Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Authorizes the Department to charge an annual vehicle admission fee and daily access fee for entrance to properties owned, managed, or both by the Department. Provides that the annual vehicle admission fee must not exceed $25 for each vehicle or $15 for each motorcycle and that the daily access fee may not exceed $5 for each vehicle or $2.50 for each pedestrian, bicyclist, or motorcyclist. Provides that the Department must not charge an annual vehicle admission fee or a daily access fee to Illinois residents who are either disabled or veterans and must charge discounted fees to seniors. Provides that vehicles with current registered environmental or sportsman series license plates are exempt from these fees. Authorizes the Department to create a volunteer pass program that would allow each person who provides 500 or more hours of volunteer service at a State park (and up to 3 of his or her guests) to enter properties owned, managed, or both by the Department without paying an annual vehicle admission fee or a daily access fee. Requires revenue generated by the annual vehicle admission and daily access fees to be deposited into the State Parks Fund. Provides that each State park shall receive 100% of the revenue that it generates from these fees for its operation and maintenance costs. Authorizes the Department to adopt any rules necessary to implement these fees. Effective July 1, 2009.
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Amends the Illinois Occupational Therapy Practice Act. Provides that visual therapy shall not be considered beyond an occupational therapist's scope of practice. Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Provides that nothing in the Act shall be construed to prohibit an occupational therapist who is licensed under the Illinois Occupational Therapy Practice Act from practicing visual therapy. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that a municipality that is located partially or wholly in a county with a population greater than 500,000 but less than 3,000,000 under specified conditions may expend Motor Fuel Tax street or road funds (except Federal-aid funds) on streets or highways or sections of highways without prior review or approval of the Department of Transportation for routine maintenance activities as determined by the Department, including without limitation snow plowing, street cleaning, crack-sealing, and road patching; and routine and periodic roadway resurfacing activities (including grinding off the surface course of roads, but not involving expansions or reconstruction of more than 20% of the affected road bed). Effective immediately.
Creates the Foster Child Identification Theft Protection Act. Provides that every Department of Children and Family Services caseworker shall annually request from a credit reporting agency a credit report on each child who is in foster care and assigned to the caseworker as a client. Provides that if a credit report indicates unauthorized credit-related activity in a child's name, the caseworker shall notify the credit reporting agency and request that the agency correct the child's credit record to expunge all references to the unauthorized credit-related activity or take other action that will expressly and clearly indicate that the activity was unauthorized. Provides that a caseworker shall also report such unauthorized credit-related activity to the State's Attorney. Requires the Department of Children and Family Services to develop standard forms for use by caseworkers in connection with these provisions.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that taxes may be levied to provide "human services" (now, "social services for senior citizens"). Effective immediately.
Establishes a Joint Task Force on Propane-Powered Vehicles to study the feasibility of converting State and local governmental vehicles to propane-powered vehicles.
Amends the Automotive Collision Repair Act. Provides that motor vehicle collision repair facilities shall disclose in their estimates to consumers the possible use of an estimating system, in addition to other industry standards, when determining labor costs and repair procedures (rather than labor costs only). Prohibits repairers from allowing a party who is outside the contract of repair to influence or mandate the method of estimating labor costs or repair procedures. Adds language providing that a knowing violation of the Act constitutes a violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Deletes provisions providing that a persistent practice or pattern of conduct at a single location in violation of the Act constitutes a violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that all remedies, penalties, and authority available to the Attorney General and the several State's Attorneys for the enforcement of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act shall be available and apply to all conduct in violation of the Automotive Collision Repair Act (rather than to conduct that is knowing, persistent, or indicates a pattern).
Amends the Automatic Contract Renewal Act. Provides that written notice of an automatic contract renewal shall be sent by certified mail to the consumer no less than 60 (instead of 30) days and no more than 120 (instead of 60) days before the cancellation deadline pursuant to the automatic renewal clause. Effective immediately.
Amends the Automotive Collision Repair Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning disclosures to consumers.
Amends the Motor Fuel and Petroleum Standards Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.