Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides the benefits of that Act to a person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and whose death or catastrophic injury in the line of duty occurs on or after September 1, 2004. Effective immediately.
Amends the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Agriculture.
Amends the State Fair Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the State Finance Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Retired Officers Security Act. Permits the Department of State Police to issue permits to carry concealed firearms to retired peace officers and retired military who have served honorably for at least 10 years. Provides that permits to carry a concealed firearm shall be valid throughout the State for a period of 4 years from the date of issuance. Provides that a person in compliance with the terms of the permit may carry concealed firearms on or about his or her person. Provides that the permittee shall carry the permit at all times the permittee is carrying a concealed firearm and shall display the permit upon the request of a law enforcement officer. Establishes firearm proficiency tests for applicants for concealed carry permits. Repeals the Act on January 1, 2010. Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Pre-empts home rule regulation of the issuance of concealed carry permits. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois AgriFIRST Program Act of 2001. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to certification.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Provides that each individual taxpayer who is a teacher in a qualifying school is entitled to an income tax credit in the amount equal to 50% of the amount spent by the taxpayer in the taxable year for instructional materials for use in the classroom. Provides that the credit may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero and that any excess credit may be carried forward for 5 years. Effective immediately.
Amends the Department of Natural Resources Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning departments and offices that are discontinued under the Act.
Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that no transfers may be made, in order to help defray the State's operating costs for the fiscal year, from the Road Fund or the State Construction Account Fund on or after the effective date of this amendatory Act. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning deferred compensation.
