Amends the Livestock Management Facilities Act. Provides that solid livestock waste stacking structures shall be sized to store not less than the amount of waste generated during 3 months of facility operation at design capacity (now 6 months).
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Amends the Critical Health Problems and Comprehensive Health Education Act. Requires the State Board of Education to establish and administer a matching grant program to pay for half of the cost that a school district incurs in training those teachers and other school personnel who express an interest in becoming qualified to administer emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation or in learning how to use an automated external defibrillator.
Amends the Municipal Code. In a Section that prohibits an adult entertainment facility from being located within 1,000 feet of a school, day care center, cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing, and place of religious worship, provides that "adult entertainment facility" includes an adult bookstore or adult video store that derives 20% or more of its profits from the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit material, shows, or other exhibitions (instead of an adult bookstore or adult video store whose primary business is the commercial sale, dissemination, or distribution of sexually explicit material, shows, or other exhibitions).
Amends the Energy Assistance Act. Changes the repeal date of provisions creating the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2013. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Stanley A. Cisler, Jr. of Staunton.
Mourns the death of Michael Wagner of Greenfield.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that under the Medicaid program, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall reimburse psychiatrists for mental health services they provide, as authorized by Illinois law, to recipients via telepsychiatry. Requires the Department to adopt rules establishing a method to reimburse providers for mental health services provided by telepsychiatry. Provides that the reimbursement methodology for mental health services provided by telemedicine shall be comparable to the reimbursement methodology used by the Department for other services provided by telemedicine. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Max D. Eldred of Chesterfield.
Expresses support for the People of the Mountains.
Urges that the recommendations of the Joint Task Force on Rural Health and Medically Underserved Areas be supported and implemented without delay.