Creates the Mass Transit Consolidation Commission. Requires that the Commission prepare and issue a report to the Governor and the General Assembly by July 1, 2012, setting forth the findings and conclusions of the Commission concerning whether viable and sustainable transit service can be provided for the northeastern region of the State.
Amends the Agricultural Areas Conservation and Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Community Association Manager Licensing and Disciplinary Act. Removes the provision requiring community associations that have 10 or more units and are registered in this State as not-for-profit corporations to pay an annual fee of $50 plus an additional $1 per unit along with any penalties from failure to pay the annual fees. Effective January 1, 2013.
Amends the Elder Abuse and Neglect Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Industrial Hemp Act of 2012. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Urban Renewal Consolidation Act of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Provides that the Director of Natural Resources shall adopt rules that require, prior to such hydraulic fracturing, the owner or operator to perform a suitable mechanical integrity test of the casing or of the casing-tubing annulus or other mechanical integrity test methods using procedures that are established by administrative rule. Provides that each owner or operator that begins extracting natural gas from shale shall report to the Department specified information within 30 days after the completion of all stages of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Requires that the owner or operator shall post the chemical disclosure information on certain specified websites. Provides that the owner or operator shall provide information to the Director as to the amounts, handling, and, if necessary, disposal at an identified appropriate disposal facility, or reuse of the well stimulation fluid load recovered during flow back, swabbing, or recovery from production facility vessels. Provides that the storage of the well stimulation fluid load shall be protective of an underground source of drinking water by the use of either tanks or lined pits. Provides that nothing in the provision shall be construed to require or allow disclosure of trade secrets or commercial information that is exempt from inspection or copying when provided to the Department together with a claim made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act that such information is proprietary, privileged, or confidential and that disclosure may cause competitive harm to the person or business. Provides that the provision only applies to the extraction of natural gas from shale.
Amends the Employee Washroom Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that blood testing materials purchased for use by persons residing in certain licensed facilities are exempt from the taxes imposed under those Acts. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In a Section concerning estimated taxes, provides that, if a taxpayer is entitled to a refund after the payment of the fourth installment, then he or she may apply the amount of the refund to the first installment due in the next taxable year.
