Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Comptroller for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Fair and Exposition Authority Reconstruction Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Prisoner Review Board for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Creates the Science Technology Education Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Creates the Gubernatorial Late Term Appointment Act. Provides that when a lame duck Governor makes appointments that are confirmed by the Senate within the last 60 days of his or her term, the late term appointees serve no longer than the sixtieth day of the succeeding Governor's term. Permits the succeeding Governor to then fill those vacant appointed offices.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Cervical Cancer Elimination Task Force within the Department of Public Health. Requires the task force to examine the prevalence and burden of cervical cancer, raise public awareness concerning the causes and nature of cervical cancer, identify prevention and control strategies and technologies, and perform other functions. Requires the task force to develop a statewide comprehensive cervical cancer prevention plan and to make annual reports. Provides for expiration of the task force on April 1, 2009 or upon the task force's submission of its final report, whichever is earlier.
Amends the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning administrative review.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes confessions, admissions, or communications to a clergyman or practitioner of any religious denomination privileged if: (1) the confession, admission, or communication is intended to be confidential, (2) is made directly to a member of the clergy, and (3) is such that the clergyman is bound to maintain that confidentiality pursuant to a duty under the canon law, church doctrine, practices, discipline, tenet, custom, or practice of his or her denomination. Provides that the provisions concerning clergy privilege are subject to specified reporting requirements of the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Medical District Commission for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Veterans' Employment Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning Vietnam veterans.
Amends the Recreational Trails of Illinois Act with respect to the Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund. Provides that not more than 5% of the moneys from the Fund may be used for administration, enforcement, planning, and implementation. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code and the Workers' Compensation Act to provide that covered persons must not be required to pay co-pays, co-insurance, or deductibles.
