"House will be in order. Members will be in their chairs. We shall be led in prayer today by Lee Crawford, the Pastor of the Cathedral of Praise Christian Center in Springfield. Members and guests are asked to refrain from starting their laptops, turn off all cell phones, and rise for the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Pastor Crawford."
"Let us pray. Gracious God our Father, the giver and sustainer of life, it is in you that we live, we move, and we have our existence. We humbly come before you, oh God, asking for your blessings to be upon this august Assembly. May your blessings be upon the Speaker of this illustrious House, its esteemed Leaders, honored Members. Today we ask you to be their sustainer and their keeper, their light and guide, their fortress and protection, their wisdom and strength, their power and health, that they work in an environment of cooperation and kindness, in an atmosphere of progress and accomplishments. All of this, we humbly say thank you and Amen."
"We'll be led in the Pledge of Allegiance today by Representative Severin."
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
"Roll Call for Attendance. Leader Greenwood is recognized for any absences on the Democratic side of the aisle." 10200096.docx 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let the record reflect that Representatives Barbara Hernandez, Representative… Leader Natalie Manley, Representative Meyers-Martin, and Representative Curtis Tarver are excused today."
"Leader Welter is recognized for absences on the Republican side."
"Mr. Speaker, let the record reflect that Leader Jim Durkin is excused for the day."
"With 104 Members answering the roll, we have a quorum. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. Leader Greenwood on a Motion."
"Mr. Speaker, I move that Representatives Guerrero- Cuellar, Representative Burke, Cassidy, Gong-Gershowitz, Lilly, Slaughter, Meier, and Stephens be allowed to participate and cast their vote remotely."
"Representative Greenwood has made a Motion that Representatives Guerrero-Cuellar, Burke, Cassidy, Gong- Gershowitz, Lilly, Slaughter, Meier, and Stephens be allowed to participate and cast their votes remotely. This is a roll call vote. All those in favor vote 'aye'; opposed vote 'nay'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 71 voting 'yes', 22 voting 'no', 5 voting 'present', the Motion is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"Is Representative Burke present?"
"Present."
"Representative Burke is present. Is Representative Cassidy present? Is Representative Gong-Gershowitz present?"
"Gong-Gershowitz is present." 10200096.docx 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz is present. Is Representative Guerrero-Cuellar present?"
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar is present."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar is present. Is Representative Lilly present? Is Representative Meier present?"
"Present."
"Representative Meier is present. Is Representative Slaughter present?"
"Representative Slaughter is present."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Slaughter is present. Is Representative Stephens present?"
"Committee Reports."
Clerk Bolin: "Committee Reports. Representative Harris, Chairperson from the Committee on Rules reports the following committee action taken on April 1, 2022: approved for consideration, referred to Second Reading is House Bill 1022 and House Bill 1360. Representative Zalewski, Chairperson from the Committee on Revenue & Finance reports the following committee action taken on April 1, 2022: do pass as amended Short Debate is Senate Bill 1693; recommends be adopted, Floor Amendment(s) 1 to Senate Bill 3685. Representative Stuart, Chairperson from the Committee on Higher Education reports the following committee action taken on April 1, 2022: recommends be adopted, Floor Amendment(s) 3 to House Bill 1172. Representative Moeller, Chairperson from the Committee on Human Services reports the following committee action taken on April 1, 2022: recommends be adopted is Floor Amendment(s) 2 to Senate Bill 1405 and Floor Amendment(s) 2 10200096.docx 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 to Senate Bill 3682. Introduction of Resolutions. House Resolution 788, offered by Representative Ammons."
"Representative Luft, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"If I could have everybody's attention for just a moment. And bear with me for just a second. As we journey through life, we all see and experience tragedies. And I think we would all agree the worst tragedy someone could experience would be the loss of a child. In my community yesterday a three-year-old child managed to slip out the front door of their house, wandered out onto a state route, a semi driver could not stop in time and ran that three-year-old child over. Anybody who can hear me or see this, and those of us here, please direct your prayers to that family in Pekin. There isn't a time that they couldn't need it more. And if we could take a moment of silence for them, I'd appreciate it. Thank you."
