Amends the School Code. Allows a school district to abate or abolish (was, abolish) its working cash fund under specified circumstances.
Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning alternative public schools.
Creates the Short-Term Lending Reform Act. Contains only a short title provision.
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning definitions.
Amends the School Code. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the State aid formula.
Amends the Employee Benefit Contribution Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the failure to make payments to an employee health insurance plan.
Mourns the death of Shawn D. Davis.
Mourns the death of Benjamin Williams.
Amends the School Code with respect to special education classes for children from orphanages, foster family homes, children's homes, or in-State housing units. In a provision that allows reimbursement for the costs of educating a disabled student who is placed residentially by a State agency or the courts for care or custody, welfare, medical or mental health treatment, rehabilitation, and protection, provides that it is the intent of that provision that school districts be reimbursed for the eligible costs of educating all students residentially placed by a State agency or the courts for any of the reasons listed whether such placement was made on, before, or after the effective date of the amendatory Act. Effective immediately.
Creates the Predator Accountability Act. Creates a cause of action against a person who: (i) coerced an individual into prostitution; (ii) coerced an individual to remain in prostitution; (iii) used coercion to collect or receive any of an individual's earnings derived from prostitution; or (iv) advertised or published advertisements for purposes of recruitment into prostitution. Provides for damages for violation of the Act. Exempts the provisions of joint and several liability to actions brought under the Act. Lists non-defenses to an action brought under the Act. Provides for the award of costs to the prevailing party.
