Sen. Edward D. Maloney

Amends the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act and the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides that an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment that provides medication administration as an optional service shall administer a vaccination against tetanus to each resident; also provides that a nursing home shall administer a vaccination against tetanus to each resident. Provides that an assisted living establishment or shared housing establishment or nursing home shall document in the resident's medication record that a vaccination against tetanus was administered, refused, or medically contraindicated. Effective immediately.

Creates the Asthma Inhalers at Recreational Camps Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Creates the Home Care Consumer and Worker Protection Act. If an agency places a home care worker with a consumer to provide home care services, requires the agency to give the worker and the consumer a notice setting forth the rights and responsibilities of each of them as well as appropriate phone numbers and addresses of the Office of the Attorney General. Authorizes the Attorney General to investigate complaints of violations of the Act, issue cease-and-desist orders, and seek injunctive relief. Provides for a civil penalty of $1,000 per day for each day that a violation continues. Effective January 1, 2006.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the creation of the Board.

Amends the Ticket Scalping Act. Includes in the requirements that a ticket broker must meet to be exempt from the Act the requirement that, beginning January 1, 2006, the price of a ticket, including all fees and charges, in excess of the printed box office ticket price may not exceed more than 20% of the price printed on the face of the ticket. Provides that this provision does not apply to any tax or fee imposed by the State or by a unit of local government.

Amends the Election Code. Requires election authorities to accept the pre-registration of 16 and 17-year-old residents of the election jurisdiction who, but for age, are otherwise qualified to vote.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Board's powers and duties.

Amends the School Code. With respect to school districts other than Chicago, requires that certain contracts involving an expenditure in excess of $25,000 or a lower amount as required by local policy (rather than $10,000) be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Makes changes concerning the exceptions to this requirement, including an exception for contracts for services of corporations possessing a high degree of professional skill where ability and fitness play an important part, contracts for food services, contracts for utilities and related services when the cost is less than that offered by a local distribution company, and contracts for repair, maintenance, remodeling, renovation, or construction involving an expenditure not to exceed $50,000 (rather than $20,000). Adds an exception for contracts for the provision of motor vehicle fuel. Effective immediately.

Amends the Public Community College Act. Provides that the board of each community college district shall require all of its full-time students who are in their first year of attendance at the community college, including transfer students, to meet with a guidance counselor or academic advisor at the community college to discuss course selection at least once during the student's first year of attendance, preferably during the first semester of attendance. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning reimbursement for a Board member's expenses.