Springfield News
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MAR 14, 2018
Revealing a trio of bills aimed at the Legionella outbreaks at the Quincy Veterans’ Home, a bipartisan group of state senators hosted a fiery press conference Tuesday in the Illinois Capitol. Democratic and GOP lawmakers criticized Gov. Bruce Rauner for his administration's handling of the outbreaks, and offered legislation aimed to tighten disease testing and reporting controls at all state veterans homes.
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MAR 13, 2018
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MAR 13, 2018
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MAR 07, 2018
Four subject matter hearings are scheduled for the day, beginning with teacher shortages and ending with German energy policy. The main event is likely to be the House Human Service Committee’s attempt to update opioid overdose reporting. But the growing stack of bills aimed at tackling a culture of sexism in state government, and awaiting hearing in committees, has become impossible to ignore.
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MAR 06, 2018
On Monday, Ford Motors worker Christie Van told a panel of Illinois lawmakers what happened when she brought her sexual harassment complaints to a union representative and two human resource officers at the plant.
“As I left the building that day to end my shift, I was pushed down in a parking lot and stomped on my back,” she said. “I called the harassment hotline so much they knew me by voice.”
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MAR 05, 2018
9:00 a.m. - Chicago - A joint meeting of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee and Senate Veterans Affairs Committee will convene in room C600 of the Bilandic Building for a subject matter hearing into the Quincy Veterans Home Legionella outbreak and response.
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Hours after the Illinois General Assembly passed a bill to create a gun-dealer licensing system in the wake of the deaths of Chicago Police Commander Paul Bauer and 17 high school students in Parkland, Florida, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called on Gov. Bruce Rauner to the sign the bill immediately.
“All eyes are on the governor,“ Mayor Rahm Emanuel said. “It is essential that the governor signs this law and signs it immediately.” Credit: Heather Cherone, The Daily Line
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The Illinois Human Rights Commission will update their sexual harassment complaint protocols today while an array of anti-harassment bills are scheduled to make their way through the crowded Capitol today. House Executive, Senate Government Reform, House Labor & Commerce, and House Economic Justice committees will all take up bills designed to take a bite out of sexism in Springfield and elsewhere. New ethics tools, including one which could give the statehouse’s inspectors general some sharper teeth, are riding along with most of them.
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Today is set to be an endurance marathon for statehouse politics. Funding and laws on the Illinois State Board of Education will be up for debate in two committees, while cryptocurrencies make their debut debate in a joint House hearing. But leading the day will be a package of gun control legislation moving through committees.
