Sen. Dale E. Risinger

Creates the Human Services 211 Collaboration Board Act. Establishes a 16-member Human Services 211 Collaboration Board. Provides for the appointment of members to the Board by the Governor. Requires the Board to implement 211 as a statewide, non-emergency telephone number for information about governmental and non-profit services and referrals to human services agencies. Requires the Board to establish standards for 211 systems. Requires the Board to establish a pilot program for awarding grants to 211 providers. Establishes certain criteria for awarding the grants. Requires the Board to annually report to the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Governor, and the General Assembly on the use of 211 services in Illinois. Effective immediately.

Creates the Banking Development District Act. Creates a program to encourage the establishment of banking branches in locations where there is the greatest need for banking services. Requires the State Treasurer, in consultation with the Office of Banks and Real Estate, to adopt rules that set forth criteria for the establishment of banking development districts. Provides that a municipality or a county, in conjunction with a bank, may apply to the State Treasurer to have property designated as a banking development district. Amends the Property Tax Code. Provides that a taxing district may abate a portion of the property taxes on a banking branch in an area designated as a banking development district. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Robert E. "Bob" Miller of Galva.

Mourns the death of Gerald Wilt of Walnut on June 23, 2003.

Amends the Financial Identity Theft and Asset Forfeiture Law of the Criminal Code of 1961. Changes the name of the Article to the Identity Theft Law and the names of the offenses of financial identity theft and aggravated financial identity theft to identity theft and aggravated identity theft. Includes in the offense of identity theft: (1) using any personal identification information or personal identification document of another with intent to commit any felony theft or other felony violation of Illinois State law; (2) obtaining, recording, possessing, selling, transferring, purchasing, or manufacturing any personal identification information or personal identification document with intent to commit or to aid or abet another in committing any felony theft or other felony violation of Illinois State law; (3) using, obtaining, recording, possessing, selling, transferring, purchasing or manufacturing any personal identification information or personal identification document of another knowing that such personal identification information or personal identification documents were stolen or produced without lawful authority; or (4) using, transferring, or possessing document-making implements to produce false identification or false documents with knowledge that they will be used by the offender or another to commit any felony theft or other felony violation of State law. Effective immediately.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Provides that no applicant may receive a license to operate a child care facility, and no adult may live in a child care facility, who has been convicted of committing or attempting to commit specified offenses. Provides an exception if specified criteria are met. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Robert D. Talbot of Walnut.

Mourns the death of Watts Carey Johnson of Princeton on June 13, 2003.

Creates the State Economic Assistance Accountability Act. Provides that State economic assistance provided by the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs as an incentive to a business organization must be based on the terms of a written incentive agreement between the Department and the business organization, which agreement must identify the specific State economic assistance to be provided to the business organization during the term of the agreement. Lists terms the agreement must contain. Provides that State economic assistance incentive agreements must provide that if a business organization either fails to make the requisite level of capital investment in the project or fails to create or retain the specified number of jobs within the specified time frame, as provided under the Act authorizing the State economic assistance, the business organization shall be deemed to no longer qualify for the State economic assistance. Provides that State economic assistance must total at least $75,000 on a single project for applicability. Provides that the full content of all written incentive agreements are to be published on the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs website. Effective immediately.

Creates the Agriculture Producer Protection Act. Requires agriculture production contracts to contain certain disclosures, meet readability guidelines, and include a summary sheet. Provides that the Director of Agriculture may review an agriculture production contract for compliance with the contract form and content requirements of the Act. Provides that provisions stating that information contained within an agricultural contract is confidential shall not prevent a producer from discussing all contract terms and details with specified persons. Places restrictions on a contractor's unilateral termination of certain contracts. Provides that it is unlawful for any contractor to interfere with the exercise of certain rights granted under the Act and establishes other unfair practices under the Act. Provides that any provision requiring the application of the law of any state other than Illinois, requiring any action to be filed in a state other than Illinois, or waiving a right or obligation under the Act, is void. Provides that the Attorney General shall enforce the Act by actions in the circuit court for equitable and monetary relief, including injunctive relief and criminal and civil fines and penalties. Provides a private cause of action to any producer aggrieved by a violation of the Act and includes as remedies contract reformation and other equitable relief for the purpose of avoiding unjust enrichment. Amends the Freedom of Information Act to exempt production contracts submitted for review to the Director of Agriculture under the Agriculture Producer Protection Act. Provides that the Department of Agriculture must adopt rules implementing the Agriculture Producer Protection Act not later than January 1, 2004 and gives this and the effective date provision an immediate effective date. Provides that the remainder of the Act takes effect on January 1, 2004.