Rep. Joseph M. Lyons

Congratulates Dan and Marilyn Ricci of Schaumburg on their 50th wedding anniversary.

Congratulates Mal Hildebrand on his retirement as Acting Director of the Office of the Capitol Architect after 36 years of service to the State of Illinois.

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

Congratulates Mary A. Haynes on her retirement from the Chicago Police Department.

Mourns the death of Robert Augusta Avino of Elk Grove Village.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Recreational Use of Land and Water Areas Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to any individual or, on state-owned or managed lands and waters, members of the public (rather than to the public) for recreational or conservation purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes. Provides that residential buildings are not included in the definition of "land". Changes the definition of "recreational or conservation purpose" to include hunting, hiking, recreational shooting, operation of an off-highway vehicle, rock climbing, trapping, horseback riding of an entrant's own horse or horses, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, water or snow skiing, sledding, and snowmobiling. Effective immediately.

Creates the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to engage in the manufacture of methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated manufacture of methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver methamphetamine precursors or a substance containing methamphetamine precursors with the intent that they or it be used to manufacture methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to engage in the possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to possess methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to dispose of methamphetamine manufacturing waste. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to deliver or possess with intent to deliver methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver anhydrous ammonia in an unauthorized container. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Repeals the provision prohibiting tampering with anhydrous ammonia equipment, containers, and facilities. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Eliminates from the Act provisions relating to the illegal manufacture, delivery, and possession of methamphetamine and relating to the possession of methamphetamine manufacturing chemicals. Effective 30 days after becoming law.

Amends Illinois Vehicle Code provisions regarding hearings before the Illinois Commerce Commission. Provides that, in any case involving the licensing of a motor carrier of passengers, if an airport is a point to be served by that carrier, notice of an application for a license or transfer of a license must be served on the corporation counsel or chief legal officer of any municipality or other political subdivision operating the airport and on the agent for service of process in Illinois of any motor carrier possessing a license authorizing all or part of the service for which the license is sought. Provides that the municipality or other political subdivision operating the airport has standing to participate in the hearing on issuance or transfer of the license.

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Authorizes the Department of State Police to furnish to a peace officer certain information pertaining to the identification of any person for the purpose of determining whether that person may be granted or denied access to municipal utility facilities. Amends the Illinois Municipal Code to create a new Division concerning terrorism prevention. Authorizes the appropriate agency of a municipality to promulgate rules for the exclusion of any person from all or a portion of any water treatment facility, water pumping station, electrical transfer station, electrical generation facility, natural gas facility, or any other utility facility owned or operated by the municipality, based on criminal conviction information about that person obtained under the Criminal Identification Act. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to require all electric public utilities to establish a security policy that includes on-site safeguards to restrict physical or electronic access to critical infrastructure and computerized control and data systems by personnel employed by or under contract with the electric public utility company or by personnel of any entity regulated by the Commission that supplies power to wholesale or residential markets. Requires the Commission to maintain a record of and requires each regulated entity that supplies power to wholesale or residential markets to provide to the Commission an annual affidavit signed by a representative of the regulated entity that states that the entity follows, at a minimum, the most current security guidelines set forth by the North American Energy Reliability Council.