"The House will take a moment of silence. Thank you, Members. Representative Miller, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today we have the privilege of having three of my oldest grandchildren here to be Pages for the day. Samuel is a sophomore in high school and he enjoys hunting and hiking and golf and soccer. He plans to consider the Coast Guard or law enforcement after he graduates from 10200096.docx 4 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 high school. William is an eighth grader and his hobbies include soccer and hunting and the piano. And Madeline is 13 and in 7th grade, and she has five brothers which keep her in line all the time, and one young… younger sister. Her hobbies include drawing, painting, hunting and volleyball. And she plays the piano, violin, and ukulele. And one thing I learned with this is how to spell the ukulele. It's not that easy. But anyway, and their mother and father are up in the audience. Megan is my oldest daughter, and Justin Goff is her husband, along with the other children up there. And they're a lively household. And one of the greatest things about their courtship, when they were getting ready to be married, is Justin was deployed to Bosnia and Afghanistan. So, I didn’t have to worry about him why they were gone. But anyway, it's great to have them here and let's give them a round of applause, please. Thank you."
"Representative Bos, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Point of personal privilege, please."
"Please state your point."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, April 1, is Wear Blue Day, which marks the first day of Child Abuse Prevention Month. And as many of you guys know, before joining the House, I worked with an organization who helped minors who've been rescued from sexual abuse and exploitation. So, that experience has driven home for me just how important it is for us to come together in the fight against child abuse. So, as I look around the chamber today and see so many Members of this Body wearing blue, I want to thank you for joining in 10200096.docx 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 this occasion of solidarity and awareness. This is an issue that we should all be concerned about and working to end because child abuse comes in many forms and it happens in every community. The psychological and emotional scars for victims runs very deep but hope and healing can be found, especially when we come together as a society to provide the support victims need and help to prevent it in the very first place. So, I'd like to take a quick moment and just remind us of some of these signs of child abuse and encourage that we all utilize our social media platforms today, not to just post a picture of us in blue and with the hashtag, which is great, but also remind our constituents of some of the signs of child abuse. You know, withdrawal from friends or activities; change in behavior, such as aggressive anger, hostility, hyper activity, or change in school performance; depression; anxiety; unusual fears or a sudden loss of self- confidence; an apparent lack of supervision; frequent absence from schools; reluctant to leave school activities as if he or she doesn’t want to go home; attempt at running away; rebellious defiant behavior; self-harm; or attempted suicides. Now, these are not all the signs and they can vary depending on the abuse the child is suffering. But today, as we wear blue and raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month, let us also remember that we must all remain vigilant in watching for the signs, encouraging our constituents to remain vigilant. And please, if you see something, say something. Speaking up may not only stop child abuse, it may save a child's life. And I'd also like to give a special shout 10200096.docx 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 out to James McIntyre in CASA of Cook County for providing us our blue ribbons for today. So, thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"Mr. Clerk."
"Is Representative Lilly present? Is Representative Cassidy present?"
"Cassidy is present."
"Is Representative Lilly present?"
"(Unintelligible) …but yeah, I am. Oh, well."
"Please turn on your camera, Representative Lilly."
"Representative Lilly is present."
"Representative Lilly is present."
"Representative Collins, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Point of personal privilege."
"State your point."
"I wanted to recognize two very special guests who are here with me today. Sitting up on the right of the gallery, we have Marian from Chicago, who is my communications outreach person. She is currently a senior at UIC studying political science. And then we have Michelle, who is from the 9th District, who I borrowed from an organization called Social Change, young folks who are doing some really good work across the City of Chicago and all across our states. These two individuals make sure that my office… you know, keep my constituents informed. They tell a story through their pictures, and anyone who's ever went to my government page knows that. And so, I just want to say thank you all for investing in me, just like I love to invest in young people. I always said, if you invest in the young, they will invest 10200096.docx 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 back into you. So, thank you all for being here with me today, and I'll… please can you give them a round of applause. Thank you."
"Welcome to Springfield. On the Order of Second Reading, on page 9 of the Calendar, appears House… I'm sorry. On the Order of Senate Bills-Third Reading… on the Order of Senate Bills-Third Reading, on page 8 of the Calendar, appears Senate Bill 4053, Representative Hurley. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 4053, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hurley."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4053 deals with the Chicago fire and Chicago police widows and orphans. Currently, widows' annuities for Chicago firefighters and Chicago police officers can be no less than 125 percent of the federal poverty level. This Bill raises that floor to a 150 percent. There is no opponents. Proponents includes Chicago FOP Lodge 7, Police Sergeants Association, Chicago Fire Firefighters Union, City of Chicago, Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, and Illinois Sheriffs' Association. And just for a monetary number, it raises theirs from about 16,500 a year to about 19 thousand. I'm here for questions and would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Welter, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Mr. Speaker, please let the record reflect that Representative Stephens is excused for the rest of the day." 10200096.docx 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"The record shall so reflect. Seeing no further… Representative Wheeler, are you on the Bill or are you a different purpose? Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4053 pass?' All those vote 'yes'; all those opposed vote 'no'. And the voting is open. And, Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Lilly."
