Creates the Commission on the Eradication of Poverty Act. Provides for appointments and terms of members. Provides for funding through the Department of Human Rights. Requires meetings and reports. Effective immediately.
Disapproves the 2008 report of the Compensation Review Board.
Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Designates each February as Women's Heart Disease Awareness Month.
Appropriates $1,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Public Health for grants for research on autoimmune diseases. Effective July 1, 2008.
Mourns the death of Robert J. Cook of Macomb.
Mourns the death of David M. Hayes of Roseville.
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, February 14, 2008, the Senate stands adjourned until Friday, February 15, 2008, in perfunctory session; and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at 11:30 o'clock a.m.; and the House of Representatives stands adjourned until Friday, February 15, 2008, at 11:00 o'clock a.m., and when it adjourns on that day, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at 11:30 o'clock a.m.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, unless some other speed restriction has been established under the Code, the maximum speed limit outside an urban district for any vehicle is 65 miles per hour. Effective January 1, 2008.
Amends the Illinois Hunting Heritage Protection Act. Provides that land management decisions of the Department of Natural Resources may not, to the extent practical, result in any net loss of habitat (now, land acreage) available for hunting opportunities. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Fair Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning rules and regulations.
