Resolves that the Illinois Department of Transportation study the issue of leasing naming rights for oases of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority and to make a report no later than one year after the adoption of the resolution.
Amends the Illinois Oil and Gas Act. Provides that the Director of Natural Resources shall adopt rules that require, prior to such hydraulic fracturing, the owner or operator to perform a suitable mechanical integrity test of the casing or of the casing-tubing annulus or other mechanical integrity test methods using procedures that are established by administrative rule. Provides that each owner or operator that begins extracting natural gas from shale shall report to the Department specified information within 30 days after the completion of all stages of the hydraulic fracturing stimulation. Requires that the owner or operator shall post the chemical disclosure information on certain specified websites. Provides that the owner or operator shall provide information to the Director as to the amounts, handling, and, if necessary, disposal at an identified appropriate disposal facility, or reuse of the well stimulation fluid load recovered during flow back, swabbing, or recovery from production facility vessels. Provides that the storage of the well stimulation fluid load shall be protective of an underground source of drinking water by the use of either tanks or lined pits. Provides that nothing in the provision shall be construed to require or allow disclosure of trade secrets or commercial information that is exempt from inspection or copying when provided to the Department together with a claim made pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act that such information is proprietary, privileged, or confidential and that disclosure may cause competitive harm to the person or business. Provides that the provision only applies to the extraction of natural gas from shale.
Encourages all stakeholders in the State's unemployment insurance system to consider the best amount of time to give employers to decide whether an employee is a good fit before their experience rating is affected, in order to encourage job growth.
Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Deletes a Section requiring the Illinois Department of Public Health or a local public health department to give notice to a principal of the school in which a child is enrolled when a school aged child has acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or AIDS-related complex (ARC) or has been shown to have been exposed to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or any other identified causative agent of AIDS. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.
Amends the Capital Development Board Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Urges the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation to grant an extension to Covenant Bank in Chicago, Illinois, for the correction to the impairment of its capital until February 1, 2013 and to continue the extension unless the bank becomes critically undercapitalized. Urges the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation to grant the maximum initial term of 180 days to take corrective action to any community bank that has received a Section 51 order, unless that bank is critically undercapitalized.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. In a Section concerning estimated taxes, provides that, if a taxpayer is entitled to a refund after the payment of the fourth installment, then he or she may apply the amount of the refund to the first installment due in the next taxable year.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a tax checkoff for the After-School Rescue Fund. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund may be used by the Illinois State Board of Education for the making of grants to at-risk schools for the promotion of extracurricular and after-school programs. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Public Health Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers of the Department.
