Sen. John J. Millner

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall require all generic drug manufacturers whose products are to be provided to Medicaid recipients to compete in a competitive bidding process created by the Department to ensure that the Department is providing Medicaid recipients with quality generic products at a competitively bid cost.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a person's accountability for another person's conduct.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that every person who has been twice convicted in any state or federal court of a felony offense that contains the same element of the intentional or knowing infliction of great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement as the felony offense for which the person is now to be sentenced and the current offense was committed after the 2 prior convictions, shall be adjudged an habitual violent offender. Provides that, except when the death penalty is imposed, anyone adjudged an habitual violent offender shall be sentenced to a term of natural life imprisonment.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Exempts from the Act's copying and disclosure requirements records requested by persons committed to the Department of Corrections if those materials (i) are available in the library of the correctional facility where the inmate is confined, (ii) include records from staff members' personnel files, staff rosters, or other staffing assignment information, or (iii) are available through an administrative request to the Department of Corrections. Effective immediately.

Urges the United States Congress to restore the funding of the Yucca Mountain Project in Nevada and requests that the spent nuclear waste in the State of Illinois be moved away from Lake Michigan and any Illinois river and be sent to the Yucca Mountain Project as soon as possible.

Amends the State Budget Law. Requires the Governor's budget to include projections of revenues and expenditures for the 5 following fiscal years. Sets forth requirements for the projections. Requires the budget for the next fiscal year to set forth new or expanded expenditures of $500,000 or more. Requires the Governor's Office of Management and Budget to review previous projections and compare them to actual receipts and expenditures. Requires the Governor to submit 5-year projections for expenditures not included in the Governor's initial budget before the General Assembly approves appropriation bills. Contains other provisions. Amends the Fiscal Note Act to require a 5-year projection of expenditures and revenues if the note indicates an increase of expenditures of $500,000 or more. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that contracts entered into by any city, village, or incorporated town relating to the collection and final disposition of garbage, refuse, and ashes shall not include material that is intended to be recycled, except in the case of residential curbside recycling.

Amends the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963. Provides that upon the written complaint of a person under oath or affirmation which states facts sufficient to show probable cause to install and use a tracking device, a judge may issue a search warrant to install and use a tracking device. Provides that a tracking device search warrant must identify the person or property to be tracked, designate the judge to whom it must be returned, and specify a reasonable length of time that the device may be used. Provides that the time must not exceed 45 days from the date the tracking device search warrant was issued. The court may, for good cause, grant one or more extensions for a reasonable period not to exceed 45 days each. Provides that the tracking device search warrant must command the officer to complete the installation authorized by the warrant within a specified time no longer than 10 days from the time of issuance of the tracking device search warrant.

Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Requires the Department of State Police to adopt rules concerning applications for relief that it grants from particular prohibitions on the possession of firearms under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968. Provides that decisions of the Director of State Police to deny a person's application for relief from those prohibitions are exempt from the Administrative Review Law and subject to de novo review by a circuit court and that any party may, during that review, offer evidence that is otherwise proper and admissible without regard to whether that evidence is part of the administrative record. Also makes technical changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that parties to an electronic communication intercepted contrary to the Eavesdropping Article of the Code are entitled to the civil remedies prescribed in that Article. Provides that a civil claim, cause of action, or remedy on behalf of a minor shall not lie against a parent, step-parent, guardian, or grandparent for eavesdropping of electronic communications taken during that parent, step-parent, guardian, or grandparent's exercise of his or her parental rights to supervise, monitor, and control the activities of a minor in his or her care, custody, or control. Provides that a claim or cause of action that alleges a violation of the Eavesdropping Article may not lie against a reporter or news medium for actions undertaken in the newsgathering process. Provides that this protection does not diminish the protections given to reporters or news medium under the Code of Civil Procedure.