Amends the Cigarette Tax Act and the Cigarette Use Tax Act. Provides that tax stamps sold on or after July 1, 2010 must be counterfeit-resistant and encrypted with certain information. Provides that the stamps shall (i) be produced in a secure facility certified in accordance with the security assistance standards established in 2005 by the American National Standards Institute and the North American Security Products Organization, (ii) incorporate a minimum of 4 layers of overt, semi-covert, and covert data, and (iii) instantaneously capture encrypted data. Requires distributors to acquire certain necessary equipment and provide the encrypted data to the Department of Revenue in the form and manner required by the Department. Requires the Department of Revenue to retain the data using a secure system. Provides that any distributor having stamped packages of cigarettes in his or her possession on July 1, 2010 may continue to possess, deliver, or distribute those stamped cigarettes. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Property Tax Code. Includes disabled persons within the provisions granting an assessment freeze homestead exemption to senior citizens. Changes the name to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption (now Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption). Makes corresponding changes to a cross-reference to the exemption. Amends the States Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Requires the Procurement Policy Board (now, the Governor or an ethics board or commission) to review conflicts of interests with respect to the award of State contracts and to determine whether to void reviewed contracts (now, determined by the chief procurement officer).
Appropriates $17,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the planning and construction of a suburban veterans nursing home that will provide at least 200 new beds. Effective July 1, 2009.
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.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure by providing that an order appointing a private process server in a county with a population less than 2 million (instead of 1 million) must list the name of the specific person authorized to make the service; multiple names or blank authorization may not be allowed unless the person is licensed as a private detective or is employed by a detective agency licensed by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. The court may not appoint a private person who represents himself as a private process service company unless the person is licensed as a private detective agency by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private Security, Fingerprint Vendor, and Locksmith Act of 2004. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax credit for a taxpayer who: (i) is allowed the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit; and (ii) is a member or spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the Illinois National Guard, or any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, who was deployed during the taxable year on active military duty outside the United States and its territories. Provides that the amount of the credit is the lesser of $1,000 or the amount of the federal tax credit. Provides that the credit may not be carried forward or back and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Effective immediately.
Amends the College Campus Press Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax credit for a taxpayer who: (i) is allowed the federal Child and Dependent Care Credit; and (ii) is a member or spouse of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the Illinois National Guard, or any reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States, who was deployed during the taxable year on active military duty outside the United States and its territories. Provides that the amount of the credit is the lesser of $1,000 or the amount of the federal tax credit. Provides that the credit may not be carried forward or back and may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning the platting and subdividing of property into lots with streets and other improvements in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, provides that the Section applies to subsequent owners and developers of unplatted, unsubdivided property. Provides that, until (i) the completion of a habitable structure on the property, (ii) the use of the property for business, commercial, or residential purposes, or (iii) the sale of any platted lot, the assessed value for the calendar year in which the property was platted, subdivided, and recorded shall be determined each year based on the same assessment methodology used in the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which the land was platted, subdivided, and recorded (instead of the estimated price the property would bring at a fair voluntary sale for use by the buyer for the same purposes for which the property was used when last assessed prior to its platting). Effective immediately.