Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Subject to appropriation, directs the Department to establish a statewide network of cord blood stem cell banks. Sets forth requirements and duties of donor banks. Creates an advisory committee to advise the Department concerning administration of the network. Effective immediately.
Amends the County Care for Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act. Provides that any county board for the care and treatment of persons with a developmental disability shall consist of 5 members (instead of 3). Effective immediately.
Amends the Secretary of State Act. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding the oath of office.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Extends the daily period for deer hunting to 1/2 hour after sunset (now at sunset). Effective immediately.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Requires the Treasurer to post information on his or her official website concerning the investment of public funds. Sets forth the required information. Does not require posting of information that is exempt from inspection and copying under the Freedom of Information Act.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the prohibition against tinted windshields and tinted side windows does not apply to vehicles owned and operated by persons afflicted with or suffering from a medical illness, ailment, or disease requiring that person to be shielded from the direct rays of the sun, including but not limited to systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus, disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, or albinism, or to vehicles used in transporting a person who lives at the same address as the registered owner and is afflicted with or suffers from such an illness, ailment, or disease, regardless of the date on which the tinted windows were installed or the tinting was applied. Deletes language providing that the exemption does not apply after January 1, 2008. Deletes language providing that a permanent exemption applies only to vehicles owned and operated by or used in transporting persons afflicted with or suffering from systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus or albinism. Provides that the Secretary of State shall issue distinctive registration plates or plate stickers for the exempted vehicles (as well as for vehicles owned and operated by, or used in transporting, persons afflicted with or suffering from systemic or discoid lupus erythematosus or albinism). Provides that the Secretary shall issue the plates immediately upon receiving a physician's certification that an applicant qualifies for the plates. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that reports of suspected child abuse or neglect made to the central register through the State-wide, toll-free telephone number shall be immediately transmitted to the appropriate local law enforcement agency. Provides that all oral reports made by the Department of Children and Family Services to local law enforcement personnel and the office of the State's Attorney of the involved county shall be confirmed in writing within 24 (instead of 48) hours of the oral report. Provides that the Department shall adopt rules expressly allowing law enforcement personnel to investigate reports of suspected child abuse or neglect concurrently with the Department, without regard to whether the Department determines a report to be "indicated" or "unfounded" or deems a report to be "undetermined". Effective immediately.
Urges that the recommendations of the Joint Task Force on Rural Health and Medically Underserved Areas be supported and implemented without delay.
Congratulates James P. Ghiglieri II on his appointment as Chairman of the Independent Community Bankers of America.
Urges the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to reconsider its decision to restrict access to medications used for the treatment of serious mental illnesses for people on Medicaid by imposing prior approval requirements on those medications.
