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* AP…
The Senate has overturned a veto by Gov. Bruce Rauner on a measure that would regulate so-called peer-to-peer car-rental businesses.
The vote Wednesday was 39-12 to require the companies to comply with the same safety standards and pay the same taxes as traditional rental-car companies.
Turo and Getaround are examples of businesses that provide online apps for people to rent cars from other people.
Republican Rauner says the measure is too restrictive and could “smother” growth of an innovative new industry. He suggested a rewrite of the regulations.
* WTTW…
Illinois lawmakers are set to consider legislation this week that would limit the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals, a practice that has been shown to fuel drug-resistant bacteria that can be dangerous to humans.
On Thursday, the Illinois Senate’s Agriculture and Public Health committees are scheduled to hold subject matter hearings on a bill introduced earlier this year by state Sen. Daniel Biss that would further restrict antibiotic use on the nearly 20,000 Illinois farms with beef cattle, hogs or pigs.
Experts from the World Health Organization have for years warned that the routine use of antibiotics on animals that aren’t sick leads to drug-resistant bacteria that can have deadly consequences for humans.
Each year, millions of Americans get sick with antibiotic-resistant infections, and at least 23,000 of them die as a result, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A recent study estimates that by 2050, drug-resistant bacteria could kill more people worldwide than cancer kills today.
…Adding… The hearing was postponed due to weather.
* Tribune…
Meanwhile, lawmakers started moving a bill aimed at the Chicago mayoral race. A plan that cleared a House committee would open a special election for Cook County board president to more people if Toni Preckwinkle is elected mayor. Now, only Cook County commissioners could run for president if she won and left the board president job.
Also, lawmakers are trying to negotiate a compromise on dueling proposals aimed at companies such as Sterigenics in west suburban Willowbrook that emit dangerous ethylene oxide gas.
Separate bills from House Republican leader Jim Durkin of Western Springs and Democratic state Rep. Carol Sente of Vernon Hills would limit and eventually ban use of the chemical in Illinois. Lawmakers say they’re trying to come up with legislation by the end of the month.
* Sun-Times…
Also on Wednesday, the Senate failed to override the governor’s veto of a measure that would remove the state from the Crosscheck voter registration system. But senators are expected to try again for an override. Democrats say the measure would help protect voter information, but Republicans say the extra check is needed to make sure voters aren’t also registered elsewhere.
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 10:06 am
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In the CapFac today, you said there were only 2 failed overrides and they were both in the Senate. Did you miss Rep. Lilly’s ethics school mandate bill or are they going to try to run it again?
Comment by Anon Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 10:16 am
Quite an override party yesterday in the GA.
Comment by wordslinger Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 10:18 am
===Did you miss===
Yes.
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 10:31 am
Re: Mayoral race — oh geez. Which member of the General Assembly is hoping to be the County President?
Comment by Not It Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 11:09 am
Turo and Getaround are examples of businesses that provide online apps for people to rent cars from other people.
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I wonder if Getaround will have a Super Bowl commercial soon, featuring the remaining Beach Boys. (singing “I Get Around” to promote the app).
Comment by Leatherneck Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 11:34 am
I’m strenuously against all these apps whose profit model is to dodge safety regulations governing the industry they want to be in.
(Although Turo, to its credit, actually insures drivers … most of these apps encourage the car-providers or house-providers to operate with wildly inadequate insurance or don’t even tell them that they need to talk with their insurer, so that if sued when something terrible happens, their surprised insurer is going to drop them when they find out the house was being used as an AirB&B or whatever.)
Comment by Suburban Mom Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 12:17 pm
Would’ve been better to simply modernize (aka lessen) the regulatory burden and taxes on existing car rental companies while requiring the new ones to comply. The reason these smaller companies exist (which are way cooler by the way) is precisely because the current regulatory and tax implications for car rental companies are so high that only big players benefit. The result: dissatisfaction with the airline-like experience with Avis and high interest in unique services like Turo.
Illinois will never attract tech talent like this. Consumer preferences are changing - but Illinois isn’t.
Comment by California Guy Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 4:24 pm
Crosscheck appears to have died all on its own. The override (or some new bill) may not be needed.
Comment by titan Thursday, Nov 15, 18 @ 5:55 pm