Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
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Congratulates the members of Painters District Council 14 on the occasion of the organization's 100th anniversary.
Mourns the death of Ardis Morris, III.
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Property Tax Appeal Board for its FY 10 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2009.
Congratulates Edwin Johnson on his retirement.
Congratulates Scott Lennon on the occasion of winning the Charles E. Piper Award from the Berwyn Development Corporation.
Amends the Physical Fitness Facility Medical Emergency Preparedness Act; provides that a physical fitness facility must ensure that there is a trained automated external defibrillator (AED) user on staff "during staffed business hours". Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Requires each dental office in the State to develop and implement an emergency medical plan. Requires all dental offices that administer anesthesia or sedation to contain at least one AED on the premises at all times. Provides that the owner of a dental office is responsible for complying with these requirements. Amends the Physical Fitness Services Act; provides that a physical fitness center shall have available and on its premises, during staffed business hours (instead of at all times during which members of such physical fitness center or other persons are engaged in physical fitness activities or receiving physical fitness services), at least one person who holds a valid certificate indicating that he or she has successfully completed a course of training in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Amends the Chicago Firefighters Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Requires that a disabled fireman who is receiving a duty, occupational disease, or ordinary disability benefit be examined on a periodic basis as determined by the Board, but at least once a year (was, at least once a year). Provides that if a fireman refuses to submit to such medical, surgical, or hospital treatment as is reasonably essential to promote his recovery from disability, he shall have no further right to receive the benefit. Provides a window during which a fireman who re-entered service and failed to repay his refund within the required 2-year period may repay the refund. Provides that a fireman who has failed to repay any refund due to the Fund after re-entering service shall be treated as a new employee and shall only receive service credit from the date that he has re-entered service as a new employee. Provides that, in those cases where the injury or death for which a disability or death benefit is payable was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability on the part of some person or entity to pay damages to the fireman, then legal proceedings may be taken against such other person or entity to recover damages notwithstanding the Fund's payment of or liability to pay disability or death benefits. Provides that the Fund may join in any action brought by the disabled fireman or his personal representative. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning powers of counties.