Congratulates the Naperville North High School football team, the Huskies, on winning the Class 8A State Championship.
Congratulate the Naperville Central High School Girls Volleyball Team on winning the Class 4A State Championship.
Amends the Airport Authorities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appointments of commissioners.
Creates the Green Governments Illinois Act. Provides for the creation of the Green Governments Coordinating Council and sets out the composition and responsibilities of the Council. Gives the Council the authority to solicit and receive grants to fulfill the Council's functions and to solicit, use, and publish advice and information to assist in the Council's duties. Provides that participation in the Green Governments Illinois program by units of State and local government and educational institutions is voluntary. Sets out responsibilities of State agencies under the Act. Provides that a member of the Lieutenant Governor's staff shall be responsible for the establishment and maintenance of a Green Governments Illinois website with specified content. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall establish and administer a program to make grants to municipalities whose buildings conform with the United States Green Building Council's Leadership on Energy and Design (LEED) rating system.
Amends the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section authorizing the imposition of the tax.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides an exemption from taxation under the Acts for tangible personal property used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public water supply that is operated by a not-for-profit entity. Provides that the Acts' sunset provisions do not apply to these exemptions.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that an offender placed on supervision, probation, or mandatory supervised release for an offense committed on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act that would qualify the accused as a child sex offender shall, as a condition of that supervision, probation, or mandatory supervised release, refrain from communicating with or contacting, by means of the Internet, a person who is not related to the accused and whom the accused reasonably believes to be under 18 years of age.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Creates the MRSA Screening and Reporting Act and amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Requires every hospital to establish a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) control program, and sets forth items that must be included in such a program. Provides that for all hospital patients who are identified with nosocomial S. aureus bloodstream infection or asymptomatic colonization due to MRSA, the Department of Public Health shall require the annual reporting of such cases as a communicable disease or condition. Requires the Department to compile aggregate data from all hospitals for all such patients and to make such data available on its website and in all reports on health statistics and reportable communicable disease cases in Illinois. In provisions of the Hospital Licensing Act concerning the reporting of communicable reportable diseases and conditions, provides that after the effective date of the amendatory Act, such reportable diseases and conditions shall include nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections and asymptomatic colonization due to MRSA.
