Amends the Agricultural Areas Conservation and Protection Act. Provides that any landowner or farm operator who is operating an agricultural enterprise within an agricultural area is exempt from nuisance suits. Amends the Livestock Management Facilities Act. Provides that proposed livestock management facilities located within an agricultural area are exempt from the public informational meeting requirement if the setback areas associated with the proposed facility are located wholly within an existing agricultural area.
Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions in the Property Tax Code. Increases the ceiling for household income eligibility, for taxable years 2003 and thereafter, from $40,000 per year to $50,000 per year. Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions and the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement from the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, by filing a resolution or ordinance with the Fund, an employer may increase the regular retirement formula to 1.96% of final earnings for the first 15 years of service and 2.28% of final earnings for each additional year of service, for service earned on or after the filing of the resolution or ordinance. For service earned before the filing of the resolution or ordinance, authorizes augmentation of the old retirement formula by payment of a specified contribution. Increases the normal employee contribution rate for employees of an employer that files a resolution or ordinance to increase the regular retirement formula, by 0.5% of earnings. Effective immediately.
Encourages the Governor to convene a Joint Committee of the Senate and the House to conduct public hearings prior to agreement of any compact with an Indian tribe for Indian gaming.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Civil Service Commission for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds a caption to a Section concerning the time within which to make repairs to damaged property.
Amends the School Code. Requires a person having custody or control of a child who is below the compulsory school age and who is enrolled in kindergarten in a public school to cause the child to attend the public school. Includes in the definition of "dropout" a child enrolled in kindergarten. Effective June 30, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Health Statistics Act. Makes a stylistic change in the Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the court seal.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act and the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that beginning January 1, 2005, the rights, powers, duties, and functions of the Department of Human Services concerning diabetes prevention programs are transferred to the Department of Public Health. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that in addition to the base monthly reimbursement paid to sheltered care facilities under the Medicaid program, the Department of Public Aid shall make supplemental payments to sheltered care facilities to reimburse such facilities for their expenses incurred in transporting residents to medically necessary visits to providers of health care services. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Drainage Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
