Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Provides that all licensees authorized to conduct riverboat gambling operations on the Mississippi River (now one such licensee) may move their home docks to a municipality that borders the Mississippi or is within 5 miles of a municipality that borders on the Mississippi River. Effective immediately.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning investments in rate base.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning investments in rate base.
Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change to a Section concerning the surveying and listing of sites, monitoring practices, and reporting.
Amends the IMRF Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that each county with current or former elected county officers participating in the alternative annuity program shall have a separate employer contribution rate computed for those elected officers, and provides that those officers shall be treated as a separate unit within the Fund. Provides that a municipality may transfer funds among its reserves, from one that is over 100% funded to one that is less, under certain circumstances. In the provisions relating to employer pick-up of employee contributions, requires pick-up of employee contributions under the alternative program for elected county officers. Amends the State Mandates Act to require implementation without reimbursement. Effective immediately.
Amends the Liquor Control Act of 1934. Reduces the amount of wine that a second-class wine-maker's licensee may sell from a second premises from 100,000 gallons per year to 50,000 gallons per year. Deletes provisions authorizing a wine-maker's licensee to sell wine from a third location.
Creates the Metro East Sports Authority Act. Contains only the short title.
Amends the Mobile Home Park Act. Provides for a minimum separation from one mobile home to another mobile home for mobile homes located on sites constructed on or before July 1, 1998. Provides requirements for a minimum separation adjacent to the sides of every mobile home for mobile homes located on sites constructed after July 1, 1998. Provides that when a mobile home is removed from a site for repairs and then replaced on the site or when a mobile home on a site is replaced by another mobile home on the site, the site shall not be deemed to be a newly constructed site and shall be governed by the standards in effect at the time the site was originally constructed. Limits the concurrent exercise of home rule powers. Effective immediately.
Mourns the death of V. Bruce Morrison of O'Fallon.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the reading of meters.
