Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning January 1, 2004, exempts from the taxes imposed by these Acts tangible personal property and its component parts purchased by a telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching, or recording any interactive, two-way electromagnetic communications, including voice, image, data, and information, through the use of any medium, including, but not limited to, poles, wires, cables, switching equipment, computers, and record storage devices and media. Excepts the provisions from the sunset requirements. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning delivery services implementation plans.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes a technical change concerning school construction bonds.
Makes appropriations from the General Revenue Fund and the State Pensions Fund, the Bank Services Trust Fund, the Transfer Tax Collection Distributive Fund, the Matured Bond and Coupon Fund, the General Bond Retirement and Interest Fund, and the Capital Litigation Trust Fund, for named objects and purposes, to meet the expenses of the Office of the State Treasurer.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning disbursements from the Hospital Services Trust Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Adds a caption to a Section relating to local exchange telecommunications service.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning State policy.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act by reducing by $1 the total amount of General Obligation Bonds authorized under that Act. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Department of Transportation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the School Code. Requires the Department of Transportation, in cooperation with the State Board of Education and the Department of State Police, to establish and administer a Safe Routes to School Construction Program for the construction of bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic-calming projects using federal transportation funds, with construction grants being made available to local governmental agencies. Provides that a school board may not prohibit students from riding bicycles to or from school. Effective immediately.