Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board may allow students to substitute the entirety of grades 11 and 12 with vocational or technical education courses. Requires substituted courses to be approved jointly by the State Board of Education and the Illinois Workforce Investment Board (instead of requiring the course to contain at least 50% of the content of the course to be substituted). Amends the Illinois Workforce Investment Board Act to make conforming changes.
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Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State policy.
Amends Public Act 99-524 to make supplemental appropriations. Reduces certain appropriations from the Commitment to Human Services Fund for funeral and burial expenses from $8,775,000 to $575,000. Appropriates $8,200,000 from the Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund for those funeral and burial expenses. Appropriates $18, 635,000 from the Commitment to Human Services Fund to the Department of Human Services for costs associated with the Domestic Violence Shelters and Services Program. Makes conforming changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning certificates of title.
Amends the Illinois Banking Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the University of Illinois for its FY18 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2017.
Amends the Metropolitan Transit Authority Act. Provides that on and after January 1, 2018, the Chicago Transit Board shall provide tickets at no charge to high school students that are eligible for free or reduced meals or milk under the federal National School Lunch Program or the Commodity School Program on days when school is in session. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a municipality, township, county, or other unit of local government may not impose a fee for a permit in excess of the fees provided for in the Permits Article of the Chapter under the Code governing size, weight, load, and permits.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that, in the case of funds received by a county from the Department of Transportation to be apportioned to road districts for the construction of bridges, a road district shall, in order to be eligible for the expenditure of the apportioned funds, levy taxes for road and bridge purposes under a provision in the Motor Fuel Tax Law (rather than levy taxes under certain provisions of the Illinois Highway Code). Removes a provision allowing a road district that is otherwise ineligible to receive apportioned funds due to a property tax limitation to become eligible if certain conditions are met. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the purpose of the Medical Assistance Article.