Creates the Illinois Diesel Emissions Reduction Act. Creates the Illinois Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program and the Diesel Emissions Reduction Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used only to implement the Funding Program. Requires the collection of a surcharge on the retail sale or lease of certain diesel vehicles that are of a model year 2006 or earlier and are not equipped with Level 3 Controls. Requires a similar surcharge on the registration of certain diesel vehicles. Requires IEPA, in consultation with the State Treasurer and after notice and public comment, to promulgate rules to establish and implement the Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program. Sets out guidelines for the administration of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program and the corresponding grant and rebate programs. Provides that IEPA may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce any provision of the Funding Program. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State shall require additional information with the registration of a diesel motor vehicle to support a reliable and complete inventory of diesel motor vehicles in the State. Provides that the Secretary of State, in consultation with DOT and IEPA, shall, promulgate regulations by October 1, 2008 to develop a program for registration of diesel nonroad vehicles, locomotives, and diesel marine vessels, and shall implement the program beginning January 1, 2009. Contains other provisions. Effective immediately.
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Creates the Illinois Diesel Emissions Reduction Act. Creates the Illinois Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program and the Diesel Emissions Reduction Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used only to implement the Funding Program. Requires the collection of a surcharge on the retail sale or lease of certain diesel vehicles that are of a model year 2006 or earlier and are not equipped with Level 3 Controls. Requires a similar surcharge on the registration of certain diesel vehicles. Requires IEPA, in consultation with the Department of Revenue and after notice and public comment, to promulgate rules to establish and implement the Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program. Sets out guidelines for the administration of the Diesel Emissions Reduction Funding Program and the corresponding grant and rebate programs. Provides that IEPA may seek injunctive relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to enforce any provision of the Funding Program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. In connection with the pharmaceutical assistance program, provides eligibility for persons who have a maximum household income at or below 225% of the Federal Poverty Level if they qualify under certain conditions. Eliminates an Eligibility Group consisting of persons who are disabled and under age 65, or age 65 or older with incomes related to 200% of the Federal Poverty Level, and who are eligible for Medicare Part D coverage. Provides that for persons who have a diagnosis of HIV or AIDS, "covered prescription drug" means those drugs covered by the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan in which the beneficiary is enrolled (eliminates a reference to drugs included in the formulary of the Illinois AIDS Drug Assistance Program operated by the Illinois Department of Public Health). Provides that in defining countable income for purposes of the pharmaceutical assistance program, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services or the Department on Aging must disregard the cost-of-living increase to any benefit administered by the Social Security Administration in any year that the percentage increase of the Social Security Administration cost-of-living adjustment is higher than the percentage increase in the Federal Poverty Level. Adds provisions concerning the effective date of eligibility for the pharmaceutical assistance program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Mortgage Escrow Account Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's short title.
Creates the Illinois Children's Savings Accounts Act. Creates a task force to review and make recommendations about children's savings account program options and to create a strategic implementation plan to create a savings account at birth for every child born in Illinois to Illinois residents. Provides the appointment criteria for members of the task force. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall be responsible for administrative and logistical support of the task force. Provides the factors the task force shall consider in its recommendations for the design of the program. Requires the task force to hold at least 4 public meetings at various locations throughout the State. Requires the task force to make a written report of its findings and recommendations, including a strategic implementation plan for an Illinois children's savings account program, to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity no later than September 1, 2008. Provides that on or before November 1, 2008, the Department shall present all reports issued by the task force to the Governor and the General Assembly. Effective immediately.
Amends the Savings and Loan Share and Account Act. Makes a technical change to a Section relating to joint ownership of accounts.
Appropriates $2,700,000 to the Department of Corrections for a grant to the Cook County Sheriff's Office for programs administered through the Department of Women's Justice Services, for the Cook County Residential Treatment and Transition Center for Women. Effective July 1, 2008.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning teacher certification.
Amends the Deposit of State Moneys Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning interest on deposits.
Amends the School Code. Provides that a school board may, in accordance with certain administrative procedures, authorize the suspension of a student or expel a student if (i) that student has been determined to have made an explicit threat on an Internet web site against a school employee, a student, or any school-related personnel, (ii) the Internet web site through which the threat was made is a site that was accessible within the school at the time the threat was made or was available to third parties who worked or studied within the school grounds at the time the threat was made, and (iii) the threat could be reasonably interpreted as bearing a reasonable relationship to the safety and security of the threatened individual because of his or her duties or educational status inside the school.