Celebrates the life of Jeremy Chambers, police officer with the Cahokia Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty on April 24, 2006.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Sets forth procedures for calculating the value of (i) certain leasehold estates for property that is owned by the United States Air Force and that is leased to another whose property is not exempt and (ii) private, nonexempt property that the U.S. Air Force leases through its Housing Allowance Program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Medical Care Savings Account Act of 2000. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning programs established under a prior Act.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides for the establishment of a pilot program at a Department of Corrections facility built on or after January 1, 2006 in which the inmates shall be prohibited from possessing cigarettes and other tobacco products. Also provides that the Director of Corrections may prohibit the inmates of Department facilities built before January 1, 2006 from possessing cigarettes and other tobacco products as the Director deems appropriate.
Creates the Home Construction and Repair Fraud Act. Contains a short title provision only.
Amends the Radon Industry Licensing Act. Changes references in the Act from the "Department of Nuclear Safety" to the "Illinois Emergency Management Agency". Changes certain license and reporting requirements under the Act. Provides that it is grounds for disciplinary action against a licensee to fail to pay child support orders. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly loiter on a public way within 1,000 (rather than 500) feet of a school building or real property comprising any school while persons under the age of 18 are present in the building or on the grounds, unless the offender is a parent or guardian of a student present in the building or on the grounds or has permission to be present from the superintendent or the school board or in the case of a private school from the principal. Provides that it is unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly reside within 1,000 (rather than 500) feet of a school building or real property comprising any school that persons under the age of 18 attend. Permits a child sex offender to reside at least 500 feet to within 1,000 feet of a school building or the real property comprising any school that persons under 18 attend if the property is owned by the child sex offender and was purchased before the effective date of this amendatory Act.
Creates only the short title Section for the Design-Build Act.
Amends the Construction Contract Indemnification for Negligence Act. Provides that, in contracts or agreements for the listed types of construction, alteration, repair, or maintenance, any covenant, promise, or agreement to procure an insurance policy to indemnify or hold harmless another person from that person's own negligence is void as against public policy and wholly unenforceable. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nutrition Outreach and Public Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
