Amends the Election Code. Requires that political committees of State executive branch constitutional officers report campaign contributions of $1,000 or more to the State Board of Elections within 2 business days after receipt, regardless of when the contribution is received (now, during the period between the last contribution report and an election). Requires that political committees of General Assembly members report campaign contributions of $1,000 or more, received during a week the member's legislative house is or is scheduled to be in session, to the State Board of Elections within 2 business days after receipt (now, during the period between the last contribution report and an election). Specifies fines for violations. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning NPDES discharge fees.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that the Act does not apply to claims seeking damages for conduct that results in bodily injury, death, or damage to property other than the property that is the subject of the practice claimed to be unlawful. Applies to causes of action pending or filed on or after July 1, 2005. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Vital Records Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning records of foreign births.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning electric cooperatives.
Amends the Nursing Home Care Act and the Older Adult Services Act. Adds information that the Department of Public Health must make available on a public web site, including: links to available services, resources, and reference materials concerning caregiving, diseases, and best practices for use by professionals, older adults, and family caregivers; a listing of and contact information for both facility-based and non-facility-based services and care; a listing of federal, State, and regional agencies on aging, and information describing their purposes, abilities, and services; and the Illinois Act on the Aging and the federal Older Americans Act. Provides that the Department on Aging must have a visible link on its web site home page to that information required to be made available on a public web site by the Department of Public Health. Effective immediately.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Electric Utility Transitional Funding Law of 1997.
Amends the Open Meetings Act. Redefines "meeting" to include gatherings, whether in person or by telephone call, electronic means, or other means of contemporaneous interactive communication, of a majority of a quorum of the members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing public business (now, a gathering of a majority of a quorum of the members of a public body held for the purpose of discussing public business). Provides that if a majority of a quorum of the members of a public body are physically present at a meeting, then a majority of a quorum may allow a member of that body to attend a meeting by other means, subject to certain limitations. Defines "other means" as by telephone call, electronic means, or other means of contemporaneous interactive communication. Provides that a quorum of the members must be physically present for the public body to vote on the issuance of bonds. Provides that transmissions by other means made during a meeting by a member who is in attendance shall be made available to the public contemporaneously with the transmission and in such a manner or format that the public body and the public may contemporaneously hear or observe the transmission. Allows a public body to adopt rules concerning attendance at meetings by electronic means. Requires the agenda to disclose all locations at which members of the public may attend a meeting at which one or more members are present by a means other than physical presence. Requires the physical presence of the person testifying in any contested case, as defined in the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, unless all parties waive the requirement of physical presence. Requires minutes of all public bodies to reflect whether members were physically present or present by other means. Makes other changes.