Mourns the death of U.S. Army Specialist Karen Clifton.
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Mourns the death of Dr. Wilson H. West of Belleville.
Mourns the death of Sherman Brewer of Edwardsville.
Mourns the death in Iraq of U.S. Army Private Cole Spencer of Gays.
Mourns the death of Larry Wetherholt of Decatur.
Mourns the death of Charles Alan Swetland of Vandalia.
Mourns the death of Leo G. Lauzen of Aurora.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 relating to disorderly conduct. Provides that engaging in any loud protests of singing, chanting, whistling, or yelling with or without noise amplification, displaying any visual images that convey fighting words or actual or veiled threats against any other person, engaging in a directed protest march or picket at any public location when any of these activities are conducted within 300 feet of any entrance to a facility being used for a funeral or memorial service, or blocking access to such facility at any time during the period starting 30 minutes before any funeral or memorial service is scheduled to begin and ending 30 minutes after the funeral or memorial service terminates is disorderly conduct in which the penalty is a Class C misdemeanor. Provides that the provisions of the Act are severable. Effective immediately.
Amends the Economic Development for a Growing Economy Tax Credit Act. Provides that, if an applicant for a credit under the Act (i) is an Illinois-based company that is competing with an out-of-state company to supply parts or components to another Illinois manufacturer and (ii) signs an affidavit attesting that, without the credit, the applicant will likely lose the parts or components work to the out-of-state competitor, then the application need not demonstrate that the applicant has multi-state location options and need not identify a cost differential in the projected costs for the applicant's project compared to the costs in the competing state. Effective immediately.
Recognizes February 6, 2005 and each subsequent year thereafter as "Ronald Reagan Day".