"Representative Lilly votes 'yes'."
"Representative Lilly votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'. Representative Slaughter. Representative Slaughter. Representative Slaughter, please turn your audio on."
"Can you hear me now?"
"Yes." 10200096.docx 9 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative… sorry about that. Representative Slaughter votes 'yes'."
"Representative Slaughter votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 111 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4053, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. And, Representative Wheeler, now for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, I'd like to introduce my Page for the day. This is Nikolas Sinnott from Oswego. He is a fourth grader at Grant Park Elementary School. He's a very social young man, into sports, and also a math wizard. So, we need more of those. Also, with him are his grandma and grandpa up in the gallery there. Wave, if you can. I get the pleasure of serving also in local government alongside grandma… Jennifer Sinnott, an Oswego Village trustee. So, give them a big, warm Springfield welcome, please."
"Representative Ozinga, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"Yes, today I just wanted to introduce my Pages for the day. My two cousins, John and Lily. And wanted to also welcome my cousin, Julia and Chris, and their other daughter, Zoe, up in the gallery." 10200096.docx 10 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Davidsmeyer, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"One of my communities, too, as we are… our hearts and prayers go with the people of the City of Pekin, the families affected. I hope that our hearts and our prayers can be with Greenfield, Illinois, in Green County. Two individuals were killed in a fire yesterday, a 77-year-old woman and a 10-month-old baby. Her father is a police officer, and I hope that we can all keep them in our prayers, as most of us here are parents and we understand that the loss of a child, especially as you think in your own personal experience, how it would be hard to go on and continue to serve the public. They will continue to work hard, but we need to keep our thoughts and prayers with them and their family, their neighbors, and everybody involved. And I want to say thank you to the emergency services, the sheriff's department, the local volunteer fire departments that all came. Three different volunteer fire departments came and they are also very affected by this. So, I hope we can keep them in our prayers. Thank you."
"The Body will take a moment of silence. Thank you. Representative Costa Howard, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point." 10200096.docx 11 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Today I want to highlight the Synergy Jr. Bulls team. They are a wheelchair basketball team that won the State of Illinois championship and is performing… excuse me, is playing today in… playing against Ohio today. This is a group of teenagers who play wheelchair basketball and have had the opportunity to showcase their unbelievable talents. These are students from all over our area, but my own constituent, Tessa Pate from Lombard, Drew Beutel from Naperville, Jeffrey and Matthew Birnbaum from Clarendon Hills, Yurly Khudyk from River Grove, Nellie Meinhardt from Bartlett, Jonathan Parris from Elburn, and Joe Casado from Joliet. And they're coached by Coach Curtis Lease and John Beutel from Naperville. So, from all of us to the Synergy Jr. Bulls, let's wish them good luck today in their national championship games."
"On page 5 of the Calendar, Senate Bills-Third Reading, appears Senate Bill 3777, Representative Greenwood. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3777, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Greenwood."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3777 is a Bill… it's an initiative of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, and it has the support of the Treasurer's Office. It amends the Technology Development Act by doing a number of things. And I ask for a 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3777 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke." 10200096.docx 12 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Burke votes 'aye'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Sorry, I'm having trouble with the mute button. Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 108 in 'favor', 0 'opposed', and 0 'present', Senate Bill 3777, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 5 of the Calendar, on the Order of Senate Bills-Third Reading, is Senate Bill 3819, Representative Costa Howard. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3819, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Costa Howard."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3819 amends the Illinois Insurance Code to require private insurance companies to include the same model of home-based palliative 10200096.docx 13 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 and concurrent hospice care for children. Last year we passed Senate Bill 2384 unanimously here in the House that would require Medicaid to include pediatric home-based palliative care. This Bill does the same thing with private insurance. As my colleague from Jacksonville mentioned, we as parents can't even imagine what this must be like. But for over 2500 families a year, the death of a child is… is their reality. Senate Bill 3819 can make a huge difference in their lives. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3819 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'aye'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. 10200096.docx 14 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 With a 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3819, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Also, on page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3833, Representative Stuart. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3833, a Bill for an Act concerning children. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Stuart."
