Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that the construction of any equipment, facility, vehicle, vessel, or aircraft capable of causing or contributing to air pollution or designed to prevent air pollution does not require a construction permit unless that equipment, facility, vehicle, vessel, or aircraft is subject to regulation under certain Sections of the federal Clean Air Act. Provides that the construction of any equipment, facility, vehicle, vessel, or aircraft capable of causing or contributing to water pollution or designed to prevent water pollution does not require a construction or operation permit unless (i) the construction of the equipment, facility, vehicle, vessel, or aircraft will be funded in whole or in part by financial support from the State or the federal government or (ii) the equipment, facility, vehicle, vessel, or aircraft is for the purpose of the pretreatment of wastewater prior to discharge to a non-delegated publicly owned treatment works. Sets forth procedures by which the Environmental Protection Agency must: (i) allow a permit applicant to review and comment on a proposed draft permit; (ii) issue general permits that do not require individual applications for categories of similar sources or equipment, facilities, vessels, or aircraft; (iii) allow a permit applicant to select a permitting analyst to perform permit application reviews and drafting on behalf of the Agency; and (iv) provide, upon an applicant's request, an expedited review of a permit application. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Animal Control Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning rabies inoculations.
Amends the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the creation of the Property Tax Appeal Board.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Increases the sentence for aggravated stalking to a Class 2 (instead of Class 3) felony for a first offense and to a Class 1 (instead of Class 2) felony for a second or subsequent conviction.
Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Adds stalking to the definition of harassment.
Amends the State Mandates Act. Changes references concerning the implementation of service mandates, tax exemption mandates, and personnel mandates. Provides that the appropriate State entity shall determine within 90 days after receiving a claim for reimbursement whether the claim is reimbursable under the Act and shall notify each local government filing a claim of its determination. If the appropriate State entity fails to notify the local government concerning its claim within 90 days, the local government shall assume the claim is reimbursable. Failure to timely notify the local government relieves the local government of the obligation to implement the mandate. Places identical decision and notification requirements on the State Mandates Board of Review with respect to appeals it handles. Removes provisions authorizing direct appeal to the State Mandates Board of Review if the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity does not respond to a claim for reimbursement within 120 days. Provides that members of the State Mandates Board of Review shall have experience in local government finance. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Director of Aging, in coordination with the Director of Public Aid and the Director of Public Health, to analyze the distribution of housing, health services, and supportive services for seniors in each geographic area of the State and to identify and designate critical access service areas. Provides that, at the end of each State fiscal year, any unspent and unencumbered General Revenue Fund appropriations for long-term care for seniors shall be deposited into the Alternative Long-Term Care Services for Seniors Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used to fund specified alternative long-term care services with priority given to the distribution of funds for services in critical access service areas. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Alternative Long-Term Care Services for Seniors Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
Amends the Township Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning township names.
Amends the Real Estate Transfer Tax Law of the Property Tax Code. Notwithstanding any other law, whether enacted before, on, or after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 93rd General Assembly, (i) the deposit of 35% of the moneys collected under the real estate transfer tax into the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund and the deposit of 15% of those moneys into the Natural Areas Acquisition Fund is mandatory and without exception, (ii) the moneys deposited into the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund and into the Natural Areas Acquisition Fund shall not be transferred or otherwise moved from those funds to any other fund or account for any purpose whatsoever other than the purposes of the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act, and (iii) to the extent that any of these provisions is ever violated or thwarted by any other device, the State Treasurer is ordered to immediately transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund and the Natural Areas Acquisition Fund the amount of any deficiency caused thereby. Amends the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Act. Provides for an irrevocable and continuing appropriation in fiscal year 2005 and each fiscal year thereafter of all moneys in the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund and in the Natural Areas Acquisition Fund to the Department of Natural Resources for use under the Act. Provides that all moneys appropriated from the Open Space Lands Acquisition and Development Fund and from the Natural Areas Acquisition Fund must be expended, during the fiscal year and any appropriate lapse period, for the purposes of this Act and are not subject to any reserve, withholding, set-aside, or other device. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Authorizes the county board of any county to create a schedule for and to collect developer donation fees for certain impacts specifically and uniquely attributable to the development of any subdivision or resubdivision of land within an unincorporated area of the county. Effective immediately.