Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Changes the provisions defining and specifying the manner of designating a beneficiary. Makes changes in provisions concerning elections to exclude certain employees from participation and eligibility for benefits and provisions concerning amortization of a participating municipality's or participating instrumentality's unfunded obligation. Removes language requiring the Board of Trustees to prepare and send ballot envelopes to the employees and annuitants eligible to vote for employee and annuitant trustees. Provides that the venue for actions brought under the Administrative Review Law shall be any county in which the Board maintains an office or the county in which the member's plaintiff's employing participating municipality or participating instrumentality has its main office. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Home Repair Fraud Act. Provides that a person commits the offense of aggravated home repair fraud when he commits home repair fraud in connection with a home repair project intended to assist a disabled person. Provides that aggravated home repair involving misrepresentation or deception is a Class 3 (instead of Class 4) felony when the amount of the contract or agreement is $500 or less and a Class 2 (instead of Class 3) felony for a second or subsequent offense when the amount of the contract or agreement is $500 or less. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows a member to establish service credit for up to 12 days of voluntary or involuntary furlough used to address a State fiscal emergency. Requires employee contributions, plus an amount determined by the Board to be equal to the employer's normal cost of the benefit, plus interest at the actuarially assumed rate. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Deletes language providing that before July 1, 2006 and after June 30, 2010, the State Board of Education shall provide the primary source of funding through appropriations for the grants for preschool educational program and the funds shall be distributed for the benefit of children who because of their home and community environment are subject to such language, cultural, economic and like disadvantages that they have been determined as a result of screening procedures to be at risk of academic failure. Deletes language that provides that screening procedures shall be based on criteria established by the State Board of Education. Removes the date restrictions of July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2010 on the requirement that the State Board of Education shall provide the primary source of funding through appropriations for the program. Effective immediately.
Proclaims February of 2010 as Ambucs Appreciation Month in the State of Illinois.
Mourns the death of Walter E. Skilbeck of Springfield.
Congratulates Donald Reeves on his retirement from City, Water, Light, and Power in Springfield.
Mourns the death of Michael J. Rosenquist, staff attorney in the Legislative Reference Bureau, of River Forest.
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that Veterans Day honors the victory in all wars of all United States Armed Forces (now, United States Army, Navy, and Air Force).
Amends the Deposit of State Moneys Act. Authorizes investment in repurchase agreements of government securities having the meaning set out in the Government Securities Act of 1986,"as now or hereafter amended or succeeded". Effective immediately.