Sen. Pamela J. Althoff

Mourns the death of Verda Dierzen of Woodstock.

Appropriates $64,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services to increase the wages paid to employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services and to provide health insurance coverage to those employees and their dependents. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Geraldine W. "Jerry" Boehm of McHenry.

Mourns the death of Robert J. Mortell of McHenry.

Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. In a Section concerning funding for children requiring special education services, provides that for fiscal year 2008 and each fiscal year thereafter, individual school districts must not receive payments under that Section totaling less than they received for fiscal year 2007. Sets forth guidelines for the calculation, including making the calculation a separate calculation from any other in the Section. Effective immediately.

Creates the Regulation of Phosphorus in Detergents Act. Provides that on and after January 1, 2010, no person may use, sell, manufacture, or distribute for sale any cleaning agent containing more than 0.5% phosphorus by weight, expressed as elemental phosphorus, in Illinois, except as provided under this Act. Sets forth certain exceptions. Provides that the Pollution Control Board may authorize the use of certain cleaning agents containing phosphorus under certain conditions and shall promulgate rules for the administration and enforcement of this Act. Provides that no home rule unit may regulate phosphorus in detergents. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of U.S. Army Specialist Keith Nurnberg of McHenry.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the limitation period for an injury caused by "sexual conduct" or "sexual penetration" as defined by the Criminal Code of 1961 does not run during a time when the person injured is subject to threats, intimidation, manipulation, or fraud by the perpetrator or another acting in the perpetrator's interest. Effective January 1, 2008.

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Provides that the program of services established by the Department for the purpose of preventing unnecessary institutionalization shall be known as the Community Care Program. Requires certain services to be included in the Program, and authorizes the Department to include other services. Provides that participants may choose among the preventative services provided. Provides that the Department shall report the number of participants in the Community Care Program who receive medical assistance. Provides that the Department shall ensure that all eligible participants receive the number of hours they need up to the monthly service cost maximum, that all services are available to Community Care Program participants on evenings and weekends, and that participants have the right to choose how the hours of service are designated. Provides that the Program shall include personal assistant services. Contains other provisions. Effective July 1, 2007.

Amends the School Code. Provides that the State Board of Education's annual report to the General Assembly and Governor shall include the total expenditures made by school districts on special education services, including a breakdown of State and federally reimbursed expenditures and non-reimbursed expenditures as reported by school districts. Provides that a board of education shall file as an attachment to its annual budget a report that contains the total amount spent on special education services, including the expenditures reimbursed by the State and the expenditures not reimbursed by the State. Requires this report to be filed with the State Board. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement.