It’s just a bill
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2019 - Posted by Rich Miller
* The Tribune has a pretty good roundup of under the radar bills passed in the past several days. Here are a few of the bills from its list…
– Hotels and motels would be required to train employees on how to recognize instances of human trafficking and workers would be required to report it under a measure that received final approval Wednesday in the Senate. The bill also would require additional training for law enforcement officers and includes stronger penalties for businesses that “knowingly benefit” from ventures involving involuntary servitude.
– Local law enforcement agencies would be prohibited from entering into agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enforce federal immigration law under legislation that received final approval Thursday in the Senate. No such agreements currently exist in Illinois, but the bill’s sponsors voiced concerns in light of President Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on immigration. […]
— Smoking would be prohibited in any vehicle carrying someone younger than 18 under a bill that received final approval Saturday in the House. The restriction would apply regardless of whether the vehicle is in motion or stopped or whether the windows are down. Police wouldn’t be allowed to stop drivers solely for this violation, but it would carry a fine of up to $100 for the first offense. […]
— Potential employers would be prohibited from requiring job applicants to disclose their salary histories or seeking the information from an applicant’s current or former employer under a measure that received final approval Wednesday in the House. Supporters said the bill is designed to address the wage gap between men and women. Lawmakers passed two earlier versions during the previous administration, but then-Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed both.
* Related…
* Illinois Capital Bill Includes $50 Million For Arts And Culture Projects: The capital bill passed by the Illinois House and Illinois Senate yesterday includes a new $50 million funding source for arts and culture capital projects, nearly four times more than the last capital bill in 2009. This funding will enable critical infrastructure improvements, building expansions, and other important initiatives.
* Republicans decry ‘power play’ by Democrat lawmakers to grab control of sanitary district
* Illinois Governor Agrees to Fund Scholarship Program He Once Opposed: Rabbi Shlomo Soroka, Agudath Israel of Illinois’ director of government affairs, told Hamodia that the Governor’s about-face represents a major victory for the broad advocacy effort of which he was a part. “It’s a very positive development,” he said. “Not only was scrapping this program one of the Governor’s campaign pledges, his budget proposal was a first step in doing that and despite a lot of pushback, he was not backing down. It took a lot of effort on our part and a lot of mobilizing grassroots advocacy, but it was saved, and the Governor certainly deserves a lot of credit for being open to learning about the benefits for children, despite his original position.”
- RNUG - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:36 am:
Two I disagree with but they got them through: the anti-ICE bill and the salary disclosure. On the salary issue, how the heck are you going to be able to judge how much their current employer values them and, in jobs with a variable starting range, where to offer a starting salary?
- Fax Machine - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:39 am:
Is Pritzker going to start an ad campaign promoting what he accomplished?
It would be a great way to up his favorables, because if he polls well he can start appearing in the Think Big ads to personally ask voters to support the amendment.
- Robert the Bruce - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:43 am:
RNUG, I think people can disclose past salary if they wish; they just aren’t required to do so. Enables folks who are underpaid at their current job to get a bigger jump in salary than they otherwise would have, if they aren’t forced to disclose.
- Robert the Bruce - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:45 am:
$50 million for arts and culture and we heard about this first from someone other than IPI.
- City Zen - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:47 am:
==how the heck are you going to be able to judge how much their current employer values them==
Does Taylorville value their teachers less than New Trier because they pay them less? Recruiting departments are paid to know the market.
==Is Pritzker going to start an ad campaign promoting what he accomplished?==
I saw a banner at my local Shell station.
- Donnie Elgin - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:47 am:
“Is Pritzker going to start an ad campaign promoting what he accomplished?”
Best to wait until well after July 1, sticker shock at the pump will be palpable.
- Honeybear - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:48 am:
Interesting. The only time I identified and got help for a victim of Human Trafficking as a caseworker was an employee of a small hotel. The woman worked there, lived there, ate there. The hotel owner kept all her documents and forbid her from leaving. She was seeing DHS because she had to do an in person interview for redetermination. Luckily we had just had the Human Trafficking training and I was able to do the right thing for her.
