Amends the Toll Highway Act. Creates an amnesty program for toll violations under which a person who has an outstanding notice of violation for toll evasion or a final order of a hearing officer for toll evasion dated before the effective date of the amendatory Act and who pays to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority specified percentage amounts remaining due on the notice of violation or final order of the hearing officer and the full fees and costs paid by the Authority to the Secretary of State relating to suspension proceedings within the specified time period is not required to pay more than the listed percentage of the original fine amount and outstanding toll and the full fees and costs paid by the Authority to the Secretary of State relating to suspension proceedings, if applicable. Sets out the payment percentage scale. Provides that the Authority shall waive any late fine amount above the applicable percentage of the original fine amount. Sets out conditions for receiving the amnesty. Provides that the Authority shall issue a refund to any person who made a payment to the Authority during a specified period for a violation that, had it not been made during that period, could have been satisfied through an amnesty payment, and adds various requirements regarding those refunds. Requires the Authority to send a toll violation notice to the registered owner of a vehicle within 30 days after a violation occurred and provides that the Authority may not charge penalties on a civil fine if it fails to do so. Provides that an additional fine or penalty for late payment may not be imposed until 60 days have elapsed after notice of a final order of liability for a violation detected using the Authority's video or photo surveillance system. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts from the offense of eavesdropping, with prior notification and approval of the State's Attorney of the county in which the conversation is anticipated to occur, the recording or listening with the aid of an eavesdropping device to a conversation in which a law enforcement officer, or any person acting at the direction of a law enforcement officer, is a party to an undercover conversation and has consented to the conversation being intercepted or recorded in the course of an investigation of a felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, a felony violation of the Cannabis Control Act, or a felony violation of the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Requires the Director of State Police to adopt any necessary rules concerning the use of devices, retention of recording media, and reports regarding their use. Provides that any recording or evidence obtained or derived as a result of this exemption shall, upon motion of the State's Attorney or Attorney General prosecuting any felony violation of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the Cannabis Control Act, or the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, be reviewed in camera with notice to all parties present by the court presiding over the criminal case, and, if ruled by the court to be relevant and otherwise admissible, it shall be admissible at the trial of the criminal case.
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.
Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act and the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that an animal control officer or a humane society investigator with reasonable cause to suspect or believe that a child is being abused or neglected or is in danger of being abused or neglected must immediately make a written or oral report to the Department of Children and Family Services. Provides that any person required to report suspected child abuse or neglect under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act must also immediately report suspected animal abuse or neglect or danger of animal abuse or neglect to the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Animal Welfare. Preempts the exercise of home rule powers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement by the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person who commits the offense of unlawful purchase of a firearm is guilty of a Class 1 non-probationable felony if any firearm that is purchased is used to commit an act of domestic violence. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person who commits such offense is ineligible for period of probation, a term of periodic imprisonment or conditional discharge.
Amends the Property Tax Code. With respect to the income limitation in the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption, provides that any amount that the taxpayer expends during the year for the care of a disabled person who resides in residence is deducted from the definition of "income". Makes technical changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that elementary and secondary school teachers are entitled to a credit under the Act in an amount equal to personal expenditures made by the teacher for teaching materials. Provides that the credit is limited to $500 or the individual's tax liability, whichever is less. Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that any person on the effective date of this amendatory Act incarcerated in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections for any sex offense, or a prior sex offense statute as defined in any former version of the Criminal Code of 1961, or any offense that was sexually motivated, shall submit a specimen of blood, saliva, or tissue by July 1, 2007 for immediate inclusion in the State Offender DNA Identification System. Provides that after July 1, 2007, every person convicted of a sex offense, or a prior sex offense statute as defined in any former version of the Criminal Code of 1961, or any offense which at the time of sentencing the court finds to be sexually motivated shall within 45 days of his or her placement in a facility of the Illinois Department of Corrections submit a sample of blood, saliva, or tissue for immediate inclusion in the State Offender DNA Identification System. Effective immediately.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that if a person is serving a term of parole or mandatory supervised release for a felony and while on parole or mandatory supervised release for that felony is convicted of a separate felony, any sentence following conviction of the separate felony shall be consecutive to that of the original sentence for which the defendant was on parole or mandatory supervised release.
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. Effective January 1, 2008.