Designates the section of Interstate 57 between Exit 250 at U.S. Route 136 in Rantoul and Exit 358 at Wentworth Avenue in Chicago as the Tuskegee Airmen Memorial Trail.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.
Mourns the death of Lawrence "Larry" Matkaitis of Mt. Greenwood.
Congratulates John Sayers on his retirement from the Kewanee Public Library District.
Congratulates Dr. Gregg Davis for receiving the "2016 Rural Physician of Excellence Award" from the Illinois Rural Health Association.
Amends the Fire Protection District Act. Provides that no fire protection district will be required to assume responsibly for the fire protection of any municipality which discontinues its fire department unless the fire protection district's Board of Trustees has agreed to do so. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture may sell at cost, to qualified applicants, signs designating an agribusiness that has been operated for 100 years or more or more than 150 years or more as the same agribusiness. Defines "agribusiness".
Amends the Illinois Seed Law. Provides that specified provisions do not apply to seed distributed within this State by means of noncommercial, interpersonal seed sharing activities, including, but not limited to, seed libraries, seed exchanges, or other formal or informal seed sharing activities. Effective immediately.
Amends the Compulsory Attendance Article of the School Code. Allows a child in any of grades 6 through 12 to be absent from a public school on a particular day or days or at a particular time of day for the purpose of sounding "Taps" at a military honors funeral held in this State for a deceased veteran. Sets forth notification requirements. Provides that the student shall be counted as if the student attended school for purposes of calculating the average daily attendance of students in the school district. Requires the student to be allowed a reasonable time to make up school work missed during the absence. Provides that if the student satisfactorily completes the school work, the day of absence shall be counted as a day of compulsory attendance and he or she may not be penalized for that absence.
Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
