Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Extends the period of registration for a misdemeanant sex offender from 10 years to 15 years and the period of registration for a felony sex offender from 10 to 20 years.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides for a sanction on the responsible party, his or her attorney, or both if the court finds that an action is frivolous, in bad faith, or for an improper purpose. The sanction is that the court, in its discretion, may order the payment to the State, county, or both of amounts reasonably calculated to reimburse the State, the county, or both for the costs of processing the action and providing personnel and facilities in connection with the action.
Directs Central Management Services and the Illinois Department of Transportation to conduct a study to determine the steps necessary to develop and implement a plan for advertising on State property.
Amends the State Finance Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Aid Continuing Appropriation Law. Makes the Law applicable to fiscal year 2004 and each fiscal year thereafter. Provides that if the General Assembly fails to make Common School Fund appropriations to the State Board of Education in fiscal year 2004 and in each fiscal year thereafter sufficient to fund the general State aid, supplemental general State aid, and supplementary grants in aid provisions of the State aid formula, the Law shall constitute an irrevocable and continuing appropriation from the Common School Fund of all amounts necessary for those purposes. Removes a provision that provides for the Law's repeal on June 30, 2003. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that no transfers may be made, in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year, from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Horse Racing Act of 1975. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning deposits of fees.
Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides that if a sex offender has an account with an Internet service provider, the name of the Internet service provider, the e-mail address of the sex offender, and the screen names used by the sex offender must be submitted to the Department of State Police. Provides that if the sex offender has more than one account with one or more Internet service providers, information on each account must be submitted to the Department of State Police. Amends the Sex Offender and Child Murderer Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police must make a sex offender's Internet account information accessible on the Internet in the Department's Sex Offender Information file on the Department's Web site.
