* Remember the odd FOIA bill that was blasted by Attorney General Lisa Madigan and government reformers yesterday? Well, it wasn’t moved yesterday and may not be…

The sponsor of the plan, state Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat, said she filed the plan on behalf of Senate Democrats.

“If they want a discussion, I think we certainly have started one,” Currie said. “Possibly not just a discussion, a firestorm. But we will see where we go from here.”

Currie said she doesn’t know if the plan will move forward this week. Lawmakers aren’t scheduled to be in Springfield again after this week before a new class is to be sworn in next month. Days could be added, though.

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Currie says the proposed changes weren’t actually her idea; rather — it’s a plan pushed by another prominent Democrat, Senate President John Cullerton.

“I think that the ideas came from people who thought that some of the agreements that resulted in the 2009 legislation no longer seem to apply, but I think others disagree,” Currie said of the measure’s origins.

The plan was supposed to be heard by a House committee yesterday, on Mon., Dec. 1. Instead, after a swift backlash, Currie declined to call it.

Still, she hinted of a looming fight over changes to FOIA.

“We’ll see where the conversation begins to take us. There certainly is a lot of opposition,” she said. […]

Cullerton’s office says it’s working with the House to fine-tune the measure this week.