Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides for the confidentiality of a person's social security number if that number is received as part of an application for the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption or is received during an investigation concerning an exemption. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that gradual elimination of nonconforming off-premises outdoor advertising signs over time, as permitted under Section 11-13-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, shall be deemed just compensation for the signs under the Article concerning eminent domain. Provides that the right to compensation for an eminent domain taking applies to the owner or owners of any lawfully erected off-premises outdoor advertising sign that is compelled to be removed (instead of altered or removed). Effective immediately.
Amends the Technology Development Act. Provides that no greater than 3% (now, 1%) of the Treasurer's investment portfolio at the time of investment (now, at any time) may be segregated in the Technology Investment Account. Provides that the Treasurer's investment in a fund created by an Illinois venture capital firm may not exceed 15% (now, 10%) of total investments in the venture capital fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Executive Reorganization Implementation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of aggravated intimidation of a senior citizen (a person 60 years of age or older). Defines the offense. Provides that a violation is a Class 2 felony for which the offender may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 3 years and not more than 14 years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that certain waste composting facilities are not pollution control facilities under the Act if the materials used for composting at the facility are limited to certain materials (livestock waste, crop residue, uncontaminated wood waste, landscape waste, source separated food waste, and paper waste) in specified amounts (no more than 10,000 cubic yards of raw materials, composting material, or end-product compost on-site at any one time that uses only livestock waste, crop residue, uncontaminated wood waste, and landscape waste as raw materials for composting, or that has no more than 30,000 cubic yards if the compost facility is part of a required Waste Management Plan that has been developed in accordance with the standards of the Livestock Management Facilities Act and meets certain other conditions, or no more than 5,000 cubic yards of raw materials, composting material, or end-product compost on-site at any one time, that uses source separated food waste, paper waste, livestock waste, uncontaminated wood waste, and landscape waste). Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Sergeant Thomas M. Gilbert of Downers Grove, Illinois.
Congratulates the Village of Lisle on their 50th Anniversary of Incorporation.
Amends the State Comptroller Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the transfer of money.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law of the Property Tax Code. Sets forth procedures that taxing districts must follow when seeking referendum approval after April 5, 2005 to increase (i) the maximum authorized tax rate for any fund for which the taxing district is authorized by statute to levy taxes and which rate is limited by prior referendum or statutory authorization and which rate is authorized by statute to be increased for a limited or unlimited number of years by direct (and not back door) referendum, except for increases that require an equal corresponding tax rate decrease for another fund or (ii) the maximum extended tax rate applicable only to the next taxes to be either levied or extended for any fund notwithstanding the limiting rate that would otherwise be applicable for such taxing district. Sets forth requirements for form of ballot propositions and referendum notices. Sets forth procedures for setting the new tax rates. Provides that a taxing district is limited to an extension limitation (instead of "extension increase") of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year, whichever is less.
