Rep. Sidney H. Mathias

Amends the Property Tax Code. Requires that, in counties with 3,000,000 or more inhabitants, on or before October 1, 2010, the county assessor shall reassess all property in the county for which 2010 is not the general assessment year. Provides that the reassessments may not be done through the application of one or more factors, mathematical or otherwise. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Automatic Telephone Dialers Act. Requires an autodialer to provide the complete company name and return phone number within its pre-recorded message. Provides that an autodialer shall provide within the pre-recorded message an option of pressing a designated button to connect with a live operator at any time during the message or a phone number for opting out of further solicitation calls. Requires an autodialer to be properly registered so that the name or telephone number or both are available for display for caller ID. Extends the list of telephone calls made by an autodialer that are exempted from the Act to include a telephone call placed on behalf of any public policy organization.

Mourns the death of Lance Corporal James Bray Stack of Arlington Heights.

Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall produce a redistricting plan using a computer program. In the year following each Federal decennial census year, requires the State Board of Elections to designate its computer program by April 15 and to file the redistricting plan by June 1, which is presumed valid and has the force and effect of law. The computer program designated by the State Board of Elections must disregard specified data and must consider certain prioritized factors; the computer program shall otherwise produce districts in a random manner. Effective beginning with redistricting in 2011 and applies to members elected in 2012 and thereafter.

Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department to establish and maintain the Illinois New Employee Portal on its official website. Specifies the information to be included on the searchable database concerning State employees hired after the bill's effective date.

Amends the Older Adult Services Act. In provisions concerning the development of a plan to restructure the State's service delivery system for older adults, provides that the Department on Aging and the Departments of Public Health and Healthcare and Family Services shall develop the plan no later than September 30, 2010. Provides that the plan shall protect the rights of all older Illinoisans to services based on their health circumstances and functioning level, regardless of whether they receive their care in their homes, in a community setting, or in a residential facility. Provides that financing for older adult services shall take into account individual preference but shall not jeopardize the health, safety, or level of care of nursing home residents. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning legislative intent in connection with public assistance fraud.

Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. Provides that a conversion cost rebate may be issued for the cost of converting a conventional vehicle or a hybrid vehicle (now, just a conventional vehicle) to an alternate fuel vehicle. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony for any sex offender (rather than just a child sex offender) to knowingly be present in any public park building or on real property comprising any public park or to knowingly loiter on a public way within 500 feet of a public park building or real property comprising any public park.

Amends the MRSA Screening and Reporting Act. Requires Illinois hospitals to screen certain patients for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ("MRSA") upon admission, including all patients admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit; patients who were previously colonized or infected with MRSA; surgical patients receiving implants; and patients transferred from a nursing home or healthcare facility. Requires hospitals to re-screen patients who were admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit or previously transferred from a nursing home facility, prior to discharge or transfer to another healthcare facility. Repeals January 1, 2011 repealer date. Effective immediately.