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House Bill 62 Concerning: Local government
Description: Creates the Local Government Consolidation
Commission to study the organization and function of local
governments within the state. Provides for the commission to make
recommendations to the General Assembly by Dec. 31, 2006, to reduce
the number of local governments.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 265
Concerning: Insurance
Description: Requires all insurers -- not just auto insurers --
to consider an exception to the insurance risk score, based upon
extraordinary life events. Provides a definition of "extraordinary
life event."
Action: Approved
Effective: July 1, 2006
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House Bill 298
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Extends the sunset date for the Illinois Athletic
Trainers Practice Act through Jan. 1, 2016. Requires that all
individuals practicing as athletic trainers in Illinois meet certain
education and practice standards.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 310
Concerning: Revenue
Description: Clarifies the income tax rate for nonresident
professional athletes in Illinois.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 316
Concerning: Insurance
Description: Changes the name of business organizations licensed
to sell insurance from "registered firm" to "business entity" to
make usage consistent with changes made by Public Act 92-386.
Provides that a guaranty association or the Illinois Insurance
Guaranty Fund must report any amounts collected for claims payments
reimbursement from policy-holders to the secretary of financial and
professional regulation as rehabilitator or liquidator (rather than
as rehabilitator, liquidator or conservator).
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 406
Concerning: Safety
Description: Provides for certain local governments to use
existing waste transfer stations for the transfer of nonhazardous
waste.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 413
Concerning: Local government
Description: Clarifies that in municipalities of less than
500,000, the municipal clerk, when authorized by the corporate
authorities, may appoint the number of deputy clerks necessary to
fulfill the duties of the office.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 415
Concerning: Military
Description: Increases the pay allowance provided for a member of
the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard ordered to perform
funeral honors duty.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 438
Concerning: Disabled people
Description: Amends the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act.
Provides that a person must not have more than $10,000 in assets to
be eligible for services provided under the act.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 457
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Allows prosecution for identity theft or aggravated
identity theft committed against a senior citizen or a person with a
disability, to begin up to five years after the discovery of the
identity theft by the victim.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 561
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Extends the sunset date of the Illinois Roofing
Industry Act to Jan. 1, 2016. Changes quorum requirements for the
Roofing Advisory Board. Clarifies license number requirements for
roofing contractor and commercial vehicles. Requires fees under this
act to be set by administrative rule.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 583
Concerning: Civil law
Description: Clarifies and provides exceptions to the
classification of abandoned property by a financial organization.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 700
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Allows nurses working at an assisted living facility
to calculate and administer the required dosage of medication for
all residents needing insulin. Requires that the contract between an
assisted living facility and a senior citizen include a disclosure
about whether the facility charges a community fee.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 847
Concerning: State government
Description: Designates the eastern tiger salamander as the
official state amphibian and the painted turtle as the official
state reptile of Illinois.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 872
Concerning: Regulation
Description: Amends the Illinois Plumbing License Law. Increases
the amount of insurance that a plumbing contractor must carry.
Requires plumbing contractors to provide documentation indicating
proof of insurance.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 909
Concerning: Counties
Description: Authorizes Grundy County to propose an economic
development project by ordinance.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 1571
Concerning: Local government
Description: Extends two tax increment financing districts in
Sullivan.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 2407
Concerning: Finance
Description: Changes the procedure concerning 4-H disbursements.
Provides for the Illinois Association of Vocational Agriculture,
rather than the State Board of Education, to oversee agriculture
education for the state. Removes the requirement that a county fair
must notify the Department of Agriculture before claiming any
liability and casualty insurance and rehabilitation expenditures
that the fair intends to seek reimbursements on from the department.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2408
Concerning: Finance
Description: Creates the Computer Investment Program within the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity. Allows DCEO to
reimburse a portion of the cost of a home computer to those who meet
certain program requirements.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2441
Concerning: Criminal law
Description: Clarifies that a person who receives permission to
enter any building or land supported by state funds, including
airports and nuclear facilities, based upon the person presenting
false documentation or stating a false identity has committed
criminal trespass. Exempts peace officers and other government
officials who enter or remain on the land in the performance of
their official duties.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2460
Concerning: Child labor
Description: Requires every contractor providing equipment,
materials or supplies to the state of Illinois to specify that no
foreign-made equipment, materials or supplies were produced by
children under the age of 12. Provides for penalties for a
contractor who knowingly furnishes goods produced by foreign child
labor to the state.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 2490
Concerning: Public aid
Description: Authorizes the Department of Public Aid to permit an
individual practitioner to designate that Medicaid payments due to
the practitioner be paid to an alternate payee. Requires the
alternate payee to register with the department.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2500
Concerning: Local government
Description: Allows municipalities and drainage districts to
enter into an agreement that authorizes the municipalities to annex
drainage district land. Provides procedures for authorization and
finalizing of the agreement.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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House Bill 2892
Concerning: Public aid
Description: Requires the Department of Public Aid to expand its
data warehouse to encompass other health care data sources at the
Department of Human Services and the Department of Public Health.
Creates the Data Warehouse Inter-Agency Coordination of Client Care
task force to make recommendations concerning the expansion of the
data warehouse. Requires the task force to issue a report to the
governor and General Assembly by Dec. 31, 2005.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3066
Concerning: Local governments
Description: Allows townships in unincorporated areas of Cook
County to establish tax increment financing, or TIF, districts.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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House Bill 3851
Concerning: State government
Description: Creates the Community Care Program Advisory
Committee in the Department on Aging to advise the department on
issues related to the department's programs of service to prevent
unnecessary institutionalization.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 54
Concerning: Transportation
Description: Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Allows
nongovernmental vehicles used for snow and ice removal to be
equipped with amber oscillating, rotating or flashing lights.
Exempts vehicles less than 12 feet in length from the size and
weight limits of the code.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 292
Concerning: Courts
Description: Changes the word "victim" to "crime victim" in the
provision in the Juvenile Court Act of 1987 to allow both parents of
a deceased minor to participate in court proceedings.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 431
Concerning: Safety
Description: Provides regulatory standards for waste facilities.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 489
Concerning: Government
Description: Changes the days on which county board chairs and
highway commissioners begin their terms.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 1787
Concerning: Safety
Description: Allows anyone who purchases property where
contamination from a leaking underground storage tank was not fully
cleaned up to be eligible for Illinois Environmental Protection
Agency funds.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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Senate Bill 1862
Concerning: State government
Description: Amends the Hospital Report Card Act. Changes the
categories of infection-related information that hospitals must
report. Requires the Department of Public Health to base its
infection-related measures upon those developed by other specified
health care organizations. Requires the department to include
interpretive guidelines for infection-related indicators and, when
available, include relevant benchmark information published by
national organizations. Provides that hospital reports to the
Department of Public Health shall include information on
infection-related measures for the facility.
Action: Approved
Effective: Immediately
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Senate Bill 2040
Concerning: Safety
Description: Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to
provide to the owner of adjacent property or a property owner a
letter of certification that no additional cleanup is needed, in
instances where a leak originating on a property owner's site
contaminates adjacent property.
Action: Approved
Effective: Jan. 1, 2006
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