Amends the Premises Liability Act. Provides that an owner or operator of a firearm range placed in operation after January 1, 1994 is immune from criminal liability and is not subject to any action for public or private nuisance or trespass arising out of or as a consequence of noise or sound emissions resulting from the normal use of the firearm range if: all areas from which a firearm may be properly discharged are at least 500 (rather than 1,000) yards from any occupied permanent dwelling on adjacent property; or the firearm range met those requirements at the time the range began its operation and subsequently an occupied permanent dwelling on adjacent property was built within 500 (rather than 1,000) yards from an area of the range from which a firearm may be properly discharged. Effective immediately.
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Amends the School Code. Provides that after June 1, 2011 persons may not be nominated for General Assembly scholarships and that General Assembly scholarships may not be awarded after that date unless the nomination is made prior to that date. Prevents both second nominations for any lapsed General Assembly scholarship and nominating persons to the unused or unexpired parts of any vacated General Assembly scholarship after June 1, 2011. Effective immediately.
Makes appropriations from the General Revenue Fund for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State Universities Civil Service System. Effective July 1, 2012.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning contractor suspension.
Amends the Adoption Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the order for standby adoption.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a legislative declaration.
Mourns the death of Richard Burwash of Savoy.
Mourns the death of Mervin Frerichs of Armstrong.
Mourns the death of Stanley B. Balbach, Sr. of Savoy.
Mourns the death of Daniel Molloy of Rantoul.