Rep. Will Davis

Creates the Identity Theft Notification Act. Requires any data collector that owns or uses personal information in any form that includes personal information concerning an Illinois resident, to disclose any breach of the security of the system following discovery or notification of the breach in the security of the data, without regard for whether the data has been accessed by an unauthorized third party for legal or illegal purposes. Provides that notice may be provided in one of the following ways: (1) written notice; (2) electronic notice; or (3) substitute notice if the person or business demonstrates that the cost of providing notice would exceed $250,000, or the affected class of persons to be notified exceeds 500,000, or the person or business does not have sufficient contact information. Provides a private right of action for a violation of the Act.

Amends the Illinois Funeral or Burial Funds Act. Provides that a separate completed contract shall be issued for cemetery merchandise, cemetery services, or undeveloped interment, entombment, or inurnment spaces, and not covered by this Act, unless certain conditions are met. Provides that licenses and license renewals shall be issued for a 5-year term. Provides requirements for license renewal and makes conforming changes in other provisions. Amends the Crematory Regulation Act and the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. Provides that licenses and license renewals shall be issued for a 5-year term. Provides requirements for license renewal and makes conforming changes in other provisions of the Acts. Adds additional contract requirements under the Illinois Pre-Need Cemetery Sales Act. Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that no person authorized by law to sell funeral services on an at need basis may also sell cemetery services, cemetery merchandise, or interment, inurnment, or entombment spaces on an at need basis, unless the person is also authorized by law to sell such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces and issues to the consumer a separate contract with the provider of such cemetery services, merchandise, or spaces. Provides requirements for completed contracts. Effective January 1, 2006.

Creates the Riverdale Development Authority for the purpose of facilitating and promoting the redevelopment of certain property. Sets forth the territorial boundaries of the Authority. Provides that the Authority shall be governed by a 5-member Board of Directors. Sets forth the powers and responsibilities of the Authority, including the power to acquire, own, lease, sell, and dispose of real property and the power to issue revenue bonds. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.

Creates the Blind Vendors Act. Provides that the Department of Human Services, Bureau of Blind Services, shall operate and promote the Business Enterprise Program for the Blind. Sets forth that the federal Randolph-Sheppard Act and the regulations adopted pursuant to that Act shall serve as the minimum standards for the operation of the Business Enterprise Program for the Blind. Provides that under the Program: (1) blind vendors have priority in the operation of all vending facilities on State property; (2) vending machine income from all vending machines on State property shall be assigned to the blind vendor on the property or to the Blind Vendors Trust Fund; (3) no State agency may impose any commission, service charge, rent, or utility charge on a blind vendor operating on State property; (4) sales made at a blind vendor's vending facility are exempt from all occupation and use taxes; and (5) State agencies may not allow competition with a blind vendor. Sets forth that the Bureau Director for the Bureau of the Blind and the Committee of Blind Vendors shall jointly develop regulations to ensure that priority is given to blind vendors in the operation of vending facilities on State property. Provides that the Department may provide for set-asides of the net proceeds of vending operations under certain conditions. Requires set-aside funds to be deposited in the Blind Vendors Trust Fund, a separate account managed by the Department for the State's blind vendors. Sets forth provisions for the distribution of vending machine income from vending machines on State property. Provides certain conditions for the licensing of blind vendors. Creates the Committee of Blind Vendors to jointly participate in the development and implementation of all policies, plans, and major decisions affecting the Business Enterprise Program for the Blind. Sets forth provisions for the composition of the Committee. Provides certain procedures for the resolution of disputes arising within the Program. Provides for the promulgation of regulations relating to the operation of this Act. Requires the Department to make regular surveys and reports on State property and vending facilities. Sets forth conditions and information to be contained in the surveys and reports. Preempts home rule powers. Repeals the Blind Persons Operating Vending Facilities Act. Amends the Use Tax Act, Service Use Tax Act, Service Occupation Tax Act, and Retailers' Occupation Tax Act to provide that personal property purchased from a blind vendor's vending facility licensed by the Department of Human Services under the Blind Vendors Act is exempt from the taxes imposed by those Acts and that these exemptions are not subject to the sunset provisions of those Acts.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Allows a tax credit of up to $2,000 for an individual taxpayer who pays the burial expenses for a fetus for which a fetal death certificate has been issued. Provides that the credit (i) may be taken by only one taxpayer with respect to any one fetal death, (ii) may not be carried forward or back, and (iii) may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Requires the Department of Revenue to adopt rules concerning the credit. Effective immediately.

Honors Louanner Peters on being the first African-American woman named as Deputy Governor of Illinois.

Honors retired Illinois State Representative Harold Murphy.

Amends the Employee Benefit Contribution Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the failure to make payments to an employee health insurance plan.

Mourns the death of Bishop Henrietta Casey of Dixmoor.

Congratulates Pastor Ferlander N. Lewis on his 20th anniversary with the New Mount Olive Baptist Church.