Sen. Debbie DeFrancesco Halvorson

Amends the State Fire Marshal Act. Requires the Office of the State Fire Marshal to create and maintain an equipment exchange program (now, the Office may create the program). Provides for donation, trade, and sale of equipment. Requires the Office, as part of the program, to maintain a website that is separate from the Office's main website and that allows fire departments, fire protection districts, and township fire departments to post information and photographs about needed equipment and equipment that is available. Requires the Office to advertise the equipment exchange program. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a motor vehicle equipped with visual media technology other than a navigational system (rather than a motor vehicle equipped with a television receiver) may not be operated on a highway if the viewer or screen is located where it is visible from the driver's seat and is activated. Effective January 1, 2006.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. In provisions making it unlawful for a child sex offender to knowingly be present on school property or a school vehicle when persons under the age of 18 are present, eliminates an exception for an offender who is the parent or guardian of a student who is present. Effective immediately.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that for a defendant convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child, aggravated criminal sexual assault, or criminal sexual assault on or after July 1, 2005, the term of mandatory supervised release shall range from a minimum of 3 years to a maximum of the natural life of the defendant. Provides that the term of mandatory supervised release of these sex offenders shall toll during any period of incarceration. Provides that the Prisoner Review Board shall hear by at least one member and through a panel of at least 3 members, decide the conditions of mandatory supervised release and the time of discharge from mandatory supervised release, to impose sanctions for violations of mandatory supervised release and revoke mandatory supervised release for those sex offenders. Provides that the Department of Corrections shall retain custody of those sex offenders. Provides that the supervising officer of those sex offenders shall prepare a progress report commencing 180 days after the offender's release and continuing every 180 days thereafter for the duration of their supervised release. Provides that supervising officers of sex offenders shall receive specialized training in the supervision of sex offenders. Effective July 1, 2005.

Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act. Provides that identifying information in indicated reports involving the sexual abuse of a child, the death of a child, or serious physical injury to a child must be retained after the report is indicated or after the subsequent case or report is closed (instead of may be retained longer than 5 years after that time).

Amends the Service Member's Employment Tenure Act. Provides that each person scheduled to begin employment with a private employer or with the State of Illinois or a political subdivision who, for the purpose of entering the military service, has left or leaves such scheduled-to-begin-employment status and actually entered the military service and who thereafter (1) receives a certificate or other evidence of honorable discharge or satisfactory completion of military service, (2) is, at the time of such discharge or completion of military service, still qualified to perform the duties of the position of employment which he or she was scheduled to begin, and (3) makes application for re-employment within 90 days after being relieved from such military service, or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year, shall be restored by the employer to the position of scheduled-to-begin-employment status which he or she left with the same increases in status, seniority, and wages that were earned during his or her term of military service by employees in like positions who were on the job at the time the returning service member entered the service, or to a position of like seniority, status, and pay, unless the employer's circumstances have so changed as to make it impossible or unreasonable to do so. Extends other protections of the Act to service members who were scheduled to begin employment at the time they entered military service. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that in addition to any other penalties imposed by law or by an ordinance or resolution of a unit of local government or school district, any individual or entity that knowingly obtains, or assists another to obtain, a contract with a governmental unit because of a false representation that the individual or entity, or the individual or entity assisted, is a minority owned business, female owned business, or business owned by a person with a disability, regardless of whether the preference was established by statute or local ordinance or resolution, is guilty of a Class 4 felony. Provides that the court shall order that an individual or entity convicted of this offense must pay to the governmental unit that awarded the contract a penalty equal to one and one-half times the amount of the contract obtained because of the false representation.

Amends the Illinois Early Learning Council Act. Provides that the Council shall act in coordination with the Interagency Nutrition Council when dealing with activities related to nutrition, nutrition education, and physical activity.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that any person arrested for leaving the scene of an accident involving death or personal injury is subject to chemical testing for alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds. Provides that the person's driving privileges are subject to statutory summary suspension if he or she fails or refuses to undergo the testing.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Increases the penalties for driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, or intoxicating compounds while transporting a child under the age of 16 years.