Rep. Dan Reitz

Amends the Condominium Advisory Council Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the administration of the Code.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Authorizes a credit to taxpayers in an amount equal to the expenditures by the taxpayer for radon testing and mitigation during the taxable year. Provides that the credit may not exceed $250 per building per year. Effective immediately.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Requires the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, without public notice, to provide permit applicants with an opportunity to review and comment on draft permits. Authorizes the Agency, without public notice, to modify draft permits. Requires the Agency, to the maximum extent possible, to issue general (rather than site-specific) air permits. Requires the Agency to expedite NPDES permit renewals if certain requirements are met. Authorizes the Illinois Pollution Control Board to adopt rules providing for the issuance of air permits by rule, if it deems that a class of facilities or equipment does not "make a significant contribution of air contaminants to the atmosphere". Requires the Agency to issue permits to the owners or operators of facilities or equipment meeting the requirements of the rules adopted by the Board. Requires the Agency to create common company identification numbers to be used agency-wide to refer to companies that do business in the State. Requires the Agency to create a permit streamlining unit.

Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Exempts the following from taxation under the Acts: materials, replacement parts, and equipment purchased for use directly upon or for the modification, replacement, repair, or maintenance of aircraft, aircraft power plants, or aircraft accessories. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that the State Treasurer may waive penalties imposed against a county treasurer for late payment under the Act on a case-by-case basis if the State Treasurer finds that imposing penalties would be unreasonable or unnecessarily burdensome because the delay in payment was due to an incident caused by the operation of an extraordinary force, including, but not limited to, the occurrence of a natural disaster, that cannot be foreseen, that cannot be avoided by the exercise of due care, and for which no person can be held liable. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall have the power to expunge any disciplinary offense of a licensee disciplined under any licensing Act that is administered by the Department if the offense is either administrative in nature or, for health care professionals, unrelated to patient care, including, but not limited to, the following: (A) failure to complete continuing education requirements, (B) failure to have any additional required license or certification, (C) failure to renew a license on time, (D) failure to report a practice location, or (E) other offenses prescribed by rule. Provides that a licensee may apply to the Department to have an offense expunged from his or her disciplinary record. Provides that an application for expungement shall only be considered by the Department if the application is submitted more than 3 years after the disciplinary offense was adjudicated and the licensee has not been previously or subsequently disciplined for a similar or more serious offense under the same Act. Provides that requests for expungement shall be submitted to and considered by the appropriate Board in accordance with the requirements that the Department shall set by rule.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the county clerk shall distribute any redemption payments, along with any accrued interest and penalties, to the holder of the certificate of purchase within 15 days after payment is received from the redeeming party. Provides that, if a redemption payment is made under protest, the county clerk shall distribute the redemption money within 15 days after the court order is entered. Excludes partial redemption payments and redemption payments that have been set aside by court order. Effective January 1, 2011.