Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a person convicted of or placed on court supervision for an assault or aggravated assault when the victim and the offender are family or household members as defined in the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986 or convicted of domestic battery or aggravated domestic battery shall be required to attend anger management classes under such terms and conditions imposed by the court. Provides that the costs of such classes shall be paid by the offender. Effective immediately.
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Amends the School Visitation Rights Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Commends Lance Corporal Richard S. Eilert of Lake Zurich as he prepares to deploy for his third tour of duty to Iraq.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the leasing of exempt property.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "taxing district".
Creates the Regional Fire Protection Authority Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the State Finance Act. Excludes moneys received by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Illinois Credit Union Act from those moneys required to be deposited into the Financial Institution Fund. Makes certain provisions concerning transfers to the General Revenue Fund inapplicable to (i) any fund established under the Illinois Credit Union Act, the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, or the Savings Bank Act and (ii) the Professions Indirect Cost Fund. Limits transfers and expenditures from those funds to specified purposes. Prohibits the allocation or transfer of additional amounts generated by certain fee increases with respect to or from the Credit Union Fund. Amends the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and the Savings Bank Act. With respect to the moneys in each of the Bank and Trust Company Fund, the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund, and the Credit Union Fund, (i) exempts those moneys from assignment or transfer except for unappropriated administrative expenses and (ii) provides that the moneys remain the property of and must be held in trust for the financial institutions from which they were collected. For FY08, requires the Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate (now, the Director of the Division of Banks and Real Estate) to adopt rules to adjust regulatory fee rates in the specified manner. Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that the regulatory fee paid by a credit union to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall be the lesser of (i) the rate pursuant to the regulatory fee schedule or (ii) a rate established in a manner proportionately consistent with the rates in the regulatory fee schedule and that would fund the actual administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section. Increases rates in the regulatory fee schedule for credit unions with total assets over $5,000,000. Requires the Director of Financial and Professional Regulation to adjust the fee schedule for the next fiscal year. Provides that the fee schedule may be increased by no more than 5% annually if necessary to defray the actual (now, estimated) administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section (now, the Department). Prohibits any increase in the fee schedule if the amount remaining in the Credit Union Fund at the end of the fiscal year is equal to or greater than 25% of the actual administrative and operational expenses for the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Director to base the regulatory fee for the next fiscal year on the credit union's total assets as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year. Beginning on July 1, 2005, requires a credit union to pay the regulatory fee in quarterly installments due and payable on the due date for the call report for the preceding quarter (now, a credit union is required to pay the regulatory fee in full no later than March 1 of each calendar year). Provides for a regulatory fee cap of $125,000 (now, $187,500). Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In a Section concerning tax checkoff explanations, increases the amount of the minimum contribution amount from $100,000 to $125,000. Provides that: (i) if the contributions to all of the funds meet the minimum contribution amount, then the minimum contribution amount for the subsequent taxable years is increased by $25,000; and (ii) if the contributions to all of the funds fail to meet the minimum contribution amount, then the minimum contribution amount for the subsequent taxable years is decreased by $25,000. Provides that, in any year, the individual income tax return forms may not contain explanations and spaces for more than 18 funds. Requires the Department of Revenue to maintain a reserve list of all income tax checkoffs in excess of the 18 that are placed on income tax return forms. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Fire Marshal Act. Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to create a grant program to distribute funds to local fire departments and first responder organizations for the research and development of improved methods of responding to emergency incidents of domestic violence. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Domestic Violence First Responders Fund as a special fund in the State treasury and provides that it shall be used for the grants. Effective immediately.