Rep. Deborah L. Graham

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Appropriates $1,750,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for grants to the Metropolitan Chicago Hospital Council-CHC for support of the Illinois Poison Control Center. Effective July 1, 2005.

Creates the Illinois HIV/AIDS Task Force Act. Establishes the Illinois HIV/AIDS Task Force to coordinate existing State programs and services for individuals and families living with HIV/AIDS to better meet the needs of those individuals and families. Provides for the appointment of members to the Task Force who represent both public and private organizations and who shall serve on a voluntary, unpaid basis. Requires the Task Force to annually report to the Governor and General Assembly on the Task Force's progress toward its goals and objectives.

Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Provides that any person who fails any step of the examination for licensure as a medical doctor, doctor of osteopathy or osteopathic medicine, or doctor of chiropractic is entitled to take that step of the examination not more than 2 subsequent times (now, any person failing any examination for licensure a total of 5 times shall thereafter be ineligible for further examinations until that person submits to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation evidence of further formal professional study in an accredited institution). Provides that the licensing board may establish additional requirements for those applicants who, after having failed the same step of the examination 3 or more times, wish to take that step of the examination again.

Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. In a provision concerning eligibility for grants under the Act, increases the household income eligibility limitations for grant year 2006, and provides that, for grant years 2007 and thereafter, the limitations shall be increased annually by the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for the previous calendar year. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that a defendant at least 17 years of age who does not have a high school diploma or GED certificate, who is mentally capable, who is convicted of a felony, and who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment in the Illinois Department of Corrections (rather than a felon who has not been previously convicted of a misdemeanor or felony) shall as a condition of his or her sentence be required by the court to attend educational courses designed to prepare the defendant for a high school diploma and to work toward a high school diploma or to work toward passing the high school level Test of General Educational Development (GED) and to obtain a high school diploma or pass the GED test. Eliminates the provision that working toward completing a vocational training program offered by the Department of Corrections satisfies the educational requirements.

Creates the Firearms Dealer Licensing Act. Requires a person who engages in the business of selling or transferring firearms to be licensed by the Department of State Police. Establishes qualifications for licenses. Provides that it is a Class 4 felony to engage in the business of selling or transferring firearms without a license. Requires a licensed firearms dealer who sells or transfers a firearm to a person who is not a licensed dealer to report that sale or transfer to the Department of State Police.

Amends the Department of State Police Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Creates a Handgun Roster Board within the Department of State Police. Provides that the Board shall review the status of personalized handgun technology and report its findings to the Governor and the General Assembly on an annual basis beginning on or before July 1, 2006. Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a dealer may not sell, offer for sale, rent, or transfer in this State a handgun manufactured on or before December 31, 2005 unless the handgun is sold, offered for sale, rented, or transferred with an external safety lock. Provides that beginning January 1, 2006, a dealer may not sell, offer for sale, rent, or transfer in this State a handgun manufactured on or after January 1, 2006 unless the handgun has an integrated mechanical safety device. Provides that a violation is a Class 4 felony. Establishes exemptions.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to store or leave, within premises under his or her control, a firearm if the person knows or has reason to believe that a minor under the age of 18 (rather than 14) years who does not have a Firearm Owners Identification Card is likely to gain access to the firearm without the lawful permission of the minor's parent, guardian, or person having charge of the minor unless the firearm is secured. Eliminates the provision that the person who stores or leaves the firearm is criminally liable only if the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the firearm. Provides that if the minor causes death or great bodily harm with the unlawfully stored firearm, the penalty is a Class A misdemeanor (rather than a Class C misdemeanor). Eliminates the provision that the firearm may be placed in some location that a reasonable person would believe would be secure from a minor. Provides that if the firearm is placed in a securely locked box or container, it must be unloaded and disassembled.