Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the scope of the Article concerning domestic stock companies.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning downstate teachers. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning Chicago teachers.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund (IMRF) Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows a sheriff's law enforcement employee (SLEP) to convert up to 10 years of non-SLEP service credit into SLEP credit by paying the difference in employee and employer contributions, plus interest. Increases the SLEP retirement formula to 2.5% of the final rate of earnings for each year of SLEP service. Increases the maximum pension payable to a SLEP from 75% to 80% of the final rate of earnings. Removes the 2-year service requirement for earning new benefits after a return to service as a SLEP. Increases the additional employee contribution paid by SLEPs to 2.5% of salary. Also eliminates the reduction in benefit imposed on a surviving spouse who is more than 5 years younger than the deceased member, for the surviving spouse of any member who dies on or after the effective date. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Health Maintenance Organization Act concerning the operation of the Health Maintenance Organization Guaranty Association. Provides that the Guaranty Association is subrogated to certain rights of persons having claims covered by it. Limits the liability of the Guaranty Association with respect to claims based upon marketing materials, misrepresentations, and certain other acts of a health maintenance organization. Provides for the continuation of services by providers. Requires that suits against the Guaranty Association be brought in Cook County. Provides for the Director of Insurance to monitor capital levels of health maintenance organization.
Amends the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the Riverboat Gambling Act. Provides that only the Department of State Police has the authority to conduct investigations, searches, seizures, and arrests aboard riverboats. Effective July 1, 2004.
