Sen. Dale A. Righter

Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Creates the Community Care Program Advisory Committee in the Department on Aging to advise the Department on issues related to the Department's programs of service to prevent unnecessary institutionalization. Sets forth the terms and conditions of membership on the Committee. Provides that Committee reports and recommendations are advisory only. Effective July 1, 2005.

Creates the Pharmacy Benefit Manager Licensure and Solvency Protection Act to establish standards and criteria for the regulation, solvency, and licensing of pharmacy benefit managers. Requires pharmacy benefits managers to obtain a certificate of authority from the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation and a certificate of compliance from the State Board of Pharmacy. Sets forth provisions concerning disclosures, records, financial examination, an annual statement and filing fee, contracts and agreements, prohibited acts and practices, medication reimbursement costs, timely payments and audits, authorization for substitutions, and complaint and claim processes. Grants rulemaking authority to the Department and the Board. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Pharmacy Benefits Management Fund and to provide that no transfers may be made to the General Revenue Fund from the Pharmacy Benefits Management Fund. Effective immediately.

Amends the State Finance Act. Requires the transfer into the Agricultural Premium Fund of specified percentages of named funds in each fiscal year from fiscal year 2006 through 2010. Caps the aggregate total transfer in each fiscal year at $356,619. Effective immediately.

Proposes to amend the Revenue Article of the Illinois Constitution. Adds a new Section concerning highway funds. Provides that no moneys derived from fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, titles, operation, or use of vehicles on public highways, or to fuels used for propelling vehicles, including bond proceeds, shall be expended for other than costs of administering laws related to vehicles, statutory refunds and adjustments provided in those laws, payment of highway obligations, costs for construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and betterment of public highways, roads, streets, and bridges, and other statutory highway purposes, the State or local share to match federal aid highway funds, administrative costs of the Department of Transportation or any successor agency, expenses of grade separation of public highways and railroad crossings, protection of at-grade public highways and railroad crossings, expense of State enforcement of traffic laws and, with respect to local governments, other transportation purposes as authorized by law. Provides that the total amount appropriated in any fiscal year for the sum of the cost of State enforcement of traffic laws, plus the cost of collecting and administering those fees, excises, and license, plus the cost of administering laws relating to motor vehicles, may not exceed 8% of the total amount of those fees, excises, or taxes, collected by the State of Illinois, in the most recent complete fiscal year. Provides that federal funds may be spent for any purposes authorized by federal law. Effective upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act.

Amends the Illinois Renewable Fuels Development Program Act and State Finance Act. Provides that the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall create and operate an E85 Vehicle Encouragement Program that provides pro rata grant moneys from the E85 Vehicle Encouragement Fund to purchasers of flexible fuel vehicles. Provides that Program grants shall not exceed 10% of the purchase price of the vehicle and that only one Program grant shall be made to the owner of any vehicle during the life of that vehicle. Creates the E85 Vehicle Encouragement Fund. Makes other changes. Effective immediately.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 concerning the offense of threatening a public official. Includes in the definition of "public official" a sworn law enforcement or peace officer.

Amends the Freedom of Information Act. Redefines "public record" to include contracts entered into by or on behalf of a public body, notwithstanding any of the Act's exemptions. Effective immediately.

Amends the Alternate Fuels Act. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2005 and through June 30, 2010, 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. Amends the Illinois Highway Code. Provides that, beginning July 1, 2005 and through June 30, 2010, the Department of Transportation must include the locations of all refueling stations that provide E85 blended fuel on maps published by the Department. Amends the Department of Revenue Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Requires the Department of Revenue to assist the Department of Transportation in developing and maintaining a list and map of all refueling stations that provide E85 blended fuel. Effective immediately.

Amends the Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code. Adds persons included within the definition of "person subject to involuntary admission", including: (1) a person with mental illness who, because of the nature of his or her illness, is unable to understand his or her need for treatment and who, if not treated, is at risk of suffering or continuing to suffer mental deterioration or emotional deterioration, or both, to the point that the person is at risk of engaging in dangerous conduct; and (2) a person who has been adjudged to be subject to authorized involuntary treatment and with respect to whom (A) outpatient treatment has been shown to be ineffective because the person is unable or unwilling to comply with his or her treatment plan and (B) inpatient admission is likely to be effective in implementing the person's treatment plan and is otherwise in the person's best interests. Provides that at any time before the conclusion of a hearing on involuntary admission and the entry of the court's findings, a respondent may enter into an agreement to be subject to an order for alternative treatment or care and custody, if certain conditions are met. Provides that an agreed order for care and custody may grant the custodian the authority to admit a respondent to a hospital if the respondent fails to comply with the conditions of the agreed order. Provides that an agreed order for alternative treatment or care and custody does not constitute a finding that the respondent is a person subject to involuntary admission. Provides that a respondent may not be cited for contempt for violating the terms and conditions of his or her agreed order for care and custody. Makes other changes.

Amends the State Finance Act. In fiscal year 2013 and in each fiscal year thereafter, requires the transfer from the General Revenue Fund to the Agricultural Premium Fund and the Fair and Exposition Fund of amounts equal to 100% of the total statutory payments required from those special funds for that fiscal year to county fairs and fair and exposition authorities under the Agricultural Fair Act. In each of the fiscal years 2008 through 2012, requires transfer of an amount equal to a lower, specified percentage of those total statutory payments. Provides that the required transfer amounts are the maximum amounts to be transferred in each fiscal year, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary. Amends the Agricultural Fair Act. With respect to the distribution formula for premiums to county fairs, uses either of the 2 previous fiscal years (now, either fiscal year 1984 or 1985).