Creates the Fair Athletic Competition Act. Requires the Illinois High School Association (IHSA), in conjunction with its Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, to develop and implement a program of random testing for steroids of individual athletes participating in interscholastic athletic programs under IHSA's purview. Provides that any student who possesses, ingests, or otherwise uses any substance on the IHSA list of banned substances, without a prescription by a fully licensed physician to treat a medical condition, shall be considered in violation of IHSA's by-laws and is subject to penalties approved by the IHSA Board of Directors. Sets forth what these penalties must include. Provides that a student athlete who refuses to consent to testing is not eligible for interscholastic competition and shall immediately forfeit his or her eligibility to participate in interscholastic competition for 365 days. Provides for confidentiality of test results. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Election Code. Requires that a person seeking to vote on election day present a government-issued photo identification card to the election judge (now, required only when voting early). Effective immediately.
Appropriates $250,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for a grant to the Illinois High School Association for development and implementation of a random steroid testing program for high school athletes. Effective July 1, 2009.
Proposes to amend the Legislature Article of the Illinois Constitution. Provides that the State Board of Elections shall produce a redistricting plan using a computer program. In the year following each Federal decennial census year, requires the State Board of Elections to designate its computer program by April 15 and to file the redistricting plan by June 1, which is presumed valid and has the force and effect of law. The computer program designated by the State Board of Elections must disregard specified data and must consider certain prioritized factors; the computer program shall otherwise produce districts in a random manner. Effective beginning with redistricting in 2011 and applies to members elected in 2012 and thereafter.
Amends the General Obligation Bond Act. Authorizes an additional $10,000,000,000 for making contributions to the State Employees', Teachers', State Universities, Judges, and General Assembly Retirement Systems. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Establishes procedures and notice requirements for the Department of Transportation to follow before, during, and after a hearing on a proposed protected corridor through which a proposed roadway may be constructed. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Requires that nominating petitions of candidates for statewide offices and for the General Assembly include voluntary pledges to limit campaign expenditures to amounts based on the office sought. Effective immediately.
Applies to Congress to call a limited constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing to the states for ratification an amendment to the United States Constitution that would prohibit Congress from making laws that do not apply equally to the citizens of the United States and the members of Congress.
Creates the Debt Settlement Act. Provides that no person shall engage in the business of debt settlement in the State without a license. Provides that an applicant for a license to engage in the business of debt settlement shall file an application with the Director of the Division of Financial Institutions of the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation that contains specified provisions. Contains provisions concerning the renewal of licenses. Requires a licensee to create, maintain, and preserve accurate and complete books relating to the licensee's business. Contains provisions concerning contract fees. Provides for debt settlement contract requirements. Specifies the functions required to be performed and acts that are prohibited by a debt settlement provider. Provides that without limiting the generality of the Act and other applicable laws, the debt settlement provider, manager, or an employee of the debt settlement provider (except a licensed attorney who provides legal services in an attorney-client relationship or who is otherwise authorized to practice law in the State) shall not perform specified actions. Provides that the Attorney General or the prosecuting attorney of any county within the State may bring an action in the name of the State against any person to restrain and prevent any violation of the Act and specifies penalties for violations of the Act.
Amends the General Provisions Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that the total retirement annuity, including any automatic, one-time, or other increases in that annuity, shall not ever exceed $100,000 per year. Applies only to a person who first becomes a participant on or after the effective date. Effective immediately.