Amends the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Creates the offense of methamphetamine trafficking. Provides that a person commits the offense when he or she knowingly brings, or causes to be brought, into this State anhydrous ammonia or a methamphetamine precursor for the purpose of manufacture or delivery or with the intent to manufacture or deliver methamphetamine that is not authorized by the Act. Provides that a person convicted of the offense shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than twice the minimum term and not more than twice the maximum term of imprisonment based upon the amount of methamphetamine or methamphetamine precursor or anhydrous ammonia brought or caused to be brought into this State. Effective immediately.
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Creates the Methamphetamine Manufacturer Registry Act. Provides that the Department of State Police shall establish and maintain a Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database for the purpose of identifying methamphetamine manufacturers and making that information available to law enforcement and the general public. Provides that the Department of State Police must make the information contained in the Statewide Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database accessible on the Internet by means of a hyperlink labeled "Methamphetamine Manufacturer Information" on the Department's World Wide Web home page. Provides that the Department of State Police must update that information as it deems necessary. Provides that the Department of State Police must promulgate rules in accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act to implement these provisions and those rules must include procedures to ensure that the information in the database is accurate, and that the information in the database reflects any changes based on the reversal of a conviction for an offense requiring inclusion in the Methamphetamine Manufacturer Database, or a court order requiring the sealing or expungement of records relating to the offense. Effective immediately.
Amends the Local Government Property Transfer Act. Makes a technical change in the definitions Section of the Act.
Creates the Cigarette Fire Safety Standard Act. Provides that, beginning January 1, 2008, no cigarettes may be sold in Illinois unless the manufacturer certifies that the cigarettes have been certified as low ignition strength in accordance with standards established by the American Society of Testing and Materials and no more than 25% of the cigarettes it manufactures exhibit full-length burns when tested. Provides that the Office of the State Fire Marshal shall adopt rules for the implementation of the Act, which shall include provisions to allow wholesalers and retailers to transition their existing inventories. Effective January 1, 2008.
Makes revisory changes to numerous Acts to conform them to Public Act 93-25, which renamed the Bureau of the Budget as the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and renamed the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs as the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Makes no substantive change. Effective immediately.
Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal date of the Structural Pest Control Act from January 1, 2007 to January 1, 2008. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of Robert R. "Bob" Gearing of Alton.
Mourns the death of Dr. Melvin E. "Doc" Schulmeister of Alton.
Mourns the death of Paul M. Clark of Alton.
Mourns the death in Iraq of U.S. Army Corporal Shawn T. Lasswell Jr. of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Alton.