Rep. Joseph M. Lyons

Creates the Community Senior Services and Resources Act and amends the State Finance Act. Provides for grants to be awarded by the Department on Aging to local community senior services and resource centers. Provides for a Community Senior Services and Resource Center Advisory Committee, with 12 voting members appointed by the Governor, to advise the Department on Aging on the administration of the Act. Creates the Community Senior Services and Resources Fund as a special fund in the State treasury, to be used by the Department on Aging for grant awards and for administering the Community Senior Services and Resources Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning notices of cancellation.

Creates the Hospital Report Card Act. Provides requirements for staffing levels. Requires hospitals to prepare a quarterly report detailing specified information as a condition of licensure. Requires the Department of Public Health to submit a report summarizing the quarterly reports by region to the General Assembly and publish that report on its website. Provides protection for whistleblowers. Provides a private right of action to whistleblowers against their employers. Provides penalties for violations of the Act. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Provides that violations of the Hospital Report Card Act are grounds for discipline under the Act.

Amends the Mortgage Certificate of Release Act. Changes the sunset date of the Act to 2006 (from 2004). Effective immediately.

Amends the Life Care Facilities Act and the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that the facilities licensed under the Acts must document evidence of vaccination for influenza and pneumococcal disease for each resident age 60 and over, unless the vaccination is medically contraindicated or the resident has refused the vaccination. Effective immediately.

Amends the Consumer Installment Loan Act. Increases the amount that an obligor may owe to a licensee under the Act from $25,000 to $40,000.

Amends the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985 and the Savings Bank Act. Makes provisions for the disclosure of information by the Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate in connection with examinations of savings banks and savings and loan associations. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention Act. Extends the repeal date from January 1, 2004, to January 1, 2008. Effective immediately.

Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act. Provides that a requirement for licensure is substantial compliance with provisions of the Act concerning Alzheimer and dementia programs. Provides that Alzheimer and dementia programs must comply with all of the provisions of the Act (rather than just the provisions specifically dealing with Alzheimer and dementia programs). Provides that no public official, agent, or employee may place the name of an unlicensed establishment on a list of programs in a geographic area. Provides that an establishment may request a floating license for any number of individual living units within the building within which a resident may receive mandatory and optional services under the establishment's license. Provides that an establishment with a floating license must keep a current written list of all individual living units designated under the floating license. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that any person who rents a motor vehicle to another must advertise, quote, and charge a rental rate that includes the entire amount, including (rather than except) taxes and any mileage charge that the renter must pay.