Congratulates the residents of Schorsch Village on the Diamond Anniversary of the Schorsch Village Improvement Association.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that a motor vehicle accident prevention course that consists of less than the required 8 hours of classroom instruction may apply to the Secretary of State for a waiver of the hour requirement.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the retirement formula for sheriff's law enforcement employees (SLEPs) to 2.5% of the final rate of earnings for each year of SLEP service. Increases the maximum pension payable to a SLEP from 75% to 80% of the final rate of earnings. Removes the 2-year service requirement for earning new benefits after a return to service as a SLEP. Makes these changes apply to persons in service on or after July 1, 2004. Also increases the additional employee contribution paid by SLEPs to 2.5% of salary. Eliminates the reduction in benefit imposed on a surviving spouse who is more than 5 years younger than the deceased member, for the surviving spouse of any member who dies on or after the effective date. Allows a SLEP to convert up to 10 years of non-SLEP service credit into SLEP credit by paying the difference in employee and employer contributions, plus interest. Makes the additional unfunded liability for all changes subject to a full 30-year amortization period. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that if a municipality has extended sewers or water mains, or both, to another body corporate and politic, the municipality cannot thereafter require the annexation of the property to the municipality as a prerequisite to the continuation and maintenance of such service. Effective immediately.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Architecture Practice Act of 1989. Defines "Architect, Retired". Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules concerning the issuance of the title and allows the Department to exempt from continuing education requirements retired architects who have been granted the title and who meet certain other requirements. Amends the Professional Engineering Practice Act. Defines "Professional Engineer, Retired". Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules concerning the issuance of the title and allows the Department to exempt from continuing education requirements retired professional engineers who have been granted the title and who meet certain other requirements. Amends the Professional Land Surveyor Act of 1989. Defines "Professional Land Surveyor, Retired". Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules concerning the issuance of the title and allows the Department to exempt from continuing education requirements retired professional land surveyors who have been granted the title and who meet certain other requirements. Amends the Structural Engineering Practice Act. Defines "Structural Engineer, Retired". Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to adopt rules concerning the issuance of the title and allows the Department to exempt from continuing education requirements retired structural engineers who have been granted the title and who meet certain other requirements. Effective January 1, 2006.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that the State's Attorney, or a person designated in writing or by law to act for the State's Attorney and to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or disability, may authorize, in writing, an ex parte application to the chief judge of a court of competent jurisdiction for an order authorizing the interception of a private communication (rather than a private oral communication) in specified cases. Effective immediately.
Amends the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail Technology Act of 1985. Changes all references to the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail Technology Committee to the Barber, Cosmetology, Esthetics, and Nail Technology Board. Removes licensed barbers and barber teachers from those persons allowed to hold themselves out as estheticians or esthetics teachers and engage in the practice of esthetics without being licensed as estheticians or esthetics teachers. Adds performing certain services upon the cranial prosthesis or cranial prosthetic attachment of any person to the definition of barbering and cosmetology. Sets forth qualifications for the licensure of barber clinic teachers. Prohibits cosmetologists, estheticians, and nail technicians from using any technique, product, or practice intended to affect the living layers of the skin (now, prohibits them from performing any procedure that may puncture or abrade the skin below the stratum corneum of the epidermis or remove closed milia which may draw blood or serous body fluid). Provides that in order for a person to be qualified to receive a license as a cosmetologist or nail technician, that person must be beyond the age of compulsory school attendance or have a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education or the recognized equivalent of that certificate (now, he or she must have graduated from an eighth grade elementary school). Provides that in order for a person to be qualified to receive a license as a cosmetology clinic teacher, esthetics clinic teacher, or nail technology clinic teacher that person must have (i) completed a clinic teacher program of a certain number of hours or (ii) within 5 years preceding the required examination, have a minimum of 2 years of practical experience working at least 30 full-time hours per week as a licensed member of the profession (now, requires the person to do both). Raises continuing education program sponsor application fees. Repeals Sections concerning pre-existing nail technology and nail technology teacher practitioners. Makes other changes.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal of the Collection Agency Act to January 1, 2016. Effective December 31, 2005.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Requires the Department of Public Health to develop and make available to physicians, other health care providers, members of the armed services, and other persons subject to an increased risk of contracting Hepatitis C certain educational materials on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the disease. Makes changes to the statement of legislative purpose to recognize that members of the armed forces are at an increased risk of contracting the disease. Effective immediately.
