Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Makes technical changes concerning testing of warning devices.
Amends the School Code. Notwithstanding any other law, requires the Department of Revenue to deposit 25% of all tax receipts each month that would otherwise be deposited into the General Revenue Fund directly into the Common School Fund.
Amends the Economic Development Area Tax Increment Allocation Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title.
Creates the Illinois Congressional Reapportionment Act of 2003. Contains only a short title. Effective immediately.
Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act. In provisions for a program of services to prevent unnecessary institutionalization of persons, requires the Department of Human Services to pay an amount into a fund to provide health care coverage for individuals who perform more than 20 hours of preventive services per week. Provides that the amount must equal $1.40 for each hour of preventive services provided under the program. Effective immediately.
Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that a person or entity may not print an individual's social security number on an insurance card that is used to establish the eligibility of an individual or his or her dependents to receive health, dental, optical, or accident insurance benefits, prescription drug benefits, or benefits under a managed care plan or a plan provided by a health maintenance organization, a health services plan corporation, or a similar entity. Provides that existing insurance cards with an individual's social security number must be replaced with insurance cards without the individual's social security number. Provides that a violation constitutes an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act. Effective January 1, 2005.
Amends the State Treasurer's Bank Services Trust Fund Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning creation of the Fund.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Makes a technical change in a Section defining "Associate Procurement Officers".
Amends the Illinois Noxious Weed Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the short title of the Act.
Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. In the prevailing wage provisions, redefines certain terms as in the Prevailing Wage Act. Amends the Prevailing Wage Act. Prohibits discharging, disciplining, or discriminating against a person who alleges a violation of the Act. Permits a person to apply to the Director of Labor for review of such discharge, discipline, or discrimination. Provides the procedures for the Director's investigation and disposition of review applications. Authorizes the Director to order various methods of abatement of a prohibited retaliation, including reinstatement and compensation. Requires the Director to adopt implementing rules.
Amends the Public Utilities Act. Makes a technical change in the short title Section.
Amends the Transmitters of Money Act. Requires the Department of Financial Institutions to record all approved licenses, provide each licensee with a final order, and place it on the Department's webpage or make it available to consumers upon request. Requires each license to include the final order number, the full legal name of the licensee, the customer service number of the licensee, and the corporate officer or director bearing regulatory responsibility for the transmitter service. Requires all documentation submitted to the Department pursuant to this Section to be signed by the officer or director listed on the license and list the name of a person knowledgeable and responsible for the record submitted, and that person must certify that he or she has control of the record. In provisions pertaining to displaying a disclosure notice, provides that each authorized seller must provide consumers transacting business with a licensee under this Act with a copy of the disclosure notice. Requires that disclosure notice contain all rates and surcharges to be built into the bill payment service applicable to the consumer for use of the service. Effective immediately.
