Sen. Sara Feigenholtz

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Human Services' and Department of Public Aid's rules concerning failure to cooperate shall apply to all instances of alleged recipient failure to cooperate, including failure to attend meetings, except that the rules need not be applied in the case of a meeting the sole purpose of which is to determine whether the recipient continues to meet eligibility requirements other than compliance with employment, training, or other activities. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. In provisions concerning a federal waiver with respect to a pharmacy assistance program for low-income persons age 65 or older, deletes a provision terminating implementation of the waiver on June 30, 2007. Effective immediately.

Appropriates $750,000 from GRF to the Department of Human Services to match federal funds for a program to allow persons with disabilities to purchase assistive technology devices and services. Effective July 1, 2003.

Amends the Child Care Act of 1969. Prohibits a licensed child welfare agency that places children for the purposes of adoption from including in any published advertisement for the agency language that offers free medical care, housing, clothing, or transportation or makes any other offer of services that the Department may reasonably construe to be an inducement or offer for compensation for making a child available for placement with the child welfare agency.

Amends the Board of Higher Education Act. Requires the Board to determine the type of extended health insurance coverage that State universities must offer to recent graduates. Provides that the coverage must be similar to what the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) provides for workers. Requires each State university to offer this standard extended health insurance coverage to its recent graduates.

Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department of Public Aid may not establish any formulary limits on, or restrict by any prior authorization requirement, any insulin prescription drug as prescribed and determined to be medically necessary for the treatment of diabetes. Effective July 1, 2004.

Congratulates Joe Shacter for his service as President and CEO of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Congratulates Kate Bair of Chicago on the occasion of her 100th birthday.

Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois and the State Finance Act. Subject to appropriation, requires the Department of Public Health to develop a comprehensive statewide asthma management plan to (i) reduce the rate of hospitalizations due to asthma and (ii) facilitate the effective management of asthma in persons with asthma. Requires the Department to implement programs to meet the objectives of the statewide asthma management plan. Provides for the use of moneys from the Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund to implement the statewide asthma management plan.

Creates the Right to Breastfeed Act. Contains only a short title provision.