Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Provides that the Secretary of State may establish a First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Provides that the Secretary may offer, to each applicant for reissuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 18 or older, the opportunity to have his or her name included on the registry. Provides that the Secretary must advise the person that he or she is under no compulsion to have his or her name included. Establishes additional procedures for creating the registry. Provides that the Secretary must continue, until the registry has been established, to provide, on the reverse side of each driver's license issued, a format that the licensee may use to execute an anatomical gift. Provides that a person may make an anatomical gift by consenting to having his or her name included in the registry. Provides that in the absence of gross negligence, willful misconduct, the Secretary of State and his or her employees are immune from criminal or civil liability in connection with a person's consent to be listed in the registry.
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Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. In a provision concerning eligibility for grants under the Act, increases the household income eligibility limitations for grant year 2006, and provides that, for grant years 2007 and thereafter, the limitations shall be increased annually by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the previous calendar year. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that casting a provisional ballot in the incorrect precinct does not invalidate that ballot's votes. Requires the State Board of Elections to adopt rules for the counting of those votes. Provides that the provisional voter's affidavit serves as a change of address request for registration purposes if it bears an address different from the election authority's record. With respect to electronic voting systems, removes the requirement that a vendor's computer codes must be kept confidential. Makes those codes public records but permits a vendor to retain copyrights. With respect to reviewing the computer codes of electronic voting systems, requires that the State Board of Elections shall provide sufficiently qualified human and capital resources for conducting reviews and that the resources shall have no affiliation with voting systems vendors. With respect to audit trails of direct recording electronic voting systems, requires that all test results, documentation, and other records used to plan, execute, and review the results of testing and verification shall be public records. With respect to direct recording electronic voting systems, removes the option that the permanent paper record of a vote may be self-contained within the voting device and requires that the paper record be printed in a clear and readily readable format that can be easily reviewed by the voter.
Recognizes National Youth Service Day and the volunteer efforts of the young ladies in Delta Academy, My D.E.S.T.I.N.Y., and the Joliet Area/South Suburban Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Repeals a provision that repeals the Act on July 1, 2007.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Exempts from the extension limitation those extensions made by a public library district for the establishment, maintenance, and support of a public library or libraries within the district or for contracting for library service.
Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Health Care Enterprise Zone Act. Provides that the Department of Public Health may certify certain areas in the State suffering from a shortage of medical services as health care enterprise zones or specialty shortage zones. Provides that, for the taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2006, a health care professional who practices at least 50% of the year in an area of Illinois that has been certified as a health care enterprise zone or as a specialty shortage zone may apply to the Department requesting a certification of an income tax credit. Sets forth the amounts of the credit. Sets forth conditions for the revocation of benefits under the Act. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to create the income tax credit certified under the Health Care Enterprise Zone Act. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that taxing districts may abate the property taxes for the property of any facility operated by a health care professional as part of his or her practice in a health care enterprise zone or specialty shortage zone certified under the Health Care Enterprise Zone Act. Provides that the aggregate amount of abated taxes for all taxing districts in any county may not exceed $5,000,000 per year.
Amends the Election Code. Requires first time voters who registered by mail to vote in person unless they first provide specified types of documents identifying their name and address. Permits a registered voter whose name has changed but who lives in the same precinct to vote after making an affidavit at the polling place as to his or her identity and registration (now, only if the name change occurred at certain times and only if another voter attests to his or her identity). Requires the election authority to treat the affidavit as a request to register under the new name.
Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act. Provides that a recipient of Program grants must be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting an (i) ethanol plant (now, just plant) that has annual production capacity of no less than 30,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year or a (ii) biodiesel plant. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to establish and administer grant programs including: the Illinois Renewable Fuels Majority Blended Ethanol Program, the Illinois Corn Grain to Fuel Research Consortium Assistance Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Corn-to-Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Biodiesel Infrastructure Grant Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Ethanol Development Intergovernmental Assistance Program. Sets forth the purposes and conditions for these grant programs. Provides that subject to appropriation (now, subject to appropriation from the Build Illinois Bond Fund), the Director is authorized to award Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund grants. Sets forth that the annual aggregate amount for these grants shall not exceed $25,000,000 in Fiscal year 2007 and 2008 and $15,000,000 thereafter (now, may not exceed $15,000,000). Specifies how these grant funds shall be allocated. Sets forth certain limitations on spending on the various Program grants including for research conducted at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Facility at SIU-Edwardsville not to exceed $1,000,000 annually, and a one-time grant in FY 2007 not to exceed $3,000,000 for construction, remodeling, and expansion of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Facility at SIU-Edwardsville. Provides that normal operating and execution of renewable fuels programs in existence on January 1, 2006 within the Department from the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund shall not exceed $5,000,000 annually. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund as a special fund in the State treasury to fund these grant programs. Sets forth certain conditions for the operation of this Fund. Provides for certain annual payments from the General Revenue Fund to the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, to provide that on or after July 1, 2006 and on or before June 30, 2016, those tax rates apply to 90% of the proceeds of sales made on gasohol (now, apply to 80% of the proceeds of sales made on gasohol). Amends the Motor Fuel and Petroleum Standards Act to provide that beginning January 1, 2008 a minimum of 10% of all motor fuel sold or offered for sale in Illinois must be denatured ethanol and that beginning January 1, 2012 a minimum of 15% of all motor fuel sold or offered for sale in Illinois must be denatured ethanol. Effective July 1, 2006.