Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning notices or regulations requiring records, statements, and special reports.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Property Tax Code, the Counties Code, and the Clerks of Courts Act. Makes changes to provisions concerning stipends paid to supervisors of assessments, county treasurers, county coroners, county recorders, county auditors, sheriffs, and clerks of the circuit court to provide that: (1) in counties with a population under 100,000, those officials shall receive a full stipend amount; (2) in counties with a population of 100,000 or more but less than 400,000, those officials shall receive 50% of the stipend amount; and (3) in counties with a population of 400,000 or more, those officials shall receive no stipend. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. In a provision that prohibits a person from bringing into this State an alcohol without liquid machine, makes changes to the definition of "alcohol without liquid machine". Provides that "alcohol without liquid machine" does not include certain medical devices or alternative nicotine products.
Amends the Health Care Services Lien Act. Provides that "health care benefit plan" means an insurance plan provided by any public or private medical insurance provider. Adds procedures requiring a health care professional or health care provider to submit all charges to the patient's health care benefit plan prior to filing the notice of the lien. Provides that the patient's health care benefit plan shall not deny payment on the basis that a third party or other insurance carrier is responsible for the patient's injuries. Provides that the amount of the lien shall be limited to the amount the health care professional or the health care provider would have received if the charges were covered by the patient's health care benefit plan. Adds provisions concerning health care benefit plan subrogation claims. Provides that a health care professional or a health care provider that recovers under a judgment, verdict, or settlement is responsible for the pro rata share of the legal and administrative expenses incurred in obtaining the judgment, verdict, or settlement. Makes other changes.
Amends the Timber Buyers Licensing Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Defines "member-based organization" as any group, association, or organization that: (1) has a membership that includes one or more government taxing bodies; (2) lobbies on behalf of its governmental members; and (3) receives a majority of its funding from its governmental members. Provides that a member-based organization is a public body under the Act; however, only records relating to the member-based organization's receipt of public funds or its expenditures made in whole or in part with public funds are public records subject to inspection and copying by the public.
Amends the General Assembly Organization Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the deposit of books, bills, documents, and papers with the Secretary of State.
Amends the Public Officer Prohibited Activities Act. Prohibits an elected officer of a unit of local government from entering into or authorizing an employment contract, with the exception of a contract negotiated with a labor union, that would extend past the expiration of his or her elected term. Prohibits a governing body of a unit of local government from entering into or authorizing an employment contract, with the exception of a contract negotiated with a labor union, that would extend past the expiration of the term of the elected officer of the governing body whose term expires last. Provides that an employment contract entered into in violation of these provisions is voidable.
