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Senate Bill 529 Concerning: Civil law
Description: Replaces the term "illegitimate" in the state
statutes with "child born out of wedlock."
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 56
Concerning: Education
Description: Requires all college and university dormitories to
have a fire extinguisher as well as a fire sprinkler system.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 60
Concerning: Education
Description: Creates the Teach Illinois Scholarship program to
address teaching shortage areas. Provides for the Illinois Student
Assistance Commission to administer the program and award
scholarships.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 174
Concerning: Civil procedure
Description: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Provides for a
jury of six in all jury cases where the claim for damages is $50,000
or less, unless either party demands a jury of 12.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 384
Concerning: Education
Description: Allows individuals to student teach after either
passing the subject matter test in their discipline or becoming
certified.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 721
Concerning: Land
Description: Authorizes the director of the Department of Natural
Resources to sell one-tenth of an acre of state property, located in
Peoria County, to the Princeville Family Health Center at fair
market value.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 908
Concerning: Education
Description: Requires educational employers (school districts,
community colleges and public universities) to continue to abide by
a fair-share clause after a collective bargaining agreement has
expired and pending the negotiation of a successor agreement
containing a fair-share clause.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 942
Concerning: Warehouses
Description: Authorizes grain warehouses to issue and accept
electronic warehouse receipts. Allows the Department of Agriculture
to implement an electronic grain warehouse receipt system.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 1314
Concerning: Animals
Description: Requires nonresidents who only wish to participate
in auctions of green hides from furbearing mammals to obtain a
"nonresident auction participation" permit.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 1324
Concerning: Education
Description: Amends the Illinois School Code to allow for the
deactivation of an elementary school facility (grades K-8) in the
same manner as the deactivation of a high school facility.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 1339
Concerning: Transportation
Description: Amends the Snowmobile Registration and Safety Act
and the Boat Registration and Safety Act. Defines "first-time
offenders" as it applies to both acts. Prohibits operation of any
snowmobile or watercraft if the operator’s license is suspended or
revoked in any other state, by the federal government or by a
Canadian province. Requires reporting of a watercraft accident
resulting in $2,000 or more in property damage or the complete loss
of a vessel, rather than reporting any accident resulting in $500 or
more in property damage. Redefines "personal injury" to make the
Boat Registration and Safety Act consistent with U.S. Coast Guard
requirements.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 1548
Concerning: State government
Description: Provides that if a child was previously determined
eligible for financial assistance, the Department of Children and
Family Services may continue to provide financial assistance and
education assistance grants in an interim period beginning when the
child's adoptive parents died and ending with the finalization of a
new adoption of the child by another adoptive parent or parents.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 1575
Concerning: Agriculture
Description: Creates the Illinois AgrAbility Act. Authorizes the
Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the University of
Illinois Extension, to contract with a nonprofit disability service
provider, or other entity that assists disabled farmers, to
administer the Illinois AgrAbility Program to assist individuals who
are engaged in farming or agriculture-related activity and have been
affected by disability.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 2242
Concerning: State government
Description: Requires that anyone filing a complaint against an
Illinois State Police officer must have the complaint supported by a
sworn affidavit.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2348
Concerning: Transportation
Description: Requires the secretary of state to give commercial
driver’s license holders four days’ notice by certified mail before
revoking their licenses.
