Rep. Harry Osterman

Mourns the death of Mike Herbert of Chicago.

Creates the Fish and Shellfish Advisory Act. Requires commercial food markets selling fish and shellfish and employing more than 10 persons to post a warning concerning the dangers of mercury in fish and shellfish and recommendations to reduce exposure to mercury. Requires local health departments to inspect commercial food markets and report violations of the Act to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Requires the Department to impose an administrative fine for violations and to distribute the administrative fine to the local health department notifying the Department of the violation and the Autism Research Checkoff Fund. Requires the Department to adopt rules. Effective July 1, 2006.

Congratulates Bernice Perkins on the occasion of her retirement from her position at the Organization of the NorthEast (ONE).

Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.

Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.

Mourns the death of William A. Norkett of Chicago.

Mourns the death of Constantino "Gus" Travlos of Chicago.

Creates the Home Care Consumer and Worker Protection Act. If an agency places a home care worker with a consumer to provide home care services, requires the agency to give the worker and the consumer a notice setting forth the rights and responsibilities of each of them as well as appropriate phone numbers and addresses of the Department on Aging. Provides that the Act does not apply to nursing homes, home health agencies, and certain other agencies. Provides that an agency subject to the Act must comply with the Health Care Worker Background Check Act and must ensure that every home care worker placed by the agency for hire by a consumer has the appropriate credentials and is appropriately licensed or certified as required by law. Authorizes the Department on Aging to investigate complaints of violations of the Act, issue cease-and-desist orders, and seek injunctive relief. Provides for a civil penalty of $1,000 per day for each day that a violation continues. Effective January 1, 2006.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that an order of protection may also be issued when the alleged offender and victim are family or household members and the alleged violation is unlawful restraint, aggravated unlawful restraint, child pornography, domestic battery, aggravated battery of a senior citizen, interfering with reporting of domestic violence, stalking, aggravated stalking, cyberstalking, criminal trespass to a residence, criminal damage to property, criminal trespass to a vehicle, criminal trespass to real property, disorderly conduct, or harassment by telephone.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code and the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Requires coverage of mammograms for women under 40 years of age with a family history of breast cancer or other risk factors at the age and intervals deemed medically necessary by the woman's health care provider. Effective immediately.