Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to develop appropriate disclosures to be provided to purchasers of identity theft insurance, including what the insured will receive if he or she is a victim of identity theft and how to protect himself or herself from identity theft.
Proposes to amend the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution. Adds a new Section concerning highway funds. Provides that no moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, titles, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for propelling vehicles, including bond proceeds, shall be expended for other than costs of administering laws related to vehicles, statutory refunds and adjustments provided in those laws, payment of highway obligations, costs for construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and betterment of public highways, roads, streets, and bridges, and other statutory highway purposes, the State or local share to match federal aid highway funds, administrative costs of the Department of Transportation or any successor agency, expenses of grade separation of public highways and railroad crossings, protection of at-grade public highways and railroad crossings, expense of State enforcement of traffic laws and, with respect to local governments, other transportation purposes as authorized by law. Provides that the total amount appropriated in any fiscal year for the sum of the cost of State enforcement of traffic laws, plus the cost of collecting and administering those fees, excises, and license, plus the cost of administering laws relating to motor vehicles, may not exceed 8% of the total amount of those fees, excises, or taxes, collected by the State of Illinois, in the most recent complete fiscal year. Provides that federal funds may be spent for any purposes authorized by federal law. Effective upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act.
Urges Congress and the National Guard Bureau to retain the Air National Guard fire-protection services at the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides for the issuance of U.S. Army Veteran license plates to qualified applicants for an additional charge of $15 at original issuance, to be deposited into the Secretary of State Special License Plate Fund.
Amends the Conveyances Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's short title.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Requires the Treasurer to post information on his or her official website concerning the investment of public funds. Sets forth the required information. Does not require posting of information that is exempt from inspection and copying under the Freedom of Information Act.
Mourns the death of Justin Lee Smith of Chatham, formerly of New Berlin.
Amends the Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act. Provides that if a military decoration is delivered to the Treasurer as abandoned property, the Treasurer shall deliver the military decoration to the U.S. Department of Defense for proper disposition. Effective immediately.
Creates the War on Terrorism Veterans Act. Provides that a memorial honoring persons who earned the Southwest Asia Service Medal serving in either Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom may be constructed by a private entity on a portion of the State property in Oak Ridge Cemetery. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that a person also commits aggravated battery of a child when the person is of the age 18 years and upwards and intentionally or knowingly, and without legal justification and by any means, causes bodily harm or disability or disfigurement to any child under the age of 13 years or to any severely or profoundly mentally retarded person. Provides that the penalty is a Class 3 felony. Effective January 1, 2009.
