Amends the Health Care Worker Self-Referral Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited referrals and claims for payment.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Allows a credit against income tax for individual taxpayers who are 62 years of age or older in an amount equal to the aggregate amount that the taxpayer pays during the taxable year to qualify for Medicare Part D benefits under Title XVIII of the federal Social Security Act. Provides that the credit may not be carried forward or back and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Exempts the credit from the sunset provisions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the Department.
Amends the Professional Engineering Practice Act of 1989. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail Technology Act of 1985. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning qualifications for licensure as a cosmetologist by a barber school graduate.
Appropriates $5,000,000 to the Department of Public Health for a Pandemic Influenza Community Preparedness Grant Program. Effective July 1, 2006.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal date of the Medical Practice Act of 1987 from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2017. Effective immediately.
Congratulates the McCracken Middle School Symphonic Band in Skokie, Illinois, on being invited to present a concert at the 2006 "60th Anniversary" Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that any person 61 years of age or older applying at a driver services facility for renewal of his or her driver's license shall be provided, without charge, with a brochure warning the person of the dangers of financial identity theft. Provides that the Secretary of State shall prepare these brochures in consultation with the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Establishes requirements for the content of the brochures. Provides that the Secretary shall adopt rules for implementing the new provision.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires each electric utility to file, on or before February 1, 2006, a tariff or tariffs which allow residential retail customers in the electric utility's service area to elect real-time pricing beginning January 1, 2007. Sets forth information required to be included in the tariff. Requires an electric utility providing real-time pricing to install an appropriate meter for customers who elect to use real-time pricing and in all new service locations unless the customer requests a watt-hour meter. Requires the electric utility to contract with an Illinois nonprofit corporation to develop a program of consumer outreach, education, and enrollment concerning real-time pricing and to establish and administer information and technical and customer assistance for management of electricity use. Authorizes the electric utility to impose a uniform charge on all residential customers in order to recover its reasonable costs in complying with the real-time pricing provisions. Defines "real-time pricing" to mean tariffed retail charges for delivered electric power and energy that vary hour-to-hour (now, that vary on an hour-to-hour basis for non-residential retail customers and that vary on a periodic basis during the day for residential retail customers) and that are determined from prices posted by the Independent System Operator or by a comparable methodology approved by the Illinois Commerce Commission. Effective immediately.
