Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Common School Fund.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the loan of textbooks.

Appropriates $1,600,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for grants to the Metropolitan Chicago Hospital Council for support of the Illinois Poison Center. Effective July 1, 2011.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning truants' alternative and optional education programs.

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Public Health shall adopt rules requiring that a breakfast cereal company whose product is the subject of a recall on or after the date 10 years before the effective date of the amendatory Act shall file documentation with the Department asserting that all manufacturing equipment used to produce cereal sold by the company (1) is in compliance with all applicable rules and regulations; and (2) is free from contaminating metals. Provides that the required documentation shall be filed on an annual basis for a period of 5 years. Provides penalties for noncompliance.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning delivery services implementation plans.

Encourages the General Assembly to promptly review and evaluate the Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates filed by the State Board of Education to determine if the Report should be disapproved in whole or in part.

Mourns the passing of Marie Perez of Aurora.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a child in his or her care who is 12 years of age or younger commits a Class 3 felony when he or she fails to notify a law enforcement agency in a timely manner of the child's disappearance and: (1) knows that the child is missing; and (2) knows or reasonably should know that the child is potentially in danger of death or serious injury. Provides that it is the duty of a parent, legal guardian, or caretaker of a minor child who becomes aware of the death of the minor child occurring under specified circumstances to report such death and circumstances forthwith to the county medical examiner or county coroner in the county where the parent, caretaker, or guardian believes the death of the minor child is most likely to have occurred. Provides that any such parent, legal guardian, or caretaker who knowingly fails or refuses to report such death and circumstances, who refuses to make available prior medical or other information pertinent to the death investigation, or who, without an order from the office of the county medical examiner or county coroner, willfully touches, removes, or disturbs the body, clothing, or any other thing on or near the body with the intent to alter the evidence or circumstances surrounding the death commits a Class 3 felony. Effective immediately.