Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Requires the Department of Human Services to implement a food stamp outreach program to increase participation in the food stamp program by senior citizens, residents of rural areas, and employed persons with low family incomes by providing information concerning eligibility standards and application procedures. Effective immediately.
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Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to Governors State University for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Use Tax Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Makes appropriations to the Board of Trustees of the State Universities Retirement System and to the Community College Health Insurance Security Fund for fiscal year 2005. Effective July 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Prisoner Review Board for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Makes technical changes to the short title Section.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Legislative Reference Bureau for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Judges' Retirement System for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Authorizes the District to impose a separate tax for the purpose of providing funds for health care costs at a rate not to exceed 0.05% of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the District. Makes a corresponding reduction in the maximum amount of the levy for general corporate purposes. Amends the Property Tax Code to exclude the new tax from the applicable definition of "aggregate extension" for purposes of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. In provisions requiring a child to have a health examination, allows any physician licensed under the Medical Practice Act of 1987 (not just a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches) to conduct the health examination and sign the required report form. Effective July 1, 2003.