Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning sarcoidosis.
Amends the Chicago Police and Chicago Firefighter Articles of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows a transfer of up to 10 years of credits and creditable service from the Chicago firefighters pension fund to the Chicago police pension fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning fees for automated record keeping.
Amends the Savings Bank Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning registration of savings bank holding companies.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a $2,000 tax credit for each taxpayer who purchases a new E85 ethanol powered motor vehicle for each vehicle purchased during the taxable year. Creates a $10,000 tax credit for each motor fuel retailer who installs one or more new E85 ethanol fuel dispensing pumps at his or her motor fuel retail store in Illinois during the taxable year. Provides that each of the credits applies to taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2004 and on or before December 30, 2009. Provides that the credits may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Requires all applicants for license renewal after January 1, 2030 (rather than January 1, 2006) to apply for and maintain certification to use therapeutic ocular pharmaceutical agents. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Makes appropriations and reappropriations to Southern Illinois University for various purposes, including ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes technical changes in a Section regarding the office hours of the clerks of courts.
Appropriates $1 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the Teen Reach Program.
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Permits the court to try a minor as delinquent who would otherwise under statute be automatically tried as an adult, after a hearing and a determination by the court that certain mitigating factors are present (rather than just in cases involving certain controlled substance violations).
Creates the Builders' Appeal Act. States that the purpose is to provide expeditious relief from local ordinances and regulations that inhibit the construction of affordable housing needed to serve low-income and moderate-income households in this State. Allows local approving authorities to issue a comprehensive permit to a developer of affordable housing. The comprehensive permit includes all local government approvals or licenses, except a building permit. Requires a hearing on an application. Sets forth requirements for approving a comprehensive permit. Creates a State Housing Appeals Board to hear appeals of decisions of a local approving authority. Contains other provisions.