"Thank you. Senate Bill 3833, it is… it's similar to a Bill that we passed, House Bill 4915. It amends the Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act to expand the definition of medical personnel and educational personnel for mandated reporters. This would add physical therapists, physical therapy assistant, occupational therapist, occupational therapy assistants. And also expands educational personnel to include athletic trainers."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3833 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar." 10200096.docx 15 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"With a vote of 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3833, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3838, Representative Bennett. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3838, a Bill… a Bill for an Act concerning health. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Bennett."
"Mr. Speaker… there you go. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. 3838 from the Senate is about the Farmers' Market Bill. It creates a statewide permitting process with cost controls for farmers that wish to sell meat, dairy, poultry, and certain pre- frozen meals at farmers' markets and counties that require a permit. It passed unanimously in the Senate. It passed unanimously in the committee. And there's no opposition. I ask, please, for an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3838 pass?' All those in favor say 'aye'… I'm sorry. All those in favor vote 'aye'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy." 10200096.docx 16 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3838, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3845, Representative Ammons. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3845, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3845 amends the Vocational Education Act. On or before December 15, 2023, the Gender Equity Advisory Committee shall culminate and submit a recommendation to the Governor, General Assembly, State Board of Education on what school districts can do to better support historically disadvantaged students, including African American students and other students of color. And I move for its adoption." 10200096.docx 17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3845 pass?' All in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3845, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Also, on page 5 of the Calendar appears Senate Bill 3609, Representative Hoffman. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3609, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hoffman." 10200096.docx 18 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. What this would simply do… it's an initiative of the Secretary of State's Office in conjunction with the Auto Dealers Association of Illinois. It would do several things, none of which are controversial. It would adjust the fee schedule for delinquent vehicle dealer transfer fees to ensure that no fee is imposed prior to the Secretary of State receiving the certificate within 45 days of the vehicle transfer. It reduces the fee that would be imposed. And in addition, it would create a one-time rebate on the title fee for passenger vehicles and small trucks manufactured in Illinois as well as a motorcycles. There were some questions about affordability for the rebate. However, it would be about $300 thousand a year and would come from the Secretary of State's road fund."
"Well, it may be more controversial than you think. Representative Batinick."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Yes."
"Indicates he'll yield."
"Representative, this is a fee reduction?"
"That's what we do on this side of the aisle, fee reductions."
"April fools. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Leader Hoffman to close."
"I ask for a favorable roll call."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill'… and, Representative Butler, we were on Short Debate. The question 10200096.docx 19 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3609 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3609, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Also, on page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3633, Representative Hoffman. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3633, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hoffman."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill would amend the Counties Code as well as… and provide that a county or 10200096.docx 20 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 municipality under the Municipal Code must maintain documentation submitted by a contractor on the disposal of demolition debris generated during the demolition, repair, or enclosure of a building for a period of three years. It also would make the information available to a Freedom of Information Act. It is initiative of the State Council Operating Engineers, the Sierra Club, National Waste & Recycling Association, the AFL-CIO, and the Illinois Municipal League is neutral."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3633 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. 10200096.docx 21 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 With 105 voting 'yes', 2 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3633, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On… on page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3645, Representative Stuart. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3645, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Stuart."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is a… a fellowship for folks going into social work and it… it simply adds language to make sure that we're looking for a diverse group of candidates for the fellowship. That is the only change in this language. But it's in honor of Senator Pat McGuire, a huge champion of higher ed and social work all together. So, it's just making sure that we implement it in the way that he would appreciate."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3645 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; oppose vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar." 10200096.docx 22 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3645, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3847, Representative Harper. Harper. Out of the record. On page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3848, Representative Delgado. Delgado. Out of the record. On page 5 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3853, Representative Costa Howard. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3853, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Costa Howard."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3853 is a pilot program for the Extended Family Support Pilot Program. It will allow community-based services to be had in the home so children can stay with their families. The goal is to keep kids at home with their families and that is what this program will do. And hopefully we will have enough community-based programs to actually help all these kids. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3853 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 23 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Burke. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'. Representative Burke."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3853, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next, on page 5 of the Calendar, is Senate Bill 3865, Representative Avelar. Out of the record. On top of page 6 is Senate Bill 3867, Representative Didech. