Recognizes certain rights of homeless persons, and creates a Task Force to study (i) ways in which the Department of Public Health could monitor and enforce those rights and (ii) ways in which the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity could address certain issues concerning housing.
Mourns the death of Myrtle Bernadine Gilliam Officer.
Congratulates Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas on the occasion of her retirement after 38 years as an educator.
Congratulates Eleanor Boyd Davis on the occasion of her retirement celebration on Saturday, May 16, 2004.
Congratulates Pastor Norman Owens and the Macedonia Baptist Church congregation on their new church in East St. Louis.
Mourns the death of Alzada Christian-Carr of East Saint Louis.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in the statute concerning first degree murder.
Creates the Illinois Commission on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Amends the School Code. In a Section concerning reimbursement for special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or State housing units, provides that if a child who was eligible to receive services under that Section is adopted and that child continues to receive support services from the Department of Children and Family Services, then the child shall continue to be eligible to receive services under that Section. Effective July 1, 2003.
Congratulates Varrie J. Middleton Nicholson on her retirement from Donald McHenry Elementary School in East St. Louis after many years of dedicated service.
