Sen. Don Harmon

Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Prohibits campaign contributions from business entities with aggregate State contracts or pending State contract bids of more than $50,000, or from the affiliated entities of such business entities, to any political committees established to promote the candidacy of the executive branch constitutional officeholder responsible for awarding the contracts or a declared candidate for that office. Limits the campaign contributions from persons affiliated with those business entities to those officeholders and candidates. Specifies the duration of the prohibitions and the penalties for violations.

Mourns the death of Illinois Army National Guard Specialist Ashley Sietsema of River Grove.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides that a copy of a bill for services rendered that has any payments or benefits conferred by a collateral source redacted and that is certified by a person who maintains those bills is entitled to a rebuttable presumption as to the amount and reasonableness of the bill. Provides that a party who attempts to rebut the presumption of reasonableness of a bill shall not be allowed to present evidence of payments made for or benefits conferred upon the plaintiff by a collateral source. Provides that these procedures concerning a bill for services apply to actions commenced or pending on or after the effective date. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to create the Office of Administrative Hearings. Provides that the Office shall conduct administrative hearings for agencies under the jurisdiction of the Governor, except for the Illinois Public Labor Relations Board, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, the Illinois Commerce Commission, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Pollution Control Board, the Illinois State Police Merit Board, the Property Tax Appeal Board, the Human Rights Commission, and the State Board of Elections. Provides for the appointment of a Chief Administrative Law Judge by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets the powers and duties of the Chief Administrative Law Judge. Sets qualifications for administrative law judges employed by the Office. Sets out procedures for the conduct of administrative hearings by the Office. Provides for the transfer of personnel and property to the Office from State agencies. Amends the Personnel Code to exempt employees of the Office from the provisions of the Code. Effective immediately.

Creates the Treated Lumber Act. Contains only a short title provision.

Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.

In addition to any other amounts appropriated for this purpose, appropriates $24,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Children and Family Services to fund an increase in the cost of care reimbursement rate for foster parents of wards of the State. Effective July 1, 2008.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning violations.