Rep. Mary Flowers

Creates the Consumer Credit Reporting Agency Act. Establishes the duties of credit reporting agencies with respect to the gathering and distribution of credit information relating to consumers. Requires credit reporting agencies to allow inspections of files and requires notices to be given to subjects of credit reports. Sets forth conditions that must be met before a credit report may be distributed or disclosed. Establishes consumer rights. Prohibits certain information from being included in credit reports. Establishes a consumer's right to information in a credit report. Requires disclosure of credit scores to consumers. Provides a mechanism to correct disputed information. Establishes remedies for consumers.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act to create the Children's Services Commission. Provides that the Commission shall recommend ways to more effectively deliver services provided by the State to children and families, to promote inter-agency cooperation relating to the delivery of those services, to more effectively use existing resources, and to eliminate duplication of efforts. Directs the Commission to make recommendations on the abolition of existing boards, committees, and commissions and on the consolidation of the powers and duties of those boards, committees, and commissions into a single entity. Creates the Task Force on Accreditation of Services for Children, which shall develop accreditation standards for foster homes, group homes, community facilities, and other facilities and a 2-year plan for mandatory accreditation for those facilities. Requires employees of the Department of Children and Family Services and independent contractors to possess certain qualifications before providing direct child welfare services. Amends the Illinois Procurement Code to require prospective contractors for child welfare services to prequalify with the Department of Children and Family Services. Effective July 1, 2004.

Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act and the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that a law enforcement officer, DCFS employee, or physician may take or retain temporary protective custody of a child without the consent of the person responsible for the child's welfare if he or she has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death (instead of if he or she has reason to believe that the child cannot be cared for at home or in the custody of the person responsible for the child's welfare and there is not time to apply for a temporary custody order). If there is no such imminent danger, requires a warrant to take the child into temporary protective custody. Provides that the DCFS Guardianship Administrator has no authority to consent to an HIV test for a child or obtain and disclose HIV test information if the child has not been taken into temporary protective custody as provided by law. Provides that a person seeking to take photographs or x-rays of a child must first obtain the consent of the parent, guardian, or other person responsible for the child's welfare, unless the person has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death. Provides that if DCFS is denied reasonable access to a child, it shall seek law enforcement intervention for the purpose of examining and interviewing the child if it has reason to believe that the child is in imminent danger of injury or death; otherwise, it must seek a court order. Authorizes a law enforcement officer to take custody of a minor without a warrant under the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 if the officer has reasonable cause to believe the minor is an abused, neglected, or dependent minor, but only if the officer also has reasonable cause to believe that the minor is in imminent danger of injury or death.

Creates the Healthy Illinois Plan Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act of 1987. Provides that a pharmacy's license shall expire 30 (rather than 10) days after the pharmacist in charge dies or leaves the place where the pharmacy is licensed or after such pharmacist's license has been suspended or revoked. Provides that it is the duty of every pharmacist in charge who ceases to function in that capacity to report to the Department within 30 (rather than 10) days of the date on which he ceased such functions for such pharmacy. Provides that it is the duty of every owner of a pharmacy licensed under this Act to report to the Department within 30 (rather than 10) days of the date on which the pharmacist in charge died or ceased to function in that capacity. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Provides that waivers may not be granted from laws, rules, and regulations pertaining to physical education.

Proclaims May 26, 2004, as "We Remember, We Care for Indigent Persons Day in Illinois".

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Repeals Sections concerning charges to a parent or guardian resulting from the care and training of a child by the Department of Children and Family Services. Amends the Juvenile Court Act. Deletes language concerning a parent's or guardian's liability to pay for the support of a child who has been removed from that parent's or guardian's care. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Repeals a Section concerning reimbursement for the expenses of committed persons. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure to make corresponding changes.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department shall not impose requirements for prior approval based on a preferred drug list for any short-acting beta agonists used as rescue therapy in the treatment of life-threatening conditions due to acute bronchospasm in patients with reversible obstructive airway disease that results from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or emphysema.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires an insurer to establish and maintain a procedure for dealing with appeals of the insurer's administrative determinations and complaints regarding its administrative decisions. Provides that an appeal may be filed by an insured or his or her designee or guardian, physician, or health care provider. Requires an insurer to designate a clinical peer to review appeals. Provides that if an appeal is denied, the person who requested the appeal may request an external independent review of the denial. Provides procedures for external independent review.