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SB1682 SOCIAL NETWORK PROHIBITION
Creates the Social Networking Web site Prohibition Act - provides that each public library must prohibit access to social networking Web sites on all computers made available to the public in the library. Provides that each public school must prohibit access to social networking Web sites on all computers made available to students in the school

SB1472 Internet Safety Education Act
Creates the Internet Safety Education Act to inform and protect students from inappropriate or illegal communications and solicitation and to require school districts to provide education about Internet threats and risks

SB1158 IMRF
Amends the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund Article of the Illinois Pension Code - provides that specified unfunded liabilities of participating municipalities shall be spread over the remainder of the period that is allowable under generally accepted accounting principles

SB576 LITERACY BOARD
Amends the State Library Act - with respect to the Literacy Advisory Board, provides that 7 members shall be appointed by the Secretary of State from Illinois citizens interested in the literacy issue

SB535 Library Records Confidentiality Act
Amends the Library Records Confidentiality Act - sets forth procedures under which a library may publish or make any information contained in its records available to the public if the information is requested by a sworn law enforcement officer who represents that it is impractical to secure a court order as a result of an emergency where the law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that there is an imminent danger of physical harm

SB417 Election Code
Amends the Election Code - requires that an otherwise qualified elector subject to the Sex Offender Registration Act whose poling place is in a library or school must vote by absentee or early voting ballot

SB364 Sex Offender Community Notification Law
Amends the Sex Offender Community Notification Law and the Child Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registration Act - provides that the local law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction shall disclose to libraries located within their jurisdictions the name, address, date of birth, place of employment, school attended, and offense or adjudication of all sex offenders and violent offenders against youth required to register in their jurisdictions under the Acts

SB186 LIBRARIES-WORKING CASH
Amends the Public Library District Act - provides that the balance in the working cash fund may not exceed 0.2% of the equalized assessed value of the taxable property in the district (instead of 0.2% of the equalized assessed value of taxable property for the year the fund was established or, for funds established after January 1, 1979, for the year 1978)

SB13 PROP TX-ALT HOMESTEAD EXEMPT
Amends the Property Tax Code - creates the Returning Veterans' Homestead Exemption, under which an exemption from the property's value is granted for residential property that is owned and occupied as a residence by a veteran for the tax year in which the veteran returns from active duty in an armed conflict involving the armed forces of the United States

HB1727 Internet Filters for Public Libraries
Creates the Internet Screening in Public Libraries Act - provides that each public library must have a technology protection measure to prevent the display on a public computer of any visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors

HB1226 School Code
Amends the School Code - provides that a school board must require each school that maintains any of grades kindergarten through 8 that has a student-access computer to either (i) equip the computer with software that seeks to prevent minors from gaining access to explicit sexual materials or (ii) obtain Internet connectivity from an Internet service provider that provides filter services to limit access to explicit sexual materials

HB914 Property Tax Code
Amends the Property Tax Code - in a Section concerning the alternative general homestead exemption, deletes provisions ending the alternative exemption after certain tax years

HB688 TAX CAP
Amends the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law in the Property Tax Code - provides that the extensions of certain library taxes are not limited under certain provisions of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law to the extent that the limitation would cause the actual levied rate of the tax to fall below the minimum library rate

HB660 School Internet Safety Instruction
Amends the School Code - provides that, in accordance with guidelines that the State Board of Education must develop, in every public school there must be instruction for both teachers and students on Internet safety

HB499 LOCAL LIBRARY-TRUSTEE PETITION
Amends the Illinois Local Library Act - makes the minimum signature requirement for a nominating petition for the office of library board trustee 2% of the number of votes cast at the last election for library trustee or 25, whichever is less (now, 50)

HB418 PROP TX-HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS
Amends the Property Tax Code - in a Section concerning the alternative general homestead exemption, extends the option for a county to be subject to the alternative exemption by an additional 3 years

HB237 LIBRARIES-CONFIDENTIALITY
Amends the Library Records Confidentiality Act - sets forth procedures under which a library may publish or make any information contained in its records available to the public if the information is requested by a sworn law enforcement officer who represents that it is impractical to secure a court order as a result of an emergency where the law enforcement officer has probable cause to believe that there is an imminent danger of physical harm

HB178 LOCAL GOVERNMENT-TECH
Amends the Public Library District Act of 1991 - makes a technical change in a Section concerning captions

HB155 LIBRARIES-CONFIDENTIALITY
Amends the Library Records Confidentiality Act - sets forth procedures under which a library may publish or make any information contained in its records available to the public if the information is requested by a sworn law enforcement officer who represents that it is impractical to secure a court order as a result of an emergency where the law enforcement officer reasonably believes that there is an imminent danger

HB23 PROP TX-ALT HOMESTEAD EXEMPT
Amends the Property Tax Code - in a Section concerning the alternative general homestead exemption, extends the alternative exemption by an additional 3 years

HB16 IL STATE LIBRARY
Makes an appropriation of $200,000 to the Illinois Secretary of State, as State Librarian, to fund the partnership between Citizens’ Library of Illinois-Comprehensive Knowledge Service and Health-E Illinois

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