Amends the Property Tax Code. Re-enacts the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption. The exemption was created by Public Act 88-669, which has been held to be unconstitutional as a violation of the single subject clause of the Illinois Constitution. Includes validation provisions. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Officer Manuel F. Acevedo on the occasion of his retirement from the Chicago Police Department.
Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Provides that the Authority may not have outstanding at any one time bonds for any of its corporate purposes in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $29,000,000,000 (now, $23,000,000,000). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides Medicaid eligibility for persons who meet income and asset guidelines, have a pending application for asylum with the federal Department of Homeland Security or are receiving services through a federally funded torture treatment center, and can demonstrate that they are seeking treatment for trauma resulting from torture in their countries of origin. Provides for Medicaid coverage of such persons for up to 2 years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Teacher Certification Article of the School Code. With respect to an early childhood certificate, provides that the student teaching portion of the practical experience requirement may involve supervised work with children under 6 years of age or with children in kindergarten through grade 3 or both. Provides that persons who have been employed for at least one year in their current early childhood program in a public or private school or a community-based entity, including paraprofessionals enrolled in teacher preparation programs, may be paid and receive credit while student teaching with their current employer, provided that their student teaching experience meets the requirements of their teacher preparation program.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a consumer who has been the victim of identity theft may place a security freeze on his or her credit report by making a request in writing by certified mail to a consumer credit reporting agency with a valid copy of a police report, investigative report, or complaint that the consumer has filed with a law enforcement agency about unlawful use of his or her personal information by another person. Requires a credit reporting agency to place a security freeze on a consumer's credit report no later than 5 business days after receiving a written request from the consumer. Provides that if the consumer wishes to allow his or her credit report to be accessed for a specific party, parties, or period of time while a freeze is in place, he or she shall contact the consumer credit reporting agency, request that the freeze be temporarily lifted, and provide certain information. Provides that if a security freeze is in place, a credit reporting agency shall not change any of the following official information in a credit report without sending a written confirmation of the change to the consumer within 30 days of the change being posted to the consumer's file: (i) name; (ii) date of birth; (iii) Social Security number; and (iv) address. Provides that certain entities are not required to place a security freeze in a credit report provided certain conditions are met. Defines "proper identification".
Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and policy of the Act.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that it is an unlawful practice for a person to advertise, represent or imply that any person can earn money working at home by stuffing envelopes, addressing envelopes, mailing circulars, clipping newspaper and magazine articles, assembling products, bill processing, or performing similar work, unless the person making the advertisement or representation meets all of the listed conditions. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act and the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Makes changes concerning the breakfast incentive program, the report the State Board of Education provides to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning school breakfast and lunch programs, surveys to identify parental interest in school breakfast programs and the barriers to establishing school breakfast programs, the requirement that a school district establish a school breakfast program for certain schools, and opting out of the school breakfast program requirement. Effective immediately.
