Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Exempts from a violation of the unlawful use of weapons and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon statutes concerning the carrying of firearms, the carrying or possessing of firearms by wardens, superintendents and keepers of prisons, penitentiaries, jails and other institutions for the detention of persons accused or convicted of an offense, whether or not the firearms are carried while in the performance of their official duty or whether or not they are commuting between their homes and places of employment (currently, if the corrections officer is not a holder of a concealed carry license, he or she may carry a firearm outside his or her land or outside his or her own abode, legal dwelling, or fixed place of business, or outside the land or outside the legal dwelling of another person as an invitee with that person's permission, only while in the performance of his or her official duty, or while commuting between his or her home and place of employment).
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Recognizes President Ronald Reagan and requests that a statue be placed in the Illinois State Capitol Building or on the surrounding grounds in his honor.
Amends the Adult Protective Services Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Open Land Trust Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the legislative policy of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Estate and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax Act. Provides that no tax shall be imposed under the Act for persons dying on or after the effective date or for transfers made on or after the effective date.
Amends the Fireworks Regulation Act of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning violations of the Act.
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning prisoner records maintained by the Department of Corrections.
Amends the Animal Welfare Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that Illinois Fire Fighters' Memorial license plates may be affixed to motorcycles.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules for its FY 16 ordinary and contingent expenses.