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Bill No.: HB 39
Requires the Department of
Human Services to develop a demonstration project within the Home
Services Program under which a spouse may be reimbursed for providing
care to his or her spouse.
An Act Concerning: Public aid
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
61
Adds "design builders" to the list of experts a
public building commission may hire, terminate, enter into contracts,
and fix compensation for, despite any civil service law.
An Act
Concerning: Local government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
68
Allows any physician, including chiropractic
physicians to provide services within the
scope of his or her
license to residents of an Assisted Living facility without being
additionally licensed under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing
Act.
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
184
Allows for the combination of one or more offenses of
I.D. theft or forgery into a single count for the purposes of a
criminal complaint or indictment.
An Act Concerning: Criminal
law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
238
Provides that the Senior Citizens Homestead Exemption
and the Senior Citizens Assessment Freeze Homestead Exemption
continue if the taxpayer becomes a resident of a facility licensed
under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
An Act
Concerning: Revenue
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
336
Amends the Campus Security Enhancement Act of 2008 to
include governmental agencies and school districts in the school€™s
campus violence prevention plan.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
380
Extends paid leave of absence to school board
employees who are elected trustees of the Illinois Municipal
Retirement Fund.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
457
Allows the Director of State Police to request an
interstate highway, state highway or segment of an highway to be
named in honor and memory of one or more Illinois State Troopers
killed in the line of duty.
An Act Concerning:
Transportation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
461
Creates the Transparency in College Textbooks
Publishing Practices Act which attempts to make clear guidelines on
how publishers must present their textbooks to potential clients at
colleges and universities.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
475
Changes how school boards can determine if students
can qualify for fee waivers for textbooks.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
497
Creates the Drug Overdose Prevention Program which
creates a Good Samaritan Law and allows health care professionals to
dispense a drug overdose antidote to person who might be able to
administer this antidote to someone in a drug overdose emergency.
An
Act Concerning: Health
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
550
Increase monitoring of sex offender to prevent the
use of computer scrub software used to delete data from a
computer.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
594
States that a domestic battery crime where
strangulation is used is to be considered aggravated domestic
battery.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
605
Extends the deadline for the Ensuring Success in
School Task Force to submit its report to the General Assembly to
December 1, 2009.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
610
Requires County sheriffs to pass along the
identification of a person being incarcerated from the county jail
into the state correctional system.
An Act Concerning: Criminal
law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
641
Changes the amount of time funds apportioned for
allocation to road districts to be used for bridge construction will
lapse if the funds remain uncommitted from 24 months to 48 months.
An
Act Concerning: Transportation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
645
Adds chiropractic physicians to a list of
professionals allowed to issue a certificate to teachers or employees
on paid leave for more than 3 days due to illness.
An Act
Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
655
Creates the Employment and Economic Opportunity for
Persons with Disabilities Task Force Act.
An Act Concerning: State
government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
658
Creates the Task Force on Pharmaceuticals and
Personal Care Products and Other Emerging Contaminants in Drinking
Water.
An Act Concerning: Safety
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
666
Raises the fees fire protection districts can charge
for services provided to those who are not residents of their
district.
An Act Concerning: Local government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
710
Repeals the provision that allows inmates to take a
temporary leave from prison participate in state research
programs.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
719
Amends the Illinois Municipal Code concerning
censuses.
An Act Concerning: Local government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
737
Allows the State Superintendent of Education to
operate a mentoring program for principals serving their second year
if sufficient funds are available.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
743
Provides that the civil service board of the
Metropolitan Water Reclamation District shall make to the trustees a
report concerning the actions of the board by January 31st of each
year.
An Act Concerning: Local government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
760
Designates each April as Parkinson€™s Awareness
Month in Illinois.
An Act Concerning: Government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
804
Allows the Illinois Department on Aging to recognize
the efforts of older direct care workers who have exemplified a
commitment to improving the quality of life of the aging in
Illinois.
An Act Concerning: State government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
805
Provides that the registry of health care
professionals maintained by the Department of Public Health be
accessed for the planning for the possibility of an act of
bioterrorism or other public health emergency. It will allow
the state to better prepare for public health emergencies and would
enable DPH to utilize the registry for planning purposes and
outreach.
An Act Concerning: Public health
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
813
Broadens the reporting requirements of optometrists to
include any suspected abuse or neglect and provides for penalties for
optometrists who willfully fail to report such abuse or neglect.
An
Act Concerning: Aging
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
838
Clarifies existing language that requires board and
care facilities to be licensed by the Illinois Department of Public
Health under the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Act.
An Act
Concerning: Regulation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
862
Allows community colleges to accept electronic bid
submissions and requires that electronic submissions be considered a
sealed document for competitive bid requests.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
869
Prevents appointed attorneys representing people on
capital litigation cases from exceeding set guidelines.
