Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act. Provides that the eligibility standards for home health services and other preventive services must include an asset limit of $20,000.
Amends the medical assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning payments to hospitals for inpatient services, adds the following to the list of hospitals eligible for adjustment payments: any Illinois hospital located in a county with a population determined by the 1990 decennial census to be over 250,000 and under 300,000 that borders another state which is within 25 miles of at least 2 hospitals which receive disproportionate share payments under the Social Security Act and the medical assistance program.
Amends the Tri-City Regional Port District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section providing that a mayor may hold the office of Commissioner of the District.
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative findings.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a hotel tax imposed by municipalities of 500,000 or more population.
Appropriates $1 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs for tourism. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs for tourism. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a State's Attorney may create within his or her office a bad check diversion program for offenders who agree to voluntarily participate in the program instead of undergoing prosecution. Provides that the program may be conducted by the State's Attorney or by a private entity under contract with the State's Attorney. Provides that the bad check diversion program may require an offender to: (1) pay for, at his or her own expense, and successfully complete an educational class held by the State's Attorney or a private entity under contract with the State's Attorney; (2) make full restitution for the offense; (3) pay a per-check administrative fee. Provides that the State's Attorney, or private entity under contract with the State's Attorney, may recover, in addition to the face amount of the dishonored check or draft, a transaction fee to defray the costs and expenses incurred by a victim who received a dishonored check that was made or delivered by the offender. Provides that the transaction fee shall be paid to the victim as restitution for the offense. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning powers transferred to the Department.
