Amends the Regional Transportation Authority Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts the e-mail addresses of university students, employees, and governing board members from the Act's copying and inspection requirements. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Development Finance Authority Act. Provides that, excluding the authorization for certain bonds and bonds issued to refund outstanding bonds, the Illinois Development Finance Authority may not have outstanding at any one time bonds for any of its corporate purposes in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $8,200,000,000 (now, $6,200,000,000). Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning bail bonds.
Makes appropriations to the Department of Human Rights for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003. Effective July 1, 2003.
Creates the Tuition Increase Limitation Act. Beginning with the 2003-2004 academic year, prohibits a tuition rate increase at a public university that is greater than the product of the tuition rate for the preceding academic year multiplied by a percentage that equals 2% plus the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for all items for the calendar year in which that preceding academic year began. Provides that if the State is in financial crisis in any fiscal year, the General Assembly, by joint resolution, may suspend the limitation for that fiscal year. Effective July 1, 2003.
Makes appropriations for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Department of Human Services for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, as follows: General Revenue Fund $3,860,714,900 Other State Funds $468,588,100 Federal Funds $916,292,500 Total $5,245,595,500
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Provides that the Comptroller's annual report of State employee information shall not include addresses of judges.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Children and Family Services for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
