Amends the State Employee Article of the Pension Code to remove the Social Security offset against widow and survivor annuities for all annuitants, beginning January 1, 2004. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that the penalty imposed for underpayment of any tax due after December 31, 2003 shall be deemed assessed upon the assessment of the tax to which the penalty relates and shall be collected and paid on notice and demand in the same manner as the tax, except that, in the case of an underpayment of tax penalty that is imposed only after the expiration of the 30-day period allowed under the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, the penalty shall be deemed assessed upon expiration of that 30-day period. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Employees Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a person may establish credit for certain military service without paying the cost of employer contributions if application is made before July 1, 2004. Effective immediately.
Amends the Uniform Commercial Code. In provisions concerning checks or other drafts not honored due to insufficient funds or credit, provides for a $5 fee if the insufficiency is less than $200.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that if a person who is or has been hospitalized for at least 10 days notifies a creditor or debt collector of the hospitalization, the creditor or debt collector shall grant the person a grace period for the making of payments of consumer debts beginning on the date the hospitalization began and ending 15 days after the patient is no longer hospitalized. Prohibits a creditor or debt collector from taking specified actions against the person during the grace period. Provides that, if the creditor or debt collector is given notice by the person after the person is discharged, the creditor or debt collector shall reverse any adverse action already taken against the person during the grace period. Violation is an unlawful practice within the meaning of this Act.
Amends the Chicago Firefighter and Municipal Employee Articles of the Illinois Pension Code to require the Chicago municipal pension fund to transfer to the Chicago firefighter pension fund certain city contributions relating to paramedics. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago police.
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to the alternative (State Police) formula.
Amends the School Code. Provides for the detachment of a contiguous portion of an elementary school district from that district and its annexation to an adjoining elementary school district to which the portion is also contiguous and the detachment of a contiguous portion of a high school district from that district and its annexation to an adjoining school district to which the portion is also contiguous, upon the filing of a petition, if certain conditions are met with respect to the petition. Requires student teachers assigned to a school district to authorize a criminal background investigation. Provides that upon receipt of this authorization, the school district shall submit the student teacher's personal information to the Department of State Police, who shall conduct the investigation. Prohibits a school board from knowingly allowing a person to student teach who has been convicted for a specified offense or for whom a criminal background investigation has not been initiated. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "year".
