Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code to allow purchase of service credit for up to 2 years of military service not immediately preceded by employment. Allows purchase at a reduced interest rate for 6 months. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Promotion Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In provisions requiring individual taxpayers to add distributions from qualified tuition programs other than those administered by the State of Illinois back into adjusted gross income, provides that distributions do not have to be added back if they are from qualified tuition programs that are administered by a state that has passed a law that provides an unlimited state tax deduction for moneys distributed from a qualified tuition program administered by the State of Illinois. In provisions authorizing a deduction for contributions to a College Savings Pool account under the State Treasurer Act, also allows a deduction for contributions to the Illinois Prepaid Tuition Trust Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Grain Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the State Gift Ban Act by making a technical change to the gift ban Section.
Appropriates $1 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a study to evaluate the Department's effectiveness in attracting technology-based businesses to Illinois. Effective July 1, 2004.
Encourages the citizens of this State to give blood during Blood Week August 10-16, 2003.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the State Finance Act. Provides for issuance of Lions of Illinois license plates, at an additional initial charge of $40 and an additional renewal charge of $27 with eligibility requirements to be determined by the Secretary of State. Provides that $25 of the initial and renewal charges shall go to the Lions of Illinois Fund. Provides that $15 of the additional initial charge and $2 of the renewal charge shall go to the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund. Provides that the International Association of Lions Club emblem shall appear at the lower right corner of the plate. Provides that immediately to the left of the emblem shall appear the words: Lions of Illinois. Creates the Lions of Illinois Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that all moneys in the Lions of Illinois Fund shall be paid, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and approval by the Secretary of State, as grants to the Lions of Illinois Endowment Fund.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, in DUI cases involving personal injury or death, hospital personnel must, upon request by a law enforcement officer, withdraw blood or obtain urine samples from the offender to determine the alcohol or drug content in his or her blood or urine. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section that prohibits the possession of burglary tools.
Amends the Food and Agriculture Research Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative purposes of the Act.
