Rep. Terry R. Parke

Mourns the death of U.S.M.C. Corporal Ryan John Cummings of Streamwood and Crystal Lake.

Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Prohibits a person convicted of a felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as an employee who is an employee of more than one employer that participates in the Fund from receiving benefits based on any of his or her service as an employee for all employers that participate in the Fund. Provides that, if, as a result of the felony, the employee is ordered by the court to pay restitution to the employer, then (i) the employer may apply for a refund of employee contributions on the employee's behalf and (ii) pursuant to appropriate documentation from the employer and the court, the Fund shall pay to the employer all or a portion of the refund in a sum sufficient to satisfy the court-ordered restitution. Effective immediately.

Amends the State Treasurer Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning bond.

Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that certain tax exemptions apply from the effective date of the legislation that created the exemptions through June 30, 2011. Amends the Property Tax Code. Extends the date of repeal of a Section concerning the assessment of vegetative filter strips from December 31, 2006 to March 1, 2007. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Breakfast and Lunch Program Act and the Childhood Hunger Relief Act. Makes changes concerning the breakfast incentive program, the report the State Board of Education provides to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning school breakfast and lunch programs, surveys to identify parental interest in school breakfast programs and the barriers to establishing school breakfast programs, the requirement that a school district establish a school breakfast program for certain schools, and opting out of the school breakfast program requirement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law of the Property Tax Code. Sets forth procedures that taxing districts must follow when seeking referendum approval after April 5, 2005 to increase (i) the maximum authorized tax rate for any fund for which the taxing district is authorized by statute to levy taxes and which rate is limited by prior referendum or statutory authorization and which rate is authorized by statute to be increased for a limited or unlimited number of years by direct (and not back door) referendum, except for increases that require an equal corresponding tax rate decrease for another fund or (ii) the maximum extended tax rate applicable only to the next taxes to be either levied or extended for any fund notwithstanding the limiting rate that would otherwise be applicable for such taxing district. Sets forth requirements for form of ballot propositions and referendum notices. Sets forth procedures for setting the new tax rates. Provides that a taxing district is limited to an extension limitation (instead of "extension increase") of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year, whichever is less.

Amends the School Code and the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Removes a provision that requires a sex education course that discusses sexual intercourse to have course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Provides instead that the Comprehensive Health Education Program must provide course material and instruction to advise pupils of the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act and to provide information about responsible parenting and the availability of confidential adoption services. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Sex Offender Registration Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall have access to State of Illinois databases containing information that may help in the identification or location of persons required to register under the Act, including, but not limited to, information obtained in the course of administering the Unemployment Insurance Act. Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that the Director of Employment Security shall make available to the Department of State Police any information concerning the place of employment or former places of employment of a person who is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act that may be useful in enforcing the registration provisions requiring a sex offender to disclose his or her place of employment to the law enforcement agency of the jurisdiction in which the sex offender is employed. Effective immediately.

Amends the Business Corporation Act of 1983. Requires that fair value (instead of just value) be paid for a fractional share that is paid in cash. Defines "fair value". Provides that, in the list of those who can make a determination for purposes of indemnification of a present or former director, officer, employee or agent in a particular case, the determination shall be by a committee of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit, or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, designated by a majority vote of the directors (instead of a committee of directors designated by a majority vote of the directors). Amends the Limited Liability Company Act. Provides that the operating agreement may not contain any provision inconsistent with the voting provisions in the listed Section. Limits situations in which a person may vote to ratify or approve matters.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no later than July 1, 2007, subject to federal approval of a State Medicaid Plan amendment, which shall be sought by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or its successor agency, persons who fail to qualify for basic maintenance under the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD) program on the basis of need because of excess income or assets, or both, may establish prospective eligibility for that basic maintenance by paying their monthly Medicaid spend-down amount to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or by having a third party pay that amount to the Department.