Amends the School Code to require the State Board of Education to provide after-school program grants to qualifying school districts for the purpose of providing academic assistance at the end of the regular day of instruction or on non-school days for students and their families at school sites. Provides that a school district qualifies and may apply for a grant if the district contains one or more schools in which at least two-fifths of the students at the school fail to meet State academic standards. Establishes requirements for the grants. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the brakes of a boat trailer with a gross weight of over 3,000 pounds do not have to be operable by the driver of the towing vehicle from its cab. Provides that the brakes must be designed to ensure that, in case of the accidental breakaway of a towed boat trailer over 5,000 pounds, the brakes are automatically applied.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires the Department of Insurance to request and obtain information from insurers doing business in this State regarding any records of slaveholder insurance policies issued by any predecessor corporation during the slavery era, which policies provided coverage to slaveholders for damage to or death of their slaves. Provides that insurers must research and report on those policies. Requires the Department to make this information available to the public and the General Assembly. Provides that descendants of slaves are entitled to full disclosure.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Includes a prior conviction under the laws of another jurisdiction that is similar to a violation under the laws of this State for which the defendant is guilty of a Class 4 felony for domestic battery.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the court shall not order a bail bond deposited by or on behalf of a defendant in one case to be used to satisfy financial obligations of that same defendant in a different case until the bail bond is first used to satisfy any unpaid child support obligations as well as court costs in the case in which the bond has been deposited.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Public Health.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Deletes language providing that the disciplinary provisions of the Act do not apply to persons who carry out or assist in executions of death sentences. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a defendant sentenced to death shall be executed by lethal injection until death is pronounced by a coroner who is not a licensed physician. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish procedures for an execution by rule. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall not request, require, or allow a health care practitioner licensed in Illinois to participate in an execution. Provides that, in confidential investigations by the Department of Professional Regulation, the Department of Corrections shall disclose the names and license numbers of health care practitioners participating or performing ancillary functions in an execution to the Department of Professional Regulation and the Department of Professional Regulation shall forward those names and license numbers to the appropriate disciplinary boards. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Funds Investment Act and the Investment of Municipal Funds Act. Provides that a county, park district, sanitary district, or other municipal corporation may, by resolution or by ordinance (now, by ordinance only) use money in specified funds to purchase bonds and other interest bearing obligations of states other than the State of Illinois or of any political subdivision or agency of the State of Illinois or of any other state, whether the interest earned thereon is taxable or tax-exempt under federal law (now, the funds can only be used to purchase only certain municipal bonds or bonds and other interest bearing obligations of the United States and the State of Illinois). Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, for purposes of implementing ordinances regarding developer donations or impact fees, "public grounds for schools" (as used in the Counties Code) and "school grounds" (as used in the Illinois Municipal Code) are both defined as including land or site improvements, which include school buildings or other infrastructure necessitated by the development or subdivision in question. Further provides that this definition applies to all impact fees or developer donations paid into a school district or held in a separate account or escrow fund by any school district, municipality, or county for a school district. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning child care for TANF recipients, provides that the Department of Human Services must annually establish income thresholds for determining eligibility for child care benefits. Provides that the thresholds must be no less than 50% of the then-current State median income for each family size, and deletes a provision requiring such a 50% threshold only for FY 1998. Provides that in determining a family's income, the Department must disregard 10% of the family's gross wages and salary.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of drug related child endangerment. Provides the a person commits the offense of drug related child endangerment when he or she endangers the life and health of a child by knowingly exposing the child to a clandestine drug laboratory environment. Provides that the penalty is a Class 2 felony. Creates the offense of aggravated drug related child endangerment. Provides that a person commits the offense of aggravated drug related child endangerment when he or she: (1) commits a violation of drug related child endangerment, and (2) the child experiences death, great bodily harm, disability or disfigurement as a result of the drug related child endangerment. Provides that the penalty is a Class X felony. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that any county may provide electronic access to public records through the Internet. Provides that a county board may establish a reasonable fee to cover the operational expenses of providing that electronic access and may establish the basis for charging the fee. Provides that the fee must be paid to the county treasurer and deposited into a fund designated as the County Automation Fund. Effective immediately.
