Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Provides that none of the amount received by an individual as primary social security old age and disability retirement benefits shall constitute disqualifying income.
Amends the Election Code. Requires that political committees report all campaign contributions, expenditures, and transfers (now, those in excess of $150). Requires that nonprofit organizations disclose the name and address of each donor to the nonprofit organization during the reporting period.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Creates the offense of use of a child to commit a controlled substance offense. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she is 17 years of age or over and commits a felony delivery or felony attempted delivery of a controlled substance in violation of the Act and, as part of that criminal transaction, knowingly uses a child under 17 years of age to effectuate the felony delivery or felony attempted delivery of the controlled substance. Provides that the penalty is a Class 4 felony. Effective immediately.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Extends the repeal of the Illinois Dental Practice Act to January 1, 2016. Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Defines "titration" and "dental emergency responder". Prohibits the titration of orally administered sedative agents that exceeds the maximum recommended dose. Provides that a dentist shall not be required to maintain a general license in addition to a specialty license. Provides that restricted faculty licenses shall be valid for a period of 3 years, rather than 2 years. Provides that each license issued under the Act shall be valid for 3 years, rather than being set by rule of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Changes continuing education requirements for hours of study. Provides that a surviving spouse or certain other interested parties in an estate may employ, contract with, or otherwise make arrangements for a dentist or dentists to temporarily continue to operate a dental practice under the name of a deceased or incapacitated dentist under certain specified circumstances. Provides that dentists shall be entitled to reasonable reimbursement for the costs of reproducing patient dental records. Provides that a dentist or dental hygienist who is a dental emergency responder acts within the bounds of his or her license when he or she provides care during a declared local, State, or national emergency. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt rules.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a definitions Section.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Re-enacts provisions of those Codes affected by Public Act 88-669, which has been held to be unconstitutional as a violation of the single subject clause of the Illinois Constitution. Includes validation provisions. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a financial oversight panel's powers.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law of the Property Tax Code. Sets forth procedures that taxing districts must follow when seeking referendum approval after April 5, 2005 to increase (i) the maximum authorized tax rate for any fund for which the taxing district is authorized by statute to levy taxes and which rate is limited by prior referendum or statutory authorization and which rate is authorized by statute to be increased for a limited or unlimited number of years by direct (and not back door) referendum, except for increases that require an equal corresponding tax rate decrease for another fund or (ii) the maximum extended tax rate applicable only to the next taxes to be either levied or extended for any fund notwithstanding the limiting rate that would otherwise be applicable for such taxing district. Sets forth requirements for form of ballot propositions and referendum notices. Sets forth procedures for setting the new tax rates. Provides that a taxing district is limited to an extension limitation (instead of "extension increase") of 5% or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year, whichever is less.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that no later than July 1, 2007, subject to federal approval of a State Medicaid Plan amendment, which shall be sought by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or its successor agency, persons who fail to qualify for basic maintenance under the Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD) program on the basis of need because of excess income or assets, or both, may establish prospective eligibility for that basic maintenance by paying their monthly Medicaid spend-down amount to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or by having a third party pay that amount to the Department.
