Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Adds vehicles that transport manure to the definition of implement of husbandry, and excludes from that definition implements of husbandry with a gross weight exceeding 54,000 pounds (instead of 36,000 pounds). Effective immediately.
Creates the Pharmacy Benefit Management Fair Competition Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the Treasurer's seal.
Amends the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. Provides that nothing in the Act shall prevent a person, sole proprietorship, professional service corporation, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity from performing their duties and nothing in the Act shall be deemed unethical or unprofessional because a person, sole proprietorship, professional service corporation, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or other entity licensed under the Act is a member of or has a collective bargaining agreement with a labor union whose members are performing work on the same site. Effective immediately.
Amends the Municipal Code. Provides that every educational governmental entity is subject to and must comply with all ordinances and regulations relating to certain subject matters within the territory of the municipality. Provides that this requirement does not diminish or otherwise affect the power of a municipality to enforce its ordinances or regulations with respect to other units of government. Defines "educational governmental entity".
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Provides that the Department's Office of Scientific Research and Analysis shall contain within it an Illinois Center for Sustainability and Research division, rather than a Waste Management and Research Center division. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning rules.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that each appeal to the Property Tax Appeal Board shall be limited to the grounds listed in the petition filed with the Board. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $3,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to Southern Illinois University for renovation of the Boardview Hotel building for a hospitality training center. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who holds an instruction permit or a graduated license may not use a wireless phone while driving a vehicle. Provides that the prohibition does not apply to use of a wireless phone to contact a law enforcement agency, health care provider, or emergency services agency for emergency purposes. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Provides for the detachment of a contiguous portion of an elementary school district from that district and its annexation to an adjoining elementary school district to which the portion is also contiguous and the detachment of a contiguous portion of a high school district from that district and its annexation to an adjoining school district to which the portion is also contiguous, upon the filing of a petition, if certain conditions are met with respect to the petition. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
