Creates the Rental Housing Support Program Act. Provides for grants from the Illinois Housing Development Authority to local administering agencies to provide subsidies for landlords in order to allow them to charge rent that is affordable for low-income tenants. Also provides for grants from the Illinois Housing Development Authority to developers of affordable rental housing. Sets forth criteria for the awarding of grants. Requires the Authority to establish an operating reserve for the program. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Rental Housing Support Program Fund, a special fund in the State treasury. Amends the Counties Code. Provides that the county recorder shall collect a $10 surcharge for the recordation of any real estate-related document, one dollar of which shall be deposited into the county's general revenue fund and $9 of which shall be deposited into the Rental Housing Support Program Fund. Sets forth the conditions upon which and purposes for which expenditures may be made from the Accounts. Effective July 1, 2005.
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Amends the Deposit of State Moneys Act. Provides that a bank or savings and loan association is disqualified as a State depository upon making a loan to certain entities doing business in or with the government of Sudan until such time as the United Nations determines that the government of Sudan has taken sufficient and demonstrable steps to end human rights abuses in that nation. Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Prohibits the investment or deposit from the retirement system or pension fund to certain entities doing business in or with the government of Sudan until such time as the United Nations determines that the government of Sudan has taken sufficient and demonstrable steps to end human rights abuses in that nation. Effective immediately.
Recognizes the Mikva Youth Advocacy Club and the Mikva Challenge.
Congratulates Project Education Plus (PEP) and Vince Carter, founder of PEP, on the occasion of the organization's 25th anniversary.
Creates the Commission to Study the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Past and Present Effects on African-Americans.
Recognizes the organizers, participants, and attendees of Gay Games VII in Chicago, and wishes them a successful event.
Congratulates Irma P. Hall on the occasion of her 70th birthday and on having a day celebrated by the City of Chicago in her honor.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Child and Spouse Support Unit to establish the Child Support Military Modification program that shall provide for modification of child support paid by any member of the National Guard or Reserves of the United States Armed Forces called up to military active duty for more than 30 continuous days. Requires the Illinois Department of Public Aid to publish and distribute a publication reasonably calculated to inform members of the National Guard and the Reserves of the United States Armed Forces of the Child Support Military Modification program. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Bishop Horace E. Smith, M.D., on the occasion of his Silver Pastoral Anniversary Celebration and the street naming in his honor.
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Provides that tourism boards and convention or civic center boards (now tourism boards and convention or civic center boards located in counties that are contiguous to the Mississippi River with populations of more than 250,000 but less than 300,000) are public bodies for purposes of the Act. Provides that a tourism board or a convention or civic center board may hold closed meetings to consider convention or event contracts or convention or event contract proposals.