Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes technical changes in a Section regarding the office hours of the clerks of courts.
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Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the court seal.
Amends the Vital Records Act concerning fees. Makes a technical change.
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the court seal.
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Authorizes the District to impose a tax for the purpose of providing funds for staffing, services, materials, and equipment to secure and safeguard sewers, sewage treatment plants, and appurtenances thereto at a rate not to exceed 0.0025% of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the District. Amends the Property Tax Code to exclude the new tax from the applicable definition of "aggregate extension" for purposes of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. Effective immediately.
Creates the Grow Our Own Teacher Education Act. Establishes the Grow Our Own Teacher Education Initiative to prepare highly skilled, committed teachers who will teach in hard-to-staff schools and hard-to-staff positions and who will remain in these schools for substantial periods of time. Provides that the Board of Higher Education shall administer the Initiative as a grant competition to fund consortia that will carry out Grow Our Own Teacher preparation programs. Provides for an independent program evaluation. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a credit card issuer that issues a credit card to a cardholder in this State shall allow the cardholder to select the day of each month on which payment is due for purchases of goods and services by the use of the credit card. Provides that a person who violates those provisions commits an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
Amends the Mosquito Abatement District Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning a petition for a referendum on the question of organizing a mosquito abatement district.
Amends the Public Building Commission Act. Provides that the definition of "municipal corporation" does include a community college district, a school district, and a board of education of a school district (now includes only those in counties of 3,000,000 or more), but does not include a school district or board of education of a school district that conducted an unsuccessful referendum within the 5 years immediately preceding action by the public building commission. Provides that contracts for the construction, alteration, improvement, repair, enlargement, or demolition of buildings that are more than $25,000 (now $5,000) must be let through competitive bidding.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.