Sen. Kimberly Lightford

Mourns the death of Ennis Thomas Lightford.

Amends the Addison Creek Restoration Commission Act. Authorizes the Addison Creek Restoration Commission to accept loans and advances, to levy taxes, and to borrow money and issue bonds. Effective July 1, 2005.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the rates of the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, the Non-Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Non-Home Rule Municipal Use Tax Act may not exceed 1% (now, the rates may not exceed 1/2 of 1%).

Encourages the General Assembly to promptly review and evaluate the Report on Waiver of School Code Mandates filed by the State Board of Education to determine if the Report should be disapproved in whole or in part.

Mourns the death of Ronald Lee Smith of Springfield.

Mourns the death of Sharon R. Calderone, nee Goshen, of Forest Park.

Mourns the death of Cobra L. Hunley.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Defines "adoption services" and "unlicensed pre-adoptive and adoptive home". Provides that any agency, person, group of persons, association, organization, corporation, institution, center, or group engaging in adoption services for compensation must be licensed by the Department of Children and Family Services as a child welfare agency. Provides that the Department shall not issue or renew the license of any child welfare agency providing adoption services, unless that agency (i) is officially recognized by the United States Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt organization and (ii) is in compliance with all of the standards necessary to maintain its status as a tax-exempt organization. Adds provisions concerning disclosures, a parent training program, an annual report, documents concerning waivers, preferential treatment, and other requirements. Requires the Department to establish a complaint registry and a toll-free telephone number and to post registry information on its website to assist in the monitoring of child welfare agencies providing adoption services. Further requires the Department to adopt rules concerning the complaint policies and procedures of child welfare agencies that provide adoption services. Makes changes concerning child care facility and child welfare agency advertising. Amends the Adoption Compensation Prohibition Act. Provides that the fees, wages, salaries, or other compensation of any description paid to those persons or entities acting on behalf of a child welfare agency providing adoption services shall not be unreasonably high in relation to the services actually rendered. Provides that the Department of Children and Family Services may adopt rules setting forth the criteria to determine what constitutes unreasonably high fees and compensation. Amends the Adoption Act to refer to the provision of adoption services. Makes other changes.

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Provides that hospitals and universities in Illinois may not agree to conduct clinical trials unless the results of the clinical trials will be properly reported. Provides that "properly reported" means that at least 30 days before the drug or device that is the subject of a clinical trial becomes available to the general public, the entity conducting the clinical trial will provide the clinical trial's results to physicians and the general public and register these results on a certain website maintained by the National Institutes of Health. Defines "clinical trial". Provides that the Department shall adopt rules as necessary to implement and enforce this Section including requirements for the hospital or university to notify the Department and supply information concerning a clinical trial prior to its commencement. Effective January 1, 2006.

Amends the Illinois Clean Indoor Air Act. Provides that a home rule unit of local government or any municipality in this State may regulate smoking in public places. Provides that this regulation must be no less restrictive than the regulation in the Act. Changes the home rule limitation from an absolute preemption to a limitation on the concurrent exercise of home rule power. Maintains the exemption from home rule requirements for home rule units that passed ordinances regulating smoking before October 1, 1989. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers.