Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a pedestrian may traverse over a pedestrian walkway crossing a railroad track in order to reach a waiting train, provided that the waiting train is stationary and no other trains are approaching, the pedestrian does not cross the same track as the waiting train, or a railroad employee indicates that it is safe to cross the track.
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Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Amends various Articles of the Code to provide that participants under those Articles are only entitled to creditable service for periods of service with a labor organization if the employee and employer contributions for the service is received by the Fund before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code to provide that the Illinois Municipal League and the Will County Governmental League are participating instrumentalities only with respect to service on or before the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that, if in any taxable year the governing authority of any taxing district determines that a surplus of funds is available from any source, that taxing district may, by resolution or ordinance, eliminate its tax levy for that taxable year. Provides that the taxing district may resume its tax levy in any subsequent taxable year without additional referendum approval.
Amends the School Code. Provides that after June 1, 2012 persons may not be nominated for General Assembly scholarships and that General Assembly scholarships may not be awarded after that date unless the nomination is made prior to that date. Prevents both second nominations for any lapsed General Assembly scholarship and nominating persons to the unused or unexpired parts of any vacated General Assembly scholarship after June 1, 2012. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Rose Becker.
Mourns the death of Mark Glassgow.
Mourns the death of Gwendolyn Rockingham of North Chicago.
Mourns the death of former Illinois State Senator Wendell E. Jones, formerly of Palatine.
Mourns the death of George Raymond Eberhardt of Mundelein.
Mourns the death of James "Jim" Pesoli.