Mourns the death of Rosa Parks.
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Mourns the death of Dr. Mary Elizabeth Henderson Wright.
Mourns the death of Jacqueline Deline Skinner.
Mourns the death of John H. Johnson, of Chicago, founder of Ebony magazine.
Congratulates Carol Conway, a Morgan Park High School teacher, on her retirement.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax checkoff for the Illinois Brain Tumor Research Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund. Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, from appropriations to the Department from the Fund, the Department shall make grants to the American Brain Tumor Association for the purpose of research dedicated to the elimination of brain tumors. Effective immediately.
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning who may be adopted.
Amends the School Code. Under the K-3 class size reduction grant program, provides that if a school board determines that a school is using funds awarded under the program for purposes not authorized by the program, then the school board, rather than the school, shall determine how the funds are used.
Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In the provisions concerning elections to the Board of Trustees of the Fund, provides that administrators may not vote for members who are not principals and provides that every member who is a principal or an administrator may vote at the election for one candidate who is a contributor who is a principal. Defines the term "administrator". Effective immediately.
Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Provides that the definition of "pecuniary loss" includes the first month's rent and security deposit of the dwelling that the claimant relocated to and other reasonable relocation expenses incurred as a result of the violent crime.