Amends the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. Provides that every person, association, trust, or corporation having any direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a cultivation center operation shall certify that he or she has never owned nor operated a business,corporation, or other organization whose mission is or was to promote the sale or use of loose tobacco, or both, or the sale or use of plants, herbs, cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other devices for burning tobacco and related smoking accessories, or any materials intended to be used unlawfully in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing cannabis, cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, or a synthetic drug product or misbranded drug in violation of the Illinois Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act into the human body as defined in the Drug Paraphernalia Control Act. Provides that a permit to cultivate or dispense medical cannabis, or both, shall not be issued to any applicant unable to comply with this requirement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that it shall be unlawful to use a mobile blind for the taking of migratory waterfowl unless the mobile blind is in a stationary position when in use. Defines "mobile blind". Effective immediately.
Recognizes that the normal cost of pensions for State educators is the responsibility of the State and that the General Assembly should not use the current budget crisis as a reason to shift its financial responsibility for State pension costs to the local taxpayers.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that land containing hotels or lodging facilities, club houses, banquet facilities, tennis or other courts, swimming pools, commercial or industrial facilities, retail shops, or land and parking areas serving any of those improvements shall be valued at its fair cash value and shall not be valued as open space land.
Amends the School Code. Removes language that provides that the Block Grants Article does not apply to the Chicago school district. Repeals the Block Grants for Chicago Article. Makes related changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that, at a State convention, each county shall be entitled to one delegate for each 500 ballots voted by the primary electors of the party in such county at the most recent general primary held prior to the convention (instead of the primary to be held next after the call for the convention). Provides that the State Board of Elections or the appropriate election authority or local election official shall notify a person for whom a petition for nomination has been filed of the obligation to file campaign disclosure documents (now, those documents are listed). Provides that an election authority shall, at least 46 days (now, 45 days) prior to the date of the primary election, have a sufficient number of ballots printed so that the ballots will be available for mailing 45 days prior to the primary election. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall send a written notice of any fine or penalty assessed or imposed against the political committee by first class mail (instead of certified mail) to the address of the political committee. Provides that provisions of the Code concerning placement of signage on public property beyond the campaign free zone apply to polling places for early voting. Makes various technical corrections. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Representative Philip M. Crane.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that certain tax liens are assignable. Provides that such an assignment of a tax lien does not alter the priority of the lien.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "33 1/3%".
Amends the Counties Code. Adds a Section providing that a county board of any non-home rule county may tax and regulate places for eating, amusement, theatricals, and other exhibitions, shows, and amusements in unincorporated areas of the county developed pursuant to a special use and subject to the local land resource management plan. Provides that a county board of any non-home rule county may enter into intergovernmental agreements with any one or more adjoining municipality for the purpose of implementing these taxes and regulations. Amends the Municipal Code. Provides that a municipality may enter into an intergovernmental agreement with a county to implement these taxes and regulations. Effective immediately.