Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Removes provisions allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to assess and collect NPDES discharge fees. Effective immediately.
Amends the Poison Control System Act. Directs the Department of Public Health and the Illinois Poison Advisory Board to conduct a study to determine the feasibility of establishing a formula that sets State goals for funding the poison control system. Requires completion of the study by December 31, 2005. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Kevin T. Kendrigan of Arlington Heights.
Designates a portion of US 45 as the Stanley B. Weaver Memorial Highway.
Amends the Sex Offender Management Board Act. Includes any offense under Illinois law that is sexually motivated in the definition of "sex offense" and defines "sexually motivated". Adds 4 members to the Sex Offender Management Board. Requires sex offenders considered for probation to submit to a sex offender evaluation. Requires that as a part of a sentence to probation, conditional release, or periodic imprisonment for a sex offense, a sex offender must undergo treatment. Prohibits a county probation department, the Department of Human Services, and a sex offender from contracting with an individual or entity for the provision of sex offender evaluation or treatment services unless the individual or entity is approved by the Board. Amends the Juvenile Court Act of 1987, the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act, the Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act, and the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that the standards for evaluation and treatment of sex offenders shall be in accordance with standards adopted by the Sex Offender Management Board under the Sex Offender Management Board Act. Provides that a condition of parole or mandatory supervised release, periodic imprisonment, probation, or conditional discharge for a sex offender is that the offender undergo and successfully complete sex offender treatment in accordance with standards developed by the Sex Offender Management Board. Amends the Probation and Probation Officers Act to allow a county board to appropriate moneys to support practices endorsed or required under the Sex Offender Management Board Act. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of John G. Woods of Arlington Heights.
Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Adds a Section concerning district enlargement. Contains only a Section caption. Effective immediately.
Creates the Small Business Advisory Act. Requires State agencies to create and make available on the World Wide Web a small business advisory page. Requires agencies to post a plain language explanation of proposed and adopted rules and legislation that the agency is designated to administer that affect small businesses on its small business advisory web page. Provides that the explanation must remain posted on the web page for 6 months after the effective date of the rule or legislation. Requires each agency to notify the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs when it updates its small business advisory web page. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to serve as a clearinghouse for notifying the small business community of rulemakings and to seek input from the small business community on those rulemakings. Requires the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to maintain a small business advisory web page that serves as a coordinated point of access to other agencies' small business advisory web pages. Requires State agencies to post plain language versions of advisory opinions and interpretations on their small business advisory web pages.
Mourns the death of Dr. Rolley C. Bateman, Jr. of Palatine.
Names the State of Illinois Building at 160 North La Salle Street in Chicago the Michael Bilandic Building.