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3867… Senate Bill 3867, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Didech."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3867 provides that all school boards shall waive fees assessed by the district for each student with a parent who is a veteran or active- duty military personnel with an income at or below 200 percent 10200096.docx 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 of the federal poverty level. I ask for your 'aye' vote. And I'm happy to answer any questions."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3867 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3867, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3895, Representative Guzzardi. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3895, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. Third Reading of this Senate Bill." 10200096.docx 25 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Guzzardi."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Members. This Bill is a trailer to the affordable housing omnibus package that we passed last year. It would simply clean up a drafting error regarding the base year eligibility for properties receiving a property tax deduction for affordability. It's been negotiated by all stakeholders. I know of no opposition. And I urge an 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3895 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Representative Collins. Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 10200096.docx 26 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3895, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3902, Representative Ammons. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3902, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Ammons."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Bill before you is an initiative of LRB to clean up three versions of the same statute, and that's all that the Bill does. It makes it one statute so that it's readable and understandable. And I ask for its… let's see, positive votes. Thank you."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3902 receive positive votes?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'. Representative Burke." 10200096.docx 27 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the message… please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3902, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar, is Senate Bill 3905, Representative Walsh. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3905, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Walsh."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. Senate Bill 3905 establishes the Municipal Water and Wastewater Funding Study Committee to study and make recommendations to the Illinois EPA and the Pollution Control Board related to municipal water and wastewater and regarding disadvantaged communities. This committee will be composed of several members, including the Governor or their designee. One from the EPA, one from the Leaders of the respective Houses and their Minority Leaders in the respective chambers. And the committee's focus is on the following principals regarding the funding of municipal water and wastewater across the state. That communities shall not be deemed ineligible for disadvantaged community status based on the size or service area of any size with regard to special rates, loan terms, eligibility for loan or grant funds, considering the impacts of funding and water and wastewater expenses for low-income populations, considering environmental justice concepts, considering communities that face water supply shortages as a high priority for funding. The committee is 10200096.docx 28 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 required to prepare reports summarizing its findings and recommendations for submission to the General Assembly by January 31, 2023. This is an initiative coming out of Joliet with our recent development of a water commission and purchase of Lake Michigan water to get into the revolving loan funds through the EPA. Happy to answer any questions. Ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3905 pass?' All in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3905, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3907, Representative Stava-Murray. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 29 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Senate Bill 3907, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Stava-Murray."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3907 seeks to extend a Short-Term Substitute Teaching License for substitute teachers to allow them to teach up to 15 consecutive days per licensed teacher who is under contract instead of the current 5 days if the Governor has declared a disaster due to a public health emergency. This went out of committee with no opposition, and I ask for your 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3907 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3907, having received the Constitutional 10200096.docx 30 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3914, from Representative Barbara Hernandez to be presented by Representative Avelar. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3914, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Please read the Bill. Did that. Representative Avelar."
"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3914 amends the School Code and the Chicago School District Article of the School Code. And it provides that for the sick days granted to full time teachers and eligible employees, mental or behavioral health issues must be considered in the interpretation of sick leave. This Bill passed the Senate 54- 0 and it was a… it passed out of committee unanimously. And I am happy to answer any questions."
"Representative Bourne, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Indicates she'll yield."
"Thank you. Representative, I know this isn't initially your Bill, but I just want to clarify this is a very different Bill than the one that we debated on the House Floor that added mental health days for teachers. Is that correct?"
"That is correct."
"Thank you. I would urge my colleagues to vote 'aye'. This gives people… teachers the opportunity to expand the way that they use their sick days. I think it makes sense and it does not add an undo burden on school districts." 10200096.docx 31 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Avelar to close."
"I ask for an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3914 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3914, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3915, Representative Stava-Murray. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3915, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Stava-Murray."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3915 provides that the application fee for a Short-Term Substitute Teaching 10200096.docx 32 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 License shall be waived when the Governor has declared a disaster due to a public health emergency. Typically, these are just $25 each. This Bill passed out of committee unanimously with no opposition, and I urge an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"Representative Ugaste, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Will the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she will."
"Just a quick question, Representative. Do you have any indication when the Governor will stop the current emergency declaration?"
"I am not in possession of a crystal ball today. So, I…"
"Okay. Thank you."
