Sen. Susan Garrett

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning resident bidders.

Amends the Uniform Commercial Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning tax checkoff explanations.

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Reserve Officer's Training Corps scholarships.

Amends the Consumer Installment Loan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "33 1/3%".

Amends the Uniform Commercial Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the School Code. Makes changes to the provisions concerning attacks on school personnel and firearms in schools regarding the types and locations of incidents to be reported, respectively, and the reporting procedures. Makes changes to a provision concerning reporting drug-related incidents in schools regarding the reporting procedures. Provides that all school officials, including teachers, guidance counselors, and support staff, shall immediately notify the office of the principal in the event that they observe any person who is a student in grade 6 through 12 or any person not a student commit certain specified offenses. Provides that upon receiving a report from any school official or from any other person, the principal or his or her designee shall immediately notify a local law enforcement agency and require a report to be completed. Sets forth provisions concerning the law enforcement agency's actions if the person found to have committed the offense is a minor. Makes changes to the provision concerning reporting firearms in schools in the Chicago School District Article. Makes other changes. Effective August 1, 2012.

Amends the Personnel Code. Authorizes the appointment, without competitive examination, interview, or other pre-employment testing, of a person who has served as an employee in a trainee position with an agency for a period of at least one year and who has a severe disabling condition that impairs his or her ability to successfully complete examinations, interviews, or other pre-employment testing, provided that a counselor of the Division of Rehabilitation Services in the Department of Human Services has certified to the agency that the person is capable of performing the primary functions of the position. Specifies that appointments of such persons shall be without regard to eligible lists and without regard to the provisions of the Code requiring the appointment of the person standing among the 3 highest on the appropriate eligible list to fill a vacancy or from the highest category ranking group if the list is by rankings instead of numerical rankings. Effective immediately.