Supports the goals of the Illinois Primary Health Care Association's ACCESS ILLINOIS plan.
Rep. Lisa Hernandez
Sponsored bills
Designates the month of February 2009 as "Library Lovers Month" in the State of Illinois.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Includes disabled persons within the provisions granting an assessment freeze homestead exemption to senior citizens. Changes the name to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption (now Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption). Makes corresponding changes to a cross-reference to the exemption. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Budget Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change concerning submission of the State budget.
Honors the life and legacy of farm workers' leader Cesar Estrada Chavez.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that dental services authorized under the medical assistance program include preventive, diagnostic, or corrective procedures. Provides that dental services provided to persons who are participating in education, training, or employment programs operated by the Department of Human Services must be provided by an individual licensed to practice dentistry or dental surgery; also provides that such "dental services" mean diagnostic, preventive, or corrective procedures provided by or under the supervision of a dentist in the practice of his or her profession (eliminates a reference to prosthodontics).
Creates the Joint Committee on Government Reform to stand ready to work with the Governor and others to restore integrity to State government.
Amends the State Finance Act. Creates a non-appropriated Fund, the Minority Film Support Fund, to be administered by the State Treasurer to help collateralize loans from financial institutions to minority film makers producing films or building or maintaining minority film and television studios when the institution's credit standards would not otherwise be met.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sexual exploitation of children.
Declares May of each year as Lupus Awareness Month in the State of Illinois.