Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Counties Code. Prohibits the location within the county of an adult entertainment facility within 3,000 (now, 1,000) feet of the property boundaries of any school, day care center, cemetery, public park, forest preserve, public housing, or place of religious worship. Effective immediately.
Amends the Health Care Worker Background Check Act. Provides that Uniform Conviction Information Act criminal history records checks and searches of the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history records database must be initiated for persons entering a nurse aid training program, persons seeking to be included on the nurse aide registry, and employees of health care workers with duties that involve direct care for clients, patients, or residents. Effective immediately.
Creates the Freedom of Choice Act and amends the Illinois Abortion Law of 1975. Establishes a State policy recognizing a woman's reproductive rights. Prohibits State agencies and units of local government (including home rule units) from restricting a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability or at any time if medically necessary. Repeals a Section declaring that the General Assembly would prohibit all abortions unless necessary for the preservation of a woman's life if Roe v. Wade is overruled or significantly modified. Effective immediately.
Amends the Illinois Athletic Trainers Practice Act. Makes technical changes in a Section concerning the short title.
Amends the Public Community College Act to require the Illinois Community College Board to establish a new community college district to be comprised of the territory of the former Metropolitan Community College District No. 541 and to be known as Gateway Community College. Provides that the Board may not abolish, restrict, or take over the operation of Gateway Community College without first notifying the General Assembly and receiving permission from the General Assembly for the action. Requires the Board (i) to provide financial and technical assistance to Gateway Community College in becoming established, (ii) to transfer to Gateway Community College all documents, equipment, and books and any other personal property that was in the possession of or owned by the former Metropolitan Community College District No. 541 at the time that it was abolished, and (iii) to convey to Gateway Community College the real estate and improvements that comprised the campus of former Metropolitan Community College District No. 541 at the time that it was abolished.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title and applicability of the Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law of 1997.
Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Makes technical changes in the short title Section.
Amends the Day and Temporary Labor Services Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning violations of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. In provisions for a community care program of services to prevent unnecessary institutionalization of persons age 60 and older, provides that the Department on Aging's eligibility standards for the services must include a provision that, to be eligible for services, a person may not have assets totaling more than $20,000 if (i) the person is unmarried or (ii) the person is married and the person or the person's spouse meets certain criteria. Provides that if the person is married and the person's spouse does not receive community care services, the person may not have assets totaling more than the asset disregard amount used by the Department of Public Aid in determining eligibility for medical assistance under the Illinois Public Aid Code. Effective January 1, 2004.
Appropriates $2 from the Metro-East Public Transportation Supplemental Fund to the Department of Revenue for distribution for public transportation purposes. Effective July 1, 2004.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that a Medicare beneficiary or a beneficiary of pharmaceutical assistance under the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Relief and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act is entitled to obtain prescription drugs at prices based on a pharmacy's Medicaid reimbursement rates. Requires that pharmacies implement this prescription drug discount benefit as a condition of participating in the Medicaid program. Requires the Department of Public Aid to make certain reports to the General Assembly and to execute necessary interagency agreements with the Department on Aging and the Department of Revenue. Provides for evaluation of the prescription drug discount benefit if prescription drugs are covered by Medicare. Repeals these provisions on July 1, 2007.
