Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Adds, to the list of activities that are exempt from the offense of gambling, an offer of prizes, awards, or compensation to contestants in a bona fide contest between 2 or more individuals participating in (1) an electronic video game simulating a contest requiring skill, experience, dexterity, and precision in which the element of chance does not predominate or (2) an electronic video game requiring speed and accuracy of response to factual questions in which the element of chance does not predominate; but not including card games and simulated card games and not including any gambling game or activity of the type conducted under the Bingo Licensing Act, the Illinois Lottery Law, the Raffles Act, the Charitable Games Act, the Illinois Pull Tabs and Jar Games Act, or the Riverboat Gambling Act.
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Amends the Tax Increment Allocation Redevelopment Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Provides that the redevelopment project in the TIF district created by an ordinance that was adopted on January 13, 1987 by the Village of Mt. Zion must be completed by December 31 of the 35th year (now, the 23rd year) after the year in which the ordinance was adopted. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Howard E. Brown of Decatur.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Provides that the Department of Natural Resources may issue crossbow permits to persons age 60 and older upon appropriate verification of age. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act. Classifies community college districts as units of local government that must adopt resolutions regulating the political activities and the solicitation and acceptance of gifts by their officials and employees (now, classified as State agencies subject to the entire Act's regulation and enforcement by the Executive Ethics Commission and the Governor's Executive Inspector General). Effective immediately.
Amends the Children and Family Services Act. Requires the Director to report to the Inspector General concerning completed investigations where abuse or neglect is indicated. Requires continuing reports on actions taken and completed. Authorizes the IG to recommend sanctions against agency staff for actions taken or failed to be taken. Requires public disclosure. Requires the appropriation to the IG to be separate from the appropriation to the Department. Makes other changes.
Amends the Motor Fuel Tax Law. Provides that the term "blending" does not include the conversion of cooking oil, used restaurant fryer oil, or any other similar oil into motor fuel for ones personal, noncommercial use. Effective immediately.
Creates the Illinois Food, Farms, and Jobs Act and the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force. Sets out the composition of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall develop a plan for expanding and supporting a State local and organic food system and for assessing and overcoming obstacles to an increase in locally grown food and local organic food production. Sets out the contents of the plan. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Illinois Local Organic Food and Farm Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997 in the Public Utilities Act. Provides that the findings set forth in the provisions used by the Illinois Commerce Commission in determining whether to issue a certification for alternative retail electric supplier does not apply to applicants whose principal business and source of revenue are not the generation, transmission, distribution, or sale of electricity.
Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that the tax exemptions for certain registered horses, or interests in horses, that are used for purposes of breeding or racing are exempt from the Acts' sunset provisions and the exemptions apply for all periods beginning May 30, 1995, but no claim for credit or refund is allowed for such taxes paid during the period beginning May 30, 2000 and ending on the effective date of this amendatory Act.