Today is September 02, 2010 Educate Internet General Legal Legislative Materials Legal Publications Review Magazine Handbooks & Manuals Other Periodicals IDOT Caution! Magazine Conference & Seminar Materials Annual Conference Municipal Attorney's Newly Elected Officials Annual Conference Road Show TOP RESOURCE PAGES 1.   Illinois Municipal League Review Magazine 2.   City Managers Resource Pool 3.   Municipal Attorney's IML Fact Sheets This section contains IML Fact Sheets (in Adobe PDF format) on various issues of importance to municipailties that are being considered by the General Assembly. These Fact Sheets are distributed to legislators as a part of the IML's effort to influence policy outcomes. Our members are encouraged to print these Fact Sheets out and present them to legislators in their district offices. 96th General Assembly 2010 Annexation and Land Use Property Tax Refunds for Annexed Property - HB 5603 FOIA/Open Meetings Act/Records A "Privacy Act" for "Personal Records" - HB 6053 IML Agenda Allow Municipal Annexation over a Conservation Area - HB 4968 Conflict-of-Interest Exemption for Exchange Traded Funds - SB 3313 Delay Changing Municpal Council District Boundaries - HB 5970 Low-Speed Vehicles on Municipal Roads - SB 3629 Publishing Local Improvement Ordinances on Municipal Website - SB 2614 Relieves Municipalities of Responsibility for Medical Costs for Self-Inflicted Injuries to Arrestees - HB 6178 Requirement of Votes for Write-In Candidate - HB 5727 Personnel and Pensions Firefighter Health Insurance Unfairness Act - SB 3335 Litigious Workplace Act - SB 3566 Prevailing Wage Expansion - HB 6112 2009 Infrastructure Capital Infrastructure Program Labor Senate Bill 1715 SB 1715 grants grants binding arbitration rights to non-public safety unions with fewer than 35 employees when the union is seeking an initial collective bargaining agreement. This precedential legislation will undermine a long-standing labor law policy of restricting binding arbitration rights to uniformed public safety employees. Senate Bill 1735 Consideration of Tobacco Usage in Workers' Compensation Determinations Senate Bill 2072 Mandates Specific Manning Levels for the Police and Fire Service. Senate Bill 43 Expands the Prevailing Wage to All Projects Within an Enterprise Zone. Pensions Senate Bill 1625 - Final Salary Smoothing for Police and Firefighter New Hires SB 1625 introduces salary smoothing into the formula by which final pension calcuations are determined. Salary smoothing will reduce the high costs related to "salary spiking," where a public employee's pension is enhanced by a temporary increase in salary that coincides with retirement. © 1996-2010 Illinois Municipal League. All Rights Reserved.