Amends the Public Construction Bond Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax checkoff for the Habitat for Humanity Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be appropriated to the Department of Human Services for grants supporting Habitat for Humanity projects in Illinois. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if in any taxable year the governing authority of any taxing district determines that a surplus of funds is available from any source, that taxing district may, by resolution or ordinance, eliminate its tax levy for that taxable year. Provides that the taxing district may resume its tax levy in any subsequent taxable year without additional referendum approval.
Amends the Secretary of State Act to give the Secretary of State Inspector General the authority to investigate lobbyist wrongdoing. Amends the Lobbyist Registration Act with respect to the following: the definition of "official"; lobbying entities; registration under the Act; serving on boards and commissions; reports; gifts; penalties; and other matters. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the Medical Assistance Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that if medical assistance reimbursements to any category of medical assistance providers are payable based on a shortened or maximum payment cycle as part of an agreement with the federal government to receive an enhanced federal matching rate, then medical assistance reimbursements for hospice services shall also be made pursuant to such shortened or maximum payment cycle. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a municipality that establishes a special service area may petition the circuit court to disconnect territory from the special service area. Effective immediately.
Creates the Agency Appropriation Act. Requires separate legislative bills for appropriations to each State agency.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that any taxing district may order the county clerk to abate all or a portion of the taxes levied by that taxing district on any parcel of property within the boundaries of the taxing district that is owned by a paraplegic or quadriplegic as his or her primary residence.