SPRINGFIELD - August 17, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today took action on the following bills:
Bill No.: HB 587
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Provides that a park district may increase the property tax levy, but does not allow park districts to increase taxes.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 3806
An Act Concerning: Minors
Changes the definition of "chronic truant" in the Juvenile Court Act to mirror the definition in the School Code.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 3859
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Requires counties and municipalities that agree to share or rebate a retailers' occupation tax to file reports with Illinois Department of Revenue (IDOR), and requires IDOR to post these reports on its website.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4078
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Allows the Illinois Toll Highway Authority to construct railroad tracks along the tollway system after receiving the governor's written approval.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4190
An Act Concerning: State Government
Amends the Illinois False Claims Act to provide that, unless opposed by the state, the court should dismiss false claim actions if the allegations or transaction were publicly disclosed and specified conditions are met.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4479
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Recognizing new, nationally-recognized certification language regarding pre-engineered installers to the Fire Equipment Distributor and Employee Regulation Act of 2011, and increases licensing fees; allows Office of the State Fire Marshall to impose fines for violations of the act; extends the repeal of the act to Jan. 1, 2023; and eliminates the Fire Equipment Distributor and Employee Advisory Board.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4563
An Act Concerning: State Government
Permits facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities or developmental disabilities (ID/DD) to reduce the number of beds without approval of the Health Facilities and Services Review Board.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4606
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Requires daycare facilities to test for radon.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 4673
An Act Concerning: Firearms
Allows a local law enforcement officer to retain his/her FOID card, if he/she has been a patient in a mental health institution within the past five years, provided the officer has not been involuntarily admitted or an inpatient for longer than 30 days.
Action: Amendatorily Vetoed
Bill No.: HB 4749
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Allows courts to appoint special prosecutors from the Office of the Attorney General, the States' Attorney Appellate Defender or other local states' attorney's offices before appointing a private attorney to act as a special prosecutor in the case of the state's attorney's absence.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 4862
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Clarifies that only low speed vehicles manufactured after Jan. 1, 2010 are required to obtain title certificates.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 4863
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Subjects a vehicle to seizure and forfeiture if the offender's license was revoked following certain violations of a local ordinance, the Criminal Code, or laws of another state.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 4937
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
States that a local, municipal or county law enforcement agency entitled to receive a portion of forfeiture proceeds may share proceeds through an intergovernmental agreement with a municipality that has a population in excess of 20,000 if specified conditions are met.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 4962
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Requires that if a county board opts to have their members elected by districts, then each district must be substantially equal in population. The law also makes a technical change regarding fees.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5050
An Act Concerning: Public Health
Allows post-surgical recovery care centers to discharge patients less than 24 hours after treatment, if appropriate, and permits blood products to be administered in such centers.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5062
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Eliminates requirement that minors who are under the age of 14 and who are or will be represented by a guardian ad litem be personally served with process in adoption cases.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5109
An Act Concerning: Insurance
Changes the makeup of a board of trustees for a dental service plan corporation.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5121
An Act Concerning: Corrections
Prohibits inmates of the Department of Corrections who are serving time for attempting to commit terrorism from receiving more than 4.5 days of good conduct credit for each month of his or her sentence.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5145
An Act Concerning: State Government
Permits up to 2 percent of the Abandoned Mined Lands funding to be spent on non-coal reclamation projects and deletes times limits on the obligation of such expenditures.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5180
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Requires the Illinois Department of Transportation to develop a policy to inform the public of construction projects that result in lane reductions or street closures for a period longer than five consecutive business days.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5189
An Act Concerning: State Government
Allows the state comptroller to disburse employee payroll payments or expense reimbursements to a secure check account.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: 30 days after becoming law
Bill No.: HB 5207
An Act Concerning: Elections
Removes reference to constitutional amendments in a section regarding petitions being
added to election ballots if 95 percent of the signatures have been found valid.
