Rep. Frank J. Mautino

Amends the Rural Bond Bank Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning an annual report.

Amends the Private Sewage Disposal Licensing Act. Makes technical changes in Sections concerning the short title, the purpose of the Act, and the definitions.

Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Increases the lifetime benefit available to a covered individual from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Adds the Industrial Commission Operations Fund Surcharge to group workers' compensation pools considered to be assessable domestic mutual insurance companies. Effective July 1, 2004.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Permits insurers to nonrenew insureds who move to a jurisdiction where the insurer is not authorized to issue policies. Prohibits nonrenewal of fire and extended coverage policies on the basis that the insured reported a potential loss without payment or requested policy information. Provides that an insured who is contesting a cancellation may have access to company files pertaining to the insured.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning Medicaid payments to nursing homes, provides that on and after July 1, 2003, the appropriation for facilities participating in the Department of Public Aid's demonstration program for providing services to persons with mental illness shall be separate from the appropriation for all other nursing homes. Limits the rates for a facility participating in the demonstration program to no more than 7% of the facility's audited adjustment cost. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that commercial liability policies that provide coverage to additional insureds must provide coverage to the person or organization shown on the policy or endorsement schedule with respect to liability arising out of the named insured's work for the additional insured and for the acts or omissions of the additional insured in connection with its general supervision of the named insured's work. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall be subject to specified provisions of the Act with respect to such sales. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall not subsidize such sales through the utility's regulated business. Provides that a gas utility offering unregulated sales of natural gas to an end-use customer within or outside its service area shall not discriminate in the provision of regulated gas service based upon the existence or terms of an unregulated sale of natural gas. Provides that the Commission may require a gas utility to file reports regarding its unregulated sales of natural gas in the State and shall have access to, for the purpose of review, a gas utility's contracts for unregulated sales of natural gas. Effective immediately.

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 April 1, 2005.