Chapter 20, EXECUTIVE BRANCH

(20 ILCS 4135/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2031) Sec. 5. Farmland Transition Commission; membership duties. (a) The Department of Agriculture shall establish a Farmland Transition Commission to examine current barriers individuals ages 25 through 40 face w…

(20 ILCS 4136/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2028) Sec. 5. Commission on Youth Sports; purpose; duties. (a) The Commission on Youth Sports is created. (b) The purpose of the Commission is to gather and evaluate community feedback and make recommendations to …

(20 ILCS 4137/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2027) Sec. 5. Policy and intent. (a) It is the policy of this State to advance and promote a robust and skilled health care workforce that will ensure access to high quality health care to all Illinoisans. (b) It …

(20 ILCS 4138/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2028) Sec. 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to ensure Illinois proactively plans for climate-driven displacement by identifying the projected climate risks and climate-driven displacement and the future reso…

(20 ILCS 4139/5) (For Act repeal see Section 15) Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Food desert" means a geographic area where people have limited access to affordable, healthy, and nutritious food. "Food desert" includes a food desert as defined by Economic Research Report Numbe…

(20 ILCS 435/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 1405) Sec. 5. All forms that seek information from business, agriculture or local governments shall contain a conspicuous notice on the first page setting forth the authorization for the form and stating whether the form is required or voluntar…

(20 ILCS 45/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Cloud computing" has the meaning provided by Special Publication 800-145 issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology of the United States Department of Commerce. "Data" means final versions of statistical …

(20 ILCS 450/5) Sec. 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that: (a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a recent study, discovered that many companies and individuals are regularly selling or donating computer hard drives with sensitive information still on them, suc…

(20 ILCS 50/5) Sec. 5. Uniform racial classification. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, except as otherwise required by federal law or regulation, whenever a State agency is required by law to compile or report statistical data using racial or ethnic classifications…

(20 ILCS 5010/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2032) Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Commission" means the Illinois Holocaust and Genocide Commission. "Genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national…

(20 ILCS 5015/5) Sec. 5. Legislative findings. It is the goal of the State of Illinois that no man, woman, or child should ever be faced with hunger. Despite being one of the wealthiest nations and the largest agricultural producer in the world, the United States is a country wit…

(20 ILCS 5025/5) Sec. 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to determine a practical method for the standardized collection and analysis of data on the racial and ethnic identity of arrestees by State and local law enforcement agencies. The method shall be usable not only for th…

(20 ILCS 5040/5) Sec. 5. Legislative findings. The General Assembly finds all of the following: (a) Illinois' current investigatory system is decentralized, being comprised of different State agencies responsible for investigating abuse, neglect, financial exploitation, or self-n…

(20 ILCS 505/5) (Text of Section from P.A. 104-480) Sec. 5. Direct child welfare services; Department of Children and Family Services. To provide direct child welfare services when not available through other public or private child care or program facilities. (a) For purposes of…

(20 ILCS 5060/5) Sec. 5. Women's Business Ownership Council. The Women's Business Ownership Council is created within the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. The Council shall consist of 9 members, with 5 persons appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be the Di…

(20 ILCS 5110/5) Sec. 5. Findings and declaration of policy. The General Assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares: (a) The State of Illinois is home to over 500,000 Muslims and over 300 mosques, representing various races and ethnicities, including but not limited to Afric…

(20 ILCS 5125/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on December 1, 2027) Sec. 5. Purpose. Route 66 is one of the original highways within the National Highway System. The importance of Route 66 is rooted within its cultural and historical impact beginning with its numerical design…

(20 ILCS 5130/5) Sec. 5. Findings and declaration of policy. The General Assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares the following: (1) the number of women and girls, of all ages in Illinois as of 2013, was close to half of the State's population, at 6,560,187; (2) approximat…

(20 ILCS 5145/5) Sec. 5. Findings. Based upon an April 11, 2018 New York Times article on "Why America's Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis", the General Assembly finds the following: (1) From 1915 through the 1990s, amid vast improvements in hygiene, nutritio…

(20 ILCS 515/5) Sec. 5. State policy. The following statements are the policy of this State: (1) Every child is entitled to live in safety and in health and to survive into adulthood. (2) Responding to child deaths is a State and a community responsibility. (3) When a child dies,…

(20 ILCS 521/5) Sec. 5. Foster Children's Bill of Rights. It is the policy of this State that every child and adult in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services who is placed in foster care shall have the following rights: (1) To live in a safe, healthy, and comf…

(20 ILCS 522/5) Sec. 5. Parental rights. It is the policy of this State that a parent involved with the Illinois child welfare system has the following rights: (1) To be treated with dignity and respect and as a valued member of the child welfare team. (2) To be provided a copy o…

(20 ILCS 527/5) (Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 104-833) Sec. 5. Statewide Youth Advisory Board; regional youth advisory boards. The Department of Children and Family Services shall convene and maintain a Statewide Youth Advisory Board and regional youth advisory boards…

(20 ILCS 530/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Board" means the Illinois Capital Development Board. "Department" means the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. "Residential services" means child care institution care, group home care, independent livin…

(20 ILCS 535/5) Sec. 5. Administration of psychotropic medications. On or before October 1, 2011, the Department of Children and Family Services shall promulgate final rules, amending its current rules establishing and maintaining standards and procedures to govern the administra…

(20 ILCS 540/5) Sec. 5. Purpose. This Act establishes a pathway for families on the verge of seeking services for their child's serious mental illness or serious emotional disturbance through relinquishment of parental custody to the Department of Children and Family Services, de…

