Sen. Martin A. Sandoval

Amends the Right to Privacy in the Workplace Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prohibited inquiries.

Amends the Public Community College Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the members of the Illinois Community College Board.

Amends the Credit Services Organizations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Creates the Military Service Members Mortgage Life Insurance Act. Requires the Department of Military Affairs to establish a program for service members called to active duty to assist service members in the procurement of mortgage life insurance and to pay the premiums for such mortgage life insurance. Provides application requirements and procedures. Requires the Department to cease paying premiums once the service member is discharged from active duty and to notify the insurer and the service member that, unless the service member chooses to continue paying the premiums, the mortgage life insurance policy will be cancelled. Requires the Department to adopt rules to carry out the provisions of the Act.

Creates the Access to Governmental Services Act. Requires each constitutional officer, State agency, circuit court clerk, and State program to provide equal access to public services for individuals with limited English proficiency. Provides definitions of "equal access", "limited English proficiency", "oral language services", and "important documents". Reasonable steps to provide equal access to public service includes, but is not limited to: in-house oral language services for individuals with limited English proficiency if the agency or officer has contact at least weekly with individuals with limited English proficiency; translation of important documents ordinarily provided to the public must be provided in any language spoken by at least 3% of the population within the geographic area served by a local office of a State agency, constitutional officer, or county as measured by the U.S. Census; and additional methods necessary to achieve equal access.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Prohibits a person from operating a motor vehicle that is equipped with registration plate covers (now only tinted plastic or tinted glass registration plate covers are prohibited). Prohibits the sale and advertisement for sale of registration plate covers. Defines a "registration plate cover" as any tinted, colored, painted, marked, clear, or illuminated object that is designed to: (1) cover any of the characters of a motor vehicle's registration plate; or (2) distort a recorded image of any of the characters of a motor vehicle's registration plate recorded by an automated red light enforcement system or recorded by an automated traffic control system.

Continues the Joint Task Force on Illinois Immigrants and Refugees established by House Resolution 21 of the 93rd General Assembly until such time as the Joint Task Force delivers its report to the General Assembly summarizing its findings and recommendations, but no later than December 31, 2005.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 and the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that every person arrested for committing a felony shall have a sample of his or her saliva or tissue taken for DNA fingerprinting analysis, at the time of booking, for the purpose of determining identity and for certain other specified purposes. Provides that subject to appropriation, the Department of State Police shall implement this provision. Provides that this provision becomes operative no later than the earliest of the following: (1) two years after the effective date of this amendatory Act; (2) the date on which the Department of State Police informs law enforcement agencies that the Department is ready to collect samples; or (3) January 1, 2008. Effective immediately.

Amends the Collateral Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a creditor's liability for failing to insure collateral.