Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
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Amends the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987. Makes changes to the definition of "ocular pharmaceutical agents". Amends the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. Includes optometrists in the definitions of "practitioner", "prescriber", and "prescription" and in a provision concerning the scope of the Act.
Creates the Illinois Food, Farms, and Jobs Act and the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force. Sets out the composition of the Task Force. Provides that the Task Force shall develop a plan for expanding and supporting a State local and organic food system and for assessing and overcoming obstacles to an increase in locally grown food and local organic food production. Sets out the contents of the plan. Amends the State Finance Act to create the Illinois Local Organic Food and Farm Fund. Effective immediately.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning usury.
Amends the Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Persons Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Early Intervention Services System Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning family service plans.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning eligibility of adults for aid under the "general assistance" Article of the Code.
Amends the Communicable Disease Prevention Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the authority of the Department of Public Health to pay for health insurance coverage on behalf of HIV-infected persons.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Provides that the statute concerning criminal trespass to real property does not apply to entrance upon land that is open to the public while the land is open to the public during its normal hours of operation and does not apply to a person who enters upon land under the reasonable belief that the land is still open to the public even after being given notice from the owner or occupant of the land to depart.
Amends the Department of Public Health Powers and Duties Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning breast cancer detection and treatment.