Designates the portion of Illinois Route 162 in Troy commencing at its intersection with U.S. 40 and ending at its intersection with Formosa Road as the Paul Simon Parkway.
Congratulates the Triad High School varsity cheerleaders on winning the IHSA State Cheerleading Championship and the Illinois Cheerleading Coaches Association State Championship.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Recreational Use of Land and Water Areas Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to any individual or, on state-owned or managed lands and waters, members of the public (rather than to the public) for recreational or conservation purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes. Provides that residential buildings are not included in the definition of "land". Changes the definition of "recreational or conservation purpose" to include hunting, hiking, recreational shooting, operation of an off-highway vehicle, rock climbing, trapping, horseback riding of an entrant's own horse or horses, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, water or snow skiing, sledding, and snowmobiling. Effective immediately.
Directs the House of Representatives to adopt the policy, whether by rule or other action, that provides that the House Clerk shall annually on or before Memorial Day read the names of all of the soldiers who have been killed in the line of duty during the prior year.
Congratulates S. Watson Tidball on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
Congratulates the City of Trenton on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
Honors R.W. Bro. John Clayton of Collinsville for his many years of volunteer service with the Masonic Lodge.
Creates the Illinois State Advertising Task Force to explore the potential State revenue that could be derived from advertising on State property.
