Illinois State Rep. Cristina Castro (D-Elgin) talks as her colleagues watch during the Senate’s last hearing of the fall veto session in Springfield. [Livestream] 

Following bipartisan discourse during the Illinois Senate’s last fall veto session hearing, a proposed law that would abolish employers from paying workers with disabilities a subminimum wage passed both state houses and heads to Gov. JB Pritzker’s desk for his signature. 

If the bill is signed by the governor, House Bill 793 would eventually prohibit Illinois employers from paying workers with disabilities less than state minimum wage. Illinois then would become the 19th state to phase out the lower pay based on individual productivity, also known as commensurate wage.