Appropriates $5,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Healthcare and Family Services for a grant to Southern Illinois Healthcare for the Connecting for Care program. Effective July 1, 2009.
Amends the Firearm Owners Identification Card Act. Changes, from 21 years of age or over to 18 years of age or over, the age at which a person may apply for and be issued a Firearm Owner's Identification Card without the consent of a parent or legal guardian. Effective immediately.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Appropriates $17,141,599 from the General Revenue Fund to the State Board of Education for Funding for Children Requiring Special Education-Hold Harmless, 14-7.02b of the School Code for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2009.
Amends the Workers' Compensation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the computation of time.
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Act's saving clause.
Amends the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Urges the Environmental Protection Agency to rescind their recent formal endangerment finding on greenhouse gases and urges the Illinois congressional delegation to vote against H.R. 2454.
Amends the Hospital Services Trust Fund Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that subject to appropriation, in addition to any other payments authorized under the Code, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall reimburse critical access hospitals for outpatient services at an amount that is no less than the cost of providing such services, based on Medicare cost principles.
Amends the State Universities Article of the Illinois Pension Code. Provides that, when assessing employer payment for any amount due for salary increases in excess of 6%, the System shall exclude any earnings increase (i) awarded to tenured faculty based upon the completion of certain criteria that is specified in a collective bargaining contract, (ii) resulting from a promotion for academic professionals, or (iii) resulting from a peer group study of compensation. Effective immediately.
