Amends the Property Tax Code concerning tax sale procedures. Provides that the collector may employ only those automated means of conducting a tax sale for which the software and equipment have been certified by the Department of Revenue. Deletes language that a prior enactment was declaratory of existing law. Effective immediately.
Amends "An Act making appropriations", Public Act 95-348. Increases certain appropriations for official court reporting to the Office of the State Comptroller. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Includes within the powers and duties of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois the duty to make one mailing a year on behalf of a nonprofit association of active or retired school employees, for purposes of association membership and research only, to persons identified in information contained in records that are in the custody of the System. Provides that the nonprofit association requesting a mailing shall pay the expenses of the mailing. Effective immediately.
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Provides that the Director of Personnel shall give preference for original and promotional appointments (now, original appointments only) to persons who have at least 180 consecutive days of active duty military service at any time in the United States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or Reserves (now, the provision applies to persons "engaged in the military or naval service of the United States" during certain specified periods of time). Deletes a provision requiring applicants to furnish evidence of honorable discharge before the examination. Deletes a provision stating that an applicant may receive military preference for promotion only one time. Effective immediately.
Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, when assessing payment for any amount due for earnings increases in excess of 6%, the System shall exclude earnings increases as a result of a negotiated salary schedule. Effective immediately.
Amends the Charter Schools Law of the School Code. Under specified circumstances, allows for a maximum of 5 additional charter schools exclusively for truants or dropouts in Chicago if the limit on the number of charter schools that may operate at any one time in the rest of the State has not been reached. Provides that if any of the additional charter schools are not used exclusively for truants or dropouts, then the State Board of Education shall withhold and the charter school shall forfeit all State funding designated for that school.
Amends the School Code. Provides that upon completion of at least 80 hours of continuing professional development approved by the State Board of Education, a person who holds a valid school service personnel certificate shall have his or her certificate renewed for a period of 5 years. Provides that a person who holds an active school service personnel certificate or has national certification shall be deemed to have satisfied the continuing professional development requirements established by the State Board of Education and the State Teacher Certification Board to renew a school service personnel certificate. Effective July 1, 2007.
Amends the Residential Mortgage License Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the short title.
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.
