Amends the General Homestead Exemption provisions of the Property Tax Code. Provides that in a county with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants if the assessed valuation of property has increased by more than 20% over the previous assessed valuation of that property, an additional exemption is allowed, with the amount of the additional exemption determined by household income. Effective immediately.
Sponsored bills
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State aid formula.
Recognizes Nona Alverda Tierney on the occasion of her 90th birthday.
Honors Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on the two-hundredth anniversary of their expedition and the Discovery National Signature Event in the village of Hartford, Illinois, May 14 through 16.
Amends the Minimum Wage Law. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning the Director of Labor.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the Secretary of State.
Congratulates David W. Hayes on the occasion of his retirement from Machinist Local 660 on February 29, 2004.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Provides that an alderman or member of a city council or commission, a member of a village board of trustees, other than the president, or a member of a county board, other than the president, may have a direct interest in a manufacturer or distributor of alcoholic liquor if he or she (i) is not a law enforcing public official and (ii) does not participate in any meeting, hearing, or decision on matters in which he or she has a direct interest. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Authorizes an attachment against the property of a debtor who has been referred by the Department of Corrections to the Attorney General (instead of who is a defendant in a suit brought by the Attorney General) in connection with the reimbursement of the Department for the expenses of the debtor's incarceration.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning prohibited activities.