Sen. Mike Jacobs

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. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.

Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Allows certain persons to participate in the System while employed by a statewide labor organization that represents members of the System. Also allows purchase of credit for certain prior service. Effective immediately.

Amends the Downstate Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that provisions concerning the employer's contribution for salary increases in excess of 6% do not apply to salary increases as a result of accepting school-sponsored, extra-curricular assignments. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for its FY07 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2006.

Amends the Airport Authorities Act. Deletes the restrictions on the exercise of police powers by airport authority security forces that limit the exercise of police powers to the area of the authority's jurisdiction when needed to protect people or authority property or when another law enforcement agency requests assistance.

Amends the Chicago Firefighter Article of the Illinois Pension Code. In provisions concerning the property tax levied to provide revenue for the Firemen's Annuity and Benefit Fund, increases the number by which the employee contributions must be multiplied to determine the maximum dollar amount that the tax may produce. Directs the Board to recommend that the City reduce the multiplier in years in which the Fund is at least 80% funded. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal date of the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2017. Amends the Environmental Health Practitioner Licensing Act. Provides that an environmental health care practitioner in training licensee whose license was issued under the grandfather provision of the Act may have his or her license renewed, so long as the licensee continues to practice environmental health and does not allow the license to expire and exempts such licensee from certain licensure requirements. Effective immediately.

Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that certain individuals who represent or are employed as officers or employees of a statewide labor organization that represents members of the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois may elect to participate in that System. Effective immediately.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning real-time pricing.