Makes appropriations and reappropriations to the Office of the Secretary of State for various purposes. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Creates the Hypnosis Consumer Protection Act. Provides that a person who is not otherwise licensed to provide some form of health care and who provides hypnotism services shall not be in violation of the health care profession practice Acts and shall be deemed to engage in the nontherapeutic practice of hypnotism, unless that person engages in specified activities. Provides that an unlicensed person providing hypnotism services shall, prior to providing those services, (i) disclose specified information in a plainly-worded written statement and (ii) obtain a written acknowledgement from the client stating that he or she has been provided with the written statement. Provides that an unlicensed person providing hypnotism services shall state in any advertisement that he or she is not an Illinois licensed health care practitioner. Provides for a civil penalty to be collected by the Department of Professional Regulation.
Makes appropriations to the Prisoner Review Board for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Community College Board for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the State Finance Act. In provisions authorizing the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to (i) transfer to the General Revenue Fund from any fund held by the State Treasurer certain amounts of money to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year and (ii) allocate the additional amounts generated by new and increased fees created or authorized by the General Assembly between the fund otherwise entitled to receive the fee and the General Revenue Fund according to certain parameters, provides that, if the Director of the Governor's Office of Management and Budget directs the State Treasurer and the Comptroller to transfer moneys into the General Revenue Fund under these provisions, he or she shall notify the Illinois Economic and Fiscal Commission of the direction to transfer the moneys and the amount directed to be transferred. Effective immediately.
Amends the Build Illinois Act. Increases the limit on loans to minority, female, or disabled small businesses from $50,000 or 50% of project costs to $750,000 or 50% of project costs.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides enhanced criminal penalties for criminal damage to farm equipment or immovable items of agricultural production, including but not limited to grain bins and barns. Provides that trespass in or on a motor vehicle to certain agricultural properties is a Class 2 felony (rather than a Class B misdemeanor). Provides that the offender who commits the trespass to the agricultural property shall, in addition to any other penalties imposed, reimburse the owner of the property for any damages that occurred to the property during the trespass.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Authorizes a credit for public and private elementary and secondary school teachers in the following amounts: $500 if the teacher has completed at least 2 but less than 5 years of teaching by the end of the taxable year, $750 if the teacher has completed at least 5 but less than 10 years of teaching by the end of the taxable year, $1,000 if the teacher has completed at least 10 but less than 15 years of teaching by the end of the taxable year, and $1,500 if the teacher has completed at least 15 years of teaching by the end of the taxable year. The credit, however, may not exceed 50% of the amount of tax owing on the taxable amount of the salary of the teacher less the amount of the exemption claimed by the teacher and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Exempts the credit from the sunset provisions of the Act.
Amends the Capital Crimes Litigation Act. Makes a technical change in the Section relating to the repeal of the Act and the reports to the General Assembly by the Cook County Public Defender, the Cook County State's Attorney, the State Appellate Defender, the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, and the Attorney General on the receipt and use of funds received under the Act.
Amends the State Records Act. Adds a caption to the short title Section.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Higher Education for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
