Sen. William R. Haine

Mourns the death of Robert Blackford of Alton.

Amends the Illinois Local Library Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning penalties.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Authorizes and establishes procedures for the statutory summary suspension of driver's licenses of persons who are stopped for DUI and who refuse to submit to preliminary breath or field sobriety tests. Provides that any person in control of a motor vehicle in this State shall be deemed to have given consent to performing field sobriety tests and to providing a breath sample for testing. Provides that the results of a preliminary breath screening or field sobriety test may be used by the defendant in any DUI administrative or court proceeding and may be used by the State in rebuttal to an assertion that the test did not accurately reflect a person's alcohol concentration. Permits temporary impounding of vehicles in certain cases. Provides that after a statutory summary suspension has been imposed on a person who previously has never been convicted of or received a disposition of supervision for a DUI offense, the court may immediately grant the person a judicial driving permit, if the person also submitted to field sobriety tests before failing the test of breath or blood alcohol. Provides for a hearing and procedures for a person who has had his or her license suspended for a failure to submit to a breath screening or field sobriety test. Authorizes the Secretary of State to issue a restricted driving permit to a person who has had his or her license suspended for specified reasons if the person consents to a breath-alcohol ignition interlock device installed in his or her car. Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Prohibits the court from assigning supervision to a defendant charged with driving a motor vehicle on a revoked or suspended license when the suspension or revocation was for violating the field sobriety test provision of the Vehicle Code if the defendant was convicted or assigned supervision within the last 10 years for driving on a revoked or suspended license. Makes other changes. Effective January 1, 2004.

Mourns the death of the Reverend Dr. Jesse Lee Wiggins of Bethalto.

Amends the Illinois Physical Therapy Act. Removes definitions of "referral" and "documented current and relevant diagnosis". Makes changes in the definition of "physical therapy". Requires that a physical therapist use the initials "PT" in connection with the physical therapist's name and a physical therapist assistant shall use the initials "PTA" in connection with the physical therapist assistant's name to denote licensure under the Act. Makes changes in the provisions concerning disciplinary grounds and civil penalties. Adds criminal penalties for advertising using words, abbreviations, figures, or letters indicating the practice of physical therapy without a license. Effective immediately.

Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning commencement of a mandamus action.

Mourns the death of Martha "Helen" Barton, formerly of Collinsville.

Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Exempts from an eavesdropping violation, recordings made simultaneously with a security video recording by fixed, publicly visible cameras in vehicles used by authorized public mass transit districts in the normal course of public transportation; provided, the audio recordings are confined to the passenger boarding or driver areas of the vehicle, or both, and a sign is posted in clear view of the boarding passengers indicating that both audio and video are being recorded.

Amends the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.

Amends the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning employees of the district at the time the Act became effective.