Rep. Sidney H. Mathias

Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article and the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides a special retirement formula for certain firefighters who receive a retirement annuity from more than one Article 4 pension fund. Requires additional contributions. Authorizes certain firefighters who participate in IMRF to become members of a downstate firefighter pension fund and to transfer their creditable service from IMRF to that downstate firefighter pension fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Sports Facilities Authority Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Telecommunications Article of the Public Utilities Act. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to obtain Number Resource Utilization and Forecast Reports from the North American Numbering Plan Administration and identify to that Administration any telecommunications carriers that are not in compliance with the Federal Communications Commission's number utilization rules. Provides for investigation of telecommunications carriers that are not in compliance. Requires the Illinois Commerce Commission to report any actions it takes to obtain compliance by telecommunications carriers.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that every count in every complaint and counterclaim shall contain specific prayers for relief.

Amends the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act. Replaces provisions concerning a local public entity's duty to exercise ordinary care in the maintenance of its property. Provides that neither a local public entity nor a public employee or agent of the local public entity, nor any other person engaged by the local public entity, public employee, or agent, who removes or attempts to remove snow or ice from a street, sidewalk, or other public way is liable for any injury that results from a condition caused by that undertaking unless the alleged misconduct was willful and wanton. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, and the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Provides that if an order of protection has been entered against one of the parties or in other appropriate circumstances, the court may appoint or may direct the Department of Children and Family Services to appoint a neutral third party to be present when the child is exchanged for visitation. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Creates the offense of unlawful attempt to purchase a firearm without a Firearm Owner's Identification Card. Provides that it is a Class A misdemeanor for a person to: (1) intend to purchase a firearm without displaying to the transferor of the firearm a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card issued in the person's name by the Department of State Police; and (2) take a substantial step in the completion of the purchase of the firearm.

Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that the Department of State Police must report the name and address of a person to the local law enforcement agency where the person resides if the person attempting to purchase a firearm is disqualified from purchasing a firearm because of information obtained during the dial-up telephone communication with the Department of State Police.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Creates the offense of theft of motor fuel, a Class A misdemeanor punishable by a minimum fine of $250 or 30 days of community service. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly operates a vehicle so as to cause it to leave the premises of an establishment at which motor fuel offered for retail sale was dispensed into the fuel tank of the vehicle unless that person or some other person has paid for or charged the price of the dispensed motor fuel. Provides that a second violation shall cause the person's driver's license to be suspended for 6 months and that a third or subsequent violation shall result in a one-year suspension.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning commencement of actions and forms of process.