Amends the School Code. With respect to school districts other than Chicago, requires that certain contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $25,000 or a lower amount as required by local policy (rather than $10,000) be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Makes changes concerning the exceptions to this requirement, including an exception for contracts for services of corporations possessing a high degree of professional skill where ability and fitness play an important part, contracts for food services, contracts for utilities and related services when the cost is less than that offered by a local distribution company, and contracts for repair, maintenance, remodeling, renovation, or construction involving an expenditure not to exceed $50,000 (rather than $20,000). Effective immediately.
Sponsored bills
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly be present, loiter, or reside within 500 feet of a day care facility or real property comprising any day care facility while persons under the age of 18 are present in the day care facility or on the grounds and to approach, contact, or communicate with a child under 18 years of age, unless the offender is a parent or guardian of a person under 18 years of age present in the day care facility or on the grounds.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that if a firefighter responds to a fire and the firefighter is impeded in his or her ability to extinguish the fire by or is injured while performing his or her duties in extinguishing the fire by a person at the scene of the fire and the firefighter has reasonable suspicion to believe that the person is under the influence of a controlled substance, the firefighter shall make written documentation of the actions of the person and may inform a peace officer of his or her suspicion. Provides that the peace officer who responds to the scene of the fire based upon the firefighter's written documentation may apprehend the person and take the person to a hospital or other medical facility and order a physician licensed to practice medicine in all its branches, a registered nurse, or a phlebotomist acting under the direction of a licensed physician to withdraw blood from the person for testing for the presence of a controlled substance in the person's body and may search the premises of the person and surrounding premises suspected of being the origin of the fire for controlled substances possessed in violation of the Act.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school district financial oversight panels.
Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the State aid formula.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school district financial oversight panels.
Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2005 and through June 30, 2010, the Secretary of State must notify each owner of a licensed motor vehicle that many motor vehicles are capable of using E85 blended fuel. Sets forth requirements for this notice. Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2005 and through June 30, 2010, the Department of Transportation must include the locations of all refueling stations that provide E85 blended fuel on maps published by the Department. Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Revenue to assist the Department of Transportation in developing and maintaining a list and map of all refueling stations that provide E85 blended fuel. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that if, during the 2005 taxable year, any parcel of wooded land was valued based upon its productivity index equalized assessed value as cropland, then that property must be considered, for assessment purposes, to be "other farmland" for the 2006 and 2007 taxable years. Defines "wooded land". Creates the Wooded Land Assessment Task Force within the Department of Revenue to make findings and recommendations concerning the assessment of wooded land and property under forestry management programs. Sets forth procedures for the operation of the task force. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the members of the State Board of Education.
Honors Katie Porter and Jeremiah Hall for saving the life of Josh Monroe and aiding Gerald Sturgeon.