Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act. Grants the Illinois Department of Transportation the power to enter into agreements to make direct grants and low-interest loans to minority-owned businesses, female-owned businesses, and disadvantaged business enterprises certified by the Department for participation on Department-procured construction and construction-related contracts. Provides that grant and loan funds shall be expended, subject to appropriation, from the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund. Specifies permissible uses of funds and provides that funds may be loaned with or without interest. Provides that the Department shall establish the requirements for eligibility and criteria for grant and loan applications, approved use of funds, amount of loans or grants, interest rates, collateral, and terms. Creates the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund and provides that the State Comptroller shall order and the State Treasurer shall transfer $10,000,000 from the Road Fund to the Working Capital Loan Repayment Fund.
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Amends the Condominium Property Act. Provides that to the extent that the governing documents of a common interest community or a master association provide for lien rights and the applicability of forcible entry provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure, the purchaser of a unit in a common interest community or master association at a judicial foreclosure sale, other than a mortgagee, who takes possession of a unit pursuant to a court order or a purchaser who acquires title from a mortgagee has the duty to pay the proportionate share, if any, of the common expenses for the unit which would have become due in the absence of any assessment acceleration during the 6 months immediately preceding the commencement of an action to collect the unpaid assessments. Provides that if the outstanding assessments are paid at any time during a collection action, the purchaser shall have no obligation to pay any assessments which accrued before he or she acquired title. Provides that this does not create a statutory lien in favor of the common interest community or master association.
Amends the Illinois Lottery Law and the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois to extend the Quality of Life scratch-off game and the Quality of Life Board for an additional 5 years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Requires a chief executive officer and a general superintendent of schools to have a Master of Education degree and hold a current teaching certificate issued under the School Code.
Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987, the High Risk Home Loan Act, and the Interest Act. Limits the imposition of prepayment penalties in connection with high risk home loans. Limits the size of balloon payments in connection with high risk home loans. Limits the imposition of late fees. Effective January 1, 2013.
Amends the Architectural, Engineering, and Land Surveying Qualifications Based Selection Act. Provides that the public member of a State agency's committee to select firms to provide architectural, engineering, and land surveying services shall be appointed every 2 years and serve a 2-year term. Provides that a public member may not serve consecutive terms.
Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers of the Authority.
Creates the Task Force on Criminal Justice Reform to study the Illinois criminal justice and correctional system and make recommendations to the General Assembly for structural changes in the Illinois criminal justice and correctional system with the goals of enhancing public safety, reducing victimization and recidivism, holding offenders more accountable, enhancing probation, mandatory supervised release, and parole supervision, and better managing a growing prison population through increasing public safety, improving rehabilitation, and lowering State expense. Provides that the Task Force shall complete its work and report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 2012.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act and the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that employers with fewer than 25 employees are exempt from paying estimated taxes and may pay their unemployment insurance contributions and submit their wage and contribution reports on an annual basis (instead of quarterly). Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that an abatement granted to the surviving spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue worker also applies to the surviving spouse of a fallen soldier. Effective immediately.