Amends the Law Enforcement Officers, Civil Defense Workers, Civil Air Patrol Members, Paramedics, Firemen, Chaplains, and State Employees Compensation Act. Provides that the term "law enforcement officer" includes a person who is employed as a security guard by the State on a full-time, part-time, temporary, or contractual-payroll basis and whose death in the line of duty results from injury incurred on or after September 1, 2004. Also makes technical corrections. Amends the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act. Provides that if a person who is employed by the State as a security guard suffers a catastrophic injury or is killed in the line of duty on or after September 1, 2004, the security guard and his or her spouse and dependent children are eligible for health coverage benefits under the Act. Provides that if a person who is employed by the State as a security guard is accidentally or unlawfully and intentionally killed in the line of duty on or after September 1, 2004, the State shall waive certain educational expenses incurred by the security guard's children. Effective immediately.
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Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning commercial driver's licenses.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Requires the Secretary of State to establish a database of insured motor vehicles that are registered in this State. Requires insurers to make information available to the Secretary of State. Directs the Secretary of State to make the information available to law enforcement agencies by computer. Effective January 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging by providing that, beginning July 1, 2004, vendors of homemaker, chore, and housekeeping services shall receive a rate increase of $1.16 per hour if at least $0.86 of that increase is used to increase the wages of homemakers and chore housekeepers. Provides that vendors receiving this increase must submit proof to the Department, either (i) by a an audited supplemental to the Direct Service Workers cost report or (ii) by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement, that they have increased homemakers' and chore housekeepers' wages by $0.86 per hour. Effective on July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Domestic Violence Act of 1986. Adds stalking to the definition of harassment.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Requires the Director of Aging, in coordination with the Director of Public Aid and the Director of Public Health, to analyze the distribution of housing, health services, and supportive services for seniors in each geographic area of the State and to identify and designate critical access service areas. Provides that, at the end of each State fiscal year, any unspent and unencumbered General Revenue Fund appropriations for long-term care for seniors shall be deposited into the Alternative Long-Term Care Services for Seniors Fund. Provides that moneys in the Fund shall be used to fund specified alternative long-term care services with priority given to the distribution of funds for services in critical access service areas. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Alternative Long-Term Care Services for Seniors Fund as a special fund in the State treasury. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Employees Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides the alternative (State Police) formula for full-time highway construction operators employed by the Illinois Department of Transportation. Effective immediately.
Amends the Telephone Solicitations Act. Makes a technical change in a section concerning method of operation.
Amends the State Employee Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides the alternative (State police) retirement formula for certain forensic employees of the Department of State Police. Effective immediately.
Amends the Sexually Dangerous Persons Act. Provides that a person who is committed as a sexually dangerous person may file an application showing recovery after 6 months have elapsed since the initial commitment order was entered, the most recent order showing recovery was denied, or the most recent order for conditional release was revoked. Provides that the court, within 30 days of the receipt of the petition showing recovery, may either deny the application or set the cause for a probable cause hearing after the court receives a socio-psychiatric report. Provides that at the probable cause hearing, if the court is satisfied that cause exists to believe that it is not substantially probable that the applicant will engage in acts of sexual assault or acts of sexual molestation of children if discharged or conditionally released, it shall set the cause for a hearing. Provides that the person at his or her election is entitled to a trial by jury on the issue of recovery. Provides standards to be considered by the court or jury in determining whether the applicant has recovered and should be discharged from confinement.