An Act
Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
900
Clarifies that two state councils, the State Advisory
Council on the Education of Children with disabilities and the
Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Children,
are to advise the Illinois State Board of Education on best practices
for twice-exceptional children.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB 973
Provides that
the Comprehensive Health Education program may include teen dating
violence instruction in grades 8 through 12.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
1112
Requires the Department of Public Health to create
and distribute a brochure on telemedicine.
An Act Concerning:
State government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
1132
Amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act
to require the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to
provide written notice and send a final decision on a report of
alleged child abuse via certified process, when applicable.
An Act
Concerning: Children and families
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
1307
Expands the Small Fire-fighting Equipment Grant
Program to include Ambulance Services.
An Act Concerning: State
government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
1793
Includes contact information for the Office of
Alcoholism and Substance Abuse on birth defect warning signs which
are posted where alcoholic liquors are sold.
An Act Concerning:
Liquor
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
2251
Provides that the Department of Natural Resources
shall review and update its operations manuals for the Algonquin Dam
and the William G. Stratton Lock and Dam on an annual basis.
An
Act Concerning: Waterways
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
2285
Provides that a hospital or nursing home shall adopt
a policy to identify, assess, and develop strategies to control risk
of injury to residents or patients and nurses and other health care
workers associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, or
movement of a resident or patient.
An Act Concerning:
Regulation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
2294
Authorizes hunters to use and possess tree-climbing
and tree-cutting devices while hunting coyotes.
An Act Concerning:
Wildlife
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2318
Increases immunization awareness and participation
among parents of children enrolled in day care centers and day care
homes.
An Act Concerning: Regulation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2362
Requires certain contracts for the transportation of
special needs children to be awarded by first considering safety and
comfort as opposed to the lowest possible bidder.
An Act
Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
2429
Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to
create an website containing certain information about compact
fluorescent lighting by October 1, 2009.
An Act Concerning:
Health
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2442
Defines €œcool weather grasses€ and sets out a
labeling requirement for them. Provides that cool weather grasses may
be sold up to 15 months after the applicable tests for grasses
instead of 12 months.
An Act Concerning: Agriculture
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2481
Creates Lilly€™s Law which will set up a pilot
program creating a neonatal diabetes registry.
An Act Concerning:
State government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2505
Designates September of each year €œOvarian and
Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.€
An Act Concerning: State
government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2546
Changes the name of the Hunter Interference
Prohibition Act to the Hunter and Fishermen Interference Prohibition
Act. Clarifies that the renamed Act applies to the taking of aquatic
life as well as wildlife.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2548
Allows the Department of Financial and Professional
Regulation to issue visiting physician permits to invited individuals
of a state or national meeting or conference held by a professional
association or society.
An Act Concerning: Professional
regulations
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2661
Changes the membership of the Illinois Health Policy
Center Advisory Panel by adding twelve members in order to garner
more diverse input.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2669
Creates the Emergency Services Response
Reimbursement for Criminal Convictions Act which requires persons
charged with arson to reimburse the emergency response department for
costs encountered when responding to the fire.
An Act Concerning:
Emergency services
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2674
Allows Financial Oversight Panels to hire
superintendents, chief executive officers or chief fiscal officers
and gives the Panel the flexibility to hire best fit candidates who
do not hold certain types of certification.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
2680
Imposes a new $25 fee to persons found guilty of
drug related offenses.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
2871
Aims to prohibit transfers of funds from the Teacher
Certificate Fee Revolving Fund.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3600
Expands the range of institutions that are eligible
to receive grants for agricultural science teacher education
programs.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3647
Provides that the Illinois Violence Prevention
Authority will distribute grants based on rules that the Authority
creates and subject to available appropriations.
An Act
Concerning: State government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3843
Provides that a recipient's records and
communications shall be disclosed pursuant to the Department of Human
Services Act in testimony at health care worker registry hearings or
preliminary proceedings when relevant provided that information so
disclosed shall not be utilized for any other purpose nor be
redisclosed.
An Act Concerning: Civil law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3844
Amends the Department of Human Services Act by
rewriting the sections that concern the Inspector General by
organizing the Office€™s responsibilities and powers.
An Act
Concerning: State government
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3885
Creates the offense of unlawful manipulation of a
judicial sale which prevents criminals from profiting from the sale
of someone€™s property that the court orders to be sold.
An Act
Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3961
Changes the procedures relating to the expungement
of adult criminal records and the records of minors prosecuted as
adults.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
3982
Addresses the safety concerns of 11-15 passenger
vans and prohibits their use by school districts to transport
students to and from athletic or school-sponsored non-curriculum
related events.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
3999
Consolidates the Illinois Future Teacher Corps
Program and the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois Program in one
program to be known as the Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois Program
to guide highly qualified teachers in Illinois.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
4038
Allows 7th or 8th grade students to enroll in high
school courses at their current school as long as the course is
taught by a certified high school teacher in the district where the
student will attend high school and if there are no high school
students enrolled in the course.
