Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Makes certain highway instruction supervisors, sign hangers, and silkscreen operators employed by the Department of Transportation eligible for the alternative (State Police) formula. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that kidnaping, assault, battery, robbery, arson, or unlawful use of weapons committed by a gang member is enhanced to an aggravated kidnaping, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, aggravated robbery, aggravated arson, or aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Authorizes the use of electronic monitoring devices in a resident's room provided that specified conditions are met. Provides who may authorize the use of the monitoring devices. Provides for the reporting of abuse and neglect discovered via the electronic monitoring of the resident's room. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that certain specified federal officers shall be considered peace officers under the Code (rather than for the purpose of the unlawful use of weapons statutes, for the purpose of assisting an Illinois peace officer in an arrest, or when the commission of a felony under Illinois law is directly observed by the person). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Non-Support Punishment Act, the Income Withholding for Support Act, and the Illinois Parentage Act of 1984. Provides that if there is an unpaid arrearage or delinquency equal to at least one month's support obligation on the termination date stated in the order for support or, if there is no termination date stated in the order, on the date the child attains the age of majority or is otherwise emancipated, then the periodic amount required to be paid for current support of that child immediately prior to that date shall automatically continue to be an obligation, not as current support but as periodic payment toward satisfaction of the unpaid arrearage or delinquency. Provides that the periodic payment shall be in addition to any periodic payment previously required for satisfaction of the arrearage or delinquency. Provides that each order for support entered or modified on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act must contain a statement notifying the parties of these requirements. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Public Aid may not establish any formulary limits on, or restrict by any prior authorization requirement, any insulin prescription drug as prescribed and determined to be medically necessary for the treatment of diabetes. Effective July 1, 2004.
Creates the Public Service Accountability Act. Sets out the requirements for privatization contracts between contractors and State agencies. Provides for the monitoring and enforcement of privatization contracts. Establishes fines and prison sentences for a violation of certain Sections of the Act. Effective immediately.
Creates the Comprehensive Housing, Health, and Supportive Services for Older Adults Act and amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, the State Finance Act, and the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires the Director of Public Health, in coordination with the Director of Aging and the Director of Public Aid, to monitor and analyze the distribution of housing and services for older adults in the different geographic areas of the State and implement corrective action plans by July 1, 2005. Provides for a program for conversion of nursing homes to assisted living or shared housing establishments; makes such conversions exempt from the requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, and provides for transition planning grants to nursing homes making such conversions. Creates special funds in the State treasury for use in implementing the Comprehensive Housing, Health, and Supportive Services for Older Adults Act. Provides for transfers from the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund to the new Nursing Home Conversion Fund and the new Nursing Home Transition Planning Grant Fund. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the president of a village or incorporated town.
Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Makes a technical change to the penalty Section.
