Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person also commits the offense of drug induced homicide by causing another person's death through absorption of an unlawfully delivered controlled substance. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Power Agency Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title. Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Prohibits a public service announcement on behalf of a State administered program that contains the proper name, image, or voice of a State executive branch constitutional officer or legislator from being displayed on a billboard or electronic message board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Expresses support for the designation of July 23, 2011 as "National Day of the Cowboy".
Congratulates the citizens of the City of Lanark as they celebrate Lanark's sesquicentennial.
Congratulates the members of The Galena Territory Association on the occasion of the Galena Territory being designated as a Certified Community Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.
Congratulates the members of the River Ridge/Scales Mound Wildcats girls basketball team for their second place finish at the IHSA Class 1A State Tournament.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Deletes language that provides that no construction shall commence on any new nuclear power plant to be located within the State, and no certificate of public convenience and necessity or other authorization shall be issued therefor by the Illinois Commerce Commission, until the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency finds that the United States Government, through its authorized agency, has identified and approved a demonstrable technology or means for the disposal of high level nuclear waste, or until such construction has been specifically approved by a statute enacted by the General Assembly. Deletes the definition of "high level nuclear waste". Effective immediately.
In honor of wounded and deceased veterans, designates Illinois Route 75, which runs from Freeport to the Wisconsin state line southeast of Beloit, Wisconsin, as the Purple Heart Trail.
