Amends the School Code. Requires a school district to provide steroid abuse prevention education to students who participate in interscholastic athletic programs.
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.
Creates the Commission to Study the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Past and Present Effects on African-Americans.
Congratulates the winners of the 4-Way Test Awards given by the Rotary Club of Park Forest.
Congratulates Dr. Carl L. White, Jr., pastor of Victory Christian Assembly Church in Markham, on being elevated to the office of Apostle.
Congratulates the South Suburban Housing Center in Homewood on the occasion of its 30th anniversary in April 2005.
Honors the life and service of Bishop R.D. Edward Goodwin, Sr., to the Seventh Jurisdiction of Illinois of the Church of God in Christ.
Honors the Illinois Chapters of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., on the occasion of their annual legislative visit to the State Capitol on March 2, 2005.
Honors Ernest Green for his role as a member of the "Little Rock Nine".
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning policing bodies furnishing fingerprints and descriptions of persons arrested to the Department of State Police and relating to the expungement of arrest records and the sealing of the records of the clerk of the circuit court.
