Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Monetary Award Program Plus grants.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Board of Higher Education for its FY09 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2008.
Amends the Illinois Hazardous Materials Transportation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes a technical change concerning the Act's purpose.
Amends the School Code with respect to the statement of affairs of a school district (other than the Chicago school district). Removes the requirement that an annual statement of affairs summary be published in a newspaper. Provides that the statement must include the total amount for both cash receipts and disbursements (or for both revenue and expenses if the accrual system of accounting is used). Makes related changes.
Creates the Judicial Campaign Reform Act and amends the Election Code, the State Finance Act, the Illinois Income Tax Act, and the Clerks of Courts Act. Creates a voluntary program of public financing of election campaigns for the offices of judges of the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Courts, administered by the State Board of Elections. Establishes funding mechanisms and provides penalties for violations. Sets mandatory contribution limits with respect to all judicial election campaigns. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2009.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Illinois Commercial Safety Towing Law.
Amends the State Finance Act, the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, and the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act. Extends the duration and increases the amounts of deposits of certain use and occupation tax proceeds into the McCormick Place Expansion Project Fund. Increases certain bond authorization limits of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority from $2,107,000,000 to $2,457,000,000 and makes changes to the required maturity dates of the bonds. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, the Hazardous Materials Emergency Act, and the Hazardous Material Emergency Response Reimbursement Act. Changes the definition of "hazardous material" to include natural gas, natural gas liquids, and liquefied natural gas.
Congratulates Sharon Wsol on the occasion of her retirement as Library Director of the Orland Park Public Library.
