Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires insurers to cover surveillance tests for ovarian cancer for female insureds who are at risk for ovarian cancer. Provides a definition for "at risk for ovarian cancer" and "surveillance tests for ovarian cancer". Effective January 1, 2006.
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.
Thanks Deborah Miller for her 34 years of dedicated service to the Schaumburg Township District Library Board.
Congratulates Jeremiah J. O'Connor, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, on his retirement.
Congratulates George Gentes, Chair-Director of Chorale Ensembles at Hoffman Estates High School, on the occasion of his retirement.
Congratulates Dr. Calvin Fischer on being selected as the 2005 recipient of the Illinois Academy of Family Physicians' Family Physician of the Year award.
Congratulates Phillip C. Stewart on the occasion of his retirement from the District 54 Board of Education.
Congratulates George Iaccino of Wheaton on the occasion of his retirement.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that the Industrial Commission Operations Fund Surcharge shall not be imposed on and after July 1, 2004, and that this does not affect the powers and duties of the Director of Insurance with regard to any payments due before July 1, 2004 and any delinquencies, penalties, and overpayments with respect to those payments. Amends the Worker's Compensation Act. Provides that the Industrial Commission Operations Fund Fee shall not be imposed on and after July 1, 2004, and that this does not affect the powers and duties of the Chairman of the Commission with regard to any payments due before July 1, 2004 and any delinquencies, penalties, and overpayments with respect to those payments. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. In provisions pertaining to coverage for contraceptives, provides that nothing in those provisions shall be construed to require a church or religious denomination providing insurance policies that include coverage for outpatient services and outpatient prescription drugs or devices to provide coverage for the insured and any dependent of the insured covered by the policy for outpatient contraceptive services and outpatient contraceptive drugs and devices approved by the Food and Drug Administration if doing so would be contrary to the tenets of the church or religious denomination.
