Creates the Comprehensive Housing, Health, and Supportive Services for Older Adults Act and amends the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, the State Finance Act, and the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires the Director of Public Health, in coordination with the Director of Aging and the Director of Public Aid, to monitor and analyze the distribution of housing and services for older adults in the different geographic areas of the State and implement corrective action plans by July 1, 2005. Provides for a program for conversion of nursing homes to assisted living or shared housing establishments; makes such conversions exempt from the requirements of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act, and provides for transition planning grants to nursing homes making such conversions. Creates special funds in the State treasury for use in implementing the Comprehensive Housing, Health, and Supportive Services for Older Adults Act. Provides for transfers from the Long Term Care Monitor/Receiver Fund to the new Nursing Home Conversion Fund and the new Nursing Home Transition Planning Grant Fund. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Sponsored bills
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the township or multi-township assessors in counties with 500,000 or more but no more than 700,000 inhabitants shall, on or before October 15 of the assessment year, return the assessment books or workbooks to the supervisor of assessments (now, counties with less than 600,000 inhabitants must return the books on or before April 15). Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county board may authorize the clerk of the circuit court to charge litigants in civil cases a county law library fee not to exceed $13 (now, not to exceed $10). Effective immediately.
Amends the Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act. Provides that the members of the Clinical Psychologists Licensing and Disciplinary Board appointed to fill a vacancy shall be eligible for reappointment to 2 full terms (rather only one full term). Effective immediately.
Amends the Local Government Debt Reform Act. Defines "revenue source" to include any public building commission (PBC) lease rental base alternate tax levy. Defines "limited bonds" to include PBC leases and excludes other leases. Defines "public building commission rental base" as an amount equal to that portion of the extension for a taxing district for the 1999 levy year constituting an extension for payment of lease rentals under a PBC lease allocable to the retirement of bonds issued by the commission. Defines "public building commission lease rental base alternate tax levy" as a special purpose levy available to a unit of local government and authorized for the payment of limited bonds as a revenue source, which shall equal the PBC lease rental base less the amount of that base allocable to the payment of lease rentals under a PBC lease. Provides that a governmental unit is authorized to issue limited bonds payable from the debt service extension base or the PBC lease rental base, or both (now, payable from the debt service extension base only). Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Code. With respect to limited bonds and double-barrelled bonds issued under the Local Government Debt Reform Act, exempts from the tax caps in the taxing districts to which the law applied before the 1995 levy year special purpose extensions made for payment of principal and interest on bonds issued concerning PBC leases. Amends the Public Building Commission Act. In provisions concerning tax levies for PBC lease rental payments, provides that the tax levied may relate to the amount necessary to pay the annual rent under the lease or the PBC lease rental base (now, related only to the amount necessary to pay the annual rent under the lease). Provides that taxes are not required to be levied or extended in excess of the allocated portion of a PBC lease rental base. Amends the Counties Code. Includes within the exception for taxes levied to pay annual rent payments due under a lease entered into by the county with a Public Building Commission, payments made from the PBC lease rental base. Excludes taxes levied allocable to the PBC lease rental base tax levy and taxes levied to pay principal of and interest on limited bonds. Effective immediately.
Congratulates Jack Kiesgen on the occasion of his retirement as the Grant Township Highway Commissioner.
Amends the Higher Education Student Assistance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning defaulting on a loan.
Congratulates Jack Kiesgen on the occasion of his retirement as the Grant Township Highway Commissioner.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in the statute concerning first degree murder.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. In each of the definitions of "aggregate extension" excludes extensions made to fund the district's expenses to provide joint recreational programs for the handicapped under the Park District Code and the Illinois Municipal Code. Effective immediately.