First Reading

              August 2010
ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH UNIT
Representative
Sara Feigenholtz
Legislative Research Unit
Co-chairs
Volume 24, No. 1
Senator
Larry Bomke
Appropriations & State Budget...................................2
Business & Economic Development...........................4
Civil Law.....................................................................7
Criminal Law...............................................................8
Education...................................................................11
Environment & Conservation....................................16
Health & Safety.........................................................17
Local Government.....................................................18
Professions & Occupations.......................................20
Revenue.....................................................................20
Social Services..........................................................22
State Government & Pensions...................................24
LRU Publications Receive National Recognition.......25
Transportation...........................................................26
Abstracts of reports required to be
filed with General Assembly.................................29
Bills with Governor’s Action....................................30
Inside this Issue
Major Bills Passed by
the Illinois General Assembly
T
his issue of First Reading summarizes bills as they passed both houses of the General Assembly, and reports the Governor’s actions on those he had acted on. A total of 623 bills passed both houses in the spring 2010 session. This issue summarizes 227 bills of general interest, classified into 13 categories.
M
ajor bills that passed both houses will require major changes in operations at Chicago’s Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority; strengthen evaluation standards for teachers and principals; increase protection of minors against sex crimes; improve patient care and safety in nursing homes; allow pilot projects to convert waste products into fuels; and further deregulate telecommunications. Other measures will authorize more ways to collect debts owed to the state; add new measures to prevent fraud, abuse, and waste in state agencies and programs; authorize forfeiture of property obtained through public corruption; and allow the Governor to decide how to allocate part of the state budget to deal with the state’s severe fiscal crisis.
Page 30 of this issue gives Public Act numbers for laws resulting from bills summarized here that were signed by press time. Information on all bills of the 2010 session is available at:
www.ilga.gov