Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Raises the maximum document fee to $15 (from $5).
Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Raises the court automation fee maximum to $15 (from $5).
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Changes a defined term from "non-emergency medical care" to "non-emergency medical services". Provides that "non-emergency medical services" includes medical care or monitoring (instead of medical services) rendered to a patient during treatment of such persons at health care facilities or at events at which the presence of health care personnel has been requested for public safety purposes, as well as during transportation of the patient to or from health care facilities (instead of only to such facilities). Eliminates a provision that the Act does not apply to the use of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport (for example, to an individual's residence), unless and until emergency or non-emergency medical services are needed during such transport.
Amends the Property Tax Code. In a provision allowing the county board to submit a bill to the township board of trustees for the reasonable costs incurred by the supervisor of assessments in completing certain assessments, provides that the moneys collected from the billing may be used by the supervisor of assessments only for the purpose of recouping costs incurred in completing the assessments. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a prosecution for identity theft or aggravated identity theft may be commenced at any time (rather than within one year and 6 months after the commission of the offense if it is misdemeanor identity theft and within 3 years after commission of the offense if it is felony identity theft or aggravated identity theft).
Amends the State Designations Act. Designates the Eastern Tiger Salamander as the official State amphibian of Illinois. Designates the Painted Turtle as the official State reptile of Illinois.
Amends the Deposit of State Moneys Act. Provides that a bank or savings and loan association is disqualified as a State depository upon making a loan to certain entities doing business in or with the government of Sudan until such time as the United Nations determines that the government of Sudan has taken sufficient and demonstrable steps to end human rights abuses in that nation. Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Prohibits the investment or deposit from the retirement system or pension fund to certain entities doing business in or with the government of Sudan until such time as the United Nations determines that the government of Sudan has taken sufficient and demonstrable steps to end human rights abuses in that nation. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Rae Rupp Srch, Village of Villa Park President, on her retirement.
Congratulates Larry Dean Mieszcak on the occasion of his retirement as Trustee of the Villa Park Village Board.