Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Allows a manufacturer or importing distributor that is a prior continuous compliance taxpayer and that becomes a successor of a manufacturer or importing distributor to be deemed a prior continuous compliance taxpayer with respect to the acquired manufacturer or importing distributor. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Repeals a provision that repeals the Act on July 1, 2007.
Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Adds corrections officer with the County Department of Corrections who withdraw or retire after December 31, 2004 to provisions concerning annuities for members of the County Police Department. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Creates the Hepatitis C Screening and Awareness Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to establish an Advisory Council on Hepatitis C to review, recommend changes to, and solicit funds to implement a Hepatitis C prevention plan. Requires the Department to (i) establish and promote Hepatitis C educational programs as an integral part of its health promotion and disease prevention efforts in order to raise public awareness, educate consumers, and educate and train health care professionals and human services providers and (ii) identify resources for Hepatitis C education, screening, and treatment and coordinate the efforts of existing organizations with new programs and with each other so as to maximize education and access to services. Sets forth strategies that the Department may use to raise public awareness of the causes, including risk factors, and the nature of Hepatitis C, the value of prevention and early detection, and options for diagnosing and treating the disease. Requires the Department to use the strategies, protocols, and guidelines adopted by the National Institute of Public Health on Hepatitis C for educating physicians and health professionals and training providers on the most recent scientific and medical information on Hepatitis C detection, diagnosis, treatment, and therapeutic decision-making. Provides that the following persons shall be screened for Hepatitis C using the most cost-efficient methods available and using generally accepted protocols for screening: (1) prisoners entering State correctional institutions or facilities; and (2) employees of the Department of Corrections who come into contact with the blood or body fluids of a prisoner. Effective immediately.
Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Requires a comprehensive health education program to include instruction in secondary schools on clinical depression, suicide prevention, the prevention, transmission, and spread of HIV/AIDS (rather than just AIDS), disaster and terrorism preparedness (instead of disaster survival), and organ, tissue, and blood donation.
Amends the Cook County Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that a county corrections officer who suffers a heart attack or stroke as a result of the performance and discharge of his or her duty as a county corrections officer shall be considered as having been injured in an act of duty and shall be eligible for benefits. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of State Police to develop a statewide emergency alert system for missing endangered seniors, to develop a community outreach program to promote awareness among State citizens of senior endangerment prevention and response, and to appoint a Child and Senior Safety Coordinator (rather than a Child Safety Coordinator). Requires the Department to prepare a report containing certain information when it receives a notification of a missing endangered senior and to forward the report to certain other parties. Requires the Department to begin an investigation concerning the missing endangered senior no later than 24 hours after receiving notification of the missing endangered senior. Provides a definition of "missing endangered senior". Amends the Illinois Police Training Act to require the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to provide a training program for law enforcement personnel of local governmental agencies in the statewide coordinated child abduction and missing endangered senior alert system (rather than the child abduction alert system). Effective January 1, 2006.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the rules and regulations for the early release of a prisoner on account of good conduct shall also provide that an additional 60 days of good conduct credit shall be awarded to any prisoner who earns a high school diploma or passes the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receives a GED certificate while the prisoner is incarcerated. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall develop and establish a program designed to increase the number of committed persons enrolled in programs to obtain a high school diploma or to pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates by at least 100% over the 4-year period following the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that pursuant to the program, each institution and facility shall report annually to the Director of Corrections on the number of committed persons enrolled in high school education programs and those who pass the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and receive GED certificates, and the number of committed persons who are on waiting lists for those educational programs. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning proposal of regulations.
