Makes appropriation to the Office of the Attorney General from the General Revenue Fund to provide a grant to the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation to accomplish any purpose authorized by the Illinois Equal Justice Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Act's purpose.
Recognizes the date of September 17 as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day in the United States and encourages the citizens of this State to join us in celebrating this important date in our nation's history.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the nomination of candidates for the General Assembly.
Urges the Illinois State Board of Education to officially recognize the importance and benefits of school diversity and to set it as a priority when making decisions regarding admissions policies and practices, creation of new schools, school rezoning, and other pertinent decisions and to commit to having a strategy in each district for overcoming impediments to school diversity.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Amends the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the first $100 of child support collected on behalf of a family in a month for one child and the first $200 of child support collected on behalf of a family in a month for 2 or more children shall be passed through to the family and disregarded in determining the amount of the assistance grant provided to the family. Provides that any amount of child support that would be disregarded in determining the amount of the assistance grant shall be disregarded in determining eligibility for cash assistance. Effective immediately.
Amends the Assumed Business Name Act. Provides that filings under the Act shall be in the manner prescribed by the County Clerk. Provides for the renewal of assumed business names every 5 years in counties with a population of 4,000,000 or more inhabitants. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of former Illinois State Representative and State Senator Ethel Skyles Alexander-Taylor.
Congratulates Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