"…I'm also not the Governor. So…"
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3915 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier." 10200096.docx 33 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3915, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3930, Representative Halpin. Halpin. Out of the record. On page… Representative McLaughlin, do you seek recognition for… no. Okay. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3932, Representative Buckner. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3932, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Buckner."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3932 is known as the Jelani Day Act. It is named after a young man who lost his life. His family had to suffer the painful experience of not knowing where his body was and it took the coroner a very long time to identify who he was. So, SB3932 amends the Missing Persons Identification Act and requires any coroner or medical examiner with custody of human remains that are not identified within 72 hours of discovery to promptly notify the FBI of the location of those remains and the failure to identify those remains. This Bill is really focused on finding some closure and creating a better process for families who suffer these very unfortunate circumstances. I urge a 'yes' vote." 10200096.docx 34 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3932 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3932, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3938, Representative Robinson. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3938, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Robinson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3938 deletes outdated language from the Department of Innovation and Technology and eliminates mandates beyond the scope of the Department of Innovation and Technology purview. This is a 10200096.docx 35 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 cleanup legislation. It's a pretty simplistic Bill, no issues. And would like to ask for an 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3938 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 188 (sic-108) voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3938, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3939, Representative Robinson. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3939, a Bill for an Act concerning cybersecurity. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Robinson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is another Bill connected to DoIT. It requires the Secretary of Innovation and 10200096.docx 36 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 Technology to establish a cybersecurity liaison program to advise and assist units of local government to be able to also have a liaison in each municipality. It provides for cybersecurity training for employees in counties and municipalities. It removes training and employees of school districts, making for conforming changes."
"Representative Gonzalez, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Would the Sponsor yield?"
"Indicates he'll yield."
"Representative Robinson, first, is Senate Bill 3939 the Senate version of House Bill 5165?"
"Yes. Senate Bill 3939 is a Senate version of House Bill 5165."
"Second, to what extent does Senate Bill 3939 change the information made public by the Office of the Auditor General pursuant to audits and examinations it conducts?"
"The changes made by Senate 3939 do not change the information made by public by the Office of Auditor General, pursuant to the audits and the examinations conducted by the Auditor General."
"Thank you."
"Representative Robinson to close."
"I would like to ask for an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"Question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3939 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'." 10200096.docx 37 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3939, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the top of page 7 is Senate Bill 3954, Representative Keicher. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3954, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Keicher."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This seeks to close a small gap in TRS, where we had a teacher have a few loose ends that they had to clean up before their retirement. TRS refused to award the retirement date. So, what it does is, it says, for salary under $2 thousand remaining to be paid, in less than 10 days they can go ahead and establish an effective retire date instead of the actual retire date."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3954 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 38 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3954, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 is also Senate Bill 3957, Representative Davis. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3957, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Davis."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. Senate Bill 3957 is identical to House Bill 4672, which passed out of this chamber unanimously. It simply amends the Chicago Teacher Article of the Illinois Pension Code and provides that elections to the board for teacher trustee, administrator trustees, and pensioner trustees shall occur during the first week of November or as soon as possible 10200096.docx 39 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 thereafter, but not later than the third week of November, instead of occurring during the first week of November only. Be more than happy to answer any questions."
"There being no questions, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3957 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3957, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3971, Representative Ford. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3971, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Ford." 10200096.docx 40 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3971 does two things. It allows banks and credit unions to, one, disclose financial records pursuant to a lawful subpoena, summons, warrant, citation to discover assets, or court orders through a third- party commercial carrier by hand delivery or electronic delivery. It also implements a record retention system, under which records are retained and destroyed in a manner consistent with prudent business practices, provided that retention period is required by the State or Federal Laws, rules, and regulations. The Bill is… or it has an immediate effective date. And I move for the passage of Senate Bill 3971."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3971 pass? All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. 10200096.docx 41 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 With a vote of 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3971, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3972, Representative Mussman. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3972, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mussman."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the chamber. Senate Bill 3972 is an initiative of the disability advocates in my community to creatively address the state shortage of direct service professionals who provide care for people with disabilities. Building on existing CTE models, it creates a timeline for ISBE to work with other stakeholder groups to provide implementation guidance for schools that want to create partnerships with their area service providers to provide a work-study opportunity for students to enter the DSP field. I would like to acknowledge my constituent, Mike Baker, for his steadfast and passionate advocacy for this Bill and for so many other policies that advance the needs of individuals with disabilities. There is no fiscal impact. I am unaware of any opposition. It passed the Senate and our House committee unanimously, and I request an 'aye' vote."
