Congratulates the Heath family, the Crawford County Heritage Foundation, the Robinson Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Robinson on the occasion of the Heath Candy Company's 100th anniversary.
Mourns the death of Lance Corporal James Luther Baud.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for any vehicle is (1) 70 miles per hour on any interstate highway; (2) 70 miles per hour for all or part of highways that are designated by the Department of Transportation, have at least 4 lanes of traffic, and have a separation between the roadways moving in opposite directions; and (3) 65 miles per hour for all other highways, roads, and streets. Provides that the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will may adopt ordinances establishing speed limits lower than these speeds. Permits the Department of Transportation and Toll Highway Authority to alter speed limits up to the new maximum speed limit (rather than up to 65 miles per hour).
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Prohibits a person from claiming the on-farm composting exemption from solid-waste permitting if he or she charges a tipping fee. Authorizes a person who is operating an on-farm landscape composting facility to accept food scrap, crop residue, livestock waste, agricultural landscape waste, uncontaminated wood waste, yard waste, and landscape waste for composting and still maintain the on-farm composting permitting exemption so long as the other applicable requirements are satisfied. Effective immediately.
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Provides that members of the Emergency Telephone System Board shall serve staggered 4-year terms. Provides guidelines regarding staggering the terms of currently serving board members. Provides that board members may be re-appointed upon the expiration of their terms. Provides that the corporate authorities of a county or municipality may, by a vote of three-fourths of the members elected, remove any Emergency Telephone System Board member for misconduct or neglect of office. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall require every provider of mammography services to, if a patient's mammogram demonstrates dense breast tissue, provide notification to the patient in any summary of the mammography report sent to the patient pursuant to the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act that shall include, but not be limited to, certain information.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Allows veterans that are Illinois residents to obtain an Illinois Hunter Education card after completing the online study section of the Illinois Hunter Education program and providing the Department of Natural Resources with verification of service or mobilization. Effective immediately.
Amends the Weights and Measures Act. Provides that weights and measures or weighing and measuring devices used for commercial or law enforcement purposes must have a Certificate of Conformance or have been certified by the Department or the city sealer on or before July 1, 2012. Provides that any apparatus certified by the Department or city sealer as of July 1, 2012 satisfies construction and installation requirements. Provides that the Department shall furnish an identification plate for registration and tracking purposes for any type of weight or measure or weighing or measuring device is impracticable to mark as required by the Act. Effective immediately.
Designates the section of U.S. Route 50 from Lawrenceville, Illinois, to the Indiana border as the "Trevor Pinnick Memorial Highway".
