Rep. Emily McAsey

Amends the Property Tax Code. Includes disabled persons within the provisions granting an assessment freeze homestead exemption to senior citizens. Changes the name to the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption (now Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption). Amends the States Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that any hospital services payments required under the Illinois Administrative Code that are set to expire in State fiscal year 2012 shall remain in effect through State fiscal year 2014 at the rates effective July 1, 2011. Effective July 1, 2012.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "felony".

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Administrative Act, the Disabilities Services Act of 2003, the Community Mental Health Act, the Developmental Disability and Mental Disability Services Act, and other various Acts. Changes all occurrences of "mental retardation" to "intellectual disability", changes all occurrences of "mentally retarded person" to "intellectually disabled person", and changes the title of the "MR/DD Community Care Act" and all references to that Act to the "ID/DD Community Care Act". Effective June 1, 2012.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes it a Class 2 felony for a person to commit theft by threat and, as a result, to obtain money or property valued at $5,000 or more from a victim who is 60 years of age or older.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a search without a warrant.

Amends the School Code with respect to the Internet safety education curriculum. Makes changes concerning legislative findings and declarations. Provides that beginning with the 2011-2012 school year, a school district must include in the age-appropriate curriculum topics regarding the appropriate use of electronic communication devices, including, but not limited to, the risks and consequences of dissemination and transmission of sexually explicit images and video. Provides that State Board of Education resource materials may include the dissemination and transmission of images and video. Effective July 1, 2011.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Creates a deduction for individual taxpayers in an amount equal to 10% of the amount of expenditures by the taxpayer for equipment placed in service during the taxable year for the purpose of preventing identity theft, but not to exceed $100 per article of equipment. Effective immediately.

Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that any hospital services payments required under the Illinois Administrative Code that are set to expire in State fiscal year 2012 and that are paid to any hospital operated by Adventist Midwest Health shall remain in effect through State fiscal year 2014 at the rates effective July 1, 2011. Effective July 1, 2012.

Amends the Trust and Trustees Act. Defines terms. Provides that an "unascertainable beneficiary" may be represented by and bound by another beneficiary having a substantially similar (instead of a substantially identical) interest on a particular question or dispute. Provides that if a trust beneficiary is an unrepresented minor, disabled, or unborn person, a parent of the beneficiary may represent and bind the beneficiary, provided that there is no material conflict of interest between the minor or disabled person and either of that person's parents on that particular question or dispute. Further provides that this representative may on a particular question or dispute represent and bind an unborn beneficiary or an unascertainable beneficiary who has an interest that is substantially similar to the interest of the minor or disabled person, but only if there is no material conflict of interest between the minor or the disabled person and the unborn or the unascertainable person. Makes other corresponding changes. Provides that conversion of a trust to a total return trust may be made with a trustee and all primary beneficiaries (instead of with a trustee and all beneficiaries and presumptive remaindermen beneficiaries) in accordance with other provisions of the Act. Provides that changes made apply to all trusts in existence on the effective date and to all trusts created after that date.