Springfield News
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NOV 10, 2017
Hot on the heels of passage in the House Wednesday, the Senate wasted no time concurring with House’s passage of the 5G/Small Cell Wireless bill, SB1451 Floor Amendment #1, 41-7-2, sending it to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s desk for signature. The bill, which standardizes pricing and permitting for a new generation of wireless boxes on municipal-owned utility poles across the state, met some opposition in a Senate Telecommunications and Information Technology Committee hearing Wednesday morning. However, the committee did not vote on the measure, because the Senate Assignments committee had not met to assign the bill since it was sent over from the House. -
The final day of the Fall Veto Session was marked by another rapid-fire passage of concurrences with the House. Few words were spoken on most of the measures, which shot through the chamber toward the governor’s desk. The Senate stands adjourned until Jan. 30, 2018.
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Sens. Toi Hutchinson (D-Chicago Heights) and Daniel Biss (D-Skokie) saw a disappointing drop in the roll call vote for HB2462, which failed to muster the constitutional majority needed to override Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of the Equal Wage Act. The move immediately followed the announcement of the formation of a bipartisan Senate Women’s Caucus, with the goal of promoting women’s issues.
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NOV 09, 2017
The official in charge of luring businesses to Illinois revealed in a House hearing Wednesday morning that not only was Illinois never actually in the running for a massive Foxconn manufacturing facility, there was never any official contact between the state and company leaders.
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NOV 09, 2017
The Senate Telecommunications and Information Technology Committee will meet today at 9:00 a.m. in room 212 of the Capitol. The panel will hold a subject matter hearing on SB1451 HFA 2, sponsored by Sen. Terry Link (D-Gurnee) regarding small wireless facilities. The bill has already cleared the House and is on its third reading in the Senate with a pending motion for concurrence most recently registered with the Assignments Committee. Link says he hopes to see the bill clear the Senate for final passage today.
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NOV 09, 2017
The Senate moved at a furious pace Wednesday, passing dozens of bills with little or no debate. The following measures have passed into law notwithstanding the veto of the governor. They have received veto-override votes in the Illinois House, after which they received the same in the Senate Wednesday.
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NOV 08, 2017
While it was the highest stakes bill to be called in the House, SB1451, the 5G/Small Cell Wireless bill, the debate was calm, as many legislators had already guessed the outcome the vote. Throughout the day, lobbyists counted votes for this must pass bill for this must pass legislation for wireless companies.
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Over 150 people packed into a joint House-Senate committee hearing ostensibly to create a electricity purchasing organization for public utilities in Southern Illinois. But more accurately, the legislation under consideration in the subject matter hearing, Over 150 people packed into a joint House-Senate committee hearing ostensibly to create a electricity purchasing organization for public utilities in Southern Illinois.
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NOV 08, 2017
