Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Effective immediately.
Amends the Chicago Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows the employer to authorize by resolution an early retirement without discount program for specified periods beginning July 1, 2010 and ending June 30, 2015. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Appropriates $1,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the purpose of providing services to mental health patients at Jackson Park Hospital. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning school counselors.
Recognizes Stony Island Avenue in Chicago as a Black Wall Street District in the City of Chicago.
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides for payment by the Board of Trustees of the Public School Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund of Chicago of partial reimbursement for the cost of health insurance coverage for a person who is an employee of the public school district who is a recipient of a service retirement, disability retirement, or survivor's pension from the Chicago municipal pension system. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Appropriates $19,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for an increase in health insurance assistance for nursing home workers. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the Public Construction Bond Act. Makes a technical change in the provisions requiring bonds from contractors.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that as a condition precedent to initiating foreclosure on residential real estate, a plaintiff shall comply with the requirements of any applicable federal, State, local, or contractual loss mitigation program, and if no program results in a modification of the mortgage, the plaintiff shall review the mortgage under the other programs utilized by the plaintiff. Provides that each affidavit filed in a foreclosure proceeding must include a detailed description of the affiant's claimed personal knowledge. Provides that if a note that is required to be attached to the foreclosure complaint is missing, the moving party must file a detailed affidavit about the efforts to locate the note and the note's terms and riders. Provides that each foreclosure complaint shall include a loss mitigation affidavit describing what steps, in any, were taken by the plaintiff to assess the mortgage loan's eligibility for modification under designated federal programs. Provides that a foreclosure judgment shall include a finding by the court that the plaintiff complied with applicable federal, State, or local loss mitigation requirements, or that there are no such applicable requirements. Provides that if the plaintiff has not complied with such a program that the proceedings shall be stayed until the court determines that the plaintiff has complied. Effective immediately.
