Session canceled for next week
Wednesday, Mar 11, 2020 - Posted by Rich Miller
* Email to House members…
Hearing the same about the Senate.
It’s a week to week decision, I’m told.
The GA was scheduled to come back for three weeks and then take two weeks off for spring break. They ought to just cancel everything until May, do a budget and some cleanup legislation on cannabis and infrastructure and whatever else and get outta town.
…Adding… As expected…
Illinois Senate President Don Harmon today announced the cancellation of next week’s Senate session days as part of a public health initiative to limit exposure and hopefully slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Senate President Harmon’s statement:
“When the state association for emergency doctors cancels its Capitol visit citing public health concerns, it should give us all reason to re-examine our schedules and priorities.
Given the recommendations for social distancing as a safeguard to slow the spread of this virus, the Illinois Senate is going to do its part. The Friday, March 20 session day had already been cancelled. The Senate will also cancel the March 18 and 19 session days.
We will constantly monitor the situation and make future decisions based on best practices and advice from the state’s public health and emergency preparedness professionals.”
- Dotnonymous - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 2:25 pm:
Universal home grow would help with social distancing…let us stay home…and grow our own…without fear of persecution?
- Keith Morrison - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 2:36 pm:
As an extra precaution, all House and Senate staff should be allowed to work from home this and next week.
- Hot Taeks - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 2:55 pm:
What would clean-up legislation for Cannabis address/ contain in it?
- Wylie Coyote - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 3:12 pm:
==As an extra precaution, all House and Senate staff should be allowed to work from home this and next week.==
That’s pushing it a little. Not a case within 100 miles of the Capitol Building. Gold courses will be packed. So will the bars with NCAA in full swing.
- Wylie Coyote - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 3:15 pm:
No use having a Lobby Day next week when there’s nobody to lobby…..
- Anoni - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 3:31 pm:
Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but what does this mean for the March 27 deadline for bills to be out of committee?
- Keith Morrison - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 3:49 pm:
==That’s pushing it a little. Not a case within 100 miles of the Capitol Building. Gold courses will be packed. So will the bars with NCAA in full swing.==
I think you meant GOLF courses… Also, better safe than sorry. It’s best not to have hundreds of staff working in and around the Capitol. This is a time to sit still, at home, and reflect on this crisis, not run through it “Wylie Coyote” style.
- Nagidam - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 4:33 pm:
===Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but what does this mean for the March 27 deadline for bills to be out of committee?===
Deadlines are changed for no reason every year. They at least have a reason this year.
- Bothanspy - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 4:57 pm:
I’m amazed that they cannot hold Session with a Tele-presence. In this day and age.
- Been There - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 5:44 pm:
=== I’m amazed that they cannot hold Session with a Tele-presence. In this day and age.===
Well I for one would love that. As a lobbyist I am not allowed to sit next to a legislator when they are on the floor. But me and others know some of them pretty well. We could just sit next to them in their living room or mine or wherever and tell them how we feel about the legislation in front of them. It would work out great. And no staff around to bother them.
- Willie - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 5:47 pm:
Can we cancel fundraisers in Chicago
- Wire Tap - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 6:26 pm:
Will Skillicorn still vote next week???
- Frank talks - Wednesday, Mar 11, 20 @ 8:19 pm:
Wire tap wins
- Hi Hello - Thursday, Mar 12, 20 @ 8:27 am:
-Been There- “And no staff around to bother them”
Bold to assume legislators read bills on their own