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 Staff Sergeant William D. Chaney of Schaumburg.
Mourns the death of Ernst-August Kranz of Germany.
Creates the Small Business Advisory Act. Requires State agencies to create and make available on the World Wide Web a small business advisory page with plain language explanations of proposed and adopted rules and legislation affecting small businesses that the agency is designated to administer, and plain language versions of advisory opinions and interpretations. Provides that explanations must remain posted on the web page for 6 months after their effective dates. Requires each agency to notify the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs when it updates its small business advisory web page. Requires DCCA to serve as a clearinghouse for notifying the small business community of rulemakings, seek input from the small business community on those rulemakings, and maintain a small business advisory web page that serves as a coordinated point of access to other agencies' small business advisory web pages.
Mourns the death of Prince Philipp-Ernst of Germany.
Amends the Vital Records Act. Requires the State Registrar to prescribe and distribute a form for a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. Requires a person who files a fetal death certificate to also prepare a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth. Requires that the certificate be filed as in the case of a certificate of live birth and be offered to the parent or parents of the stillborn child. Provides that a parent of a stillborn child who was born before the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly may apply for a fetal death certificate. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning child care for TANF recipients, provides that the Department of Human Services must annually establish income thresholds for determining eligibility for child care benefits. Provides that the thresholds must be no less than 50% of the then-current State median income for each family size, and deletes a provision requiring such a 50% threshold only for FY 1998. Provides that in determining a family's income, the Department must disregard 10% of the family's gross wages and salary.
Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education shall accept, as qualifications for non-certified personnel, relevant life experiences as determined by the State Board by rule.
Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of the Department of Human Services.
Amends the Electronic Mail Act. Requires an initiator of an unsolicited e-mail advertisement to establish a toll-free telephone number or return e-mail address that the recipient of the advertisement may call or e-mail to notify the sender not to e-mail any further unsolicited e-mail advertisements. Prohibits an initiator of an unsolicited e-mail advertisement from selling or transferring the e-mail address of a person who given notice that he or she does not want to receive any further unsolicited e-mail advertisements. Provides that each unsolicited e-mail advertisement's subject line shall include "ADV:" as the first 4 characters and each adult-oriented unsolicited e-mail advertisement's subject line shall include "ADV:ADLT" as the first 8 characters.
