Amends the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. Limits enrollment in the agricultural science school to 720 (instead of 600) students.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Capital Development Board for its FY12 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2011.
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Provides that, following notification to and a period of consultation with the appropriate board of control, the Board of Higher Education is authorized to take action on the dissolution or reduce in scope any and all existing programs of instruction, research, or public service that the Board finds to lack educational or economical justification at the public universities and community colleges. Requires each public university and community college to submit its plan for capital improvements of non-instructional facilities to the Board for approval before final commitments are made only if the total cost of the project as approved by the institution's board of control is in excess of $2 million.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that the Secretary of State may suspend or revoke the registration of a vehicle or a certificate of title, registration card, registration sticker, registration plate, disability parking decal or device, or any nonresident or other permit when the Secretary has determined that a vehicle was used in violation of provisions of the Criminal Code of 1961 concerning firearms or in the commission of any felony under the law of any state or the federal government in which a firearm was used.
Amends the State Finance Act and the Illinois Premise Alert Program (PAP) Act. Provides that whenever a supplier of pressurized oxygen cylinders causes a pressurized oxygen cylinder to be delivered to the residence of a user of pressurized oxygen cylinders, the supplier shall report the delivery to the appropriate local law enforcement agency and the appropriate local fire department or fire protection district within 2 days after the delivery. Provides that the local law enforcement agency to whom the information is reported shall ensure that the information is entered into the PAP database. Also requires a supplier to give notice to the user. Provides that if a supplier fails to report the delivery of a pressurized oxygen cylinder as required, the supplier is subject to a civil penalty of $250, which may be imposed by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. Creates the Premise Alert Program (PAP) Fund as a special fund in the State treasury, and provides that all civil penalties collected under these provisions shall be deposited into the Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall, subject to appropriation, be used by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency to administer these provisions. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. Expands the definition of the term "police station" to include a campus police department located on any college or university owned or controlled by the State or any private college or private university that is not owned or controlled by the State.
Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the creation of the Board.
Amends the School Code. Requires a school board to work in concert with the Illinois High School Association to develop guidelines and other pertinent information and forms to inform and educate coaches, student athletes, and these athletes' parents and guardians of the nature and risk of concussions and head injuries, including continuing to play after a concussion or head injury. Requires the concussion and head injury information sheet to be signed and returned by a student athlete and the athlete's parent or guardian prior to the student athlete's initiating practice or competition. Provides that a school board shall adopt a policy requiring a student athlete who is suspected of sustaining a concussion or head injury in a practice or game to be removed from competition at that time. Requires the policy to provide that a student athlete who has been removed from play may not return to play until the student athlete is evaluated by a licensed health care provider trained in the evaluation and management of concussions and head injuries and the student athlete receives written clearance to return to play from that health care provider.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that accident and health insurance policies that provide coverage for prescribed orally-administered cancer medications and intravenously administered or injected cancer medications shall ensure that the applicable financial requirements and treatment limitations are no more restrictive than the financial requirements and treatment limitations applied to intravenously administered or injected cancer medications that are covered by the policy. Provides that an insurer cannot achieve compliance with the coverage mandate by increasing financial requirements or imposing more restrictive treatment limitations on prescribed orally-administered cancer medications or intravenously administered or injected cancer medications covered under the policy. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Changes the definition of "ocular pharmaceutical agents" to mean any pharmaceutical agent or other substance germane to the treatment of the eye or its adnexa, except oral steroids. Provides that oral carbonic anhydrase inhibitors may be prescribed only in a quantity sufficient to provide treatment for up to 72 hours. Removes a provision concerning the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation notifying the Director of Public Health as to the categories of ocular pharmaceutical agents permitted for use by an optometrist.
