Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
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Creates the Autism Spectrum Disorders Reporting Act. Provides that a qualified professional who diagnoses any individual who resides in Illinois with an autism spectrum disorder shall report within 30 days the existence of an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis along with all such additional information as determined in rules promulgated pursuant to the Act. Provides that the reports shall be designated an autism spectrum disorder report and shall contain information which the Director of Public Health considers necessary to identify, locate, and investigate the occurrence, frequency, incidence, cause, effect, and prognosis of autism spectrum disorder, and other relevant data and findings. Provides that the Department of Public Health may enter into contracts with individuals, corporations, hospitals, universities, not-for-profit corporations, governmental entities or other organizations whereby such individuals, organizations or agencies agree to provide assistance in the compilation of the Autism Spectrum Disorder Registry or to conduct research on behalf of the Department of Public Health consistent with the purposes of the Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Recreational Use of Land and Water Areas Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to any individual or, on state-owned or managed lands and waters, members of the public (rather than to the public) for recreational or conservation purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes. Provides that residential buildings are not included in the definition of "land". Changes the definition of "recreational or conservation purpose" to include hunting, hiking, recreational shooting, operation of an off-highway vehicle, rock climbing, trapping, horseback riding of an entrant's own horse or horses, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, water or snow skiing, sledding, and snowmobiling. 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.
Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the Department of State Police and the Environmental Protection Agency shall jointly develop a protocol to be followed in determining whether a dwelling, structure, or other site at which methamphetamine had been illegally manufactured may again be safely put to its intended legal use. Provides that the Department of State Police and the Environmental Protection Agency must develop the protocol by January 1, 2006 and post the protocol on their official Web sites. Provides that the owner or lessor of a dwelling, structure, or other site at which methamphetamine had been illegally manufactured without the knowledge of the owner or lessor is immune from any civil liability that may result from conditions arising from the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine if the owner or lessor cleaned up the dwelling, structure, or other site in accordance with the protocol.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the county collector may transmit the report of the amount of county taxes received to the county clerk in an electronic format. In a Section concerning accounts for the collector and treasurer, requires the each county clerk and county collector to keep, in written or electronic format, an account stating the amount of county tax to be collected, and the county tax received by him or her from sales and redemptions of forfeited property, and any other county funds that come into the collector's hands (now, each county clerk must keep the account with the county collector). Deletes provisions concerning procedures for the operation of the accounts. Provides that all persons paying money into the county treasury, for all purposes except the county taxes, must deposit the money with the treasurer (now, all persons paying money into the treasury must first obtain, from the county clerk, an order to the treasurer to collect the money). In a Section concerning the lists of errors and inability to collect, deletes a provision that the lists shall be verified by affidavit of the county collector. Amends the Property Tax Code and the Mobile Home Local Services Tax Enforcement Act in a Sections concerning the indemnity funds. Provides that the county collector shall report annually to the county clerk (now, the Circuit Court) on the condition and income of the fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the School Code. Provides that if a pupil's change of residence is due to the military service obligation of a person who has legal custody of the pupil, then, upon the written request of the person having legal custody of the pupil, the residence of the pupil is deemed for purposes of enrollment, for the duration of the custodian's military service obligation, to be the same as the residence of the pupil immediately before the change of residence caused by the military service obligation. Provides that a school district is not responsible for providing transportation to or from school for a pupil whose residence is determined under these provisions. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Natural Resources (Conservation) Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Wildlife Code to allow members of the United States Armed Forces, the Illinois National Guard, and the Reserves of the United States Armed Forces returning from service abroad to camp and hunt without paying fees for one year after the member returns.
Amends the Illinois Finance Authority Act. Provides for the continuation and re-enactment of the fire truck revolving loan program, formerly administered under the Rural Bond Bank Act (now repealed). Provides for joint administration of the program by the Illinois Finance Authority and the State Fire Marshal. Validates loans made and actions taken under the original enactment after its repeal. Effective immediately.