Action: Approved
Effective: July 1, 2006
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House Bill 3451
Concerning: Education
Description: Provides that a school district or regional
superintendent of schools shall perform a check of the Statewide Sex
Offender Database for each applicant for employment with the
district in addition to the fingerprint-based criminal history
records checks performed by the Illinois State Police.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3646
Concerning: Education
Description: Creates the Vocational Academies Act. Allows a
school district, in partnership with community colleges, local
employers and community-based organizations, to establish a
vocational academy that is eligible for a grant from the State Board
of Education if the vocational academy meets specified requirements.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3757
Concerning: Fire Truck Revolving Loan Program
Description: Provides for the continuation and re-enactment of
the Fire Truck Revolving Loan Program under the administration of
the Illinois Finance Authority and the Office of the State Fire
Marshal. Validates loans made and actions taken under the original
bill after its repeal.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3785
Concerning: Animals
Description: Changes the classification of violations under the
taxidermy sections of the Illinois Fish and Aquatic Life Code and
the Illinois Wildlife Code.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3800
Concerning: Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
Description: Provides for the annexation of land to the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 302
Concerning: Transportation
Description: Allows certain nonresidents and former Illinois
residents who have applied for a driver’s license in another state
and have met all of the Illinois Vehicle Code’s driver registration
requirements except for filing proof of financial responsibility to
be released of the financial responsibility requirement of Illinois’
law if they notify and provide proof to the secretary of state of
their out-of-state residency.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 383
Concerning: Education
Description: Requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules
for the documentation of school plan reviews and inspections of
school facilities. Provides for the board to convene a task force
for reviewing the documents and issue a report by Jan. 1, 2006,
making recommendations regarding training and accreditation of
individuals performing reviews or inspections. Requires the Office
of the State Fire Marshal, or a qualified fire official to whom the
state fire marshal has delegated authority, to conduct an annual
fire safety inspection of each school building in the state at no
cost to the schools.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 445
Concerning: Social Security numbers
Description: Prohibits Illinois’ public universities and
community colleges from printing students’ Social Security numbers
on any cards or documents needed to access products or services
provided by the university or college.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 479
Concerning: Education
Description: Modifies the School Employee Benefit Act to include
a vocational education district, a special education district, a
program operated by an educational service region and a joint
agreement in the definition of a "school district."
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 506
Concerning: Children
Description: Provides for the establishment of a statewide Shaken
Baby Prevention Program. The Department of Public Health shall
establish a statewide Shaken Baby Prevention Program to educate
parents and primary caregivers about the dangers of shaken baby.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 768
Concerning: Education
Description: Requires the 2007 annual report of the Interagency
Coordinating Council to include recommendations for expanding
recruitment of students and school personnel into the Learning
Behavioral Specialist II -- Transition Specialist Certificate.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 1638
Concerning: Education
Description: Allows the governing board of a special charter
district and certain boards of education to appoint a nonvoting
student member to the board.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 1770
Concerning: Unemployment insurance
Description: Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act. Eliminates
the Employment Security Administrative Fund.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 1771
Concerning: Unemployment insurance
Description: Eliminates the State Employees’ Unemployment Benefit
Fund and transfers all remaining funds to the Unemployment Trust
Fund.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 1853
Concerning: Education
Description: Requires school districts to submit a balanced
budget to the Illinois State Board of Education or to submit a
deficit reduction plan if the district is unable to balance its
budget. Requires school districts to notify the board prior to
issuing any short- or long-term debt that exceeds 75 percent of the
debt limit specification. Increases the amount of the Emergency
Financial Grant from $250 to $1,000 per student and the loan amount
from $1,000 to $4,000 per student. Revises the conditions for which
a school district may be certified by the state board as being in
"financial distress."
Action: Approved
Effective: Sections regarding duties of financial offices are
effective immediately. All other provisions of this act are
effective Jan. 1, 2006.
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Senate Bill 1931
Concerning: Education
Description: Allows the regional superintendent of schools to
appoint an ombudsman in homelessness dispute resolution proceedings.
Provides for school districts (after 18 months and annually
thereafter) to evaluate the continuation of hardship for homeless
students and parents who have been sharing housing, at which point,
if it is determined by the district that the hardship no longer
exists, the district may notify the student and parents and initiate
the process for dispute resolution. Provides penalties for knowingly
deceiving a school district regarding hardship.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 1967
Concerning: Aging
Description: Requires the Department on Aging, the Department of
Public Health and the Department of Public Aid to use the
Comprehensive Housing Plan to address the affordable housing needs
of senior citizens.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2066
Concerning: Employment
Description: Permits an individual to voluntarily have state
income tax deducted and withheld from his or her unemployment
insurance benefit payments.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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