Amends the State Finance Act. Provides for the transfer of specified amounts from various special funds in the State treasury to the Audit Expense Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the School Code. Includes in the definition of "professional worker" a school behavior analyst.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that if a facility of the Department of Corrections maintains a commissary or commissaries serving employees of the Department, the selling price for all goods shall be sufficient to cover the costs of the goods and an additional charge of from 3% to 10%. Effective immediately.
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act and the Illinois Family Case Management Act. Requires the Department of Human Services to make the maximization of umbilical cord blood donations a public health goal equivalent to the other goals listed in the Illinois Family Case Management Act. Requires the Maternal and Child Health Advisory Board to discuss and make recommendations for expanding the number of prenatal mothers who agree to donate umbilical cord blood. Requires hospitals and birthing centers to cooperate with the Department and the Advisory Board in implementing recommendations to increase donations of umbilical cord blood. Effective immediately.
Amends the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Names October 15, 2006, as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
Directs the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, in consultation with the Department of Agriculture, the Illinois Preservation Agency, or other public entities, to conduct a study of current historic barn restoration/preservation efforts and needs in Illinois, the benefits that an historic barn restoration/preservation program in Illinois could have on tourism and other economic development activities in rural areas, and programs and incentives in place in other states to promote historic barn restoration and preservation.
Proclaims March of 2006 as American Red Cross Month in the State of Illinois.
Mourns the death of Verda F. Armour of Carlinville.
Amends the State Facilities Closure Act. Provides that recommendations for closure and public hearings are mandatory (now, at the discretion of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability) for the proposed closure of certain facilities.
