Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
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Mourns the death of John Miller Cowlishaw of Lockport.
Congratulates the school teams "Irresistible Emus" and "ICicles" who will be competing at the Global Finals for the Destination Imagination tournament.
Mourns the death of Richard W. "Rick" Larison Jr. of Rochester.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Provides that a Department analysis of certain budget and funding allocations shall be reported to the Governor and General Assembly no later than April 31, 2005 or the effective date of this amendatory Act, whichever is earlier (now, no later than December). Requires the analysis to include the status of Medicaid billing for FY05 and provides that the report shall be forwarded to the Governor and General Assembly as set forth in a certain Mental Health Memorandum of Understanding. Effective immediately.
Amends the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a statewide toll-free telephone hotline for providing information and support to community mental health or developmental services agencies in connection with the operation of community-integrated living arrangements. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Betsy Hanisch who was honored with the Elmhurst Jaycees' 2005 Distinguished Service Award.
Congratulates Driscoll Catholic High School Highlanders football team, from Addison, on winning the Class 3A State Championship on November 26, 2004.
Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions in the Property Tax Code. Increases the ceiling for household income eligibility for taxable years 2004 and thereafter from $40,000 per year to $45,000 per year. Provides that beginning in taxable year 2005 the household income limitation for eligibility for the exemption shall be adjusted annually to reflect increases in the Consumer Price Index reported by the federal Department of Labor. Provides that if the person qualifying for the exemption has been granted the exemption for the property in 2 consecutive taxable years as a result of the filing of an application, then the person qualifying need not reapply for the exemption for that property if at least one household member will be 70 years of age during the current taxable year. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act and the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act. Prohibits the Department of Human Services from implementing a request-for-proposals (RFP) process for contracts to provide services under those Acts for FY06 until the Department (i) completes a cost-benefit analysis of the contracts to provide services under those Acts that were entered into for FY05 and (ii) reports its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly. Provides that the analysis must include an evaluation of the degree to which the recipients of the services were satisfied with the provision of those services. Effective immediately.