Rep. Dan Reitz

Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning the definition of "telecommunications carrier".

Amends the Election Code and the School Code. Provides for a State Board of Education consisting of 7 members elected on a nonpartisan basis at the general election in 2004 and every 6 years thereafter (now, the Board consists of 9 members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate). Provides that 3 members shall be elected from the First Judicial District (one of whom shall be a resident of the City of Chicago and 2 of whom shall be residents of that part of the First Judicial District that lies outside the city limits of Chicago), one member shall be elected from each of the 4 other judicial districts, and 2 members shall be elected as members-at-large. Terminates the term of each member of the Board who is in office on January 1, 2005 when all of the new elected members take office. Provides that when the new elected members take office and every 2 years thereafter, one member of the Board shall be elected by the members of the Board to serve as chairperson (now, the chairperson is selected by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate). Makes other related changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Fertilizer Act of 1961. Makes a technical change concerning publications.

Amends the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources under the Act.

Congratulates Judge Jerry Flynn of Red Bud, Resident Circuit Judge in Randolph County, on his retirement.

Mourns the death in Iraq of U.S. Marine Corporal Matthew Wyatt of Millstadt.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Public Aid may not establish any formulary limits on, or restrict by any prior authorization requirement, any insulin prescription drug as prescribed and determined to be medically necessary for the treatment of diabetes. Effective July 1, 2004.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall be subject to specified provisions of the Act with respect to such sales. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall not subsidize such sales through the utility's regulated business. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall not discriminate in the provision of regulated gas service based upon the existence or terms of an unregulated sale of natural gas. Provides that the Commission may require a gas utility to file reports regarding its unregulated sales of natural gas in the State and shall have access to, for the purpose of review, a gas utility's contracts for unregulated sales of natural gas. Effective immediately.