Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a non-home rule municipal service occupation tax.
Amends the Physical Fitness Facility Medical Emergency Preparedness Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "physical fitness facility". Effective immediately.
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Allows a district to impose a development impact fee by ordinance, resolution, or development agreement to: undertake capital developments or capital improvements; acquire land; make improvements to roads, buildings, or other property; acquire equipment; or pay for additional personnel. Sets forth considerations in determining the amount of the impact fee. Makes other changes.
Amends the Public Funds Statement Publication Act. Deletes a provision that a public official who receives all or any part of his or her funds from the county collector, the county treasurer, or the township collector must file, with each of those officers from whom funds are received, a certified copy of a published financial statement or audit. Provides, instead, that if the county treasurer receives notice from the county clerk that the public officer has failed to comply with certain publication requirements, then the county treasurer shall withhold the payment to that public official of any and all funds until the county clerk has verified that the public official has complied with the requirements. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the imposition of use and occupation taxes.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning administration of the Code.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning Medicaid rates for nursing homes, provides that for facilities licensed by the Department of Public Health under the Nursing Home Care Act as skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, the support component of the rates taking effect on July 1, 2008 shall be computed using the most recent cost reports on file with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services no later than April 1, 2006, updated for inflation to January 1, 2007. Provides that facilities shall have the support component of their Medicaid rate computed every year using the most recent cost reports on file with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services no later than April 1, 2 years prior to the year in which the new rate takes effect, updated for inflation to January 1 of the year prior to the year in which the new rate takes effect. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, in January 2009, the monthly pension of a firefighter who retired before July 1, 1971 shall be recalculated and increased to reflect the amount that the firefighter would have received in January 2009 had the firefighter been receiving a 3% increase for each year he or she received pension payments. In each January thereafter, provides that he or she shall receive an additional increase of 3% of the amount of the pension then being paid. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "taxing district".
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that for the period of five years, beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act, new flexible fuel vehicles, as defined in provisions of the Alternate Fuels Act, are exempt from taxation under the Acts. Effective July 1, 2007.
