Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Exempts claims seeking damages for conduct that results in bodily injury, death, or damage to property other than the property that is the subject of the practice claimed to be unlawful. Effective immediately.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a legislative declaration.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that an inmate is ineligible for the award of meritorious good conduct credit if the inmate was convicted of: (1) a violent crime as defined in the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act committed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act or (2) a second or subsequent violation of driving under the influence or aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol or any other drug or drugs, or intoxicating compound or compounds, or any combination thereof committed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Eliminates the provision that possession by the defendant of more than one of the same film, videotape or visual reproduction or depiction by computer in which child pornography is depicted shall raise a rebuttable presumption that the defendant possessed such materials with the intent to disseminate them. Provides that possession of more than one of the same film, videotape or visual reproduction or depiction by computer in which child pornography is depicted is a Class X felony for which the defendant shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 9 years and not more than 40 years.
Urges Senator Roland Burris to resign from his position as United States Senator, and urges a statewide election to fill the vacancy.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person serving a sentence for armed robbery or aggravated vehicular hijacking when he or she carried on or about his or her person or was otherwise armed with a firearm shall receive no more than 4.5 days of good conduct credit for each month of his or her sentence of imprisonment. Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a period of probation, a term of periodic imprisonment, or conditional discharge may not be imposed if the defendant is convicted of a Class 3 felony or higher violation of an offense involving the corruption of a public official when the offense consists of theft, fraud, extortion or a violation of the Official Misconduct, Deception Relating To Certification Of Disadvantaged Business Enterprises, or Public Contracts Article of the Criminal Code of 1961 and either: (1) the defendant was an elected official at the time of the offense, or (2) the offense involved more than $10,000 in money or property, based on either the value of any payments or the value of the item that was the object of such offense. Provides that this provision does not apply if the prosecutor certifies to the court at the time of sentencing that the defendant has provided substantial assistance in the case or another prosecution of substantial public importance.
Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, if a special needs trust has been established for a disabled adult child, then the special needs trust may stand in lieu of the disabled adult child as a beneficiary for the purposes of the Article. Effective immediately.
Creates the Illinois Medicare Supplement Insurance Act. Sets forth the purpose of the Act.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that an otherwise misdemeanor theft and retail theft are enhanced from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony if the person has previously been convicted of vehicular hijacking, aggravated vehicular hijacking, or aggravated robbery. In the case of retail theft the penalty is enhanced to a Class 4 felony if the defendant had been previously convicted of forgery, or a violation of provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code relating to the possession of a stolen or converted motor vehicle. Effective immediately.
