Rep. Rich Brauer

Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to implement and administer a quality teacher incentive program, in which the Board provides signing bonuses of $1,500 each to eligible teachers who have an initial teaching certificate with a special certification designation for mathematics or science. Requires the teacher to agree to teach math or science in a public school for a minimum of 3 consecutive years. Effective July 1, 2003.

Designates specified portions of Illinois Route 123, Route 97, and the Athens Blacktop, collectively, as the Abraham Lincoln Highway.

Amends the Illinois Promotion Act. Authorizes the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to conduct a study concerning the feasibility of constructing a hotel or motel complex to be situated in Menard County near New Salem State Park or within the immediate area of Petersburg, Illinois; to prepare or consider possible plans for designs of the hotel or motel complex; to estimate the costs of the construction of the complex and to estimate the economic return generated from the complex; to consider possible sites for the complex; and to report its recommendations and findings to the General Assembly as soon as possible.

Appropriates $1 from the General Revenue Fund to the Illinois Medical District at Springfield for its ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Requires State agencies to notify the Procurement Policy Board of their procurement policies and changes in those policies. Authorizes the Board to require an agency to respond in writing to its inquiries and recommendations. Authorizes the Board to temporarily assume the procurement authority of a non-responsive agency.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Public Aid may not establish any formulary limits on, or restrict by any prior authorization requirement, any insulin prescription drug as prescribed and determined to be medically necessary for the treatment of diabetes. Effective July 1, 2004.

Amends the Real Estate License Act of 2000. Provides that the Office of Banks and Real Estate, the Attorney General, on behalf of the People of the State of Illinois, any statewide association of licensees, or any aggrieved party may bring an action against any person or entity engaging in real estate brokerage activities without first obtaining a license under this Act, unless otherwise exempt from licensure, and upon a finding of unlicensed activities shall be entitled to (i) appropriate equitable relief and (ii) actual damages, if any.

Designates specified portions of Illinois Route 123, Route 97, and the Athens Blacktop, collectively, as the Abraham Lincoln Highway.

Designates portions of Business Route 55 in Springfield as Abraham Lincoln Parkway.

Creates the Public Service Accountability Act. Sets out the requirements for privatization contracts between contractors and State agencies. Provides for the monitoring and enforcement of privatization contracts. Establishes fines and prison sentences for a violation of certain Sections of the Act. Effective immediately.