Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a prosecution for misconduct by a public officer or employee may be extended no more than 6 years (now, 3 years) beyond the period otherwise applicable. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that, except to the extent that the Director determines that the amount retained in the Illinois Premium Tax Refund Fund exceeds the anticipated amount of certain refunds to be made, the Department shall deposit a percentage of specified amounts collected into the Insurance Premium Tax Refund Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the rate of automatic annual increase in retirement pension from 3% to 4%. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Mobile Home Park Act. Provides for a minimum separation from one mobile home to another mobile home for mobile homes located on sites constructed on or before July 1, 1998. Provides requirements for a minimum separation adjacent to the sides of every mobile home for mobile homes located on sites constructed after July 1, 1998. Provides that when a mobile home is removed from a site for repairs and then replaced on the site or when a mobile home on a site is replaced by another mobile home on the site, the site shall not be deemed to be a newly constructed site and shall be governed by the standards in effect at the time the site was originally constructed. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Effective immediately.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to the application of the Act.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Department of Human Services Act. Creates the Department of Community Disability Health Care and the Department of State Facilities for Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health. Renames the Department of Human Services as the Department of Social Services and Welfare. Transfers certain programs from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Community Disability Health Care and certain other programs to the Department of State Facilities for Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the School Code. Provides that each year on or before October 1, a school board shall provide to a newspaper of general circulation within the school district the name, position, and salary of each of the district's administrators. Provides that the newspaper has the discretion to publish the information or not.
Amends the Employee Arbitration Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning the service of process or notices.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act by reducing by $1 the total amount of General Obligation Bonds authorized under this Act. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Professional Regulation for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $50,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for grants to rural fire protection districts and rural fire departments for the purchase of automated external defibrillators. Effective July 1, 2004.
The sum of $1, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Arts Council for grants to Arts Organizations. Effective July 1, 2003.
