Amends the Condominium Property Act and the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Provides that a condominium association, master association, common interest community association, or homeowners' association may not prohibit the display of the American flag or the installation of a flagpole for the display of the American flag, subject to specified conditions.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the requirement that a purchaser of tax delinquent property or his or her assignee must reimburse a city, village, or incorporated town for advancements made from public funds with respect to that property or that the city, village, or incorporated town waive its lien on the property before a tax deed may be issued does not apply if the tax purchaser is a county acting as trustee for taxing districts. Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person found not guilty by reason of insanity for first degree murder, second degree murder, or an offense resulting in serious bodily injury to another person or an attempt to commit any of these offenses shall be ordered by the court to receive inpatient treatment. Revises conditional release provisions for a person found not guilty by reason of insanity.
Amends the Attorney General Act. Creates the Office of Immigrant Assistance within the Office of the Attorney General to provide education and outreach services to the resident immigrant community of the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code and the Health Maintenance Organization Act in relation to continuation of benefits. Limits the continuation privilege for spouses and children of retired employees to spouses and children of retired employees who have attained the age of 65. Provides for notice of death or entry of a judgment of dissolution to be given to the employer or insurer rather than both. Requires an employer to give notice of death or dissolution to the insurer. Provides for coverage for certain dependents. Requires group policies to provide a continuation privilege for covered dependents of a deceased employee. Authorizes a continuation privilege for employees whose work hours have been reduced.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. For a court's awarding of attorney fees in a suit resulting from denial of disclosure of a public record, removes the requirements that (i) the record is highly significant to the general public and (ii) the public body lacked a reasonable legal basis for the denial.
Amends the Illinois Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989. Makes changes in provisions concerning the declaration of public policy, the definition of "design professional", and the definition of the practice of land surveying. In provisions requiring the Department to maintain membership in the National Council of Engineering Examiners, provides that the Department may maintain membership in a similar organization. Makes changes to the qualifications for licensure. In provisions concerning the use of a seal, provides that signatures generated by computer or rubber stamps shall not be permitted. Changes references to registration to licensure. Makes other changes.
Amends the School Finance Authority Act of the School Code. Provides that the powers and responsibilities granted to or imposed upon the Chicago School Finance Authority and the Chicago Board of Education under that Act concerning financial plans, budgets, contracts, staffing levels, expenditures, a chief financial officer, financial and managerial audits, cash accounts and bank accounts, financial, management, and budgetary systems, and reports are suspended until December 31, 2010 (instead of July 1, 2004). Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that only one petition may be filed by a petitioner for post-conviction relief without leave of the court.
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Directs the System to conduct a divided medicare coverage referendum, open to teachers continuously employed by the same employer since March 31, 1986. Allows eligible teachers to irrevocably elect to participate in the federal medicare program. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning prohibited activities.
Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that the medical certification of cause of death shall expressly provide an opportunity for the person completing the certification to indicate that the death was caused in whole or in part by a dementia-related disease, Parkinson's Disease, or Parkinson-Dementia Complex. Effective immediately.
