Creates the Biodiesel Fuel Act. Requires diesel fuel sold or offered for sale in this State for use in internal combustion engines to contain at least 2% biodiesel fuel oil by volume. Provides exceptions to the 2% requirement. Allows for reimbursement, if the Act is repealed within a specified time, to distributors that have to make capital expenditures to adapt or add equipment to blend biodiesel fuel oil.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that for purposes of the senior citizens assessment freeze homestead exemption eligibility threshold, "income" is defined to mean adjusted gross income, properly reportable for federal income tax purposes (now, federal adjusted gross income plus various additions for payments made or moneys received during the taxable year, including interest or dividend income, state income tax payments, annuity income, social security payments, railroad retirement payments, public assistance payments, and a deduction carried over from a prior year for a net operating or capital loss). Amends the State Mandates Act. Provides that no reimbursable State mandate is created by this amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code to provide that the medical assistance program must include coverage for surgical treatment for morbid obesity.
Amends the Soil and Water Conservation Districts Act. Makes technical changes to a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services shall include, in its annual report to the General Assembly regarding child care issues, an assessment of working condition improvements required to attract capable caregivers (now, an assessment of improvements in employee benefits that may attract capable caregivers) and a determination by the Department of the adequacy of day care facility pay and benefit packages in assuring quality care. Provides that the Department shall include in its day care planning activities priorities the provision of grants to encourage the creation and expansion of child care centers in high need communities (now, the provision of grants only to the extent funds are specifically appropriated for this purpose) and support service programs that assist teen parents to continue and complete their education (now, service programs that assist teen parents to continue and complete their education).
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Makes appropriations and reappropriations to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Use Tax Act and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, no tax shall be imposed under those Acts upon the privilege of using in this State (for the Use Tax Act) or persons engaged in the business of selling at retail (for the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act) an individual item of clothing or footwear designed to be worn about the human body that (i) is purchased for a selling price of $200 or less and (ii) is purchased from 12:01 a.m. on the first Friday in August through midnight of the Sunday that follows 9 days later. Provides that a unit of local government may, by ordinance adopted by that unit of local government, opt out of the tax holiday and continue to collect and remit the tax imposed under those Acts during the tax holiday period. Provides that articles that are normally sold as a unit cannot be priced separately and sold as individual items in order to be subject to the holiday. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
