Amends the School Code to require all public high schools to offer to their students at least one advanced placement course in mathematics and one advanced placement course in English. Effective July 1, 2006.
Congratulates Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on being the first elected female president on the African continent.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Eliminates the provisions that permit a person to acquire and possess a stun gun or taser if he or she has in his or her possession a Firearm Owner's Identification Card previously issued in his or her name by the Department of State Police. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the sale, manufacture, purchase, possession, or use of stun guns and tasers. Establishes penalties. Provides that these provisions shall not be construed to permit the sale, possession, carrying, or use of a stun gun or taser by a peace officer.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Requires a person or entity that offers to a consumer 0% interest financing on a purchase, for a specified period of time, to disclose to that consumer on his or her monthly billing statement the following: (1) the principal owed; (2) the total interest owed; (3) the amount of time at which interest will not accrue; and (4) that if the total amount owed is not paid off in its entirety during the specified period of time, finance charges will be assessed from the date of purchase. Provides that a person that violates this provision commits an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
Amends the School Code to make changes concerning the waiver or modification of mandates within the School Code and rules. Provides that the General Assembly may disapprove the State Board of Education report filed before each October 1 outlining requests for mandate waivers within 30 days (rather than 60 days) after each house of the General Assembly next convenes after the report is filed. Provides that if the General Assembly fails to act upon (now, disapprove) any waiver request within the applicable time period, the waiver shall be deemed disapproved (now, granted). Beginning with the report filed by the State Board before March 1, 2007 and for each report filed by the State Board in each odd-numbered year thereafter, requires that the resolution be introduced in the House of Representatives. Beginning with the report filed by the State Board before March 1, 2008 and for each report filed by the State Board in each even-numbered year thereafter, requires that the resolution be introduced in the Senate. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Charlie B. Ragland, Sr., of Memphis, Tennessee.
Congratulates Sammie Lee and Rochelle Young on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good conduct shall also provide that an additional 60 days of good conduct credit shall be awarded to any prisoner who earns a high school diploma or passes the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receives a GED certificate while the prisoner is incarcerated. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall develop and establish a program designed to increase the number of committed persons enrolled in programs to obtain a high school diploma or to pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates by at least 100% over the 4-year period following the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that pursuant to the program, each institution and facility shall report annually to the Director of Corrections on the number of committed persons enrolled in high school education programs and those who pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates, and the number of committed persons who are on waiting lists for those educational programs. Effective immediately.
