Congratulates the students, faculty, staff, trustees, and friends of Knox College in Galesburg on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the founding of the college.
Amends the Chicago Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Changes the method for calculating validated service. Limits the amount of pension credit that may be granted each year. Authorizes deductions for omissions made in prior pay periods. Requires deductions to be made whenever salary represents pay for a day or part of a day (rather than pay for 5 days). Makes other changes concerning the administration of payroll deductions. Requires employers to cause the Fund to receive all payroll records and pension contributions (rather than just pension contributions) within 30 calendar (rather than 15 business) days after each predesignated payday. Makes other changes concerning the payment and certification of salary deductions. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act to provide that an EMT who is an Illinois State Trooper may submit an application to the Department of Public Health for a waiver of certain fees.
Creates the Prepaid Wireless 9-1-1 Surcharge Act. Provides for a prepaid wireless 9-1-1 surcharge of 1.5% per retail transaction. Provides that a home rule municipality with a population of more than 500,000 that was imposing its own surcharge on wireless carriers prior to July 1, 1998, may impose a prepaid wireless 9-1-1 surcharge not to exceed 6% per retail transaction sourced to that jurisdiction. Defines "retail transaction". Sets forth the requirements and procedures for sellers to collect and remit the prepaid wireless 9-1-1 surcharge. Exempts providers and sellers of prepaid wireless telecommunications service from liability for damages under specified circumstances. Preempts home rule powers. Contains other provisions. Amends the Wireless Emergency Telephone Safety Act. Removes from the definition of "wireless telephone service" prepaid wireless telephone service. Deletes certain provisions concerning surcharges for prepaid wireless telephone service. Extends the repeal of the Act to January 1, 2019. Provides that the term "wireless subscriber" does not include a subscriber with an account or number associated with prepaid wireless telecommunication service. Makes other changes. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Smoke Detector Act. Provides that the meaning of "dwelling unit" shall include each living unit in a hotel. Effective January 1, 2012.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Permits the owner of a motor vehicle that is more than 25 years of age or a bona fide replica thereof to register the vehicle as an expanded-use antique vehicle. Provides that in addition to the appropriate registration and renewal fees, an applicant for an expanded-use antique vehicle shall be charged $45 per year for expanded-use antique vehicle plates. Provides that the usage restrictions that apply to antique vehicles also apply to expanded-use antique vehicles from January 1 through March 31 and from November 1 through December 31, but the restrictions do not apply the rest of the year. Amends provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Alternate Fuels Act to include references to expanded-use antique vehicles. Effective January 1, 2012.
Amends the Technology Development Act. Authorizes the State Treasurer to segregate up to 3% of the Treasurer's investment portfolio in the Technology Development Account IIa. Authorizes investments from the account to provide venture capital to help attract, assist, and retain quality technology businesses in Illinois. Provides that the Treasurer may solicit proposals from entities to manage and be the General Partner of Technology Development Account IIb, a separate fund consisting of investments from private sector investors that must invest, at the direction of the Treasurer, in tandem with TDA IIa. Sets restrictions and conditions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Congratulates Pam Van Kirk on the occasion of her retirement as director of the Galesburg Public Library.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Deletes language that provides that no construction shall commence on any new nuclear power plant to be located within the State, and no certificate of public convenience and necessity or other authorization shall be issued therefor by the Illinois Commerce Commission, until the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency finds that the United States Government, through its authorized agency, has identified and approved a demonstrable technology or means for the disposal of high level nuclear waste, or until such construction has been specifically approved by a statute enacted by the General Assembly. Deletes the definition of "high level nuclear waste". Effective immediately.
