DBE goals for any projects; (4) all projects that have had DBE goals removed pursuant to litigation; and (5) all federal administrative actions related to the DBE program and the Department's policies and procedures it has implemented to comply with any federal actions. Effective immediately.

Amends the Automated Traffic Control Systems in Highway Construction or Maintenance Zones Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center for the purpose of constructing a new building on the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center’s campus to house the Chicago Advocacy Network for Hope initiative and to increase capacity for mental health treatment for children and adults affected by sexual and domestic violence. Effective July 1, 2025.

Amends the Gasoline Storage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the State Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Reinserts the provisions of the introduced bill with the following changes. Further modifies the thresholds for competitive bidding under the Park District Code, the Conservation District Act, and the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Provides that all contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $60,000 for supplies and materials and $30,000 for work, or a lower amount for supplies, material, or work if required by board policy, must be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Effective immediately.

Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that certificates of registration shall be issued in the form and manner required by the Department of Revenue. Provides that certificates of registration shall be displayed in the manner and form as the Department of Revenue may require by rule. Amends the Cigarette Machine Operators' Occupation Tax Act, the Cigarette Tax Act, the Cigarette Use Tax Act, and the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995. Provides that certain returns and supporting schedules shall be filed and payments shall be made by electronic means. Effective immediately, except that provisions amending the Cigarette Machine Operators' Occupation Tax Act, the Cigarette Tax Act, the Cigarette Use Tax Act, and the Tobacco Products Tax Act of 1995 take effect January 1, 2026.

Amends the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications Based Selection Act. Provides that certain provisions of the Act concerning notice, evaluation procedures, and selection procedures do not apply to architectural, engineering, and land surveying contracts with an estimated basic professional services fee of less than $55,000 (currently, $25,000).

Amends the Community Expanded Mental Health Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Corporate Fiduciary Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title of the Act.

Amends the Compensation Review Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning rules.

Amends the Drug Paraphernalia Control Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Information Technology Accessibility Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Electric Supplier Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.

Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Hunting Heritage Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the State Prompt Payment Act. Provides that, for construction contracts with the Department of Transportation or the Capital Development Board (instead of the Department of Transportation only), the contractor, subcontractor, or material supplier, regardless of tier, shall not offset, decrease, or diminish payment or payments that are due to its subcontractors or material suppliers without reasonable cause.