Rep. La Shawn Ford

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Creates the Lottery Supports Schools Fund. Provides that certain lottery proceeds that are deposited into the Common School Fund shall be deposited into the Lottery Supports Schools Fund. Provides that moneys in the Lottery Supports Schools Fund shall be distributed to school districts based on the district's percentage of lottery sales. Provides that the Act takes effect when the State Board of Education certifies to the Secretary of State and the Illinois Department of Revenue that the amount by which the amendatory Act reduces the amounts otherwise available for distribution under the general State aid formula has been replaced by other revenue sources.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code to double the flat weight tax rates to be paid each registration year for each Class motor vehicle of the second division, except for a Class B truck, recreational vehicles, and farm trucks.

Urges Congress to pass legislation supporting banks that were affected by the government-sponsored enterprise fallout and the subsequent downturn in the economy to allow those banks for the 2010 tax year to go back 5 years for deductions of losses allowed for the 2008 and 2009 tax years.

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.

Urges Congress to modify federal student aid requirements so that a criminal conviction does not bar aid.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that if an action is brought for possession of the residential premises of a tenant and the court finds that the tenant is more than 90 days in arrears on his or her rent, the court may order a stay of the enforcement of the judgment for no more than 10 days, or if the court finds that there is good cause for a longer stay, then the court may grant a stay in excess of 10 days, but in that event the court shall require that the tenant pay a pro rata amount of rent under terms established in the stay order.

Creates the Illinois Homeowner's Emergency Assistance Program Act. Contains provisions concerning the powers and duties of the Illinois Housing Development Authority with respect to the Act, the eligibility of a homeowner for assistance under the Act, the assistance payments for eligible homeowners, and funding for the program. Provides that the Act is repealed on January 1, 2011. Effective immediately.

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.

Creates the Prisoner Census Adjustment Act. For purposes of creating election districts and redistricting, requires that State and local governmental bodies use census figures adjusted to reflect the pre-incarceration addresses of persons imprisoned in State or federal facilities in Illinois. Requires the Secretary of State to make the adjustments based upon information reported by State and local governmental entities that operate or place persons in facilities. Imposes the requirements beginning after the next federal decennial census.

Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of the Act to the contrary and cumulative with any rights to expungement or sealing of criminal records, whenever a person has been convicted of or placed on supervision for an offense, other than a capital offense, or for a violation of an ordinance of a unit of local government and 20 years has elapsed since the completion of the person's sentence or term of supervision and the person has not been convicted of or placed on supervision for any misdemeanor or felony offense or misdemeanor ordinance violation within such period, he or she may, upon verified petition to the chief judge of the circuit where the person had been convicted, any judge of the circuit designated by the Chief Judge, or in counties of less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the presiding trial judge at the defendant's trial, have a court order entered expunging the record of arrest from the official records of the arresting authority and order that the records of the clerk of the circuit court and the Department of State Police be sealed until further order of the court upon good cause shown or as otherwise provided by law, and the name of the defendant obliterated from the official index requested to be kept by the circuit court clerk in connection with the arrest and conviction for the offense for which he had been charged, but the order shall not affect any index issued by the circuit court clerk before the entry of the order.