Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Removes the June 30, 2005 deadline for participation in the early retirement without discount program. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Plat Act. Provides that a county may require that a surveyor provide geodetic survey control values in connection with a subdivision plat. Provides that certain exceptions to the Act do not apply if they invalidate any local requirements applicable to the subdivision of land. Provides that an exception concerning the sale of a single lot of less than 5 acres from a larger tract does not apply if it involves any new streets or easements of access. Effective immediately.
Amends the Companion Animal Cremation Act. Provides that a "private individual cremation" means a cremation process in which only one companion animal at a time is cremated in the incinerator. Deletes language providing that an "individually partitioned cremation" means a cremation process in which only one companion animal at a time is cremated in the incinerator.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Authorizes the Village of Plainfield to use quick-take proceedings for the purposes of constructing a water infrastructure. Effective immediately.
Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Provides that restraint may be ordered by a clinical professional counselor. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Provides that pupils must daily engage in courses of physical education for such periods as are commensurate with the students' other courses of study. Changes requirements with regard to a physical education course of study. Requires a physical education course of study to provide students with an opportunity for an appropriate amount of daily physical activity. Requires a physical education course of study to be part of the regular school curriculum and not extra-curricular in nature or organization. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Provides that one of the 9 appointed directors of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority must be from Will County (rather than all appointed members being appointed from the State at large).
Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions in the Property Tax Code. Increases the ceiling for household income eligibility, for taxable years 2004 and thereafter, from $40,000 per year to $45,000 per year. Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions and the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement from the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions in the Property Tax Code. Provides that "income" does not include Social Security benefits. Increases the ceiling for household income eligibility, for taxable years 2003 and thereafter, from $40,000 per year to $45,000 per year. Amends the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption provisions and the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement from the State. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
