Reconstitutes the Commission to Study the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Past and Present Effects on African-Americans created by SJR 31 of the 94th General Assembly.
Declares the week of February 25 through March 2, 2007, as Illinois State Historical Society Markers Awareness Week in Illinois.
Mourns the death of Ryan Harris of Carbondale.
Congratulates Billie and George Paige on their 50th wedding anniversary.
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Lead Safe Housing Act. Contains a short title provision only.
Amends the Chicago Park District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the Chicago Park District.
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Provides that an Applicant may qualify for tax credits if the Applicant has 100 or fewer employees and is located or will locate in a county for which the annual unemployment rate was at least 1% higher than the average annual statewide unemployment rate during the most recent year for which those statistics are available from the Department of Employment Security, the project will involve an investment of at least $500,000 in capital improvements to be placed in service, and the project will employ at least 2 New Employees within the State as a direct result of the project. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code and the Illinois Anatomical Gift Act. Provides that the Secretary of State may establish a First Person Consent organ and tissue donor registry. Provides that the Secretary may offer, to each applicant for reissuance or renewal of a driver's license or identification card who is 18 or older, the opportunity to have his or her name included on the registry. Provides that the Secretary must advise the person that he or she is under no compulsion to have his or her name included. Establishes additional procedures for creating the registry. Provides that the Secretary must continue, until the registry has been established, to provide, on the reverse side of each driver's license issued, a format that the licensee may use to execute an anatomical gift. Provides that a person may make an anatomical gift by consenting to having his or her name included in the registry. Provides that in the absence of gross negligence, willful misconduct, the Secretary of State and his or her employees are immune from criminal or civil liability in connection with a person's consent to be listed in the registry.
Amends the Criminal Identification Act. Provides that the record of arrest of a person charged with a felony or misdemeanor or an ordinance violation who is acquitted or released without being convicted of the violation shall be expunged from the official records of the arresting authority and the Department of State Police and the records of the clerk of the circuit court shall be sealed and the name of the defendant obliterated on the official index required to be kept by the circuit court clerk regardless of whether or not the person has previously been convicted of a criminal offense or municipal ordinance violation. Provides that the expungement and sealing of the records shall be made in such case without petition by the person to the court and without the payment of a fee to the Department of State Police.
