Sen. Iris Y. Martinez

Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the prohibition on return to service after accepting early retirement benefits applies only to (1) employment for which the person is required (or is allowed and has elected) to participate in the Fund and (2) contractual personal services which, if performed as an employee, would require the employee to participate in the Fund. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Chicago Police Officer Jose Vazquez of Chicago.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the General Assembly.

Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. With respect to real estate transactions, prohibits discrimination on the basis of source of income. In provisions prohibiting an owner or any other person engaging in a real estate transaction, or a real estate broker or salesman, because of unlawful discrimination, familial status, or source of income, from engaging in certain activities, provides that those provisions do not: (i) require a housing authority or housing development project in which 25% or more of the units are owned by a housing authority or subject to a leasing agreement, regulatory and operating agreement, or other similar instrument with a housing authority to lease or rent another unit of that same housing development project to an existing or prospective tenant who is receiving subsidies, payment assistance, contributions, or vouchers under or in connection with the federal Housing Choice Voucher program for payment of part or all of the rent for the unit; (ii) require or prevent, with specified exceptions, any person whose property is located in a municipality with fewer than 1,000,000 inhabitants and is in a concentrated census tract where 3% of the total housing stock is occupied by tenants relying on subsidies, payment assistance, contributions, or vouchers under or in connection with the federal Housing Choice Voucher program for payment of part of the rent for the unit to lease or rent a unit to a prospective tenant who is relying on such a subsidy, payment assistance, contribution, or voucher for payment of part or all of the rent for the unit; or (iii) prevent an owner or agent from taking into consideration factors other than lawful source of income, such as credit history, criminal history, or references. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.

Creates the Unused Medicine Disposal Act. Creates the Unused Medicine Task Force, composed of the Lieutenant Governor, the Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Director of Aging, the Director of Public Health, an individual representing pharmacists, and an individual representing a law enforcement agency. Requires the task force to develop a statewide unused medicine pilot plan, to include: (1) an assessment of solutions and programs currently available in private industry; (2) a statewide procedure for unused or expired medicine disposal that may include the use of prepaid mailing envelopes; (3) a method by which units of local government may assist in disposing of unused medicine; (4) a plan for educating residents of Illinois on when and how to dispose of their unused medications; and (5) a budget for implementing the unused medicine pilot plan. Requires the task force to submit the pilot plan to the Governor and the General Assembly by March 31, 2006. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago firefighters.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the School Code's construction.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State employees.

Appropriates $1,500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for all costs associated with the Grow Our Own Teacher Initiative. Effective July 1, 2005.