Amends the State Finance Act and the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Creates the Coroner Trauma Fund, a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall distribute 97.5% of the moneys deposited into the Coroner Trauma Fund to Illinois coroners and medical examiners; that no money may be distributed to a coroner or medical examiner located outside of the State; and that the distribution to individual coroners and medical examiners shall be based on the total number of trauma deaths where the manner of death is certified by the coroner, medical examiner, or coroner's inquest jury to be ACCIDENT, SUICIDE, HOMICIDE, or UNDETERMINED. Contains provisions concerning payment calculations under the fund, reporting requirements for county coroners or medical examiners, and distribution dates. Effective immediately.
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Amends the State Universities Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an employee is entitled to receive service credit for up to 2 years (now up to one year) of unused sick leave. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services must provide adequate funding for the required services and supports for each individual on the Prioritization of Urgency of Need for Services (PUNS) Waiting List Database in the crisis category within 30 calendar days after that individual is placed on the PUNS Database in the crisis category after completing an enrollment form with a Department pre-admission screener. Provides that Department must provide adequate funding for the required services and supports for each individual on the Database in the emerging crisis category within 90 calendar days after that individual is placed on the PUNS Database in the emerging crisis category after completing an enrollment form with a Department pre-admission screener. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Act.
Makes appropriations and reappropriations to the University of Illinois for various purposes, including for ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in addition to dismissal, the county board may, by the affirmative vote of a majority of its members, subject the supervisor of assessments to other reasonable disciplinary measures. Effective immediately.
Instructs the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability to study the economic impact on central Illinois of the number of jobs that would be eliminated due to the consolidation of investment authority in the State Universities Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System of State of Illinois.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a municipality may establish a special service area for the purpose of repairing, reconstructing, or maintaining a stormwater-detention facility. Provides that a public hearing with respect to those special service areas must include a determination of whether the stormwater-detention facility is in need of the repair, reconstruction, or maintenance. Provides that certain special service areas for stormwater-detention facilities are not subject to objection-petition requirements. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.