Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Downstate Police Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that if a pension fund has a reserve of less than the accrued liabilities of the fund, the board of the pension fund, in making its annual report to the city council or board of trustees of the municipality, shall designate the amount, calculated as a level percentage of payroll, needed annually to insure the accumulation of the reserve to the level of the fund's accrued liabilities over a period of 40 years from July 1, 2009 (was, from July 1, 1993). Amends the Downstate Fire Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning financing of funds through taxes, provides that the annual actuarial requirements of the pension fund are equal to (1) the normal cost of the pension fund, or 17.5% of the salaries and wages to be paid to firefighters for the year involved, whichever is greater, plus (2) the annual amount necessary to amortize the fund's unfunded accrued liabilities over a period of 40 years from July 1, 2009 (was, from July 1, 1993). Effective immediately.

Amends the Conservation District Act and the Downstate Forest Preserve District Act. Provides that bonds issued by a conservation district or a forest preserve district shall be payable no later than 25 years from their respective date of issue (now, 20 years). Effective immediately.

Appropriates $14,500,000 from the Local Government Road Salt Purchase Reimbursement Fund to the Department of Transportation for the purpose of providing grants to counties, municipalities, townships, and road districts for road salt reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Dental Practice Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning social security numbers on license applications.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for the issuance of Firefighters' license plates to a firefighter employed by a municipal fire department or fire protection district or a volunteer firefighter. Provides that in addition to the appropriate registration fees, an applicant for the special plate shall be charged a fee of $27 at original issuance and $17 at renewal. Provides that $12 of the additional original issuance fee and $15 the renewal fee shall be deposited into the Illinois Fire Fighters' Memorial Fund. Provides that $15 of the original issuance fee and $2 of the renewal fee shall be deposited into the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund. Provides that, subject to appropriation by the General Assembly and approval by the Secretary of State, the moneys in the Illinois Fire Fighters' Memorial Fund will be used for the same purposes provided for by Illinois Fire Fighters' Memorial license plates, special license plates that do not require the applicant to be a firefighter.

Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Dating Referral Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the School Code. With respect to requests for recomputation of a general State aid claim received regarding a county clerk's use of an estimate of equalized assessed valuation for multi-county jurisdictions that resulted in the calculation and use of a subsequent year limiting rate, utilized in the general State aid claim of a school district, that was different than the actual operating rate extended in the year subsequent to the use of the estimate, provides that the district's general State aid shall be recalculated in the first year applicable by substituting the operating tax rate, instead of the limiting rate, for the base tax year in the numerator of the Extension Limitation Ratio as calculated under the State aid formula provisions of the School Code. Provides that no such adjustment shall be made regarding the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation unless the district's Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation is changed by greater than $5,000,000 or 5%. Provides that any subsequent year Available Local Resources that have been calculated under the State aid formula provisions shall utilize the recomputed value of the Extension Limitation Equalized Assessed Valuation that was determined from the preceding year recomputation until the district's current year State aid claim is calculated such that the original year and all subsequent year's recomputations are calculated and reflected in the current year general State aid claim. Effective immediately.