Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning new certificates of title for rebuilt vehicles.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning service obligations.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the applicability of the common law.
Amends the Recyclable Metal Purchase Registration Law. Provides that all purchases of recyclable metal must be recorded as provided in the Act, instead of only purchases of recyclable metal with a minimum value of $100. Provides that recyclable metal dealers must retain transaction records for 3 instead of 2 years. Requires dealers to ask about where the recyclable metal was obtained. Requires a recyclable metal dealer that suspects property in his or her possession to be lost or stolen to immediately notify local law enforcement. Restricts the purchase and sale of specific materials without documentation of ownership. Provides that recyclable metal dealers cannot pay cash, nor make payment at the time of the transaction, for specified metals. Provides that it is a violation of the Act for a recyclable metal dealer to purchase or attempt to purchase recyclable metal from persons convicted of specified felonies, when the dealer has been informed of such convictions by law enforcement. Provides that any person, in addition to a recyclable metal dealer, who knowingly fails to comply with the Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense, and a Class 4 felony for the second or subsequent offense.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Removes length limits for the distance between the kingpin and the center of the rear axle of a semitrailer longer than 48 feet, in combination with a truck tractor.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to adopt rules to establish a process for independent third party investigation of a long-term care facility's complaint about Department employees or individuals acting on behalf of the Department in making an inspection, survey, or evaluation under the Act. Requires the rules to include necessary and appropriate protections to ensure that a person filing a complaint in good faith does not suffer any adverse effect on account of having done so. Effective January 1, 2013.
Amends the Governmental Account Audit Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reports to the Comptroller.
Congratulates Robert E. Ritschel, president of Spoon River College, on his retirement.
Welcomes the 2012 Illinois History Symposium and its commemoration of our State in the War of 1812 and recognizes the contributions of all Native American people.
Congratulates St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on its 50th anniversary.
