Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires insurers to cover surveillance tests for ovarian cancer for female insureds who are at risk for ovarian cancer. Provides a definition for "at risk for ovarian cancer" and "surveillance tests for ovarian cancer". Effective January 1, 2006.
Amends the Senior Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning Medicaid payment rates for nursing homes, provides that the transition period for implementing the new MDS payment methodology for the nursing component of the rate may not exceed 3 (instead of 2) years. Effective immediately.
Creates the Helping Heroes Child Care Program Act and amends the State Finance Act. Establishes the Helping Heroes Child Care Program for the purpose of providing vouchers for child care to Illinois families who have one or more parents deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan by the armed services. Provides for the program to be administered by the Department of Human Services, but only if federal funding is made available for that purpose. Provides that any such federal moneys received by the State shall be deposited into the Fund for Child Care for Deployed Military Personnel, which is created as a special fund in the State treasury. Provides for income eligibility criteria to be established by the Department by rule. Provides that a family that received child care assistance before the parent's deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan is eligible only for a voucher for the cost of any additional hours of child care that are necessary by reason of that deployment. Provides that a family is not eligible for a child care voucher if the family receives child care services from the United States military. Repeals the Act on July 1, 2010. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Requires a school district to provide steroid abuse prevention education to students who participate in interscholastic athletic programs.
Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that the word "DECEASED" and the date of death shall not appear on a copy of a birth certificate furnished to a parent of a child who died within 3 months of birth, provided no other copy of a birth certificate was furnished to the parent prior to the child's death. Effective immediately.
Requests the Department of Transportation to conduct a comprehensive study on the use of scrap tire rubber in the paving practices of the State and all units of local government.
Congratulates Dr. David H. Baker for being selected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Congratulates Dr. Gene E. Robinson for being selected as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Congratulates the Illinois State Geological Survey on its Centennial Celebration.
