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House Bill 4135 Concerning: Regulation
Description: Requires the Department of Children and Family
Services to verify every two years that employees of a group home or
child care institution who are expected to regularly transport
children by motor vehicle hold a valid driver's license and meet
certain other requirements.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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House Bill 4179
Concerning: Name changes
Description: Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Prohibits
identity thieves and sex offenders from changing their name.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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House Bill 4193
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Creates the Child Murderer and Violent Offender
Against Youth Registration Act. Requires the registration of people
previously registered as sex offenders for certain offenses
committed against people under 18 years of age; establishes
registration requirements and violation penalties.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 4446
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Applies all
applicable local zoning laws to any person or entity who establishes
a halfway house for the residence of people on parole or mandatory
release from the Department of Corrections.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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House Bill 4449
Concerning: Consumer fraud
Description: Amends the Personal Information Protection Act.
Requires state agencies to notify Illinois residents if their
personal information has been compromised and to dispose of personal
data or written material to ensure the security and confidentiality
of that information.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 4987
Concerning: Education
Description: Amends the Children with Disabilities Article of the
School Code. Includes a behavior analyst in the definition of
"professional worker."
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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House Bill 5506
Concerning: Transportation
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows the width
of recreational vehicles to exceed 8 feet, 6 inches if the excess
width is attributable to appendages that extend 6 inches or less
beyond either side of the body of the vehicle, which it restricts to
the use of certain roadways.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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House Bill 5555
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Amends the Public Utilities Act. Sets forth certain
rights for water and sewer public utility customers.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 841
Concerning: Local government
Description: Amends the Cook County Forest Preserve District Act.
Mandates that certain contracts involving an expenditure in excess
of $25,000 by any forest preserve district wholly within a county
having a population of 3,000,000 or more must be awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder after advertising.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 857
Concerning: Education
Description: Amends the School Code. States that bonds issued by
certain community consolidated school districts shall not be
considered indebtedness for purposes of any statutory limitation and
may be issued in an amount or amounts in excess of any imposed
statutory limitation as to indebtedness.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2358
Concerning: Government
Description: Amends the Freedom of Information Act. States that
the exemption from inspection and copying of defense budgets and
certain petitions applies only until the conclusion of the trial of
a case and not until the conclusion of an appeal.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2448
Concerning: Aging
Description: Amends the Illinois Act on the Aging. Authorizes the
Department on Aging to certify adult day health services, as well as
adult day services.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2613
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 relating to the
offense of money laundering. Combines the changes made by Public
Acts 94-364 and 94-556 concerning money laundering to Section 29B-1
of the code.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2774
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Amends the Regulatory Sunset Act. Changes the repeal
date of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Repairer Regulation Act from
Jan. 1, 2007, to Jan. 1, 2017.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2778
Concerning: Higher education
Description: Creates the Volunteer Emergency Worker Higher
Education Protection Act. Provides that public universities and
community colleges must adopt a policy that reasonably accommodates
a student who is a volunteer emergency worker and is absent from
class due to performance of his or her emergency worker duties.
Action: Approved
Effective: July 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 2827
Concerning: State finance
Description: Amends the State Finance Act. Concerns the transfer
of specified amounts from various special funds in the state
treasury to the Audit Expense Fund.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2936
Concerning: Validation
Description: Creates the Ryan White Fund Validation Act.
Validates actions taken under the Ryan White Pediatric and Adult
AIDS Fund created by Public Act 88-669, which was ruled
unconstitutional as a violation of the single-subject clause of the
Illinois Constitution.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2951
Concerning: Illinois Research Park Authority Act
Description: Validates actions taken under the Illinois Research
Park Authority Act created by Public Act 88-669, which was ruled
unconstitutional as a violation of the single-subject clause of the
Illinois Constitution. Also amends the Illinois Finance Authority
Act to explicitly authorize the exercise of functions purportedly
transferred from the Illinois Research Park Authority to the
Illinois Finance Authority.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2952
Concerning: Information technology
Description: Re-enacts and amends the Illinois Geographic
Information Council Act created by Public Act 88-669, which was
ruled unconstitutional as a violation of the single-subject clause
of the Illinois Constitution.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2967
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Amends the County Jail Act to exempt county jails
from being financially liable for the medical expenses of
individuals who have self-inflicted injuries during the course of an
arrest.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2007
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