Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that the person requesting copies of hospital or health care practitioner records must pay any requested fees before receiving the copies. Requires hospitals and health care practitioners to provide a 30-day notice of closure of the hospital or practice and a statement of how copies of records may be accessed by the public. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. In a condemnation proceeding initiated by a public utility under its eminent domain powers, requires an award or allowance to reimburse the property owner for his or her reasonable costs, disbursements, and expenses incurred in the proceeding. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the relationship between an electric utility and its affiliates.
Creates the Regional Transportation Authority Task Force to determine what, if any, action by the General Assembly is necessary to improve the mass-transit services provided by the Regional Transportation Authority.
Amends the State Finance Act. Adds a caption.
Creates the Payday Loan Consumer Protection Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Creates the Consumer Protection and Payday Lenders Regulation Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Poison Control System Act. Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a funding formula for the Poison Control System. Provides that the formula must increase or decrease the annual funding amount to match any increase or decrease in the consumer price index as reported on January 1 of each year. Provides that the State shall continue to provide funding to the Illinois Poison Control System on an annual basis in furtherance of the goals of the funding formula. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Finance Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging by providing that, beginning July 1, 2004, vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services shall receive a rate increase of $1.16 per hour if at least $0.86 of that increase is used to increase the wages of homemakers and chore housekeepers. Provides that vendors receiving this increase must submit proof to the Department, either (i) by a an audited supplemental to the Direct Service Workers cost report or (ii) by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that they have increased homemakers' and chore housekeepers' wages by $0.86 per hour. Effective on July 1, 2004.