Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act. Requires one network connection for each T-1 facility. Defines "high-speed channelized service". Provides no public agency or unit of local government shall be liable, except for wilful or wanton misconduct, in connection with placing out-going emergency calls. Adds high-speed channelized service to the types of service that require 5 surcharges per network. Adds to the Section describing the offense of interference with emergency communication a provision that states that any person who without lawful justification interrupts, prevents or otherwise interferes with a 9-1-1 call is subject to Section 26-2 of the Criminal Code (Class A misdemeanor). Amends the Criminal Code by amending the Section describing the offense of interference with emergency communication adding verbal or physical obstruction of a 9-1-1 call or prevention of an emergency communication to the offense. Adds definition of "report of a crime to a law enforcement agency" and "emergency communication" to the criminal offense. Makes the offense solely a Class A misdemeanor (now, Class A and B for different types of interference). Repeals Section 13 of the Emergency Telephone System Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Cigarette Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Opportunity in State Public Construction Act. Provides that funding shall be made available for certain programs to prepare individual women and minorities for entry into apprenticeships in the skilled construction trades based on labor market information and projections. Provides the eligible recipients of the funds and the eligible participants in the programs established under the Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall annually collect certain information from each program funded under the Act. Creates the Commission on Opportunity in State Public Construction. Establishes the duties of the Commission. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall award, through a competitive grant process, 3 year initial grants to eligible entities for services to be provided under the Act. Provides that from each State funded construction project with a budget over $1 million, one-half of 1% of the project budget shall be reserved to sustain skilled training, outreach, data collection, worksite monitoring, and the provision of technical assistance to help meet goals for inclusion of women and minorities.
Creates the Supreme Court Campaign Reform Act. Provides that candidates for the Supreme Court may apply for a public financing benefit in connection with their campaign. Sets the amount of the public financing benefit at $750,000 for the general primary and general election cycle. Sets requirements for qualifying for the public financing benefits. Limits the amount of private contributions qualified candidates may accept. Limits the amounts that non-participating candidates may accept from private sources during campaign periods to $1,000 in the aggregate. Provides that qualified candidates must be distributed a line of credit from the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund to be used for lawful political expenditures. Provides for the increase of the line of credit if non-complying candidates make certain expenditures. Sets penalties for violations of the Act. Provides that the Illinois Supreme Court may require attorneys to contribute money to the Fund not to exceed $25 annually. Contains other provisions. Amends the Election Code. Provides that a payment for electioneering communications is an "expenditure". Provides that a group that "accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any 12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 for the purpose of electioneering communications" is a political committee. Allows the Board of Elections to impose a fine against a committee that fails to report expenditures that could trigger matching funds under the Supreme Court Campaign Reform Act. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Requires the Department of Revenue to print on its standard individual income tax form a provision by which the taxpayer may make a contribution (not less than $1) to the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund. Amends the Clerk of the Courts Act. Requires circuit court clerks to transfer $1 from each appearance fee paid to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund and, to defray that expense, the county board may, by resolution, require the clerk of the circuit court in the county to charge and collect a Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund fee of not more than $1, which shall be paid at the time that any appearance fee is paid. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Requires an Internet service provider to clearly and conspicuously disclose, to any consumer who is an Illinois resident, all of the following on any web page, web site, or other means by page or website at which the consumer may select a telephone number to access that Internet service provider: (1) some of the Internet service provider's access numbers may be outside of the consumer's local calling area, even though they are within the consumer's area code; (2) the consumer may be liable for long distance charges or other additional charges if the consumer uses an access number that is outside of the consumer's local calling area; and (3) the consumer may contact his or her telephone company for assistance in determining whether a particular access number is outside of the consumer's local calling area. Provides that a person who violates those provisions commits an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the application of the Act.
Amends the County Jail Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sheriff as warden of the jail.
Appropriates $7,400,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for capital needs at Jackson Park Hospital. Effective July 1, 2006.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a consumer (instead of a consumer who is the victim of identity theft) may place a security freeze on his or her credit account. Effective immediately.
