Rep. Mike Boland

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of Revenue to offer a special instant scratch-off game for the benefit of Illinois veterans, to commence on January 1, 2006. Provides that the net revenue from the game shall be deposited into the Illinois Veterans Assistance Fund for making grants, funding additional services, or conducting additional research projects relating to certain veterans issues. Provides that moneys collected from the special instant scratch-off game shall be used as a supplemental financial resource and shall not supplant existing moneys that the Department of Veterans Affairs may currently expend. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Illinois Veterans Assistance Fund. Effective immediately.

Creates the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to engage in the manufacture of methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated manufacture of methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver methamphetamine precursors or a substance containing methamphetamine precursors with the intent that they or it be used to manufacture methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to engage in the possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Creates the offense of aggravated possession, procurement, transportation, storage, or delivery of anhydrous ammonia with the intent that it be used to manufacture methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to possess methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to dispose of methamphetamine manufacturing waste. Provides that it is unlawful knowingly to deliver or possess with intent to deliver methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine. Provides that it is unlawful to possess, procure, transport, store, or deliver anhydrous ammonia in an unauthorized container. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Repeals the provision prohibiting tampering with anhydrous ammonia equipment, containers, and facilities. Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Eliminates from the Act provisions relating to the illegal manufacture, delivery, and possession of methamphetamine and relating to the possession of methamphetamine manufacturing chemicals. Effective 30 days after becoming law.

Creates the Home Care Consumer and Worker Protection Act. If an agency places a home care worker with a consumer to provide home care services, requires the agency to give the worker and the consumer a notice setting forth the rights and responsibilities of each of them as well as appropriate phone numbers and addresses of the Department on Aging. Provides that the Act does not apply to nursing homes, home health agencies, and certain other agencies. Provides that an agency subject to the Act must comply with the Health Care Worker Background Check Act and must ensure that every home care worker placed by the agency for hire by a consumer has the appropriate credentials and is appropriately licensed or certified as required by law. Authorizes the Department on Aging to investigate complaints of violations of the Act, issue cease-and-desist orders, and seek injunctive relief. Provides for a civil penalty of $1,000 per day for each day that a violation continues. Effective January 1, 2006.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person who knowingly and falsely represents himself to be fire fighter of any jurisdiction commits a Class 4 felony. Provides that a person who knowingly and falsely represents himself to be a fire fighter of any jurisdiction in attempting or committing a felony commits a Class 3 felony.

Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

Creates the State Prohibition of Goods from Child Labor Act. Provides that each contract entered into by a State agency for the procurement of equipment, materials, or supplies must specify that any foreign-made goods produced under the contract were not made by child labor. Provides that a contractor who violates this provision shall be subject to suspension or a monetary penalty and the State may void the contract. Effective immediately.

Amends the Film Production Services Tax Credit Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning applications for certification.

Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Authorizes a credit union to: (i) make reasonable contributions to certain civic, charitable, religious, or service organizations and to fundraisers to benefit persons in the credit union's service area and (ii) to act as a trustee or custodian under health savings accounts and similar tax-advantaged plans established under the federal Internal Revenue Code. Provides that loan applications shall be made in the manner prescribed by the Credit Committee, credit manager, or loan officer (now, the applications are made in writing upon a prescribed form) and may be evidenced by an electronically stored or generated record. Provides that the signature on a loan application includes any symbol executed or adopted, or any security procedure employed or adopted, using electronic means or otherwise, by or on behalf of a person with intent to authenticate a record. Prohibits any individual, firm, association, or body politic and corporate, including, without limitation, any corporation, limited liability company, general partnership, limited partnership, or joint venture that is not an authorized user from using any name or title that contains the words "credit union" or any abbreviation thereof. Authorizes the Director of the Division of Financial Institutions of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to impose a penalty of up to $10,000 for each violation. Effective immediately.

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act. Creates the Vince Demuzio Memorial Colon Cancer Research Fund and provides that, from appropriations from the Fund, the Department of Public Health must make grants to public or private entities in Illinois for the purpose of funding research applicable to colon cancer patients. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act to create a tax checkoff for the Fund.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a fire chief may drive a vehicle using red or white oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights if the vehicle is designated or authorized as a fire department, fire protection district, or township fire department vehicle and the designation or authorization is carried in the vehicle.