Sen. Barack Obama

Creates the Health Care Justice Act. Provides that by July 1, 2007, the State of Illinois shall implement a health care access plan that provides access to a full range of preventive, acute, and long-term health care services and contains other features. Establishes the Adequate Health Care Task Force with members appointed by the Governor. Provides for public hearings and requires a final report from the Task Force by March 15, 2006. Requires enactment of legislation by December 31, 2006. Effective July 1, 2004.

Amends the School Code. Requires the State Board of Education to develop and submit to the General Assembly a plan for identifying and assisting financially troubled school districts.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning conditions for basic maintenance grants of Aid to the Aged, Blind or Disabled.

Creates the State Investment Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Creates the Supreme Court Campaign Reform Act. Provides that candidates for the Supreme Court may apply for a public financing benefit in connection with their campaign. Sets the amount of the public financing benefit at $750,000 for the general primary and general election cycle. Sets requirements for qualifying for the public financing benefits. Limits the amount of private contributions qualified candidates may accept. Limits the amounts that non-participating candidates may accept from private sources during campaign periods to $1,000 in the aggregate. Provides that qualified candidates must be distributed a line of credit from the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund to be used for lawful political expenditures. Provides for the increase of the line of credit if non-complying candidates make certain expenditures. Sets penalties for violations of the Act. Provides that the Illinois Supreme Court may require attorneys to contribute money to the Fund not to exceed $25 annually. Contains other provisions. Amends the Election Code. Provides that a payment for electioneering communications is an "expenditure". Provides that a group that "accepts contributions or makes expenditures during any 12-month period in an aggregate amount exceeding $3,000 for the purpose of electioneering communications" is a political committee. Allows the Board of Elections to impose a fine against a committee that fails to report expenditures that could trigger matching funds under the Supreme Court Campaign Reform Act. Amends the State Finance Act. Creates the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund. Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Requires the Department of Revenue to print on its standard individual income tax form a provision by which the taxpayer may make a contribution (not less than $1) to the Illinois Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund. Amends the Clerk of the Courts Act. Requires circuit court clerks to transfer $1 from each appearance fee paid to the State Treasurer for deposit into the Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund and, to defray that expense, the county board may, by resolution, require the clerk of the circuit court in the county to charge and collect a Supreme Court Democracy Trust Fund fee of not more than $1, which shall be paid at the time that any appearance fee is paid. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that an offender who has not been convicted more than once for a felony may apply to the court or the Prisoner Review Board to seek a certificate of relief from disabilities as relates to bars to employment or licensure or forfeiture of property imposed as a result of the offender's conviction. Establishes procedures and criteria for seeking and obtaining that relief. Also permits the Prisoner Review Board to issue certificates of good conduct to relieve an offender of a disability or bar to employment imposed by law by reason of the offender's conviction. Effective January 1, 2004.

Amends the Military Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section creating the Department of Military Affairs.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department to develop and implement a child care capital investment program. Provides that the program's purposes are (1) to assess the need for additional licensed child care providers in low-income communities, (2) to provide planning and technical assistance to prepare child care providers for making capital investments, and (3) to provide grants as part of a financing package to build new child care capacity in high-need communities throughout the State. Effective immediately.