Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Provides for minimum staffing standards for any dedicated unit within a nursing facility that provides treatment and care to residents with Alzheimer's disease or dementia. Effective immediately.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a person who petitions the circuit court for the issuance of an order directing the Department of State Police to issue a Firearm Owner's Identification Card because the Department has denied his or her application, failed to act upon the person's request for issuance of the Card, or has revoked his or her Card must serve the State's Attorney of the county in which the petition is brought and the State's Attorney of the county in which the conviction occurred with a copy of the petition. Provides that the State's Attorney of the county where the petition is brought may object to the petition and present evidence at the hearing on the petition.
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Increases the reimbursement amount to school districts for teachers, professional workers, directors, school psychologists, readers, and non-certified employees. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that surplus real estate formerly used as a police station or fire station may be sold only if the purchaser guarantees that the property will be developed and used only for affordable housing for senior citizens, the disabled, teachers, firemen, or law enforcement officers.
Amends the Election Code. Requires that a back door referendum question must appear on the ballot at an election no more than 15 months (now, one year) after the petition initiating the question is filed. Effective immediately.
Amends the Property Tax Code. In a Section concerning rate limit referenda, requires that the ballot have printed thereon, but not as part of the proposition submitted, an estimate of the approximate amount to be levied upon a residence in the taxing district with a market value of $100,000 under the current rate and under the proposed rate. In a Section concerning the rate increase or decrease factor, deletes a provision that rate increases may be applied beyond the current levy year. Effective immediately.
Amends the Election Code. Provides that referenda may be placed on the ballot only at the general primary election and the general election. Amends the Election Code, the Counties Code, the Illinois Municipal Code, the Fire Protection District Act, the River Conservancy District Act, the North Shore Sanitary District Act, the Street Light District Act, the Surface Water Protection District Act, the School Code, and the Public Community College Act. Requires that certain referenda be approved by a majority of the electors voting on the question.
Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative purpose of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that, if a municipality annexes part or all of the territory in which a township operates a sewerage system, the authority responsible for operating the sewerage system within the annexed territory shall assume the responsibility for that portion of the sewerage system within the annexed territory. Provides that beginning on the annexation date, user fees for the sewerage system shall be collected by the municipality. Effective immediately.
Honors the Freedom Fighters of the Hungarian Revolution.
