Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires insurers to cover surveillance tests for ovarian cancer for female insureds who are at risk for ovarian cancer. Provides a definition for "at risk for ovarian cancer" and "surveillance tests for ovarian cancer". Effective January 1, 2006.
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Amends the State Finance Act and the Children's Product Safety Act. Provides that a "children's product" is one designed or intended for children under age 12 (instead of 6); changes and adds other definitions. Provides that a children's product is deemed to be unsafe "only" if it meets certain specified criteria. Adds requirements concerning the Department of Public Health's list of unsafe children's products. Makes changes concerning safety standards for baby cribs. Imposes duties on manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and distributors in connection with recalls of children's products. Provides for civil penalties for violations of the Children's Product Safety Act, and removes a provision making a violation a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that nothing in the Act relieves a commercial dealer from compliance with stricter requirements that may be imposed by an agency of the federal government. Adds enforcement powers of the Attorney General. Creates the Attorney General Court Ordered and Voluntary Compliance Payment Projects Fund; provides for the deposit of civil penalties into the fund and for the use of moneys in the fund by the Attorney General. Effective immediately.
Amends the Vital Records Act. Provides that the word "DECEASED" and the date of death shall not appear on a copy of a birth certificate furnished to a parent of a child who died within 3 months of birth, provided no other copy of a birth certificate was furnished to the parent prior to the child's death. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Deputy Chief James Dowling of the Orland Park Police Department on the occasion of his retirement after 30 years of service.
Congratulates Nancy Mabbott on the occasion of her retirement from the Orland School District 135 Board of Education.
Congratulates Priscilla Galgan on the occasion of her retirement from the Orland School District 135 Board of Education.
Congratulates Thomas Lyons on the occasion of his retirement from the Orland School District 135 Board of Education.
Congratulates Orland Park's Carl Sandberg High School Eagles wrestling team on winning the 2004-05 Boys Wrestling Class AA State Championship on February 26, 2005.
Congratulates Ed Zabrocki on his retirement from Chicago's Brother Rice High School at the end of the school year.
Congratulates Victor J. Andrew High School's boys bowling team on its win at the Boys Bowling State Tournament.