Rep. Art Tenhouse

Amends the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act. Requires the emergency operations plan to include the needs of those with pets and service animals.

Amends the State Finance Act. Excludes moneys received by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation under the Illinois Credit Union Act from those moneys required to be deposited into the Financial Institution Fund. Makes certain provisions concerning transfers to the General Revenue Fund inapplicable to (i) any fund established under the Illinois Credit Union Act, the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, or the Savings Bank Act and (ii) the Professions Indirect Cost Fund. Limits transfers and expenditures from those funds to specified purposes. Prohibits the allocation or transfer of additional amounts generated by certain fee increases with respect to or from the Credit Union Fund. Amends the Illinois Banking Act, the Illinois Savings and Loan Act of 1985, and the Savings Bank Act. With respect to the moneys in each of the Bank and Trust Company Fund, the Savings and Residential Finance Regulatory Fund, and the Credit Union Fund, (i) exempts those moneys from assignment or transfer except for unappropriated administrative expenses and (ii) provides that the moneys remain the property of and must be held in trust for the financial institutions from which they were collected. For FY08, requires the Commissioner of Banks and Real Estate (now, the Director of the Division of Banks and Real Estate) to adopt rules to adjust regulatory fee rates in the specified manner. Amends the Illinois Credit Union Act. Provides that the regulatory fee paid by a credit union to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation shall be the lesser of (i) the rate pursuant to the regulatory fee schedule or (ii) a rate established in a manner proportionately consistent with the rates in the regulatory fee schedule and that would fund the actual administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section. Increases rates in the regulatory fee schedule for credit unions with total assets over $5,000,000. Requires the Director of Financial and Professional Regulation to adjust the fee schedule for the next fiscal year. Provides that the fee schedule may be increased by no more than 5% annually if necessary to defray the actual (now, estimated) administrative and operational expenses of the Credit Union Section (now, the Department). Prohibits any increase in the fee schedule if the amount remaining in the Credit Union Fund at the end of the fiscal year is equal to or greater than 25% of the actual administrative and operational expenses for the preceding fiscal year. Requires the Director to base the regulatory fee for the next fiscal year on the credit union's total assets as of December 31 of the preceding calendar year. Beginning on July 1, 2005, requires a credit union to pay the regulatory fee in quarterly installments due and payable on the due date for the call report for the preceding quarter (now, a credit union is required to pay the regulatory fee in full no later than March 1 of each calendar year). Provides for a regulatory fee cap of $125,000 (now, $187,500). Effective immediately.

Declares April 30, 2005 as Robert Workman Day.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Sets weight limits for specially equipped 3-axle trucks used for garbage, refuse, or recycling hauls only and for 3-axle trucks used for the collection of rendering materials.

Appropriates $14,562,000 from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of Human Services for the purpose of providing formula funding to centers for independent living to provide core independent living services and other disability services in the State of Illinois. Effective July 1, 2005.

Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Allows a tax credit of up to $2,000 for an individual taxpayer who pays the burial expenses for a fetus for which a fetal death certificate has been issued. Provides that the credit (i) may be taken by only one taxpayer with respect to any one fetal death, (ii) may not be carried forward or back, and (iii) may not reduce the taxpayer's liability to less than zero. Requires the Department of Revenue to adopt rules concerning the credit. Effective immediately.

Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code. Makes a technical change in a Section authorizing the Department of Revenue to adopt rules.

Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the duty of a commercial motor vehicle driver to report certain information to a potential employer.

Amends the Motor Vehicle Franchise Act. Provides that if a manufacturer or other franchiser has entered into an agreement with a dealer under which the franchiser is to be reimbursed for parts that the dealer has used in making repairs covered by a warranty, the amount of the reimbursement shall be the difference between the price of the part under the agreement and the prevailing price charged for that part by similar dealers in the area. Provides that the franchiser may not increase the amount of the required reimbursement to reflect additional costs. Provides that, at the request of the dealer, the franchiser shall provide information indicating how the reimbursement amount was calculated. Provides that a dealer may not disclose any confidential information that the dealer obtains regarding any other dealer as a result of the request, unless the disclosure is made in legal proceedings or under order of the Motor Vehicle Review Board or a court of competent jurisdiction. Provides that a franchiser may not take any adverse action against a dealer for failing to enter a reimbursement agreement with the franchiser or for charging the prevailing price for a part. Effective immediately.

Mourns the death of Katherine R. Broemmel of Chicago, formerly of Quincy.