January 19, 2025 - Issue #203
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Jeanne's Commentary
It’s Already Starting.
Here are just some of the stupid and/or pandering, not fully thought-through bills filed the first week of the new 104th General Assembly.
To look up any of the bills, at the home page type the bill number into the search box on the left side of the ILGA home page at this link: https://www.ilga.gov/
SB 45 - Sen Ventura - Makes it illegal to pull a cow’s tail - NOT KIDDING!
HB 68 – Rep. Blair- Sherlock - Price control on bottled water sold at an entertainment venue. The bill set a price of $2 for a 16 oz. bottle of water.
PHB 1292 – Rep. Buckner - Presumed PTSD for firefighters and paramedics as it relates to Work Comp.
SB 76 – Sen. Holmes, indemnifies government against data breaches.
SB 13 – Sen. Lightford – Race-based higher education funding.
SB 2 - Sen. Martwick – Changes Tier 2 Pensions into Tier 1.5, returning many of the Tier 2 changes back to Tier 1. This will massively increase the unfunded liability. Must be stopped.
HB1027 – Rep. Cabello - panders to veterans; all of these special breaks should be income-dependent.
HB 1045 – Rep. Cabello - restores Tier 1 Pensions for public safety personnel
HB 1083 - Rep. Didech – Puts Gender Neutral Language in contracts with joint ownership husband/wife becomes spouses.
HB 6 – Rep. Ford – takeover of abandoned property. If you report that property in your neighborhood is abandoned for a year, you get the property.
HB41 – Rep. Ford - Post-conviction voting while still incarcerated.
HB1155 – Rep. Guzzardi – University of Illinois must divest of Fossil Fuel investments.
HB1154 – Rep. Guzzardi – Human Rights complaints can lead to massive damages for emotional distress and more.
HB1227 – Rep. Harper, Requires each contractor that participates in a competitive bid with the State to review its records for evidence of the contractor's or a related party's participation in slaveholding or the slave trade and to make certain disclosures with respect to that participation.
HB1310 – Rep. Hoffman, Adjusts Tier 2 Pensions for Firefighters.
HB1167 – Rep. Jones – Up to $5,000 off property taxes in south suburbs.
HB1170 – Rep. Mayfield, Use cannabis revenue for free community college.
HB1125 – Active Duty pays no vehicle registration fees.
HB1202 – $1,000 income tax credit for costs of recycling.
HB1246 – 90% Pension Funding for downstate police and fire moved to 2050 from 2040. This is a kick-the-can-down-the-road move that will not solve our pension problems.
1000 shell bills by Speaker Welch – these are bills used after deadlines to get any legislation passed that they want.
HB 1089 – West – 10 cent deposit on each beverage container, Prohibits the disposal of beverage containers at sanitary landfills.
HB 1272 – Rep. West – Allow for the importation of drugs from Canada by our healthcare systems. Blago had a similar program that saved a lot of money but the courts shut it down.
Good Bills Filed So Far