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2009
Bill No.: HB
4049
Requires a person who makes a school bomb threat to
reimburse the government entity that employs emergency responders for
the cost of the search of the bomb explosive. This is in addition to
any sentence imposed.
An Act Concerning: Criminal law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
4117
Amends the Grow Your Own Teacher Education Act to
provide that in addition to the hard-to-staff schools already served,
the initiative commits to preparing highly skilled, committed
teachers to teach within the Department of Juvenile Justice School
District.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
4153
Provides that the Department of Transportation may
issue a hay harvesting permit authorizing the mowing and harvesting
of hay on a specified right-of-way in this State.
An Act
Concerning: Highways
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: HB
4173
Makes it illegal to record or transmit live video of
a person in their home if the video is recorded from a location
outside the person€™s home.
An Act Concerning: Criminal
law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: January 1, 2010
Bill No.: HB
4223
Recommends that school districts test their
facilities for radon every 5 years and also recommends that new
schools be built with radon resistant construction techniques.
An
Act Concerning: Radon
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill
No.: SB 99
Amends the Environmental Protection Act.
An
Act Concerning: Safety
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
104
Permits persons or their staff or an independent
agency charged by a unit of local government to investigate the
conduct of law enforcement officers to inspect and copy law
enforcement records maintained by law enforcement agencies that
relate to a minor who has been arrested or taken into custody before
their 17th birthday.
An Act Concerning: Juveniles
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
310
Amends the Unemployment Insurance Act by changing
Disclosure of information. The Director of Employment Security shall
disclose upon request to state, county, and municipal law enforcement
agencies the employer information of registered sex offenders.
An
Act Concerning: Employment
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
613
Establishes a pilot project in schools across the
state to evaluate the potential impact of increased access to
technology and computers on the academic achievement of primary
school students.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1379
Amends the Illinois Highway Code.
An Act
Concerning: Transportation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1412
Allows for increases in funding set-asides for
programs for children ages 0-3 through Early Childhood Block Grants.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2009
Bill No.: SB
1769
Amends the School Code. Requires each school
superintendent to create a program to ensure that students attending
the schools that he or she manages cannot access those schools'
grounds for at least 12 hours after those grounds are treated with a
lawn care product.
An Act Concerning: Safety
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1814
Amends the Criminal Code of 1961 to allow law
enforcement officers investigating felony offenses involving a weapon
to record conversations without committing an eavesdropping
violation.
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1841
Amends the Unified Code of Corrections to add all
persons who are incarcerated in a facility of the Illinois Department
of Corrections or the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice after
August 22, 2002 must submit a DNA sample that will be placed into the
State or national DNA database.
An Act Concerning: Criminal
Law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1843
Amends the Unified Code of corrections with the
addition of subsection that addresses the issue when an offender
commits a new crime while on parole, mandatory supervised release or
probation.
An Act Concerning: Criminal Law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1897
Changes the definition of an all-terrain vehicle to
any motorized off-highway device designed to travel primarily
off-highway, 50 inches or less in width, having a manufacturer's dry
weight of 1,500 pounds or less, traveling on 3 or more non-highway
tires, designed with a seat or saddle for operator use, and
handlebars or steering wheel for steering control, except equipment
such as lawnmowers.
An Act Concerning: Transportation
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
1974
Amends the Illinois Pension Code. Requires all
elected and appointed trustees of downstate police and fire pension
funds to participate in a mandatory trustee certification training
seminar that must consist of at least 32 hours of initial trustee
certification at a training facility that is accredited and
affiliated with a State of Illinois certified college or
university.
An Act Concerning: Public Employee Benefits
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill
No.: SB 2014
Limits the number of times a student may
take the Prairie State Achievement Examination (PSAE) from twice to
once in order to improve efficiency and lower the expenses of The
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE).
An Act Concerning:
Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2009
Bill No.: SB
2071
Sets up a more streamlines process for educator
misconduct issues and provides additional mechanisms for sharing and
reporting information.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: July 1, 2009
Bill No.: SB
2095
Provides that the warden may deduct money credited
to an inmate€™s account if the warden is notified that the inmate
has outstanding fines, restitutions or court costs. An Act
Concerning: Criminal Law
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
2129
Amends the Fish and Aquatic Life code by adding shad
and drum to the list of fish in which people are permitted to use a
pitchfork, underwater spear gun, bow and arrow or bow and arrow
device, spear or gig in which to catch.
An Act Concerning:
Fish
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
2270
Amends the School Code. Requires school districts to
annually submit to the State Board of Education an itemized salary
compensation report for every certificated employee in the district,
including teachers, administrators, and the district
superintendent.
An Act Concerning: Education
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
Bill No.: SB
2338
Amends the Alternative Gas Supplier Law in the
Public Utilities Act. Provides that "single billing" means
the combined billing of the services provided by both a natural gas
utility and an alternative gas supplier to any customer who has
enrolled in a customer choice program.
An Act Concerning:
Utilities
Action:
Signed
Effective Date: Immediately
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