Sen. Mattie Hunter

Mourns the death of Kiley Dwayne Murray.

Mourns the death of Robert Earl Wilson of Chicago.

Mourns the death of Charles Alton Cook of Chicago.

Creates the Microloan Program Act. Authorizes the Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to (i) make loans to eligible intermediaries for the purpose of making short-term, fixed rate loans to certain business concerns, (ii) make grants to those intermediaries to provide marketing, management, and technical assistance to small business concerns, and (iii) make grants to non-profit entities for the purpose of providing marketing, management, and technical assistance to low-income individuals under certain circumstances. Specifies criteria that eligible intermediaries must satisfy. Sets forth requirements for loans made to intermediaries; marketing, management, and technical assistance grants to intermediaries; private sector borrowing technical assistance grants; and loans to small business concerns from eligible intermediaries. Requires the Department to file certain reports with the General Assembly. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Business Loan and Investment Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Authorizes the Department, subject to appropriation, to use the moneys in the Fund to carry out the purposes of the Microloan Program Act.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Changes references in the statute on unlawful sale of firearms from "sell" or "give" to "transfer". Prohibits multiple transfers of handguns within a 30-day period. Creates the offense of unlawful acquisition of handguns. Provides exemptions and affirmative defenses. Penalty is a Class A misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class 4 felony for a second or subsequent offense.

Amends the Vehicle Code, State Finance Act, and Clerks of Courts Act. Increases the fine for an excessive idling violation from $50 to $250 for the first conviction and from $150 to $500 for a second or subsequent conviction within a 12 month period. Specifies how the fines collected shall be distributed and provides alternate distribution procedures for circuit clerks for excess idling violations. Creates the Trucking Environmental and Education Fund as a special fund in the State Treasury. Provides that all money deposited into the Trucking Environmental and Education Fund shall be paid, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly, to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for the purpose of educating the trucking industry on air pollution and preventative measures specifically related to idling. Effective immediately.

Amends the Condominium Property Act. Makes a technical change in a Section pertaining to the submission of property to the provisions of the Act.

Encourages the United States Congress to include a short-term housing stimulus in the economic stimulus package to stimulate Illinois' and the national economy.

Appropriates $500,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for a grant to CommunityHealth to do the following: (1) increase the number of individuals served by 15% (from 7,360 to 8,500) and the number of medical visits by 17% (from 20,600 to 24,000); (2) expand the number of specialty services available on site by 19% (from 24 to 28); (3) increase the number of training programs on site by 63% (from 8 to 13); and (4) open a satellite site on the south side of Chicago. Effective July 1, 2009.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago municipal employees, officers, and officials.