Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that for purposes of the senior citizens assessment freeze homestead exemption eligibility threshold, "income" is defined to mean adjusted gross income, properly reportable for federal income tax purposes (now, federal adjusted gross income plus various additions for payments made or moneys received during the taxable year, including interest or dividend income, state income tax payments, annuity income, social security payments, railroad retirement payments, public assistance payments, and a deduction carried over from a prior year for a net operating or capital loss). Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provision and the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement from the State. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that a resident judge elected from a subcircuit shall continue to reside in that subcircuit as long as he or she holds that office, including all terms held as a result of a retention election (now, as long as he or she holds that office). Effective immediately.
Creates the Prescription Drug Ethical Marketing Act. Requires every manufacturer and labeler that sells prescription drugs in the State to disclose to the Director the value, nature, and purpose of any gift, fee, payment, subsidy, or other economic benefit provided in connection with detailing or promotional or other marketing activities by the company, directly or through its pharmaceutical marketers, to any physician, hospital, nursing home, pharmacist, health benefit plan administrator, or any other person in the State authorized to prescribe or dispense prescription drugs. Requires the Director to report to the Governor and the General Assembly on the disclosures. Provides exceptions to the disclosures. Provides for injunctive relief and civil penalties for failure to disclose.
Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an eligible child may continue to receive benefits until age 23 (was, age 22) if he or she is a full-time student. Effective immediately.
Amends the Parentage Act of 1984. Provides a list of proper venues for modification or enforcement of a judgment for support, custody, visitation, or removal entered under the Act. Provides that objection to the venue is waived if it is not made within such time as the respondent's answer is due.
Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Adds an at large judgeship to the 22nd judicial circuit (McHenry County) to be filled at the 2008 general election and not by appointment before that election.
Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that, if a person has committed a total of 3 or more violations of the gross negligence ground for discipline or any substantially similar provision of another jurisdiction, or any combination thereof, the Department must refuse to issue a license to the person and must revoke any license issued to the person under the Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the School-As-Lender Contracts Prohibition Act. Prohibits a public university in Illinois that offers graduate courses from entering into a school-as-lender contract with a private lending institution, but allows the university to maintain its Direct Loan Programs. Provides that any university that violates the Act shall forfeit $8.91 of State funding for every $100 loaned to the university through a school-as-lender contract.
Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.