Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that, in each State fiscal year, the Department must use the first $2,500,000 available for use by the Department for loans and grants for railroad facilities to make grants to railroads that are registered rail carriers, other than Class 1 railroads as designated by the Federal Railroad Administration. Amends the State Finance Act to exempt the State Rail Freight Loan Repayment Fund from a provision of the Act that allows the Governor to transfer funds from certain special funds into the General Revenue Fund. Effective July 1, 2007.
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Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section relating to the offense of criminal mutilation or vandalism of library materials.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning use of tax moneys.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding maintenance.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a Section regarding board meetings.
Amends the School Code. In a Section requiring a school district to furnish the regional superintendent of schools and the Secretary of State with a list of pupils who have been expelled or have withdrawn or who have left school and have been removed from the regular attendance rolls, removes provisions (i) requiring the list to include the names of pupils whose withdrawal is due to extraordinary circumstances, pupils who have re-enrolled, pupils certified to be chronic or habitual truants, and chronic or habitual truants who have resumed attendance and (ii) requiring a pupil who re-enrolls to obtain and forward to the Secretary of State verification of his or her re-enrollment. Provides that the list may include the names of pupils who have been adjudicated as truant by the school district.
Amends the Toll Highway Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning acquired property.
Makes an appropriation to the Capital Development Board for the United Neighborhood Organization for renovation of 4 vacant buildings in Chicago. Effective July 1, 2007.
Creates the Local Community Rail Security Act of 2007. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Consumer Installment Loan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a license required to engage in the business of making loans of money in a principal amount not exceeding $25,000.