Sen. Don Harmon

Co-sponsor SB 3134

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MUNI CD-USE/OCC TAX PROCEEDS

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code concerning the non-home rule use and occupation taxes. Provides that if a tax is approved by referendum on or after the effective date of the amendatory Act, the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until December 31, 2015, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Jul 14, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SB 2812

Signed into law · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

EPA-CLEAN AIR PERMITTING

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Authorizes the Illinois Pollution Control Board to stay the effectiveness of certain actions taken or permit conditions imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in the course of administering the Clean Air Act Permit Program (CAAPP). Provides that if the Board stays any contested conditions, then any related conditions from any prior existing permit continue in full force and effect until the Board makes its final decision regarding the appeal of the granted CAAPP permit. Authorizes the Board to stay all the conditions in a CAAPP permit upon a demonstration that the issues raised on appeal can be reasonably expected to affect the CAAPP permit in its entirety. Provides that if the entire CAAPP permit is stayed by the Board, then any prior existing permit continues in full force and effect until the Board makes its final decision regarding the appeal of the granted CAAPP permit. Effective immediately.

Signed into law Jun 21, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SR 815

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL-CHARLES KRAUSE

Mourns the death of Charles E. "Gene" Krause of Galesburg.

Passed May 7, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJR 81

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

URGE CONGRESS-INVESTIGATE FDIC

Urges the United States House of Representatives Financial Services Committee and the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs to hold hearings to investigate the FDIC's seizure of Park National Bank/FBOP and sale to U.S. Bank.

Passed May 4, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SB 3060

Failed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

BOATING-PERSONAL FLOTATION DVC

Amends the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Removes an exclusion to certain provisions requiring the use of personal flotation devices for sailboats and adds an exclusion to the same provisions for sailboards. Provides that no person may operate a watercraft under 26 feet in length on public or private property (rather than on just public property) unless certain personal flotation devices are being properly worn by a sole occupant and each person under the age of 13 (rather than just each person under the age of 13) on board the watercraft at all times in which the watercraft is underway. Effective immediately.

Failed Apr 28, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SR 787

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL-DANIEL GALLAGHER

Mourns the death of Daniel A. Gallagher of Indian Head Park, formerly of Chicago.

Passed Apr 23, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SR 786

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL-RICHARD KELLY

Mourns the death of Richard J. Kelly of Oak Park.

Passed Apr 23, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SJR 125

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

ADJOURN HOUSE & SENATE

RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Friday, April 23, 2010, they stand adjourned until Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 12:00 o'clock noon.

Passed Apr 23, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SR 753

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL-PROF WILBUR PILLSBURY

Mourns the death of Knox College Professor Emeritus of Economics and Business Administration Wilbur Fiske Pillsbury II.

Passed Apr 15, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SR 730

Passed · Illinois Senate · Co-sponsor

MEMORIAL-BARBARA EBNER

Mourns the death of Barbara Ebner of Oak Park.

Passed Mar 25, 2010 1 co-sponsor Track