Sen. John O. Jones

Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. In provisions including certain service performed in agricultural labor in the definition of the term "employment", excludes service performed in agricultural labor by an individual who is an alien admitted to the United States to perform service in agricultural labor pursuant to Sections 214(c) and 101(a)(15)(H) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

Amends the Railroad Police Act. Requires allegations of abuse of authority or misconduct by members of a railroad police force to be investigated by the Illinois State Police.

Amends the Department of Human Services Act. Requires the Department of Human Services, in cooperation with the Department of Healthcare and Family Services, to develop and implement a streamlined auditing and accreditation system to reduce the need for community providers to undergo audits from multiple licensing or accreditation systems. Provides that the streamlined system shall, to the extent possible, utilize one auditing group to provide uniformity from one organization to the next and from one year to the next.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Humane Care for Animals Act. Provides that companion animal euthanasia chambers must allow for the separation of animals. Removes a provision requiring only one companion animal to be euthanized at a time. Requires veterinarians to use professional judgment when deciding whether or not a procedure shall involve the euthanasia of a single animal or multiple animals, taking into consideration the safety of facility staff and the most humane practices. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of United States Marine Corps Corporal Jamie Russel Lowe of Johnsonville.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Mourns the death of Wilbert B. "Cotton" Wuebbels of Germantown.

Creates the FY2009 Budget Implementation Act. Provides that the purpose of the Act is to make the changes in State programs that are necessary to implement the FY2009 budget. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Pension Code, the Children's Health Insurance Program Act, the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, and the Public Aid Code. Allows a medical or health care provider who participates under the Children's Health Insurance Program Act, the Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, or the Public Aid Code to elect, in lieu of receiving direct payment for goods or services provided, to participate in the health care provider deferred compensation plan. Requires the State Board of Investment to develop and establish and the Department of Central Management Services to administer a deferred compensation plan for health care providers under the same terms and conditions as the State Employee Deferred Compensation Plan. Provides that a medical or health care provider who elects to participate in the plan does not have a cause of action against the State for any damages allegedly suffered by the provider as a result of any delay by the State in crediting the amount of any contribution to the provider's plan account. Effective January 1, 2010.