Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that any judge, circuit clerk or clerk of court, public official or employee, court reporter, or other person who knowingly and without lawful authority falsifies any public record received or held by any judge or by a clerk of any court commits a Class 3 felony. Effective immediately.
Urges the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to consider whether a surety program should be administered to provide a financial guarantee to bonding companies for projects conducted by minority-owned and women-owned small businesses. Urges the Department of Insurance to find ways to help identify and encourage bond companies to participate in a program for minority-owned and women-owned small business construction firms. Urges the Department of Transportation and the Capital Development Board to review their bonding requirements for minority-owned and women-owned small business participants in light of the number of defaults by those companies over the last 5 years to determine whether their requirements are more stringent than necessary. Urges the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Department of Insurance, the Department of Transportation, and the Capital Development Board to report to the General Assembly with recommendations to reform bonding requirements for minority-owned and women-owned small business firms in public construction projects.
Amends the Military Leave of Absence Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a State employee's leave of absence for active military service.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if property is owned by the State, a unit of local government, or a school district and that property is leased to the State, a unit of local government, or a school district, then the property and the leasehold interest are exempt from taxation under the Property Tax Code or under any other law. Further provides that property of schools that is leased to the State, a unit of local government, or a school district (now, only leases to a municipality) for governmental purposes on a not-for-profit basis is exempt and that the leasehold interest is not taxable. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Provides that the changes made by the amendatory Act apply to taxable years 2010 and thereafter. Provides that the changes also apply to taxable years prior to 2010, but no payments of any such taxes need be refunded. Effective immediately.
Creates the Redistricting Act of 2011. Contains only a short title provision.
Creates the Redistricting Act of 2011. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Executive Inspector General for the Comptroller for its FY12 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Business Location Efficiency Incentive Act. Provides for the continuation, validation, and re-enactment of the Act, which was inadvertently repealed on December 31, 2011. Effective immediately.
