Sen. Sara Feigenholtz

Amends the Clerks of Courts Act. Provides that if a defendant is unable to pay the total fines, fees, and costs at the time of sentencing, the circuit clerk may establish a payment schedule based upon the information provided on a form prepared by the clerk setting forth the defendant's assets, liabilities, income, and expenses. Provides that in evaluating the defendant's expenses, the clerk shall consider only reasonable, necessary expenses. Provides that the clerk may modify the payment schedule upon a showing of good cause by the defendant. Amends the Violent Crime Victims Assistance Act. Changes the additional penalty imposed, the proceeds of which are deposited into the Violent Crime Victims Assistance Fund to: (1) $100 for a felony; (2) $50 for an offense under the Illinois Vehicle Code, excluding speeding offenses and certain equipment offenses and certain other violations; and (3) $75 for a misdemeanor, excluding conservation offenses. Provides that if the court does not impose the fine, the Attorney General or the State's Attorney may file a motion to have the court correct the sentence and impose the mandatory fine. Effective July 1, 2012.

Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life Code. Provides that a person may not possess, sell, offer for sale, trade, or distribute a shark fin. Defines "shark" and "shark fin".

Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes changes in the provision concerning definitions to include "Emergency Medical Services Personnel". Makes changes in the provisions concerning scope of services, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Regions, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems, the development and content of EMS Region Plans, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Resource Hospitals, EMS System participation suspensions and due process, the State Emergency Medical Services Disciplinary Review Board, Emergency Medical Services Personnel licensure levels (now Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) licensure), scope of practice, EMS Lead Instructors, Emergency Medical Dispatchers, Trauma Nurse Specialist (TNS) licensure (now certification), Pre-Hospital RNs and Emergency Communications Registered Nurses, Trauma Center designations, Trauma Center misrepresentation, complaint investigations, violations and fines, misrepresentation, falsification of documents, criminal penalties, injunctions, the State Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council, and the State Trauma Advisory Council. Repeals a provision concerning First Responders. Effective on January 1, 2013.

Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act and the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act. Provides that a person who, in good faith, seeks or obtains emergency medical assistance for someone experiencing an overdose shall not be charged or prosecuted for Class 4 felony possession of a controlled, counterfeit, or look-alike substance, a controlled substance analog, or Class 3 felony methamphetamine if evidence for the possession charge was acquired as a result of the person seeking or obtaining emergency medical assistance. Provides that a person who is experiencing an overdose shall not be charged or prosecuted for Class 4 felony possession of a controlled, counterfeit, or look-alike substance, or a controlled substance analog, or in the case of methamphetamine Class 3 felony possession if evidence for the possession charge was acquired as a result of the person seeking or obtaining emergency medical assistance. Provides that the action of seeking or obtaining emergency medical assistance for an overdose may be used as a mitigating factor in a criminal prosecution for Class 3 felony or higher possession, manufacture or delivery of a controlled, counterfeit, or look-alike substance or a controlled substance analog, or in the case of methamphetamine Class 2 felony or higher possession, manufacture or delivery of methamphetamine. Effective immediately.

Recognizes SYESA (Struggling Youth Equals Successful Adults) on being the first non-profit youth organization in the State of Illinois to be founded by 3 former foster youths.

Amends the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act. Makes a technical change in the Section concerning the short title.

Congratulates the Potash family on Potash Markets being named the Illinois Retail Merchants Association 2011 Illinois Retailer of the Year.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Provides that it is not a violation of the Act to store or dispose of coal combustion waste that is reused as structural fill at a site or facility, if that waste is fully encapsulated. Defines "fully encapsulated" and "structural fill".

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Changes the definition of the term "recipient", as used in specified provisions under the Code, to mean persons who receive aid under the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families (TANF) Program for themselves and parents who are ineligible to receive TANF for themselves because of a criminal conviction, but who are receiving TANF for their children (rather than only persons receiving aid under the TANF program). Effective immediately.

Amends the Adoption Act. Provides that one of the statutory forms that is used for purposes of an agency adoption shall only be used by legal parents (instead of unspecified).