Rep. Dennis M. Reboletti

Amends the Compensation Review Act. Provides that members of the General Assembly, State's attorneys, the elected constitutional officers of State government, and certain appointed officers of State government are prohibited from receiving and shall not receive any increase in compensation that would otherwise apply based on a cost of living adjustment, as authorized by Senate Joint Resolution 192 of the 86th General Assembly, for or during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010. Deletes a provision stating that the cost of living adjustment shall apply beginning July 1, 2010 and thereafter. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that an individual shall not be deemed unavailable for work because the individual is pursuing an online course of instruction offered by a public or private school via the Internet that requires neither presence at a campus nor adherence to a schedule of classes at particular dates and times.

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practice Act. Provides that any gas or service station that has an automatic payment device at the pump for dispensing motor fuel, where the consumer's credit or debit card may be entered for payment, shall have each automatic payment device programmed in such a way that the consumer must enter the zip code that matches the billing information for the debit or credit card before the consumer's card can be approved for purchase of the motor fuel. Provides that the automatic payment device shall only allow 2 attempts to enter the correct zip code. Provides that, after the second failed attempt, the gas or service station shall require the consumer to pay by a different method or card. Provides an exemption for the owner or operator of a motor fuel dispensing devise that lacks automatic payment capability. Effective January 1, 2010.

Amends the Judges Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a judge who was eligible for the maximum annuity and elected to discontinue contributing to the System may file a letter with the Board cancelling the direction to discontinue contributing to the System before July 1, 2011. Requires payment of an amount equal to the total of the discontinued contributions plus interest, except that a judge who (i) elected to discontinue contributing to the System before December 10, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act 91-653) and (ii) files with the Board a letter cancelling the direction to discontinue contributing to the System after the effective date of the amendatory Act and before July 1, 2011 must make contributions to the System based only on the amount of the increases in salary received by the judge on or after December 10, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act 91-653). Includes language exempting the changes from the new benefit increase provisions. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the Director of Corrections, in making a determination as to whether an inmate is to be awarded good conduct credit for meritorious service, may consider the inmate's documented conduct either while incarcerated in a Department facility, county jail, house of correction, Department of Juvenile Justice facility, juvenile detention center, or other penal institution or when the inmate was not incarcerated and may make a determination that based on such conduct the inmate's early release poses an elevated risk to public safety. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that if the parolee or releasee is on parole or mandatory supervised release for a forcible felony and commits an act that constitutes first degree murder, a Class X felony, a Class 1 felony, a Class 2 felony, or a Class 3 felony, the supervising officer of the parolee or releasee shall request the Department of Corrections to issue a warrant and the Department shall issue the warrant and the officer or the Department shall file a violation report with notice of charges with the Prisoner Review Board. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Provides that the knowing manufacture or delivery of, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, heroin is a Class X felony with respect to 5 grams (rather than 15 grams) or more of heroin. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the offense is non-probationable if the amount of the heroin is 3 (rather than over 5) grams or more.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person who commits the offense of indecent solicitation of a child by the knowing use of a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission and misrepresents his or her age to the child or one whom he or she believes to be a child is guilty of a felony offense that is one class higher than the penalty for the same conduct committed without using a computer on-line service, Internet service, local bulletin board service, or any other device capable of electronic data storage or transmission.

Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides that, if a person (i) attends training at the Law Enforcement Training Standards Board equivalent to training offered to persons being trained to serve on a municipal police force, (ii) serves as a police officer for an Illinois forest preserve district, and (iii) transfers to an Illinois municipal police force, then the person shall qualify to serve as a municipal police officer on the same basis as a trained municipal police officer. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "conviction".