Rep. Elizabeth Coulson

Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. Provides for a one-time increase in the household income eligibility limits for property tax relief grants and pharmaceutical assistance to take into account cost-of-living increases designated under the Social Security Act for 2005, 2006, and 2007. Provides for annual increases thereafter in an amount equal to the amount of the annual cost-of-living increase designated under the Social Security Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Board of Environmental Health Practitioners.

Amends the Section of the School Code concerning district residency. Makes a change to a provision defining legal custody with respect to an adult who demonstrates that he or she has assumed and exercises legal responsibility for the pupil. Provides that a school district must require an adult claiming this type of custody to complete and sign an Attestation of Enrollment and Residency. Provides that a person who establishes custody is authorized and agrees to act in the place of the parent of the pupil with respect to the pupil's education decisions and to be the person the school contacts for certain reasons. Provides that once custody is established, a school district shall make a reasonable attempt to communicate with the pupil's parents. Provides that a hearing regarding residency must be conducted by a hearing officer appointed by the regional superintendent of schools or, in Chicago, the State Superintendent of Education (now, the school board or a hearing officer designated by the board conducts the hearing); makes related changes. Provides that a decision of the school board may be appealed to the State Superintendent of Education (now, the board's decision is final); makes related changes. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Nursing and Advanced Practice Nursing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning social security numbers on license applications.

Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Resolves that the State Superintendent of Education issue a policy statement clarifying a Section of the School Code concerning legal custody.

Amends the Funeral Directors and Embalmers Licensing Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative intent.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax credit, for taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2007 and on or before December 30, 2012, for individual taxpayers who, during the taxable year, pay costs for an eligible child to enroll in a qualified physical-fitness program. Provides that the credit is an amount equal to the lesser of (i) the total costs of all qualified physical-fitness programs paid in the taxable year for all eligible children of the taxpayer or (ii) $500. Provides that the credit may not be carried forward or back and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Sets forth requirements for qualified physical-fitness programs. Requires the Department of Revenue, in consultation with the Department of Public Health and the State Board of Education, to adopt rules for the administration of the credit. Effective immediately.

Appropriates the sum of $250,000, or so much of that amount as may be necessary, from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for costs associated with the Children's Environmental Health Officer Act. Effective July 1, 2008.

Amends the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Practice Act of 2004. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.