Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for the purpose of increasing the States investment in marketing and promoting to prospective employers the opportunities and benefits of establishing a business in Illinois. Effective July 1, 2007.
Amends the School Code. With regard to an individual employed or formerly employed by one school board and seeking employment with another, allows the school board with which the individual is seeking employment to make an inquiry with the school board that currently employs or formerly employed the individual as to whether the current or former employer school board has ever made a report concerning the individual under the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Effective immediately.
Amends the Counties Code. Provides that a county board may establish a residential landlord-tenant court and make appropriations to operate it. Provides that this authorization is not a limitation on or a prohibition of the exercise of a home rule county's powers. Amends the Circuit Courts Act. Provides that the chief judge of a judicial circuit may establish a residential landlord-tenant court in a county if the county board has approved the establishment of such a court. Provides that the chief judge may appoint to this court licensed attorneys as hearing officers to preside over cases, take evidence, and report findings of fact and legal conclusions to a judge and these shall constitute a part of the proceedings upon which a judge makes rulings. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that in actions filed for repossession due to illegal drug use on the premises, an emergency housing eviction, or voiding a lease for use of the premises in furtherance of a crime, the court shall schedule a hearing on the complaint on any day before the expiration of 7 days after the complaint is filed and the court may waive the filing fee if the plaintiff shows that in advance of the lease a good faith effort was made, by properly accessing public and credit records, to determine whether the defendant had a criminal conviction or eviction record or an adverse credit history. Provides that a credit worthiness inquiry may only access income level, credit history, or another pertinent element of credit worthiness. Reduces time limits to 5 days (instead of 7 days) for stays of judgment for possession and for the sheriff to execute an order for possession. Reduces other time limits for continuances and other matters. Makes other changes.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning official misconduct.
Amends the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Requires GOMB to establish a single updated searchable database website accessible by the public at no cost that includes information concerning each entity that receives Illinois funding. Requires GOMB to report to the General Assembly concerning the website. Effective immediately.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that every judgment creditor to whom tender has been made of all sums due to him or her, including interest, from the judgment debtor shall file with the circuit court clerk a written release or satisfaction of the judgment within 30 days after the receipt of all moneys due. Effective January 1, 2009.
Creates the State Facility Overtime Act. Provides that the Director of the State agency responsible for the operation of specified State facilities (or the Director's designee or agent) may not require an employee to accept work in excess of an agreed upon, predetermined, and regularly scheduled daily work shift, not to exceed 40 hours per week. Provides for: exceptions to the prohibition; posting a summary of the Act and applicable rules; investigation of complaints by the Illinois Department of Labor and disposition of complaints; adoption of administrative rules; construction; and other matters. Effective immediately.
Amends provisions of the Illinois Vehicle Code exempting vehicles meeting certain criteria from registration. Provides that those provisions do not prohibit the exempt vehicle from towing another vehicle if the towed vehicle does not exceed the registered weight of 8,000 pounds, is used exclusively for transportation to and from the work site, and is not used for carrying counter weights or other material related to the operation of the exempt vehicle while under tow.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the applicability and scope of the Act.
