Amends the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that any person who knowingly violates the Automotive Collision Repair Act commits an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates the Illinois Steel Development Board as an advisory body to the Department. Requires the Board to advise and make recommendations on the research, marketing, and promotion of American steel and the Illinois steel industry. Specifies the composition of the Board, including members appointed by the Governor with Senate confirmation and members appointed by the legislative leaders.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 relating to criminal trespass to real property, criminal trespass to State supported land, criminal trespass to restricted areas and restricted landing areas at airports, criminal trespass to a nuclear facility, and criminal trespass to a place of public amusement. Provides that a person who presents false documents or falsely represents his or her identity orally to a person who has authority to give permission to enter various lands, buildings, or facilities commits criminal trespass. Exempts peace officers and other government officials who enter or remain on the land, building, or facility in the performance of their official duties.
Amends the County Economic Development Project Area Property Tax Allocation Act. Provides that the corporate authorities of Grundy County may, by ordinance, propose the establishment of an economic development project and fix a time and place for a public hearing. Provides if an ordinance if adopted, Grundy County shall submit a certified copy of the ordinance, as adopted, to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides for various enhanced penalties for assaulting or harming an emergency management worker that is acting in the course of performing his or her official duties or in retaliation for performing his or her official duties. Creates the offense of obstructing an emergency management worker. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections to provide that a person convicted of the first degree murder of an emergency management worker in the course of performing his or her official duties or in retaliation for performing his or her official duties shall be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment. Effective January 1, 2006.
Amends the School Code. Allows a school board (other than the Chicago Board of Education) to appoint a student to the board to serve in an advisory capacity for a term as determined by the board. Provides that the board may not grant the student member any voting privileges, but shall consider the student member as an advisor. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Older Adult Services Act. Provides that no later than January 1, 2006 and every January 1 thereafter, the Department on Aging and the Illinois Housing Development Authority shall file with the Governor and the General Assembly a plan that establishes goals for the number of affordable housing units to be made available to the frail elderly in the next fiscal year. Requires that the plan: (i) detail the number of new units of housing to be created, the number of units made accessible through rehabilitation and renovation, and the number of new supportive living units to be created and certified; and (ii) include recommendations for statutory or policy changes needed to reduce barriers to the establishment of affordable housing units for the frail elderly. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code, the Crime Victims Compensation Act, the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, the Emancipation of Minors Act, the Adoption Act, and the Probate Act of 1975. Changes references from "illegitimate child" to "child born out of wedlock" and from "legitimate child" to "lawful child".
Amends the Crime Victims Compensation Act. Provides that "legal disability" includes posttraumatic stress disorder. Provides that, to qualify for the right to compensation for victims of specified offenses, the appropriate law enforcement officials were notified within 7 days of the perpetration of the crime allegedly causing death or injury to the victim or, if the notification was made more than 7 days after the perpetration of the crime, the applicant establishes that the notice was timely under the circumstances. Provides that, if the applicant has obtained an order of protection or a civil no contact order or has presented at a hospital for sexual assault evidence collection and medical care, the applicant's action shall constitute appropriate notification and cooperation under the Act. Requires the applicant to cooperate with law enforcement officials (instead of fully cooperate with law enforcement officials) in order to qualify for the right to compensate under the Act.
