Rep. Franco Coladipietro

Creates the Local Initiative Sunshine Act. Defines "gubernatorial or legislative member initiative". Creates the Local Initiative Review Board. Authorizes the Board to review initiatives for compliance with applicable State laws, rules, and practices governing the award and monitoring of gubernatorial and legislative member initiatives. Sets forth the membership of the Board. Provides for review and comment upon proposed agency rulemaking.

Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide on its Sex Offender Information web page a form that allows a person who seeks access to sex offender information to be notified by e-mail of when a sex offender changes residence, employment, or school attendance to a location within a particular zip code or within a specified distance from an address. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide such information by e-mail notification to a person who completes the form.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that a prisoner seeking to file a second or subsequent post-conviction petition must seek leave of the court by filing a motion when he or she sends his or her proposed petition. Provides that the circuit court must review the motion within 30 days of its receipt by the circuit court clerk. Provides that if the court grants the motion for leave to file the petition, the circuit court clerk shall docket it, and the petition shall proceed as provided in the Post-Conviction Hearing Article of the Code. Provides that if the court denies the motion, the circuit court clerk shall notify the petitioner by certified mail within 10 days of the entry of the order.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning Medicaid rates for nursing homes, provides that for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act as skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, the support component of the rates taking effect on July 1, 2008 shall be computed using the most recent cost reports on file with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services no later than April 1, 2006, updated for inflation to January 1, 2007. Provides that facilities shall have the support component of their Medicaid rate computed every year using the most recent cost reports on file with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services no later than April 1, 2 years prior to the year in which the new rate takes effect, updated for inflation to January 1 of the year prior to the year in which the new rate takes effect. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person commits the offense of unlawful contact with streetgang members when he or she knowingly has direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member after having been ordered by a judge in any non-criminal proceeding to refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members or after having been released from the Illinois Department of Corrections on a condition of parole or mandatory supervised release that he or she refrain from direct or indirect contact with a streetgang member or members.

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 Sex Offender Community Notification Law. Provides that subject to appropriations, the Department of State Police shall establish an e-mail notification system in which a subscriber to the system shall be notified within 3 business days after a registered sexual predator moves into a zip code area where the subscriber resides. Provides that the Department of State Police shall provide a hyperlink labeled "Sexual Predator E-mail Notification System" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. Provides that the e-mail notification shall include the information contained in the Statewide Sex Offender Database about the sexual predator and information about how the subscriber may contact the Department of State Police or local law enforcement agencies if the subscriber suspects that the sexual predator is committing or has committed another sex offense. Provides that the subscriber must be at least 18 years of age and must agree that he or she shall not use the information obtained to harass or to commit a criminal offense against the sexual predator. Provides that the subscriber shall also sign a liability waiver. Provides that the signing of such waiver shall constitute a forbearance of any suit by the subscriber against the Department or local law enforcement agency. Provides that these provisions do not apply to juvenile sex offenders. Provides that the Department of State Police shall establish rules to implement these provisions. Effective October 1, 2007.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections with respect to crime laboratory analysis fees. In the definition of "crime laboratory", provides that it must be formally accredited and must regularly employ persons who conduct analyses and provide testimony with respect to drug identification, latent fingerprint analysis, and DNA analysis. Enumerates additional offenses for which a guilty offender must pay a fee and increases those fees to varied amounts depending on the offense. Provides that laboratories using a crime laboratory fund must have and file documented procedures and policies concerning its response to discoveries of misconduct or incompetence and claims of innocence by convicted prisoners. Makes other changes.

Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to report annually, beginning January 1, 2008 and subject to appropriation, the number of children who died during the previous fiscal year while in the custody of the Department by the county where the death occurred. Sets out the contents of the report. Provides that the report shall be submitted in writing to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, and the State Librarian. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Increases the basic amount of the standard exemption, annually, by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the previous calendar year. Effective immediately.