Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that an insurance carrier may not cancel or terminate a motor vehicle liability policy until the insurance carrier has notified the vehicle owner of the impending cancellation or termination. Provides that the insurance carrier also must notify the vehicle owner that the Secretary of State will be notified of the cancellation or termination of the policy. Provides that the insurance carrier must notify the Secretary of State of the cancellation or termination of a motor vehicle liability policy within 10 days of taking that action. Provides that, upon receiving notice of the termination or cancellation, the Secretary of State must immediately revoke the vehicle registration certificate, plates, and sticker of the vehicle owner. Provides that the Secretary of State may not reissue a registration certificate, plates, or sticker to a person whose registration has been revoked unless the person has furnished proof of insurance in the form prescribed by the Secretary.
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Amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act of 1986. Provides that each domestic and foreign corporation authorized to conduct affairs in the State shall file a decennial (rather than annual) report. Provides that the fee for filing a decennial (rather than annual) report of a domestic or foreign corporation shall be $50 (rather than $5).
Amends the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department's powers and duties.
Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act. Provides that a recipient of Program grants must be constructing, modifying, altering, or retrofitting an (i) ethanol plant (now, just plant) that has annual production capacity of no less than 30,000,000 gallons of renewable fuel per year or a (ii) biodiesel plant. Requires the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to establish and administer grant programs including: the Illinois Renewable Fuels Majority Blended Ethanol Program, the Illinois Corn Grain to Fuel Research Consortium Assistance Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Corn-to-Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Biodiesel Infrastructure Grant Program, the Illinois Renewable Fuels Ethanol Development Intergovernmental Assistance Program. Sets forth the purposes and conditions for these grant programs. Provides that subject to appropriation (now, subject to appropriation from the Build Illinois Bond Fund), the Director is authorized to award Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund grants. Sets forth that the annual aggregate amount for these grants shall not exceed $25,000,000 in Fiscal year 2007 and 2008 and $15,000,000 thereafter (now, may not exceed $15,000,000). Specifies how these grant funds shall be allocated. Sets forth certain limitations on spending on the various Program grants including for research conducted at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Facility at SIU-Edwardsville not to exceed $1,000,000 annually, and a one-time grant in FY 2007 not to exceed $3,000,000 for construction, remodeling, and expansion of the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Facility at SIU-Edwardsville. Provides that normal operating and execution of renewable fuels programs in existence on January 1, 2006 within the Department from the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund shall not exceed $5,000,000 annually. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund as a special fund in the State treasury to fund these grant programs. Sets forth certain conditions for the operation of this Fund. Provides for certain annual payments from the General Revenue Fund to the Renewable Fuels Development Program Fund. Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, to provide that on or after July 1, 2006 and on or before June 30, 2016, those tax rates apply to 90% of the proceeds of sales made on gasohol (now, apply to 80% of the proceeds of sales made on gasohol). Amends the Motor Fuel and Petroleum Standards Act to provide that beginning January 1, 2008 a minimum of 10% of all motor fuel sold or offered for sale in Illinois must be denatured ethanol and that beginning January 1, 2012 a minimum of 15% of all motor fuel sold or offered for sale in Illinois must be denatured ethanol. Effective July 1, 2006.
Amends the Illinois Fire Service Institute Act. Provides that the Illinois Fire Service Institute shall provide first responders with the practical knowledge necessary to protect themselves when securing a site in which methamphetamine is being manufactured. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Requires that deer hunting permits be issued without charge to the lineal descendants of an Illinois resident who owns at least 40 acres of Illinois land, provided that the lineal descendants hunt only upon that landowner's land.
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. For taxable years ending on or after December 31, 2006, allows a deduction of up to $10,000 if the taxpayer, while living, donates one or more of his or her human organs to another human being for human organ transplantation. Provides that the deduction may be claimed only once and for only unreimbursed travel and lodging expenses and lost wages incurred by the claimant and related to the claimant's organ donation. Effective immediately.
Urges the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to complete a study of the effects of extending Daylight Savings Time to the months when Illinois normally would observe Central Standard Time and to report its findings to the General Assembly on or before June 1, 2006.
Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Prohibits a person convicted of a felony relating to or arising out of or in connection with his or her service as an employee who is an employee of more than one employer that participates in the Fund from receiving benefits based on any of his or her service as an employee for all employers that participate in the Fund. Provides that, if, as a result of the felony, the employee is ordered by the court to pay restitution to the employer, then (i) the employer may apply for a refund of employee contributions on the employee's behalf and (ii) pursuant to appropriate documentation from the employer and the court, the Fund shall pay to the employer all or a portion of the refund in a sum sufficient to satisfy the court-ordered restitution. Effective immediately.
Amends the State Treasurer Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning bond.