Sen. M. Maggie Crotty

Creates the Fire and Life Safety Device Act. Provides that the manufacture, installation, or sale of any device or object that reasonably appears to be a smoke detector, sprinkler head, carbon monoxide alarm, heat detector, or any other similar device used for life safety or fire protection that is, in fact, neither designed nor capable of performing such life safety or fire protection function, is prohibited. Establishes penalties for violations of the Act. Provides that inspectors employed by municipalities, fire protection districts, and counties and those individuals who meet the certification requirements of the Fire Sprinkler Contractor Licensing Act may inspect such devices to ensure compliance with the Act.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning construction of the Code.

Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning appropriations for public graveyards.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning certificates of title.

Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt resolutions regulating the political activities and the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by their officials and employees (now, classified as State agencies subject to the entire Act's regulation and enforcement by the Executive Ethics Commission and the Governor's Executive Inspector General). Effective immediately.

Disapproves the 2008 report of the Compensation Review Board.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds language providing that termination of gas and electric utility service to all residential users, for nonpayment of bills, is prohibited on any day when the National Weather Service forecasts that the temperature on the following 2 calendar days shall reach a 32 degree Fahrenheit temperature. Provides that the termination of gas and electric utility service to all residential users, for nonpayment of bills, where gas or electricity is used as the only source of space cooling or to control or operate the only space cooling equipment at the residence, is prohibited (1) on any day when the National Weather Service forecast for the following 24 hours covering the area of the utility in which the residence is located includes a forecast that the temperature shall be 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above, or on the following 2 calendar days during which a 95 degree Fahrenheit temperature has been reached; or (2) on any day preceding a holiday or weekend when a forecast indicates that the temperature shall be 95 degrees Fahrenheit or above during the holiday or weekend. Effective immediately.

Amends the School Code. Allows for the continuation of the distribution of funds by the State Board of Education to achieve a goal of "Preschool for All Children" by removing certain provisions that limit this distribution to a time period from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008. Effective July 1, 2008.

Amends the Illinois Health Care Facilities Planning Act. Exempts construction and renovation of certain long-term care "campus facilities" from the Act's application. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of U.S. Army Private DeWayne Lenell White of Country Club Hills.