Recognizes the importance of "getting to goal" for cardiovascular health and encourages citizens to have their cholesterol tested and to "get to goal".
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the retirement formula for sheriff's law enforcement employees (SLEPs) to 2.5% of the final rate of earnings for each year of SLEP service. Increases the maximum pension payable to a SLEP from 75% to 80% of the final rate of earnings. Removes the 2-year service requirement for earning new benefits after a return to service as a SLEP. Makes these changes apply to persons in service on or after July 1, 2004. Also increases the additional employee contribution paid by SLEPs to 2.5% of salary. Eliminates the reduction in benefit imposed on a surviving spouse who is more than 5 years younger than the deceased member, for the surviving spouse of any member who dies on or after the effective date. Allows a SLEP to convert up to 10 years of non-SLEP service credit into SLEP credit by paying the difference in employee and employer contributions, plus interest. Makes the additional unfunded liability for all changes subject to a full 30-year amortization period. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the County Jail Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the sheriff as warden of the jail.
Congratulates the Village of River Forest on its 125th Anniversary.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Amends the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act. Provides that a home rule unit of local government or any municipality in this State may regulate smoking in public places. Provides that this regulation must be no less restrictive than the regulation in the Act. Changes the home rule limitation from an absolute preemption to a limitation on the concurrent exercise of home rule power. Maintains the exemption from home rule requirements for home rule units that passed ordinances regulating smoking before October 1, 1989. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers.
Creates the Firearms Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning applications for certification.