"There being no on seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3972 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'." 10200096.docx 42 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 108 in 'favor', 0 'opposed', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3972, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Also, on page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3986, Representative LaPointe. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3986, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative LaPointe."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. SB3986 is a Bill that protects our youngest students who are in kindergarten, first and second grade from the harms and stresses of standardized testing by prohibiting ISBE from financially supporting these tests. The Bill makes very clear that assessments used for the diagnosis of disabilities or developmental delays or remedial services are still allowed and local school districts can still pay for these tests for our youngest 10200096.docx 43 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 children if they so choose. This same Bill passed the House a few weeks ago with 79 'yes' votes. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Bourne, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Bill. I know we had a lively debate about this Bill last time. But just a reminder, this Bill will not mean there are any fewer tests being administered at this school level. K-2 students are already required to be assessed through the Black Caucus education pillar, which you all… a lot of you voted for. And over a huge majority of schools are already doing standardized assessments. All this will do is allow local schools to not be reimbursed by the state. So, it's actually closing a door at getting funding to the schools who can't afford these tests. Please vote 'no'."
"Representative LaPointe to close."
"I urge an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3986 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes." 10200096.docx 44 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"No."
"Representative Meier votes 'no'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 69 voting 'yes', 39 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3986, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3988, Representative Avelar. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3988, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Avelar."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3988 amends the School Code to allow 18-year-olds to become a paraprofessional so long as they meet the requirements. The Bill addresses the ongoing teacher vacancies by lowering the age requirement from 19 to 18, which will help put qualified applicants in these positions. SB3988 passed the Senate unanimously. And I am open to any questions and would appreciate your support."
"No one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3988 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz." 10200096.docx 45 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3988, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3990. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3990, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Andrade."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3990 amends the school counseling services section of the School Code to expand to include encouragement of career and technical education coursework for students to help determine and set a post-secondary education plan. School counseling services shall develop individual career plans when appropriate to include college and CTE. There's no opposition to this Bill. I encourage an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3990 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy." 10200096.docx 46 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3990, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3991, Representative Collins. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3991, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Collins."
"Thank you, Speaker. Senate Bill 3991 is the children's savings account program. It's the companion Bill to House Bill 4843, which received a bipartisan vote earlier this month. I would greatly appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3991 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy." 10200096.docx 47 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 104 voting 'yes', 3 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3991, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 4000, Representative Robinson. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 4000, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Robinson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4000, as amended, the Bill provides that a retired member of the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund may be re-employed as a teacher or administrator for up to 140 days on a temporary basis, without suspending his or her retirement, annually. I would ask for an 'aye' vote." 10200096.docx 48 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4000 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', and 1 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4000, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next up is Senate Bill 4001, Representative Greenwood. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 4001, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Greenwood."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4001 is an initiative of DHS. It repeals a requirement that they collect and report on racial and ethnic demographics of a program to eliminate… to eliminate duplication. I ask for an 'aye' vote. Thank you." 10200096.docx 49 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4001 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4001, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 4006 from Representative Hernandez, presented today by Representative Ortiz. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 4006, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Ortiz."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just for clarification, House Committee Amendment 1 has been adopted, correct?"
"Mr. Clerk, what's the status of the Bill?"
"Committee Amendment #1 has been adopted." 10200096.docx 50 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the Body. Senate Bill 4006 is an initiative of Autism Speaks. The Bill will require the Department of Human Services to submit a report to the General Assembly regarding access to applied behavior analysis therapy for people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Applied behavior analysis is a evidence-based treatment that can improve the quality of life of people with autism. The therapy is tailored to the needs of each person with the goal of building skills and reducing dangers or harmful behaviors. Treatment plans can be intensive and could require up to 40 hours of therapy each week. Unfortunately, access to ABA may not be equitable for all children in need of treatment. Improved data from the reports will help expand access to this much-needed therapy for children and anyone diagnosed with autism. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4006 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes." 10200096.docx 51 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4006, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next on page 7 is Senate Bill 4013, Representative Mah. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 4013, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mah."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4013 is the regular… regulatory sunset renewal for professional counselors and clinical professional counselors. It's identical to a Bill that's already passed in this chamber unanimously. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4013 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes." 10200096.docx 52 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4013, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 4014, also Representative Mah. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 4014, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mah."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4014 is the regulatory sunset renewal for the Wholesale Drug Distribution Licensing Act. It's identical to a Bill that has passed in this chamber. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Mazzochi, for what reason do you seek…"
"Mr. Speaker, I request that we be taken off Short Debate."
