Amends the Illinois Police Training Act. Authorizes the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board to initiate, administer, and conduct annual firearm certification courses for retired law enforcement officers that are qualified under federal law to carry a concealed weapon. Amends the Peace Officer Firearm Training Act. Provides that the annual range qualification for peace officers shall consist of range fire approved by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board. Changes the definition of "peace officer" to include any retired law enforcement officer who is qualified under federal law to carry a concealed weapon. Amends the Intergovernmental Law Enforcement Officer's In-Service Training Act. Includes retired law enforcement officers qualified under federal law to carry a concealed weapon among the law enforcement personnel to whom a Mobile Team In-Service Training Unit may provide in-service training in order to be eligible for State funding. Effective July 1, 2005.
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Congratulates the congregation of the First Congregational Church of Pecatonica on the occasion of its 150th anniversary.
Congratulates the Scales Mound United Methodist Church on its 150th anniversary.
Recognizes AVID District Director George Buss for his exemplary work.
Congratulates the Winnebago High School Indians boys basketball team on their second place finish in the 2005 IHSA Class A boys basketball state tournament.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Allows the Illinois Comprehensive Health Insurance Board to establish conditions and procedures under which the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan may discount or subsidize premiums for unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004, and to accept funds appropriated for this purpose. Allows unemployed or retired coal miners who are federally eligible and whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to be eligible for the Plan even though their premiums may be discounted or subsidized. Requires federally eligible unemployed or retired coal miners whose employer-provided health insurance coverage was terminated on September 28, 2004 to pay the discounted or subsidized premiums established by the Board. Effective immediately.
Amends the Recreational Use of Land and Water Areas Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to encourage owners of land to make land and water areas available to any individual or, on state-owned or managed lands and waters, members of the public (rather than to the public) for recreational or conservation purposes by limiting their liability toward persons entering thereon for such purposes. Provides that residential buildings are not included in the definition of "land". Changes the definition of "recreational or conservation purpose" to include hunting, hiking, recreational shooting, operation of an off-highway vehicle, rock climbing, trapping, horseback riding of an entrant's own horse or horses, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, water or snow skiing, sledding, and snowmobiling. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Deletes a provision allowing legally possessed firearms to be returned to a person that completes a sentence for a conviction on a misdemeanor domestic battery charge.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Act. Provides that the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority may apply for, receive, establish priorities for, allocate, disburse, and spend grants of funds for assisting counties and municipalities in establishing and maintaining reentry programs. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Permits a county or municipality that maintains a jail or municipal house of corrections to establish a program for the reentry into the community of felony offenders who are within one year of their release from prison. Provides that an offender must demonstrate a willingness to engage in employment or participate in vocational rehabilitation or job skills training and meet any existing obligation for restitution to any victim of his or her crime. Establishes various services that will be provided to participants in the program. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall establish standards for and shall inspect facilities that house participants in the reentry programs. Provides that the Department of Corrections may make construction and renovation grants for these facilities.