Sen. Dale A. Righter

Creates the Illinois Ethanol Board Act. Establishes the Board to promote the development and use of ethanol and the implementation of air quality improvement programs. Provides for the appointment of the Board by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Provides for ex officio non-voting members from the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Department of Agriculture, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, and a State university designated by the Governor. Provides that the Board shall create an administrator position and sets out the duties of that administrator. Specifies the Board's various powers and duties. Effective immediately.

Amends the Governor's Office of Management and Budget Act. Requires GOMB to establish a single updated searchable database website accessible by the public at no cost that includes information concerning each entity that receives Illinois funding. Requires GOMB to report to the General Assembly concerning the website. Effective immediately.

Creates the Primary Stroke Center Designation Act. Sets forth the findings of the General Assembly. Provides that the Director of Public Health shall designate as many hospitals as Primary Stroke Centers as apply for the designation, provided that the hospital meets the criteria set forth in the Act. Provides the criteria necessary for designation as a Primary Stroke Center. Provides that the Director of Public Health may suspend or revoke a hospital's designation as a Primary Stroke Center after notice and hearing if the Director determines that the hospital does not comply with the requirements of the Act. Provides that the Director of Public Health may award matching grants to hospitals that seek designation as Primary Stroke Centers and demonstrate a need for financial assistance to develop the necessary infrastructure. Provides that the Director of Public Health must, not later than July 1, 2010, prepare and submit to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the General Assembly a report indicating the total number of hospitals that have applied for grants under the Act before July 1, 2010 and the number of those applicants that have been found eligible for the grants, the total number of grants awarded, the name and address of each grantee and hospital and the amount of the award to each, and the amount of each award that has been awarded to the grantee. Effective immediately.

Creates the State Facility Overtime Act. Provides that the Director of the State agency responsible for the operation of specified State facilities (or the Director's designee or agent) may not require an employee to accept work in excess of an agreed upon, predetermined, and regularly scheduled daily work shift, not to exceed 40 hours per week. Provides for: exceptions to the prohibition; posting a summary of the Act and applicable rules; investigation of complaints by the Illinois Department of Labor and disposition of complaints; adoption of administrative rules; construction; and other matters. Effective immediately.

Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2007 and through June 30, 2012, the Secretary of State must notify each owner of a licensed motor vehicle that many motor vehicles are capable of using E85 blended fuel. Sets forth requirements for this notice. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that an employee who was employed by a participating municipality or participating instrumentality that had not elected to exclude persons employed in positions normally requiring performance of duty for less than 1,000 hours per year or was employed in a position normally requiring performance of duty for 600 hours or more per year prior to such election by a participating municipality or participating instrumentality that is not entitled to receive earnings for employment in a position normally requiring performance of duty for 600 hours or more per year for a participating municipality and instrumentalities thereof and participating instrumentality receiving an annuity under the Article who is employed in a position that (i) requires performance of duty less than 1,000 hours per year and (ii) meets the definition of sheriff's law enforcement employee, other than the requirement of employment on a full-time basis. Provides that any such person shall not be disqualified from receiving a retirement annuity by reason of that employment. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.

For Fiscal Year 2009, appropriates $150,000,000 to the Capital Development Board for school construction grants pursuant to the School Construction Law. Effective July 1, 2008.

Amends the Open Meetings Act. With respect to public bodies with statewide jurisdiction whose quorums may be present at more than one location simultaneously for an open meeting, requires that the locations must be in Illinois. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $8,200,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs for staffing at the Illinois Veterans' Home at LaSalle. Effective July 1, 2008.

Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Makes a technical change in a Section requiring the Department of Corrections to designate those institutions and facilities that are maintained for persons assigned as adults and as juveniles.