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* I gave my first speech since pre-COVID times today and I’ve spent the past half an hour looking for stuff to ask you about and I’m finding a whole bunch of nothing. So…
* The Question: What would you like to see the General Assembly do before the April adjournment? Explain.
posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:22 pm
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set a formidable school budget and push through a robust school construction/capital development package.
Comment by Halbroker Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:30 pm
Pass a rate increase for mental health and substance abuse providers that is large enough to stop the endless cycle of those providers having to ask for rate increases year after year after year.
Much of what the Gov has proposed in this budget will take of this but there are holes that providers have found and have asked the appropriation chairs to address.
Most everyone in the GA has stated their support for behavioral healthcare, now fund it like you meant it.
Comment by Give Me A Break Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:31 pm
Stay out of Springfield.
Comment by Colin O'Scopy Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:35 pm
A stronger ethics bill, increased funding for CCSAO specifically earmarked to address crime, funding for CTA to better protect riders and CTA workers, a DCFS reform bill, and a fix for IDES (with a paydown of the unemployement insurance fund)
Comment by Chicagonk Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:37 pm
Pay down long term debts.
Comment by Lurker Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:37 pm
Call for a constitutional convention. This should be to fix the structural problems of overlapping units of government. Also like units of government should be merged/disbanded. This would apply from fire protection, townships, parks, libaries, school districts, up to counties.
https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-9056/CBP-9056.pdf
Comment by Publius Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:38 pm
Put up some funding for the type of placements that DCFS seems to having so much trouble finding.
Comment by Friendly Bob Adams Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:38 pm
Repeal the F.O.I.D. card
Comment by Nieva Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:40 pm
Give electric motorcycles parity with other electric vehicles when it comes to incentives and planning. They did it for manufacturing incentives, just need to fix energy bill language with SB2940.
Comment by SKI Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:47 pm
Repeal FOID
A mismanaged bureaucratic money pit.
A magnet for costly litigation.
A failed approach
Need to find a better way.
Comment by Red Ketcher Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:50 pm
Second the call to repeal the FOID.
Comment by Donnie Elgin Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 1:59 pm
Fully fund the Guidehouse Rate Study HB4832
Comment by Marv Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:05 pm
Pass the budget (and not have to come back in May to pass the budget).
Comment by Simply Sayin' Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:16 pm
Pass legislation to end the litigation about masks and other mitigations in schools
Comment by School Board Member Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:29 pm
Pass and send to Gov HB 4489 easing GATA compliance requirements on small entities
Comment by Gordon Willis Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:31 pm
==Put up some funding for the type of placements that DCFS seems to having so much trouble finding.==
Yup
Comment by SAP Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:37 pm
Fully fund year 2 of the DHS-DDD Guidehouse Rate Study. The state can finally afford to pay for quality services for people with developmental disabilities, and it helps us address our consent decree.
Comment by PoliticIL Scientist Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:38 pm
Seems Chicagonk and I are on the same page.
The only change in the order of ideas would be to move DCFS to number one.
Comment by Back to the Future Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:41 pm
Appropriations for scaling K-12 Computer Science Education statewide. This is the National Governor’s Association key focus for ‘21-‘22 (nga.org), it’s an easy bi-partisan issue to address, it’d be an investment into our economy given the high job demand rate, and yet Illinois has invested $0 thus far toward CS Ed.
Comment by zoomer Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 2:57 pm
Given all the good budget requests in the comments I’m inclined to ask the GA to put the Fair Tax back on the ballot.
Comment by Davesurance.com Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:13 pm
Implement the NTSB’s BAC limit of .05 for DUI as recommended in 2009.
Comment by Al Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:28 pm
Real substantive meaningful ethics reform. If not NOW when?
Comment by Big Red Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:32 pm
I’d like to see them start their hearings on time.
Comment by Original Rambler Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:50 pm
I forgot to explain. We lose 1,100 on our roads each year and we can save 100 lives according to NTSB. It could be yours or your kids.
Comment by Al Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:50 pm
I’ll third the repeal he FOID.
Comment by Blue Dog Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 3:51 pm
Pass HB4680 to allow rifles for deer season. Amend to allow a 2 or 3 round magazine as many deer rifles use magazines.
