Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Employees' Retirement System for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Creates the Ice Skating Rink Safety Act. Sets forth an ice skating rink operator's duties regarding posting of signs, maintenance of facilities, safety, and other matters. Provides that ice skaters have responsibilities concerning maintaining reasonable control and speed, heeding all posted signs and warnings, and other matters. Provides that ice skaters are deemed to have knowledge of and assume the risk of injuries caused by falls or collisions that are not attributable to a violation of a rink operator's duties set forth in the Act. Makes the assumption of risk set forth in the Act a complete bar and a complete defense to any lawsuit concerning injuries to ice skater or spectator unless the rink operator has violated his or her duties and responsibilities under the Act.
Creates the Pharmacy Benefit Management Regulation Act. Establishes the standards and criteria for regulation and licensing of pharmacy benefit management companies. Requires pharmacy benefit management companies to obtain a license from the Director of Insurance and to obtain a certificate of authority from the State Board of Pharmacy. Provides for financial examination of those companies. Grants enforcement powers to the Director of Insurance and the State Board of Pharmacy. Imposes fees and assessments upon pharmacy benefit management companies. Provides for the fees and assessments to be deposited into the Pharmacy Benefit Company Regulation Fund, a special fund in the State treasury. Amends the State Finance Act to add the Fund to the list of special funds.
Amends the Personnel Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Creation of a Third Airport Act. Contains a short title only.
Creates the Local Government Vendor Rebate Limitation Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Governor's Office of Management Budget for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Non-Support Punishment Act, and the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. Provides that a person who willfully defaults on an order for child support may be subject to summary criminal contempt proceedings. Provides that each State agency shall suspend, refuse to renew or issue, or restrict any license or certificate issued by that agency to a person found guilty of criminal contempt based on such a default (unless an appeal of the finding is pending). Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, subject to appropriation, to provide grants to counties for the purposes of providing incentives to attract and retain Assistant State's Attorneys within the county. Effective immediately.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act. Renames the Act the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Defines "close friend", "federally designated organ procurement agency", "not available", "organ", "tissue", and "tissue bank". Adds the guardian of the decedent's person at the time of death, the decedent's surrogate decision maker identified by the attending physician in accordance with the Health Care Surrogate Act, and a close friend of the decedent to the list of persons who may give consent for organ donation after or before the death of the person. Provides notification and consent requirements for organ or tissue donation for inpatients in a general acute care hospital with more than 100 beds. Includes the provisions of the Illinois Corneal Transplant Act and the Organ Donation Request Act in the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Repeals the Illinois Corneal Transplant Act and the Organ Donation Act. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Includes organs in the definition of "human tissue" in the Section concerning tissue bank registry and provides that "tissue bank" has the same meaning as set forth in the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Amends the Illinois Living Will Act and the Health Care Surrogate Act. Provides that, in the event of the patient's death as determined by a physician, and notwithstanding a Do Not Resuscitate Order, all medical care is terminated unless the patient is an organ donor. Provides that if the deceased patient is an organ donor, medical treatment may be applied or continued temporarily. Amends the School Code. Requires the regional superintendent of schools in which a school district that maintains grades 9 and 10 is located to distribute organ transplant information. Amends various statutes to change references to the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act (from the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act). Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to allow an organ transplant delivery vehicle to use blue oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights on the vehicle when the transplant delivery is declared an emergency by a member of the transplant team or a representative of the organ procurement organization. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Creates a Task Force to review the operations of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services Foster Care Division and related laws and rules impacting the Illinois foster care system.
