Creates the Local Legacy Act. Creates the Local Legacy Board and establishes its membership, powers, and duties. Provides that the Board must choose a chairperson, adopt rules necessary to implement the Act, and submit a report to the General Assembly and the Governor by January 1, 2006 and every 2 years thereafter. Creates the Local Legacy Program to fund county-municipal partnerships for the purpose of inventorying and protecting natural areas, farmland, and cultural resources. Requires counties interested in program funds to form a Local Steering Committee composed of county board members, municipal officers, and local residents and provides procedures for Committee oversight of grant requests. Requires any Committee to develop criteria and a Resource Protection Plan for prioritizing resources and the use of grant moneys under the Act. Allows a local municipality to object in writing to all or some of the Resource Protection Plan and provides that only those counties, municipalities, and units of local government that have adopted a Resource Protection Plan are eligible for grant moneys under the Act. Creates the Local Legacy Fund as a special fund in the State treasury and specifies the purposes for which the Fund moneys may be used.
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Amends provisions of the Illinois Human Rights Act. Provides that, for purposes of the Act, discrimination based on national origin includes discrimination based on the language spoken in the place in which a person or one of his or her ancestors was born. Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the Military Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning funding for the Department of Military Affairs.
Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Adds a caption to a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that on and after July 1, 2005, the Department of Public Aid shall reimburse providers of home health services under the Medicaid program at the same rates at which the federal government reimburses providers of those services under the Medicare program, using the Low Utilization Payment Adjustment (LUPA) national-average rate structure. Requires that the Department adjust those rates annually to reflect changes in the LUPA national-average rate structure. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person who accepts credit cards for the transaction of business may not print more than the last 5 digits of the credit card account number or the expiration date upon any receipt provided to the cardholder. Provides that a violation is an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act. Applies only to receipts that are electronically printed and does not apply to transactions in which the sole means of recording the person's credit card number is by handwriting or by an imprint or copy of the credit card. Provides that the new provisions become operative on January 1, 2008, with respect to any cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts for credit card transactions that is in use before January 1, 2005. Provides that the new provisions become operative on January 1, 2005, with respect to any cash register or other machine or device that electronically prints receipts for credit card transactions that is first put into use on or after January 1, 2005. Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Prohibits the use in a child care facility, public restroom, or health club of electronic devices capable of producing a visual image and of cell phones regardless of their capacity to produce a visual image. Permits the use of these devices for business or emergency use. Provides that a person who violates these provisions is guilty of a petty offense and shall be fined $1,000.
Amends the Use Tax Act and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment exemption also includes production related tangible personal property. Defines "production related tangible personal property" as all tangible personal property used or consumed by the purchaser in a manufacturing facility in which a manufacturing process takes place, including tangible personal property purchased for incorporation into real estate within a manufacturing facility and including, but not limited to, tangible personal property used or consumed in activities such as preproduction material handling, receiving, quality control, inventory control, storage, staging, and packaging for shipping and transportation purposes. Provides that "production related tangible personal property" does not include (i) tangible personal property used, within or without a manufacturing facility, in sales, purchasing, accounting, fiscal management, marketing, personnel recruitment or selection, or landscaping or (ii) tangible personal property required to be titled or registered with a department, agency, or unit of federal, state, or local government. Effective immediately.
Creates the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards Act. Provides that the Director of Commerce and Community Affairs shall adopt rules establishing minimum efficiency standards for certain products sold or installed in this State. Provides that the Director shall adopt procedures for testing the products and that manufacturers shall identify each product offered for sale or installed in the State as in compliance by means of a mark, label, or tag. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes technical changes to the short title Section.