Creates the Fireworks Outdoor Advertising Act. Prohibits outdoor billboards advertising fireworks for sale. Restricts the concurrent exercise of home rule powers.
Creates the Computer Lemon Act and amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Establishes rights for purchasers of defective computer devices, protecting them from warranty abuses and ineffective warranty repairs. Imposes certain record keeping requirements on manufacturers. Establishes a right of action and remedies for purchasers against manufacturers who do not comply with Act requirements. Adds the Computer Lemon Act to the other Acts listed in the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act for which a knowing violation constitutes an unlawful practice under that Act.
Creates the Computer Lemon Act. Establishes rights for purchasers of defective computers and specified related devices in the case of ineffective repairs under warranty, failure of a manufacturer to take timely action regarding repairs, or repeated malfunctions or defects. Requires manufacturers to provide specified notices and keep specified records. Provides that a purchaser may bring a civil action against a manufacturer that violates the Act and recover damages, attorney's fees, costs, and expert expenses. Provides that a knowing violation of the Act constitutes an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, and amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act accordingly.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Requires a person who transfers a firearm or firearm ammunition to personally inspect the Firearm Owner's Identification Card of the transferee of the firearm to verify the identity of the person to whom the firearm or firearm ammunition is being transferred. Changes penalties for transferring firearms to a person that the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not possess a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card or by failing to inspect the Card before the transfer of the firearm. Bases the penalties on the number of firearms transferred illegally.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, at the same time as the taxpayer files it's annual Illinois income tax return, the taxpayer must disclose the aggregate dollar amount of manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment tax exemptions received under these Acts during the most recently completed calendar year, broken down by plant and by facility. Provides that, if a plant or facility with respect to which a taxpayer received such manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment exemptions closes, the taxpayer must pay to the Department all amounts that were not not paid in taxes under these Acts due to the exemption, for the 5-year period immediately preceding the plant or facility closure.
Amends the State Finance Act, the Illinois Income Tax Act, and the Property Tax Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004, increases income taxes and provides that two-thirds of the increased revenue shall be deposited into the School District Property Tax Relief Fund to fund property tax abatements and that one-third of the increased revenue shall be deposited into the Common School Fund. Provides a mechanism for property tax abatements. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Requires a person who transfers a firearm or firearm ammunition to personally inspect the Firearm Owner's Identification Card of the transferee of the firearm to verify the identity of the person to whom the firearm or firearm ammunition is being transferred. Changes penalties for transferring firearms to a person that the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not possess a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card or by failing to inspect the Card before the transfer of the firearm. Bases the penalties on the number of firearms transferred illegally.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code to allow certain current and former Department of Revenue investigators to transfer service credits from downstate police pension funds to the State Employees' Retirement System. Effective immediately.
Makes revisory changes to numerous Acts to conform them to Public Act 93-25, which renamed the Bureau of the Budget as the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and renamed the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs as the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Makes no substantive change. Effective immediately.
Creates the Third 2004 General Revisory Act. Combines multiple versions of Sections amended by more than one Public Act. Renumbers Sections of various Acts to eliminate duplication. Corrects obsolete citations and technical errors. Makes stylistic changes. Effective immediately.