Comment by Anonymous Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:01 pm
Anonymous at 4:01 was me.
Comment by FormerParatrooper Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:01 pm
Solve cold fusion and scale it up to worldwide penetration.
Comment by Tom B. Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:04 pm
Oh, they could just adjourn now and it’d be fine with me (professionally).
Comment by Joe Bidenopolous Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:20 pm
Fix DCFS
That’s all.
Comment by Bruce( no not him) Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:32 pm
Gun nuts suing over the FOID - expensive.
Gun nuts complaining that the FOID causes costly litigation - priceless.
Comment by Springfieldish Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:36 pm
Pass the budget, first and foremost.
If ethics legislation is dealt with before the end of the session, I hope it would include provisions that would reduce the number of FOIA exemptions and subject the General Assembly to both FOIA and the State Records Act.
Ban shell bills. Also a ban on bills’ content being changed via House or Senate Amendment–unless the content of the original bill pre-amendment was incorporated into the amendment (e.g., if a bill regarding, say, health care issues was changed to say, a banking bill, the amendment can no longer have the “Changes everything after the enacting clause” phrase and has to include the original bill’s content.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:43 pm
Up the income limit for the senior freeze for real estate taxes.
Comment by Banish Misfortune Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:44 pm
==Also like units of government should be merged/disbanded. ==
Cases in point: Capitol Township and City of Springfield–those two should be merged. With a provision that automatically annexes the donut holes into the city too.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:45 pm
==Cases in point: Capitol Township and City of Springfield–those two should be merged. With a provision that automatically annexes the donut holes into the city too.==
But I also propose a “poison pill” to that bill as it concerns Springfield–force the city of Springfield to de-annex Piper Glen and gives it to the Village of Chatham. Also a ban on Springfield annexing donut holes and CWLP land within Ball-Chatham School district boundaries (Chatham should get it first).
But, in compensation, such legislation could also require Leland Grove, Southern View, Jerome, and Grandview to merge into Springfield along with Capitol Township.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:47 pm
Mandatory school consolidation of High School districts with their feeder grade school districts (i.e., make all school districts and administrations K-12 unit districts).
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 4:50 pm
Make giant truck-cranes buy truck license plates the same as all other trucks.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:07 pm
Authorize the comptroller to pay the overdue dental insurance for state retirees, and to keep them paid on time in the future.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:10 pm
Legislation that revokes CMS’s state employee health insurance contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield for FY23 unless they come to an agreement with Springfield Clinic.
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:12 pm
Make local taxing districts whole by paying them the moneys lost by the freight railroads scheme of transferring property over to Metra. This move made these properties tax free, causing property taxes for homeowners to go up.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:20 pm
Salary parity with private industry.
Don’t ask me how to pay for it, I have no idea.
Comment by Huh? Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:23 pm
Authorize funding and building the Illiana expressway.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:25 pm
Restore LGDF
Comment by southside Sam Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:32 pm
Reduce the red tape on companies applying to bring in cheap wind power electricity to Illinois customers.
Comment by DuPage Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:33 pm
Equity-based school funding at the recommended level. The sooner we do this, this sooner we will get to a semblance of fairness in resources for our kids.
Comment by Proud Papa Bear Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 5:48 pm
===Ban shell bills.===
The only way that works is: (1) Special Session(s) concurrent with Regular Session to address the unforeseen issue(s); or (2) both houses pass hundred(s) of bills on every conceivable topic & advance the other house’s bills to third reading, to be at the ready.
To deal with the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta & 1994 Northridge earthquakes, temporary tax increases were instituted. If after the “bills must be in the second house” deadline New Madrid caused comparable damage in Southern Illinois, what would you have the General Assembly do?
Comment by Anyone Remember Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 6:15 pm
@Al — from my research, Utah is the only state in the union with a BAC limit of 0.05. Some research shows that there is very little difference between 0.05 and 0.08. I swear some people would love to just live in a police state. Of all the things IL could
Do better, you’re concerned about this. Good grief
Comment by Concerned Tuesday, Mar 22, 22 @ 9:10 pm