Honors Tracy Munno for the many years of dedicated service she has given to her employers and her community.
Sponsored bills
Mourns the death of F.D. "Lee" Conlon of Williams Bay, Wisconsin.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Provides that coverage under the Plan shall automatically terminate as of the effective date of any medical assistance, except in cases where the effective date of the medical assistance is the date that the application for medical assistance was submitted to the Department of Human Services and that date is different than the date that the applicant is determined to be eligible for medical assistance. Provides that in that circumstance, coverage under the plan shall terminate on the date that the applicant was determined to be eligible for medical assistance. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Adds homeownership, including the basic process of obtaining a mortgage and the concepts of fixed and adjustable rate mortgages, subprime loans, and predatory lending, as part of the financial literacy component of consumer education.
Mourns the death of John T. Kelly of Olympia Fields.
Congratulates Boonsom Hartman of Oak Forest on running two marathons in each of the fifty states.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Subject to appropriation, requires the Department of Human Services to operate Community Resource Centers at each of its 9 State-operated developmental centers. Provides that the objective of the Community Resource Centers is to improve services delivered in the community by providing the services of the skilled State workforce to individuals residing in community settings when individuals need those services.
Congratulates the members of the Knights of Columbus Father C.C. Boyle Council 4698 on the occasion of the Council's 50th anniversary.
Mourns the death in Iraq of United States Army Private DeWayne White of Chicago.
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning advising and counseling the Governor.