Amends the Residential Real Property Disclosure Act. Requires the seller of the property to disclose whether the property has been used for the manufacture of methamphetamine. Effective immediately.
Amends the Cigarette Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.
Amends the School Code. With respect to the Reading Improvement Block Grant Program, makes changes concerning (i) the power and duty of the State Board of Education to improve reading and study skills, (ii) the purposes for which the State Board may distribute 2% or less of the moneys appropriated for the program, (iii) when program funds are distributed to school districts, (iv) how program funds are used by school districts, and (v) what an application for funds must include. Removes a provision concerning a school district's report of performance of progress results and a district not being eligible for additional funding until performance progress is established. Effective July 1, 2007.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning teacher certification.
Amends the State Employees Group Insurance Act of 1971, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the School Code, the Illinois Insurance Code, the Health Maintenance Organization Act, and the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act to provide coverage for habilitative services, including, but not limited to occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy for children under the age of 19 with congenital or genetic defects existing at or from birth or with a defect acquired at a young age. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.
Amends the State Finance Act. In fiscal year 2014 and in each fiscal year thereafter, requires the transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Agricultural Premium Fund and the Fair and Exposition Fund of amounts equal to 100% of the total statutory payments required from those special funds for that fiscal year to county fairs and fair and exposition authorities under the Agricultural Fair Act. In each of the fiscal years 2009 through 2013, requires transfer of an amount equal to a lower, specified percentage of those total statutory payments. Provides that the required transfer amounts are the maximum amounts to be transferred in each fiscal year, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary. Amends the Agricultural Fair Act. With respect to the distribution formula for premiums to county fairs, uses either of the 2 previous fiscal years (now, either fiscal year 1984 or 1985).
Amends the Payday Loan Reform Act. Changes the definition of "payday loan" to include any loan with a finance charge exceeding an annual percentage rate of 36% (instead of with a finance charge exceeding an annual percentage rate of 36% and with a term that does not exceed 120 days). Provides that no lender may make a payday loan with periodic payments unless the periodic payments are substantially equal term payments and, if paid as scheduled, result in full payment of the principal and interest owed on the loan at the end of the loan term. Requires the licensee, as part of the information that he or she must collect and maintain, to include the total number of lawsuits filed by the licensee or its agent against consumers to collect on payday loans from consumers during the preceding calendar year. Prohibits a licensee or a person making payday loans from evading the requirements and prohibitions of the Act by use of a device or subterfuge including, but not limited to, (i) disguising a payday loan as a different type of transaction, or (ii) characterizing a required fee as a purchase of a good or service in connection with a payday loan. Authorizes the Department to develop rules to determine if any person or entity seeks to evade the applicability of this Act by any device, subterfuge, or pretense. Effective immediately.
Creates the Executive Employment Office Act. Creates an independent State agency with authority and responsibility for the hiring of employees for State departments and agencies under the jurisdiction of the Executive Inspector General appointed by the Governor, except State colleges and universities and community colleges. Provides for the appointment of the executive director of the Office by the Governor, with the advice and consent of three-fifths of the members of each house of the General Assembly. Prohibits the affected State agencies from hiring full-time and part-time employees and interns except through the Office. Provides that the Office by rule shall develop and implement standards for the hiring of State agency employees, including assuring that the hiring is without influence from or recommendation by any of the following: any officer or employee of any State agency; any officer of any political party; any lobbyist; any person, or any officer of any entity, that has made one or more political contributions within the previous 12 months valued at more than $5,000 in the aggregate to the individual who holds the office of Governor or to any political committee authorized on behalf of that individual; or any officer of, or person with an equity or income interest of more than 7.5% in, any firm holding one or more contracts with an aggregate value of more than $25,000 with one or more State agencies.
Creates the South Suburban Airport Authority Act. Contains a short title only.
