Creates the Psychotropic Substances Suicide Risk Task Force within the Department of Public Health.
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Proclaims the week of April 10-16, 2011, as National Crime Victims' Rights Week.
Recognizes the 100th anniversary of the McLean County Boys High School Basketball Tournament.
Amends the Illinois Housing Development Act to authorize the Illinois Housing Authority to establish and administer a foreclosure prevention counseling program using moneys in the Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Fund, appropriated for that purpose, to make grants to HUD-certified housing counseling agencies to support pre-purchase and post-purchase home ownership education and foreclosure prevention counseling. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Foreclosure Prevention Counseling Fund from moneys received from the foreclosure prevention surcharge collected under the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987. Provides that 75% of the moneys in this Fund shall be used for housing counseling outside Chicago and 25% of the moneys shall be used for such counseling in Chicago. Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987 to increase the investigation and application fees from $2,700 to $3,000. Effective immediately.
Amends the Township Code. Provides that in townships with a population of more than 10,000 (now, 15,000) located within counties with a population of 3,000,000 or less, the township central committee of a political party composed of the precinct committeemen may, with respect to any regular township election, determine that its candidates for township offices shall be nominated by primary in accordance with the general election law rather than by caucus. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Establishes criteria that must be met before a law enforcement agency may activate an AMBER Alert Notification Plan.
Amends the Election Code. Permits establishment of a county board of election commissioners, by referendum initiated by the county board, in a county that has a municipality with a municipal board of election commissioners.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Changes the elements of stalking. Provides that a person commits stalking when he or she, without lawful justification, engages in a course of conduct directed toward another person or a family member of that person that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened, and that such conduct actually causes that person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, or threatened. Defines "course of conduct".
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. In the offense of intentional homicide of an unborn child, eliminates the requirement that the defendant knew that the woman was pregnant.
Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.