Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the provisions of Public Act 95-983 that a person serving a mandatory supervised release term, probation, or supervision for an offense that would qualify the offender as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act committed on or after the effective date of that amendatory Act, may be required: (1) not access or use a computer or any other device with Internet capability without the prior written approval of specified officials; (2) submit to periodic unannounced examinations of the offender's computer or any other device with Internet capability by certain specified officials; (3) submit to the installation on the offender's computer or device with Internet capability, at the offender's expense, of one or more hardware or software systems to monitor the Internet use; and (4) submit to any other appropriate restrictions concerning the offender's use of or access to a computer or any other device with Internet capability is mandatory where the trier of fact at the offender's trial made a finding that a computer or any other device with Internet capability was used to facilitate the commission of the offense (rather than mandatory for certain sex offenses). Effective June 1, 2009.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a unit of local government, including a home rule unit, may not regulate the transportation of firearms and may not regulate the transportation of ammunition, components, accessories, or accoutrements for firearms. Provides that the provisions of any ordinance or resolution adopted before, on, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act by any unit of local government that imposes restrictions or limitations on the transportation of firearms and ammunition, components, accessories, and accoutrements of firearms in a manner other than the requirements that are imposed by the Deadly Weapons Article of the Code are invalid and all those existing ordinances and resolutions are void. Provides that this provision is a limitation of home rule powers under subsection (h) of Section 6 of Article VII of the Illinois Constitution. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Residential Building Code Act. Defines "International Residential Code" as the 2006 International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings published by the International Code Council, without amendment or appendices (rather than the International Residential Code for One and Two Family Dwellings published by the International Code Council, as now or hereafter amended by the Council). Effective immediately.
Appropriates $14,443,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the purpose of providing formula funding to centers for independent living to provide core independent living services and other disability services in the State of Illinois. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, when assessing payment for any amount due for earnings increases in excess of 6%, the System shall exclude earnings increases as a result of a negotiated salary schedule. Effective immediately.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Congratulates Michael "Miki" Pavelonis on the occasion of her retirement after many years of service with the Illinois Comptroller's Office.
Congratulates Big John's Grocery Store on 25 years of business in the City of Eldorado.
