Sen. Mike Jacobs

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. In provisions that a child sex offender may not reside or loiter within 500 feet of a school, park, daycare center or other child facility, provides that the 500 feet is measured from the edge of the property of the school, park, daycare center, or other child facility property to the edge of the property of the sex offender's residence or where he or she is loitering.

Amends the School Code. Allows for the continuation of the distribution of funds by the State Board of Education to achieve a goal of "Preschool for All Children" by removing certain provisions that limit this distribution to a time period from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2008. Effective July 1, 2008.

Designates Illinois Route 173 as the 173rd Airborne Brigade Highway in honor of the brave men and women of the United States Army 173rd Airborne Brigade.

Appropriates $64,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department on Aging for vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services to increase the wages paid to employees who provide homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services and to provide health insurance coverage to those employees and their dependents. Effective immediately.

Amends the Property Tax Code. Adds a Division concerning wind energy production to the Article concerning property valuations performed by the Department of Revenue. Contains only a heading.

Amends the State Finance Act. Provides that for personnel under the jurisdiction of the State travel control boards, the allowance rate for automobile travel mileage reimbursement, which is the same as the rate set by federal regulations, shall be increased or decreased during the State's fiscal year as of the effective date of the federal regulations (now, increases do not take effect until the next July 1).

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Provides that any electric or gas public utility with fewer than 200,000 customers in Illinois as of January 1, 2007 that offers energy efficiency programs to its customers in a state adjacent to Illinois may seek the approval of the Illinois Commerce Commission to offer the same or comparable energy efficiency programs to its customers in Illinois. Provides that if a utility shall submit certain information to the Commission for each program it offers. Specifies guidelines for the approval of each program. Provides that a public utility providing approved energy efficiency programs may recover the reasonable costs of such programs through an automatic adjustment clause tariff filed with and approved by the Commission. Provides that each year the Commission shall initiate a review to reconcile any amounts collected with the actual costs and to determine the adjustment to the annual tariff factor to match annual expenditures. Provides that a utility may request a waiver of one or more components of an approved energy efficiency program at any time in order to improve the program's effectiveness. Provides that the Commission may grant such waiver if good cause is shown by the utility. Effective immediately.

Amends the Recreation Trails of Illinois Act. Provides for certain disbursements from the Off-Highway Vehicle Trails Fund notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary adopted after the effective date of the Act. Effective immediately.

Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Provides, as an exception to the requirement that the admission tax be paid for each admission, that a person who exits a riverboat gambling facility and reenters that riverboat gambling facility within the same gaming day shall be subject only to the initial admission tax. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the president of a village or incorporated town.