Urges Congress to increase Federal Medical Assistance Percentages for Illinois to more adequately reflect the increasing Medicaid population.
Amends the Riverboat Gambling Act. Provides that an owners licensee must pay all winnings to any patron of the owners licensee's riverboat upon demand for that payment by the patron.
Appropriates $15,000,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Environmental Protection Agency for grants to the Village of Washington Park for sewer repair and construction. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that the Department shall not impose requirements for prior approval based on a preferred drug list for any short-acting beta agonists used as rescue therapy in the treatment of life-threatening conditions due to acute bronchospasm in patients with reversible obstructive airway disease that results from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or emphysema.
Amends the Counties Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the powers and duties of State's attorneys.
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Makes a technical change in the short title of the Health Care Reimbursement Article.
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the definition of "conviction".
Amends the Unsolicited Credit Card Act of 1977. Makes a stylistic change in the Section concerning the short title.
Encourages the Governor to extend benefit enhancements to merit compensation employees similar to those given to AFSCME members.
Appropriates $2 from the General Revenue Fund to the Office of the Secretary of State for its FY04 ordinary and contingent expenses. Effective July 1, 2003.
Amends the Judicial Vacancies Act. Makes a stylistic change in provisions concerning severability.
Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that a person who intentionally and with malice drives his or her vehicle in such an unlawful manner as to endanger the bodily safety or property of another driver, bicyclist, or pedestrian commits road rage. Penalty is a Class A misdemeanor. If the violation results in great bodily harm or permanent disfigurement to another, the offense is aggravated road rage and the penalty is a Class 4 felony for which the person must be sentenced to a mandatory 48 consecutive hours of imprisonment. Creates the offense of aggressive driving, operating a vehicle carelessly or heedlessly without watchful attention, concern, caution, or regard for the rights or safety of others, or in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger any property or any person, including the driver or passengers of the vehicle. Provides that the penalty is a Class B misdemeanor for a first offense and a Class A misdemeanor for a second or subsequent offense. Establishes penalties. Provides that these offenses are reportable to the Secretary of State when the court orders a disposition of supervision. Provides that the Secretary of State may revoke the driver's license of a driver who has been convicted of reckless driving, road rage, or aggressive driving. Effective January 1, 2005.
