Amends the General Assembly Operations Act. Prohibits a member of the House of Representatives from serving as Speaker or Minority Leader of the House if he or she has already served during 5 General Assemblies in either or both of those offices. Prohibits a member of the Senate from serving as President or Minority Leader of the Senate if he or she has already served during 5 General Assemblies in either or both of those offices. Provides that service for more than one year of a General Assembly constitutes service during that General Assembly. Exempts persons holding those positions on the bill's effective date. Provides that a Speaker, President, or Minority Leader who is elected to succeed a different person may appoint a new leadership team. Effective immediately.
Sponsored bills
Amends the School Code. Adds a Section concerning a continuing appropriation for State aid. Contains only a caption.
Amends the Tuberculosis Sanitarium District Act. Dissolves any tuberculosis sanitarium district in a county having a population of 3,000,000 or more upon the effective date of the amendatory Act. Requires all assets and liabilities and all responsibility for tuberculosis treatment and care of the dissolved tuberculosis sanitarium district to be transferred to the county board of health. Effective December 1, 2004.
Amends the State Finance Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department, upon written request of a municipality or county, must provide to that municipality or county, within a reasonable amount of time, information concerning use and occupation tax receipts from that municipality or county. The information provided shall include use and occupation tax receipts, broken down by retailer in the municipality, for municipalities, and broken down by retailer in the unincorporated areas of the county, for counties. Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that upon leave of court, in any case in which the defendant is charged with the offense of first degree murder and the prosecution seeks the death penalty, or in a first degree murder case in which a term of natural life imprisonment is the only sentence allowed under the law following the defendant's conviction, any party may take the testimony, upon oral examination, of: (1) any person other than a law enforcement officer, victim, or family member who is identified as, or believed to be, an eyewitness to the occurrence that is the subject of the prosecution; (2) any person whom either party intends to call at trial regarding incriminating statements made by the accused to persons other than a law enforcement officer or prosecutor; and (3) any person identified as, or believed to be, an alibi witness. Applies to actions initiated on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act.
Amends the Health Maintenance Organization Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Unified Code of Corrections. Increases the penalties for third and subsequent offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds. Provides that: a third offense is a Class 2 felony; a fourth offense is a non-probationable Class 2 felony; and a fifth or subsequent offense is a non-probationable Class 1 felony.
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Provides that, in addition to its other meanings, "new property" means, in counties that classify in accordance with Section 4 of Article IX of the Illinois Constitution, an incentive property's additional assessed value resulting from a scheduled increase in the level of assessment as applied to the first year final board of review market value. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that in a criminal case, the State shall make timely disclosure to defense counsel, or to the defendant if the defendant is not represented by counsel, of the existence of evidence, known to the State, that is material and tends to negate the guilt of the accused, impeach witnesses whom the State will be calling as witnesses, or mitigate the degree of punishment. Provides that if the State knowingly fails to make timely disclosure of the evidence to the defendant, the court, upon motion of the defendant or upon its own motion, if it makes such a finding, may grant the defendant a new trial (or if the failure to disclose the evidence to the defendant relates only to an issue relevant to sentencing, the court shall vacate the sentence, conduct another sentencing hearing, and shall resentence the defendant). Applies to all actions initiated on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act.