Amends the School Code. Creates a Division of Teaching and Learning Services, Division of School Support Services, Division of Fiscal Support Services, Division of Special Education Services, Office of the Internal Auditor, and Office of Human Resources, all within the State Board of Education. Lists the responsibilities of these divisions and offices. Prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting any rule or policy that alters the intent of the authorizing law. Provides that all rules or policies impacting the authorizing law shall be presented before the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Provides that no rule or policy of the State Board may supercede federal or State law, unless otherwise authorized by law. Requires the State Board to develop and maintain a continuing 5-year strategic plan for elementary and secondary education, to be issued to the Governor and General Assembly. Lists topic areas that the plan must include. Requires the State Board to provide for the establishment and operation of not more than 15 regional administrative service centers as a 3-year pilot program, to be located throughout the State based on the location of the 15 regional learning technology centers established by the State Board. Lists functions that the centers must perform. Requires a school district's calendar for the school term and any changes to be submitted to and approved by the regional superintendent of schools (the State Board of Education in Chicago) before the calendar or any changes may take effect. Gives the regional superintendent of schools the duty to assist and support school districts with the preparation and submission of grant applications and the duty to accept and review all transcripts for new initial certificate applications and ensure that each applicant has met all of the criteria established by the State Board of Education in consultation with the State Teacher Certification Board. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Township Code. Makes technical changes in a Section regarding the use of terms.
Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning detention or shelter care hearings.
Amends the Health Care Professional Credentials Data Collection Act. Makes a stylistic change in a Section concerning the judicial review of administrative decisions pursuant to the Administrative Review Law.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Re-enacts a provision added by Public Act 89-203 that was held unconstitutional in People v. Wooters, 188 Ill. 2d 500 (1999) as violating the single subject clause of the Illinois Constitution. Re-enacts the provision that requires the court to impose a sentence of natural life imprisonment upon a defendant who has not been sentenced to death and who at the time of the commission of the murder has attained the age of 17 or more and is found guilty of murdering an individual under 12 years of age. Effective immediately.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to the application of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Budget Law. Makes technical changes in a Section providing that a municipality's noncompliance with the Act does not invalidate an otherwise valid tax levy by that municipality.
Amends the Disabled Veterans Housing Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning eligibility for certain services.
Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning violations.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds a caption to a Section concerning mobile telecommunications services.