Action: Amendatorily Vetoed
Bill No.: HB 5221
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Strengthens compliance requirements for employers pertaining to income withholding orders for child support payments.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5235
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Amends the current child pornography statute to add violations and respective penalties.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5236
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Reduces the size of the Jackson-Union Counties Regional Port District Board from 23 members to seven, and eliminates all members currently appointed by local mayors.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5250
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Restructures penalties for the manufacturing, delivery of, or possession with intent to manufacture or deliver, any substance containing hydrocodone, dihydrocodeinone, dihydrocodeine, oxycodone, or any of the salts, isomers and salts of isomers, or analog of those substances.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5265
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Revises child abduction statute to add as a violation luring or attempting to lure a child under the age of seventeen while the child is traveling to or from a primary or secondary school.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5314
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Allows a lessor to use electronic mail to notify a lessee of damage to property before withholding any part of the security deposit.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5319
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Allows sanitary districts to sell or distribute treated wastewater to any public or private entity.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5353
An Act Concerning: Wildlife
Extends the rabbit hunting season by one month.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5359
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Makes several technical changes to the Real Estate License Act.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5441
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Amends the powers and duties of the State Appellate Defender.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5478
An Act Concerning: Insurance
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code to add records exempted under Section 7 of the Freedom of Information Act to the list of records that the Department of Insurance is not required to disclose for public inspection.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5480
An Act Concerning: Government
Allows organizations desiring to be designated as a qualified organization for the purposes of receiving voluntary payroll deductions to submit electronic designations on forms approved by the State Comptroller; lowers the number of employees that must submit designations.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5548
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Amends the Hospital Licensing Act to enable a staff member to retain a personal attorney in the event that the hospital renders an adverse decision regarding the staff member's employment status or clinical privileges.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5586
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Entitles a resident of a mental health facility operated via a contract with the Department of Human Services (DHS), who has been transferred to another facility due to closures, to the same rights provided to residents of a DHS-operated mental health facility.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5606
An Act Concerning: Corrections
Makes it illegal to possess any product containing a methamphetamine precursor without a prescription if the individual has been convicted of a crime under the Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5635
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Includes coroners in the training provided by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB), and makes coroners eligible to receive waivers from the training requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5682
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Requires professionals who carry weapons to have proper safety training and provides exemptions if professionals have certain levels of training.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5685
An Act Concerning: State Government
Allows the Department of Natural Resources to remove from and deny further entry to any nature preserve any person or persons engaging in illegal or disorderly conduct, and imposes fees for reinstatement of suspended licenses.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5749
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Allows the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to assist State's Attorneys in post-conviction proceedings; allows the director of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor to contract out for investigators.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5752
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Makes technical changes to the Illinois Dental Practice Act.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5880
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Makes several changes to the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act, which will benefit Illinois' rural communities.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5893
An Act Concerning: State Government
Enables the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to encourage convention centers to provide free space to farmers' markets in the event of bad weather.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: HB 5899
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Allows counties to enter into intergovernmental agreements with forest preserve districts within the county that would exempt the forest preserve district from county zoning ordinances.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 5922
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Provides that a law enforcement official may serve a respondent with a short form notification of a civil no contact order or a stalking no contact order, and makes changes to the process for serving no contact orders.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 555
An Act Concerning: Local Government
Amends the Emergency Telephone System Act to allow Emergency Telephone Systems Boards to utilize computer-aided dispatch and hosted supplemental 9-1-1 technologies.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 1351
An Act Concerning: State Government
Updates the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Act.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 2559
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Creates a pilot study to determine the effect of amending the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 on forensic bed capacity at state-operated mental health centers.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 2945
An Act Concerning: Health
Allows employers of for-profit, cancer-based medical or hospital treatment centers to not hire, or to discharge, discipline and alter the pay, benefits and working conditions of any employee who uses tobacco products.
Action: Vetoed
Bill No.: SB 3202
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Amends provisions regarding regulation of community association managers and caps the amount of fees that can be charged. Provides that all information collected by the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation with respect to community association managers is confidential.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3252
An Act Concerning: Education
Clarifies the maximum tax rates when creating unit districts under the School Code.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3336
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Allows in-line skaters to skate on roadways and bike lanes.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3337
An Act Concerning: Children
Removes obsolete statutory language regarding a series of status reports that were successfully issued to the General Assembly in 1994, 1995 and 1996 by the Department of Children and Family Services.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3367
An Act Concerning: Education
Requires the State Board of Education (ISBE) and the Secretary of State to adopt course content standards for driver's education in district-run courses and commercial driving schools; makes changes to the school waiver requirements for public hearings, and makes more stringent vehicle inspection requirements.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3433
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Provides that sealed criminal records may be disseminated by the Illinois State Police only to arresting authorities, State's Attorneys and courts, and only in the case of a later arrest for the same or similar offense, or for sentencing for any subsequent felony.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3533
An Act Concerning: Wildlife
Broadens the definition of a gun case in the Wildlife Code to include any case, firearm carrying box, shipping box or other specified container.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3538
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Allows optometrists to keep records at an off-site storage facility; allows the state to take non-disciplinary action for violations; and provides that fines are to be deposited into the Optometric Licensing and Disciplinary Board Fund.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3549
An Act Concerning: Child Support
Permits the court to require a person who is self-employed and is found guilty of failure to comply with a child support order to provide the court with monthly financial statements, to seek employment and to periodically advise the court of those efforts, or to report to the Department of Employment Security for job search services.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3552
An Act Concerning: Civil Law
Includes payments to trusts to the list of debtor's property exempt from judgment, attachment or distress for rent.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3635
An Act Concerning: Education
Allows a community college to accept a gift or grant that requires the use of a particular contractor if specified conditions are met.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3677
An Act Concerning: Human Rights
Establishes procedures relating to a petition for enforcement, or a petition to modify or set aside a subpoena issued by the Attorney General, and establishes the circuit courts' jurisdiction over these petitions.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Jan. 1
Bill No.: SB 3724
An Act Concerning: State Government
Provides Capital Development Board (CDB) with additional time to review and adopt the latest edition of the International Energy Conservation Code.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB 3764
An Act Concerning: Business
Amends Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code.
Action: Signed
Effective Date: July 1
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