Congratulates the Illinois Association of Mutual Insurance Companies on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
Extends the date that the Private Sewage Disposal Review Commission created by House Resolution 1033 of the 93rd General Assembly must file its report with the Clerk of the House to December 30, 2006.
Creates the Collateral Recovery Act. Provides for the licensure of repossession agencies, the certification of recovery managers, and the registration of repossession agency employees. Establishes the Illinois Repossession and Recovery Board. Grants rulemaking authority to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. Sets forth provisions concerning qualifications, application, examination, assignment, insurance requirements, and administrative proceedings. Prohibits recovery work on a contingency basis.
Commends Project Santa Adopt-A-Soldier on its Christmas outreach efforts to American soldiers.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that an offender being considered for probation for any felony offense that is sexually motivated need not submit to an evaluation where the State's Attorney, the probation department, and the Court agree to waive such evaluation, provided that the Sex Offender Management Board has adopted uniform statewide standards to waive such an evaluation and the Chief Judge of the circuit has issued a judicial order endorsing the uniform standard promulgated by the Sex Offender Management Board.
Amends the Downstate Teachers Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a vacancy occurs in the elective membership of the Board for a term that has more than 6 months remaining, that vacancy shall be filled by a person elected pursuant to an election instituted by the Director of the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois. Effective immediately.
Amends the Veterans' Employment Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Vietnam veterans.
Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service charges.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Allows the use of cable restraints not powered by springs, spring poles, or mechanical devices to trap fur-bearing mammals on land with written permission from the landowner or tenant of the land. Provides that cable restraints must be visited at least once each calendar day. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to remove fur-bearing mammals from, or to move or disturb in any manner, the cable restraints owned by another person without written authorization from the owner. Allows the use of locking type cable restraints for use in water trapping. Provides that written permission is not required for water sets. Prohibits the use of cable restraints during the closed trapping season. Prohibits the use on land of cable restraints with a loop diameter exceeding 15 inches. Prohibits the use on land of cable restraints without a relaxing mechanical lock, anchor swivel, and stop device to prevent the relaxing mechanical lock from closing the noose loop to a diameter of less than 2 1/2 inches. Prohibits the use of cable restraints attached to a drag or a movable object. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Congratulates the Village of Mark on the occasion of its 100th anniversary celebration and on the dedication of its veterans memorial.
