Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Northeastern Illinois University for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
The sum of $1, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Central Management Services for a study on Group Insurance enrollment trends. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a teacher who (i) has been receiving a disability, occupational disability, or disability retirement benefit for at least one year and (ii) remains unable to resume regular full-time teaching due to disability, but is able to engage in limited or part-time employment as a teacher, may engage in such limited or part-time employment as a teacher without loss of the disability, occupational disability, or disability retirement benefit, provided that the teacher's earnings for that limited or part-time employment, when added to the amount of the benefit, do not exceed 100% of the salary rate upon which the benefit is based. Effective immediately.
Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Eliminates the reduction in annuity that applies to a surviving spouse who is more than 5 years younger than the deceased member. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Children of Deceased Veterans Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning payments to educational or training institutions and the eligibility of children.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Comptroller for its FY05 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the civil administrative agencies, including the Department of Employment Security.
Amends the Election Code. Requires that all polling places be accessible to handicapped and elderly electors by January 1, 2004, as determined by rule of the State Board of Elections. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, the assessment made in each general assessment year shall be no more than a 5% increase over the assessment made in the most recent general assessment year if (i) the property is classified as residential property and (ii) the owner of the property has continuously occupied the residence for at least 5 years immediately prior to the general assessment year. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, as a matter of public policy, for taxes imposed for the 2004 taxable year, payable in 2005, and for each taxable year thereafter the requirement that a mortgage lender must send a copy of the tax bill to each mortgagor of the property may not be waived. Provides that if that requirement was waived before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, that waiver is void and the mortgage lender must send a copy of the tax bill to each mortgagor of the property beginning with the 2004 taxable year. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions requiring coverage for serious mental illnesses to be provided on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to other illnesses and diseases, deletes language making those provisions inoperative after December 31, 2005. Changes the phrase "A & H policies" to "accident and health insurance policies". Effective immediately.
