Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change concerning the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund.
Amends the Illinois Notary Public Act. Requires notaries to maintain a chronological journal of notarial acts. Exempts military veterans and public safety personnel from fees for notarizations of documents relating to benefits resulting from their employment. Imposes certain requirements for establishing the identity or persons seeking notarization and witnesses to notarizations.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's saving clause.
Creates a committee to explore the options to provide health insurance to State-funded homecare workers.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Makes technical changes in the Section relating to grounds for denying an application for and for revoking and seizing a Firearm Owner's Identification Card.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Universities Civil Service Merit Board for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Chicago Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a widow's annuity shall no longer be terminated or suspended due to remarriage, and provides for the resumption of widow's annuities that have been suspended or terminated for remarriage. Provides for payment of a widow's annuity to certain widows who married a deceased fireman during disability or the period between withdrawal from service and the commencement of a retirement annuity; requires repayment of any refund of contributions for widow's annuity that has been received, plus interest. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations to the Board of Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System and to the Community College Health Insurance Security Fund for fiscal year 2004. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning administration and definitions.
Amends the Victims' Economic Security and Safety Act by making a technical change in provisions concerning notices.
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning trial by jury.