(20 ILCS 545/5) Sec. 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that: (1) From 2013 to 2018 more than 500 in-state residential treatment beds were eliminated for youth in the care of the Department of Children and Family Services with serious and ongoing mental health needs. (2) Dev…

(20 ILCS 55/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Court-involved youth" means an individual who was committed to the custody of the Department of Juvenile Justice or a county juvenile detention center and has been released from that facility or discharged from custody. "H…

(20 ILCS 60/5) Sec. 5. Purpose. The purposes of this Act are to: (1) Improve the delivery of State services to Illinois' Native Americans by increasing the number of Native American State employees and the number of Native American State employees serving in supervisory, technica…

(20 ILCS 608/5) Sec. 5. Goal. The goal of this Act is to improve the State's business climate by making it easier for businesses to deal with State requirements for doing business. Subject to appropriation, this goal will be achieved through providing prompt, accurate information…

(20 ILCS 609/5) Sec. 5. (Amendatory provisions; text omitted). (Source: P.A. 89-364, eff. 8-18-95; text omitted.)

(20 ILCS 615/5) (from Ch. 23, par. 3455) Sec. 5. Director; duties. (a) The Director shall designate multipurpose service centers for displaced homemakers operated by community nonprofit agencies or organizations. To the greatest extent possible, the Director shall rely on such ag…

(20 ILCS 620/5) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 1005) Sec. 5. Submission to Department; certification by Department; limitation on number of permissible economic development project areas. (a) The municipality shall submit certified copies of any ordinances adopted approving an economic d…

(20 ILCS 625/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 2605) Sec. 5. This Act shall be known and may be cited as the Illinois Economic Opportunity Act. (Source: P.A. 83-978.)

(20 ILCS 627/5) Sec. 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that the adoption and use of electric vehicles would benefit the State of Illinois by (i) improving the health and environmental quality of the residents of Illinois through reduced pollution, (ii) reducing the operatin…

(20 ILCS 655/5) (from Ch. 67 1/2, par. 605) Sec. 5. Initiation of Enterprise Zones by Municipality or County. (a) No area may be designated as an enterprise zone except pursuant to an initiating ordinance adopted in accordance with this Section. (b) A county or municipality may b…

(20 ILCS 660/5) (from Ch. 5, par. 2705) Sec. 5. Statement of findings. The General Assembly finds that: (a) Illinois' rural economy suffers from serious stagnation which poses a real threat to farm families. (b) Illinois has continued to suffer increased out-migration from rural …

(20 ILCS 662/5) Sec. 5. Purposes. The purposes of this Act are to: (1) Provide technical assistance to Illinois local governments that request it for the development of local planning ordinances and regulations. (2) Encourage Illinois local governments to engage in planning, regu…

(20 ILCS 663/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Applicable percentage" means 0% for each of the first 2 credit allowance dates, 7% for the third credit allowance date, and 8% for the next 4 credit allowance dates. "Credit allowance date" means with respect to any quali…

(20 ILCS 665/5) (from Ch. 127, par. 200-25) Sec. 5. Marketing and private sector programs. (a) The Department is authorized to make grants, subject to appropriation, from the Tourism Promotion Fund to counties, municipalities, not-for-profit organizations, and local promotion gro…

(20 ILCS 686/5) Sec. 5. Purpose. It is the intent of the General Assembly that Illinois should lead the nation in the production of electric vehicles and other products essential to the growth of the renewable energy sector. The General Assembly finds that, through investments in…

(20 ILCS 688/5) Sec. 5. Findings. The General Assembly finds that: (a) Growth of the State's population and economic base has created a need for new electric generation capacity in Illinois. (b) Illinois has considerable natural resources that are currently underutilized and coul…

(20 ILCS 689/5) Sec. 5. Findings and State policy. The General Assembly recognizes that agriculture is a vital sector of the Illinois economy and that an important growth industry for the Illinois agricultural sector is renewable fuels production. Renewable fuels produced from Il…

(20 ILCS 692/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: "Agency" means the same as in Section 1-20 of the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. "Joint Committee" means the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. "Small business" means any for profit entity, independently owned and op…

(20 ILCS 701/5) Sec. 5. Statement of findings. The General Assembly finds that: (1) Illinois must compete in an increasingly global economy characterized by the use of advanced technologies to create new products and services and increase the efficiency of production; (2) those n…

(20 ILCS 715/5) Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: "Base years" means the first 2 complete calendar years following the effective date of a recipient receiving development assistance. "Date of assistance" means the commencement date of the assistance agreement, which date …

(20 ILCS 720/5) Sec. 5. Legislative purpose. The General Assembly makes the following findings: (1) The continued economic vitality of downtown and neighborhood commercial districts in our municipalities is essential to community preservation, social cohesion, and economic growth…

(20 ILCS 725/5) Sec. 5. Purpose. The purpose of this Act is to establish resources for businesses and municipalities located geographically close to bordering states, so that those businesses and municipalities can identify existing State services and resources to help them be mo…

(20 ILCS 740/5) (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2029) Sec. 5. Purpose. The purpose of the Job Training Assistance and Support Services Pilot Program is to address significant barriers to individuals participating in apprenticeships, including, but not limited to, …

(20 ILCS 741/5) Sec. 5. Findings; legislative intent. (a) The General Assembly finds that the State of Illinois and the federal government allocate millions of dollars annually to various job training and workforce development programs to enhance the skills and employability of r…