Sen. Ira I. Silverstein

Amends the State Finance Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Tobacco Settlement Recovery Fund.

Makes a reappropriation for FY04 to Northeastern Illinois University from the Capital Development Fund to remodel buildings A, B, and E. Effective on July 1, 2003.

Amends the Department of Agriculture Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Authorizes the Department to establish and implement a program to purchase agriculture conservation easements to protect agricultural land from development for other uses. Effective immediately.

Amends the Illinois Governmental Ethics Act. Makes a technical change in a Section defining "lobbyist".

Amends the School Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Chicago school district.

Amends the Department of Commerce and Community Affairs Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the Department's powers and duties.

Amends the Environmental Protection Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the intent of the title regarding the site remediation program.

Amends the Metropolitan Civic Center Support Act to provide for payment of bonds to be made by the Governor's Office of Management and Budget (rather than the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity). Effective immediately.

Creates the Displaced Building Service Workers Protection Act. Provides protections to building service employees who are regularly assigned to a covered building on a full or part-time basis for at least 90 days immediately preceding a transition in employment and who perform work in connection with the care or maintenance of an existing building. Provides that a successor building owner, manager, or contractor shall be required to offer employment to the predecessor employer's incumbent building service employees, subject to the existence of cause, for a period of 90 days following the transition at the affected building. Provides that at the end of the 90 day transition period, the successor employer perform written performance evaluations and offer continued employment to all covered building service employees who receive satisfactory ratings. Excludes from coverage employees who earn more than $25 per hour, work less than 6 hours per week, or serve in a managerial, supervisory, or confidential capacity. Exempts from coverage those successor employers who are already or agree to become bound by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that includes provisions that address the discharge or lay off of building service employees. Exempts any predecessor employer that obtains a written commitment from a successor employer providing that the successor employer's building service employees will be covered by a collective bargaining agreement that addresses the discharge or layoff of employees. Effective immediately.

Creates the Senate Task Force on Illinois Alcoholic Beverage Laws to examine whether Illinois laws regulating the importation of alcoholic liquor are in jeopardy of being held invalid due to preferential treatment granted to Illinois winemakers.