Appropriates $500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for grants to the Gilead Outreach and Referral Center. Effective July 1, 2005.
Creates the Predator Accountability Act. Creates a cause of action against a person who: (i) coerced an individual into prostitution; (ii) coerced an individual to remain in prostitution; (iii) used coercion to collect or receive any of an individual's earnings derived from prostitution; or (iv) advertised or published advertisements for purposes of recruitment into prostitution. Provides for damages for violation of the Act. Exempts the provisions of joint and several liability to actions brought under the Act. Lists non-defenses to an action brought under the Act. Provides for the award of costs to the prevailing party.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State universities.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago police.
Amends the Illinois Human Rights Act. Authorizes the Department of Human Rights to commission a study to investigate housing discrimination in Illinois, if resources permit. Effective immediately.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning medical treatment.
Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Increases the regular retirement formula to 1.96% of final earnings for the first 15 years of service and 2.28% of final earnings for each additional year of service for service earned on or after January 1, 2007. For service earned before January 1, 2007, authorizes augmentation of the old retirement formula by payment of a specified contribution. Increases the normal employee contribution rate by 0.5% of earnings, beginning January 1, 2007. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Visitation Rights Act. Provides that an employer must grant an employee leave of up to a total of 24 (now 8) hours during a school year. Deletes the provision requiring an employee to exhaust all accrued vacation leave before becoming eligible for leave under the Act.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago teachers.
Amends the Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department shall prepare an annual Hispanic Employment Plan. Provides that the Department shall deliver a report to the General Assembly that describes the activities that implemented the Hispanic Employment Plan by February 1 of each year.
