Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Provides that a person who transfers or causes to be transferred a firearm within the State must keep a record of the transfer for a period of 5 (rather than 10) years from the date of the transfer. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Chief Warrant Officer Second Class Christopher Brian Donaldson of Effingham.
Disapproves the 2006 report of the Compensation Review Board.
Mourns the combat death in Iraq of USMC Lance Corporal Jonathan Kyle Price of Woodlawn.
Mourns the death in Iraq of Illinois National Guard Specialist Brian A. Wright of Keensburg.
Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the State Pensions Fund.
Amends the Wildlife Code. Allows the use of cable restraints not powered by springs, spring poles, or mechanical devices to trap fur-bearing mammals on land with written permission from the landowner or tenant of the land. Provides that cable restraints must be visited at least once each calendar day. Provides that it is unlawful for any person to remove fur-bearing mammals from, or to move or disturb in any manner, the cable restraints owned by another person without written authorization from the owner. Allows the use of locking type cable restraints for use in water trapping. Provides that written permission is not required for water sets. Prohibits the use of cable restraints during the closed trapping season. Prohibits the use on land of cable restraints with a loop diameter exceeding 15 inches. Prohibits the use on land of cable restraints without a relaxing mechanical lock, anchor swivel, and stop device to prevent the relaxing mechanical lock from closing the noose loop to a diameter of less than 2 1/2 inches. Prohibits the use of cable restraints attached to a drag or a movable object. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.
Amends the School Code. Provides that for elementary school students who are in a State-approved transitional bilingual education program or transitional program of instruction, the time allotted to take State tests may be extended as determined by the State Board of Education by rule.
Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Provides that the Department of Agriculture shall establish a grant program to encourage farmers to add additives to anhydrous ammonia for the purpose of acting as a marking agent, leak detector, and theft detector to prevent the use of anhydrous ammonia in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine, and to add additives to anhydrous ammonia that render it inert for the purposes of methamphetamine production. Provides that the Department shall determine the eligibility of applicants for grants under this program. Provides that subject to appropriations made for this purpose by the General Assembly, the Department shall award grants to eligible farmers in accordance with rules adopted by the Department. Effective July 1, 2005.
Amends the School Code. In provisions concerning the compilation of average daily attendance under the State aid formula, makes changes concerning the days when the Prairie State Achievement Examination is administered. Effective July 1, 2005.
