Amends the Illinois Financial Services Development Act. Provides that if a borrower's outstanding indebtedness under a revolving credit plan is subject to multiple rates of interest, payments must be applied to indebtedness subject to the highest rate of interest.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning customer information centers.
Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides a program of early retirement incentives for certain employees. Allows purchase of up to 5 years of age enhancement and creditable service. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $1,800,000 to the Department of Corrections for grants to counties for screenings and assessments under a drug court program adopted by a judicial circuit in that county under the Drug Court Treatment Act. Moneys shall be distributed to Kane, Kendall, LaSalle, and 2 other counties outside of a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants determined by the Director of Corrections. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $17,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging to provide a $1-per-hour wage increase for Community Care Program homemakers. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Creates an Advisory Committee to study Deferred Retirement Option Programs (DROP) plans for the State-supported retirement systems. Requires a report of its findings and recommendations by January 15, 2005. Effective immediately.
Amends the Child Labor Law to make a technical change to a provision concerning meal periods.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the Attorney General may have an attachment against the property of a person referred to the Department of Corrections under the specified Section of the Unified Code of Corrections only if the debtor's total assets exceed $100,000. Excludes the primary residence and primary vehicle of the debtor from the calculation of total assets.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "week".
Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Changes the definition of "child care center" and adds a definition for "partially exempt child care program". Effective immediately.
Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning a license requirement.
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Requires a comprehensive health education program to include instruction in secondary schools on clinical depression and suicide prevention. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
