Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that a deceased companion animal that is delivered to a provider of companion animal cremation services subject to the Companion Animal Cremation Act is not waste for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Act, and that providing companion animal cremation services at a location does not make that location a waste management facility for the purposes of the Environmental Protection Act.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense to sell or give a firearm while engaged in the business of selling firearms at wholesale or retail without being licensed as a federal firearms dealer under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968. Effective immediately.
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that no person may operate a child care facility, receive a license to operate a child care facility, be employed by a child care facility, or live as an adult in a child care facility, if the person has been declared a sexually dangerous person under the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act or a sexually violent person under the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act or convicted of committing or attempting to commit specified offenses. Provides an exception if specified criteria are met. Defines "child care facility" for the purposes of the provision concerning background investigations. Effective immediately.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987 and the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987 to allow supervising physicians to supervise more than 2 physician assistants. Effective immediately.
Creates the Death Penalty Act. Contains only a short title.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, and the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. Provides that for purposes of enforcing a child support order, a transfer made by a child support obligor is fraudulent as to an obligee if the obligor made the transfer with the intent to defraud the obligee or without receiving equivalent value for the transfer. Provides that in an action for relief from such a fraudulent transfer, the State's Attorney may obtain avoidance of the transfer or other relief. Provides that a person who willfully defaults on an order for child support may be subject to summary criminal contempt proceedings. Provides that each State agency shall withhold, suspend, or restrict the use of any license or certificate issued by that agency to a person found guilty of criminal contempt and authorizes the Department of Public Aid, in addition to others, to receive location information for child support establishment and enforcement purposes from employers, labor unions, telephone companies, and utility companies. Provides that, upon request by a tribunal of another state, a tribunal of this State shall issue or cause to be issued a subpoena or a subpoena duces tecum requiring a person in this State to appear at a deposition or before a tribunal and answer questions or produce documents or other tangible things for the purpose of obtaining information regarding the person's assets, income, and ability to pay a support order or judgment entered in the other state. Provides that a tribunal of this State may make similar requests of a tribunal in another state. Effective immediately.
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 Illinois Natural Areas Preservation Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Community College Act. Creates the ICCB Federal Trust Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides that money recovered from federal programs for general administration that is received by the Illinois Community College Board shall be deposited into the Fund. Provides that all money in the Fund shall be used, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, by the Board for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Agricultural Export Advisory Committee created under that Section.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Deletes language providing that a road district commissioner may not let any contracts for road construction or repair with a value in excess of $10,000, and may not spend more than $10,000 for road construction or repair, without the approval of the county superintendent of highways or the highway board of auditors. Deletes language providing that, in emergency situations, a highway commissioner must have the approval of the county superintendent of highways or the highway board of auditors before a contract valued at more than $10,000 may be let without advertising for bids. Deletes language providing that a county treasurer must have the consent of the county superintendent of highways in order to turn over to the regular road fund of the road district, at the request of the highway commissioner, surplus moneys collected under a special tax and deposited into a separate fund for road and bridge construction. Deletes language providing that the road district commissioner must have the permission of the county engineer in order to spend moneys collected under the special tax on a project valued at more than $10,000. Effective immediately.
