Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes a provision that requires a sex education course that discusses sexual intercourse to have course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Provides instead that the Comprehensive Health Education Program must provide course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Creates the offense of methamphetamine trafficking. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, into this State anhydrous ammonia or a methamphetamine precursor for the purpose of manufacture or delivery or with the intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine that is not authorized by the Act. Provides that a person convicted of the offense shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than twice the minimum term and not more than twice the maximum term of imprisonment based upon the amount of methamphetamine or methamphetamine precursor or anhydrous ammonia brought or caused to be brought into this State. Effective immediately.
Creates the Methamphetamine Manufacturer Registry Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database for the purpose of identifying methamphetamine manufacturers and making that information available to law enforcement and the general public. Provides that the Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Methamphetamine Manufacturer Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. Provides that the Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. Provides that the Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement these provisions and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate, and that the information in the database reflects any changes based on the reversal of a conviction for an offense requiring inclusion in the Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database, or a court order requiring the sealing or expungement of records relating to the offense. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that processing sites or facilities that receive only on-specification used oil originating from used oil collectors for processing to produce products for sale to off-site petroleum facilities are not pollution control facilities under the Environmental Protection Act if these sites or facilities are: (i) located within a home rule unit of local government with a population of at least 30,000 according to the 2000 census, that home rule unit of local government has been designated as an Urban Round II Empowerment Zone by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and that home rule unit of local government has enacted an ordinance approving the location of the site or facility and provided funding for the site or facility; and (ii) in compliance with all applicable zoning requirements. Effective immediately.
Amends the Use Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Illinois State Diabetes Commission Act. Establishes the Illinois State Diabetes Commission. Sets forth term lengths of members and provides that members shall be reimbursed only for reasonable and necessary expenses. Requires the Department of Public Health to provide administrative support for the Commission. Sets forth duties of the Commission. Permits the Department to accept on behalf of the Commission any federal funds or gifts and donations from individuals, private organizations, and foundations. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2010. Effective November 1, 2006.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 relating to the offense of criminal sexual assault. Provides that a person also commits the offense when he or she commits an act of sexual penetration with a victim who was under 19 years of age and who is enrolled in high school when the act was committed and the accused was 17 years of age or older and held a position of trust, authority, or supervision in relation to the victim at the same high school. Effective immediately.
Creates the Task Force on Taser Gun Use to study the uses and misuse of Taser guns by law enforcement and correctional officers and to make recommendations to the House on suggested legislation concerning the use or restrictions on use of Taser guns by law enforcement and correctional officers and such other recommendations concerning Taser guns as the Task Force deems appropriate.
Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. Provides that beginning July 1, 2005, owners of vehicles using domestic renewable fuel are eligible to apply for a fuel cost differential rebate. Provides that biodiesel blended fuel facilities may be included in the Alternate Fuel Infrastructure Program administered by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Provides that "alternate fuel" includes, among other fuels, "80% bio-based methanol" (instead of "bio-based methanol"), fuels that are 80% (instead of 70%) derived from biomass, and hydrogen fuel. Provides that "domestic renewable fuel" includes, among other fuels, "80% bio-based methanol" (instead of "bio-based methanol") and 20% biodiesel fuel (instead of "fuels derived from bio mass"). Makes other changes. Effective immediately.