This is good legislation.
I am thankful
- Texian - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:49 am:
It’s amazing how much difference a governor can make, eh? Illinois is turning around just like that.
- Montrose - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:51 am:
“On the salary issue, how the heck are you going to be able to judge how much their current employer values them and, in jobs with a variable starting range, where to offer a starting salary?”
Knowing someone’s salary doesn’t really tell you how much their employer valued them. There are all sorts of reasons a person gets paid what they get paid, including gender and race bias. Women and people or color are typically paid less then men and white folks. Asking the salary history and basing your salary on that history can often perpetuate that that inequity.
How much do you value the position? What do you pay other in a similar position with similar experience? What can you afford? There are lots of tools out there to figure out the right salary for a hire that don’t involve knowing what they made before.
- Candlelight - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 10:57 am:
Not being able to hot box your toddler with cigarette smoke is just going to further the Exodus from illinois
- Demoralized - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 11:03 am:
== how the heck are you going to be able to judge how much their current employer values them==
Why does that matter? They should be paid based on what you believe the job they are taking is valued at and if there is a salary range where you believe their education and experience should put them on that range. What they were paid previously should be irrelevant.
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 11:07 am:
Does the State still prohibit paying new hires more than 105% of what they were making in their prior job? Kettle and pot here.
- Honeybear - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 11:26 am:
RNUG, a tremendously competent, experienced, educated (Northwestern, University of Chicago) woman I know came into state government after the Great Recession as a trainee to find work. She moved up very quickly to SPSA but because her previous salary was that of a trainee, then certified position, she went up very incrementally. They always offered her the bottom of the salary range. Now she is still 30-33 percent lower than her male counterparts who without exception she is more experienced and educated than.
This will absolutely help her.
It’s a constant source of shame, anger, and resentment, for her.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 11:42 am:
–Not being able to hot box your toddler with cigarette smoke is just going to further the Exodus from illinois–
LOL, Rep. Kinzinger chimes in…
- anon2 - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 12:27 pm:
About 2010 former Rep. Mike Boland had a bill to ban smoking in cars with kids. He almost ended up on the Century Club trophy when the bill was overwhelmingly rejected. It shows how times have changed. I should check to see if any of the NO voters on the Boland bill switched to YES this year.
- anon2 - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 12:59 pm:
The Boland bill was HB 1769, and it came up in 2007. It only applied to children under age 8, and provided for a maximum $25 fine. By comparison, the current bill, HB 2276, applies to children under age 18, and provides a maximum $100 fine.
The Boland bill went down with 91 NO votes and only 18 YES. Rep. Carroll’s HB 2276 won 78 YES votes on 3rd reading, and 97 YES votes on concurrence.
A few Reps were around in 2007. Those who voted NO on protecting kids under age 8, but who voted YES last month to protect kids under age 18, are Representatives Arroyo, D’Amico, and McAuliffe.
- Nonbeleiver - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 2:15 pm:
The pro illegal alien legislation demonstrates the total disrespect for our immigration laws that the Democratic party has lowered itself to.
Hopefully it will be challenged in court and SCOTUS will have the good sense to see the ridiculousness of such ’states rights’ legislation on a matter that is clearly federal in nature.
- JT - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 3:33 pm:
I and a friend of mine both take pay cuts of roughly 30% to 40% to get out of positions we hated. So should future employers base their offering salary on the higher paying job I held previously or the lower one? Or maybe salary in previous position isn’t of much use in hiring situations.
- Da Big Bad Wolf - Tuesday, Jun 4, 19 @ 5:42 pm:
===The pro illegal alien legislation demonstrates the total disrespect for our immigration laws that the Democratic party has lowered itself to.==
It’s not pro illegal alien. It’s pro police. They have their job, the federal government has its job.