Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the "Medicaid" Article.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning the legislative purpose of the Act.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for grants to Special Recreation Associations. Effective on July 1, 2003.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the general powers and duties of the Department.
Amends the Community Services Act. Makes a stylistic change in a Section concerning the legislative purpose.
Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Community Services, Disabilities, and Mental Health Fund. Provides that, on and after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, all moneys received by the Department of Human Services as federal financial participation funds shall be deposited into the Community Services, Disabilities, and Mental Health Fund. Provides that, subject to appropriation, moneys in the Fund shall be used to fund only those programs that generate federal financial participation funds. Effective immediately.
Amends the Community Services Act. Provides that whenever any appropriation, or any portion of an appropriation, for any fiscal year relating to the funding of any State-operated facility operated by the Office of Developmental Disabilities within the Department of Human Services or any mental health facility operated by the Office of Mental Health within the Department is reduced because of any of the following reasons, those moneys must be directed toward providing other services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities or mental health needs: (1) closing of a State-operated facility; (2) reduction of the number of available beds in a State-operated facility; or (3) reduction in the number of staff at a State-operated facility. Provides for the appointment of a Funding Reinvestment Advisory Task Force to assist the Department of Human Services in implementing these provisions. Effective immediately.
Creates the Illinois Independent Forensic Laboratory Act. Establishes the Illinois Independent Forensic Laboratory to conduct forensic testing for Illinois law enforcement agencies. Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Provides for the decertification of a police officer who was the subject of an administrative proceeding of a law enforcement agency employing the officer and was determined to knowingly have committed perjury in a criminal proceeding. Amends the Counties Code. Permits the Public Defender to act as an attorney for an indigent person, without fee and appointment by the court, who is in custody during the person's interrogation regarding first degree murder for which the death penalty may be imposed and the person has requested advice of counsel. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Eliminates various aggravating factors for which the death penalty may be imposed. Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Creates the State Death Penalty Review Committee. Provides that the committee must approve the decision of a State's Attorney to seek the death penalty. Provides that a defendant charged with first degree murder may make a motion prior to trial to preclude the imposition of the death penalty because the defendant is mentally retarded. Amends the Capital Crimes Litigation Act. Eliminates the July 1, 2004 repealer of the Act. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person who is mentally retarded is unfit to be executed. Amends other Acts. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Community Services Act. Provides that, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter, the annual appropriation to the Department of Human Services to fund community services for the developmentally disabled, the physically disabled, and the mentally ill must include a cost of living increase that is equivalent to the Consumer Price Index and that this cost of living increase must be in addition to any increases that are attributable to other factors. Effective immediately.
Creates the Interagency Coordinating Committee on Transportation Act. Contains findings and statements of purpose. Creates the Illinois Coordinating Committee on Transportation to foster the coordination of public and private transportation services and establishes its membership, duties, and powers. Provides that the Governor or his or her designee shall serve as chairperson, and that the Secretary of Transportation and a representative of a community based organization involved in transportation or their designees, shall serve as co-vice-chairpersons and be responsible for staff support for the Committee. Effective immediately.
