Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie

Mourns the death of Donald L. Duster.

Honors J. Thomas Johnson for his distinguished career of service to the people of the State of Illinois.

Amends the Counties Code. Establishes a $1 per document recording fee for certain filers for any document that affects an interest in real property other than documents which solely affect or relate to an easement for water, sewer, electricity, gas, telephone, or other public service. Provides that $0.50 of the $1 fee shall be deposited into the Recorder's Automation Fund and may not be appropriated or expended for any other purpose. Provides that the additional amounts available to the recorder for expenditure from the Recorder's Automation Fund shall not offset or reduce any other county appropriations or funding for the office of the recorder. Establishes a similar $1 per document recording fee in counties exceeding 1,000,000 for certain filers for any document that affects an interest in real property other than documents which solely affect or relate to an easement for water, sewer, electricity, gas, telephone, or other public service. Provides that $0.50 of the $1 fee shall be deposited into the County Recorder Document Storage System Fund. Reduces the Rental Housing Support Program State surcharge for the recordation of any real estate-related document from $10 to $9. Amends the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Adds a legislative finding regarding the negative effects of unaffordable rental rates and persons who benefit from the Rental Housing Support Program including all individuals who record real estate related documents by helping to stabilize real estate values, rental property owners by subsidizing the portion of rent that many of their tenants are unable to pay, individuals who own real estate by providing an option for affordable rental housing should they one day face foreclosure, and tenants who participate in the program by providing them with rental assistance. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Susan Cayton Woodson of Chicago.

Congratulates Nancy Shier on her retirement as vice-president of Illinois Policy for the Ounce of Prevention Fund.

BE IT RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the two Houses shall convene in Joint Session on Wednesday, March 06, 2013 at the hour of 12:00 o'clock noon for the purpose of hearing his Excellency Governor Patrick J. Quinn present to the General Assembly his Budget Message for the Fiscal Year 2014, as required by Chapter 15, Section 20/50-5 of the Illinois Compiled Statutes.

Mourns the death of former Illinois Comptroller Dawn Clark Netsch.

Mourns the death of Supreme Court Justice Mary Ann McMorrow.

Amends the State Budget Law. Requires the Governor to submit a State budget not later than the first Wednesday in March in 2013 (March 6, 2013). Effective immediately.

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the House of Representatives adjourns on Wednesday, February 06, 2013, it stands adjourned until Tuesday, February 19, 2013 at 12:00 o'clock noon, and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 20, 2013, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until Thursday, February 21, 2013, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until Tuesday, February 26, 2013, or until the call of the Speaker; and when the Senate adjourns on Thursday, February 07, 2013, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 13, 2013, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until Thursday, February 14, 2013, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until Friday, February 15, 2013, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until February 21, 2013, in perfunctory session, and when it adjourns on that day it stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 27, 2013, or until the call of the President.