Appropriates $40,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Transportation for grants to the Village of Alorton for street repair and construction. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Provides that an Applicant may qualify for tax credits if the Applicant has 100 or fewer employees and is located or will locate in a county for which the annual unemployment rate was at least 1% higher than the average annual statewide unemployment rate during the most recent year for which those statistics are available from the Department of Employment Security, the project will involve an investment of at least $500,000 in capital improvements to be placed in service, and the project will employ at least 2 New Employees within the State as a direct result of the project. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $3,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to Southern Illinois University for renovation of the Boardview Hotel building for a hospitality training center. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Provides that the Secretary of State may establish a First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Provides that the Secretary may offer, to each applicant for reissuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 18 or older, the opportunity to have his or her name included on the registry. Provides that the Secretary must advise the person that he or she is under no compulsion to have his or her name included. Establishes additional procedures for creating the registry. Provides that the Secretary must continue, until the registry has been established, to provide, on the reverse side of each driver's license issued, a format that the licensee may use to execute an anatomical gift. Provides that a person may make an anatomical gift by consenting to having his or her name included in the registry. Provides that in the absence of gross negligence, willful misconduct, the Secretary of State and his or her employees are immune from criminal or civil liability in connection with a person's consent to be listed in the registry.
Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs Act and the State Finance Act. Creates the O'Fallon Veterans' Memorial Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that, from appropriations from the Fund, the Department of Veterans Affairs must make grants to the City of O'Fallon for the purpose of constructing a veterans' memorial. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to create a tax checkoff for the Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. In a provision concerning eligibility for grants under the Act, increases the household income eligibility limitations for grant year 2006, and provides that, for grant years 2007 and thereafter, the limitations shall be increased annually by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the previous calendar year. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $800,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for a grant to the City of East St. Louis to complete construction of 174 new housing units. Effective July 1, 2005.
Appropriates $700,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Environmental Protection Agency for grants to Madison County for extension of water and sewer services to Eagle Park Acres. Effective July 1, 2005.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Environmental Protection Agency for grants to the Village of Washington Park for sewer repair and construction. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes technical changes in a Section regarding driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds.
