Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning payments from the Indemnity Fund, provides that petitions for indemnity must be filed no later than 10 years after the tax deed was issued. Effective immediately.
Creates the Village of Bloomingdale School District Boundary Adjustment Act. Provides that those portions of the Vittoria Brooke Estates and Chateaus of Medinah subdivisions consisting of approximately 35 single family home sites in the Village of Bloomingdale (as defined in certain Bloomingdale ordinances of annexation) shall be included within the boundaries of Bloomingdale School District 13 and Lake Park Community High School District 108 and shall cease to be within the boundaries of Marquardt School District 15 and Glenbard Township High School District 87. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Creates a winery special use license. Provides that a winery special use license shall allow an Illinois first-class or second-class wine-maker or a first class or second class wine-manufacturer to transfer some of its wine inventory from its licensed premises to the premises specified in the local liquor authority license for sale at retail only at premises specified in the local authority license and only for the dates and times specified. Provides that a winery special use license shall be granted for a period not to exceed 12 months and may be renewed annually, provided that the applicant submits proof satisfactory to the State Commission that the applicant will provide dram shop liability insurance to the maximum limits and will obtain local authority approval. Provides that a winery special use licensee shall only sell its own manufactured wine.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In a Section concerning estimated taxes, provides that, if a taxpayer is entitled to a refund after the payment of the fourth installment, then he or she may apply the amount of the refund to the first installment due in the next taxable year.
Amends the Pharmacy Practice Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning Social Security Numbers.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes changes in the provision concerning definitions. Provides that when an on-site audit or a desk audit of the records of a pharmacy is conducted by any entity, the audit shall be conducted in accordance with certain criteria. Provides that the auditing entity, administrator, or its representative must provide the pharmacy with a written report of the audit and comply with certain requirements. Sets forth provisions concerning appeals processes, accounting practices, and applicability.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Adds to the mortgage foreclosure provisions a definition of "abandoned residential property". Provides requirement and procedures for an expedited judgment and sale of abandoned residential property. Provides that the period of redemption ends for abandoned residential property on the date of the judgment confirming the judicial sale. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Currency Exchange Act. Provides additional powers to a community or ambulatory currency exchange. Provides that a currency exchange, a group currency exchange, or an association of currency exchanges shall notify the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation of any additional activity, product, or service intended to be offered and the Secretary may charge an investigation fee of $500 to ensure the additional activity, product, or service is consistent with the Act. Increases a community exchange license application fee to $1,500 (up from $500). Provides that the Secretary may determine whether an application for a community exchange license may effect the financial stability of other community exchanges within a 2 mile radius if within the City of Chicago or 4 miles if outside the City of Chicago or any affected community currency exchange that may be serving the community in which the business of the applicant is proposing to be conducted. Provides qualifications for the applicants of a currency exchange license. Increases the amount of a surety bond a currency exchange shall file annually with and have approved by the Secretary to $50,000 (up from $10,000). Provides that an arbitrator shall conduct any hearings as provided for under the Act. Provides that all information collected by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under an examination or investigation of an ambulatory or community currency exchange shall be maintained for the confidential use by the Department and shall not be disclosed. Provides that an order issued by the Department against an ambulatory or community currency exchange shall be a public record. Makes other corresponding changes.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that every person who has been twice convicted in any state or federal court of a felony offense that contains the same element of the intentional or knowing infliction of great bodily harm, permanent disability or permanent disfigurement as the felony offense for which the person is now to be sentenced and the current offense was committed after the 2 prior convictions, shall be adjudged an habitual violent offender. Provides that, except when the death penalty is imposed, anyone adjudged a habitual violent offender shall be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment.
Amends the Smoke Free Illinois Act and the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act to exempt from certain prohibitions against discrimination any employer that, as its primary purposes or objectives, provides medical or hospital treatment to patients who have a cancerous condition.
