Rep. La Shawn Ford

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.

Urges Congress to pass legislation supporting banks that did not receive Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds.

Urges Congress to pass legislation that prohibits a business entity that receives federal emergency economic assistance funds from laying off employees during the recession.

Creates the Home Protection Pilot Program Act. Requires the Illinois Housing Development Authority to implement a pilot program to assist Illinois workers who have lost jobs as a result of changing economic conditions in Illinois when those workers are in need of assistance to avoid losing their homes to foreclosure. Provides that the Program shall include counties selected at the discretion of the Authority on the basis of increased rates of foreclosure, actual foreclosure filings, unemployment, the need of local counseling agencies for increased capacity to serve clients in need of assistance to avoid losing their homes to foreclosure, the availability of funding, and other factors the Authority determines to be relevant. Provides for loans to homeowners secured by liens on residential real property located in Illinois, and prohibits a mortgagee from engaging in certain conduct upon a mortgagor's filing of an application for loan assistance. Sets forth other provisions of the Program. Requires the Authority to conduct a study and to report to the Governor and the General Assembly by May 1, 2010.

Amends the Illinois Lottery Law. Requires the Department of Revenue, beginning on January 1, 2011 or as soon thereafter as is practical, to offer a special instant "Scratch-Out Crime" scratch-off game. Requires the net revenue from that game to be deposited into the Municipal Police Hiring Assistance Fund for appropriation by the General Assembly solely to the Department for distribution on a pro rata share, based on population, to municipal police departments in the State for the hiring of municipal police officers. Authorizes the Department to adopt rules necessary to implement and administer the game. Defines "net revenue". Amends the State Finance Act to create the Municipal Police Hiring Assistance Fund. Effective January 1, 2011.

Amends the School Code. With respect to students in grades kindergarten, one, 2, 4, 5, and 7, prohibits the Chicago school district from using a State test that is designed for students who are in a grade that is more than 2 grade levels higher than the grade the student is currently in or was in when he or she previously took a State test, whichever is applicable for the student's particular grade.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that it is a Class A misdemeanor for a person to upload on the Internet an electronic nude image of another person without the written consent of the person whose nude image was uploaded and with the intent to injure the reputation of the other person or with the intent to cause emotional distress to the other person. Provides that it is a Class A misdemeanor for a person to disseminate a video recording of another person without the written consent of the person whose nude image was disseminated and with the intent to injure the reputation of the other person or with the intent to cause emotional distress to the other person. Exempts: (1) the dissemination of a nude image of an infant or toddler that is not child pornography; or (2) the depiction of a nude image in a museum or place of worship that is not obscenity or child pornography.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that individual taxpayers are entitled to a deduction for (i) work-related mass transit expenses and (ii) school-related mass transit expenses for the taxpayer's minor children. Provides that neither deduction may exceed $500 per year.

Amends the County Jail Act. Provides that in counties of more than 3,000,000 inhabitants, the sheriff or his or her designee may place inmates who are pre-trial detainees or who are serving a sentence for a misdemeanor offense in community-based programs that are alternatives to incarceration. Provides that the court may place pretrial detainees or sentence convicted offenders to the sheriff's community-based alternatives to incarceration in consultation with the sheriff based on available program space.