Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987. Provides that if any minor is determined to need care away from home in foster care, shelter care, or detention, the court shall order, consistent with the health, safety, and best interests of the minor, the removal of the minor from his or her home because the minor's home cannot provide the quality of care and level of support and supervision the minor needs at the time. Provides that removal from the home is in the minor's and community's best interest for any of the following reasons: (i) the minor is without the care necessary for the minor's well being through no fault or lack of concern by a parent, guardian, custodian, or other person, (ii) the minor has no parent, guardian, custodian, or other person able to return the minor to the court when required, or (iii) for the protection of the minor. Provides that the court shall further find that reasonable efforts have been made or that, consistent with the health, safety, and best interests of the minor, no efforts reasonably can be made to prevent or eliminate the necessity of removal of the minor from his or her home. Provides that once the court finds that it is a matter of immediate and urgent necessity for the protection of the minor that the minor be placed in a shelter care facility, detention center, or foster care, the minor shall not be returned to the parent, custodian, or guardian until the court finds that such placement is no longer necessary for the protection of the minor. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Provides that the Joint Committee for the Constitutional Convention Proposal, created by House Joint Resolution 111 of the 95th General Assembly, shall file its report by May 15, 2008 (instead of by April 4, 2008).
Appropriates $1,900,000 to the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, to fund the expansion of drug school programs throughout the state of Illinois modeled after the current Cook County drug school program. Effective July 1, 2007.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the supervision of persons on parole or mandatory supervised release.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning judges.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the General Assembly.
Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2008, each probation officer shall receive at least 30 hours per year in training or continuing education in a training or continuing education program approved in advance by the Division of Probation Services.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that the corporate authorities of a home rule municipality with 1,000,000 or more inhabitants, by ordinance, may order the county clerk to abate any percentage of the taxes levied by the municipality and any other taxing district on each parcel of certain qualified residential property within the corporate limits of the municipality that is owned by the surviving spouse of a fallen police officer or rescue worker. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Adds a Section concerning investment consultants. Contains only a caption.