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Sen. Napoleon Harris, III
Filed: 5/14/2021
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1 | | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1726
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2 | | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1726 on page 1, |
3 | | immediately below line 3, by inserting the following:
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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
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8 | | on page 5, immediately below line 13, by inserting the |
9 | | following:
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10 | | "Section 18. The Capital Spending Accountability Law is |
11 | | amended by changing Section 805 as follows:
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12 | | (20 ILCS 3020/805)
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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.
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17 | | (Source: P.A. 98-692, eff. 7-1-14.)"; and
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18 | | on page 15, immediately below line 5, by inserting the |
19 | | following:
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20 | | "Section 37. The Higher Education Veterans Service Act is |
21 | | amended by changing Section 15 as follows:
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22 | | (110 ILCS 49/15)
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23 | | Sec. 15. Survey; coordinator; best practices report; best |
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1 | | efforts.
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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.
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2 | | (Source: P.A. 96-133, eff. 8-7-09; revised 7-16-19.)"; and
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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
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5 | | on page 38, immediately below line 6, by inserting the |
6 | | following:
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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.
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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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