"Well, why don’t you say your point and then we'll go on from there."
"All right. That's fine. Mr. Speaker, will the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she'll yield."
"Representative Mah, once again, this is not a Bill that is actually just cleaning up language. One of the new things that's being added is very broad subpoena power on page 26, line 16 to 19. Is that right?" 10200096.docx 53 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"These questions have already been addressed when we debated the Bill… the House version of this Bill."
"Right. But you're not disputing that this is broader subpoena power that we've… that we are giving to the department and it is much broader than the power they would normally have under administrative procedure rules, right?"
"The language is identical to what appears in a number of other sunset Bills for the department."
"That's actually not true. And when it comes to the actual subpoena language, we require normally, for administrative subpoenas, that the material be sought be relevant material and we actually give due process rights, and this does not actually have that in it. Similarly, when it comes to the… the hearing officer, do you have any understanding as to why the department no longer wants to inform the individuals who are actually on the advisory board of any adverse decisions that are being taken in connection with this?"
"I believe the department's already addressed these issues in a conversation with you."
"No, that’s the whole point. They haven’t actually addressed them. They said that this was something that they simply wanted to do because they don’t want to do it. And one of the reasons why we had this in place, in law, as a Legislature, is because when the department starts to go off the rails and ignore, from a professional standards perspective, what the professionals who are supposed to be advising them say, then we need to know what the disconnect is. So, what this is doing is this is causing… allowing the 10200096.docx 54 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 department to not be as transparent, to not alert the professionals who are sitting on this board that there… as to what the standards of professionalism are and when they're going to overrule the professionalism. And furthermore, I do want to let everybody know that there are going to be fee increases in this one. So, if that's something that you're not really into, I urge a 'no' vote."
"Mah to close."
"I urge an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4014 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar. Representative Meier."
"No."
"Representative Meier votes 'no'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 63 voting 'yes', 43 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4014, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 7 of the Calendar appears Senate Bill 4016, also Representative Mah. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 55 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Senate Bill 4016, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mah."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4016 is the regulatory sunset renewal for the Naprapathic Practice Act. Practitioners of this health care modality are connective tissue specialists and they've had this licensure in Illinois for longer than the past two decades. And Illinois is one of two states that offers this license, even though naprapathy is practiced all over the world. There's no opposition, and I ask for you 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4016 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 103 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4016, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. For those of you who want to hear more from Representative Mah, on top of page 8 is Senate Bill 4017. Please read the Bill." 10200096.docx 56 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Senate Bill 4017, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mah."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4017 is the regulatory sunset renewal for a funeral directors and embalmers. It is identical to a House Bill that's passed in this chamber unanimously. And I ask for your 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4017 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4017, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next is Senate Bill 4018, Representative Mah. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 57 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Senate Bill 4018, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mah."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I promise this is the last one for today. It's the regulatory sunset renewal for the Pharmacy Practice Act. Again, similar… identical to a House Bill that's passed unanimously, and I ask for your 'aye' vote."
"Representative Ugaste, for what reason do your seek recognition?"
"Will the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she'll yield."
"Representative Mah, you say this is similar to another Bill that passed earlier. Which Bill was that?"
"It's identical."
"Okay. And which Bill was that? Do you know? If you don’t have the number, don’t worry."
"I've lost track of the House Bill number."
"Okay. Did you run that Bill as well?"
"I believe I did."
"And did this Bill go through committee as well?"
"I believe it did."
"To the Bill. I understand we all voted for this and I'm sure we'll all vote for it again. Passed through committee with all the votes. But, you know, it just amazes me that this is probably the 50th or more… better Bill in the last few weeks that's identical to a House Bill that goes through a committee, we vote on it here, it goes over to the Senate, and for some reason, we're bringing the very same Bills back, considering them again, and… and in committee, and then 10200096.docx 58 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 bringing them again to the floor and taking our time and without any reason or explanation. We have a whole host of Bills and ideas and things we can't get hearings on. And it amazes me that, for some reason, we have to do the same exercises twice when we all supported those Bills. So, my only point is, while I'll probably support this, I'd really like to see us change the way we do business here. Because it's not right to give Bills consideration twice for absolutely no reason and fail to give other good Bills consideration hearing which will address the issues we've been talking about of crime, taxation, safety and all those other great issues. Thank you."
"Representative Mah to close."
"I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4018 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'." 10200096.docx 59 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 104 voting in 'favor', 1 voting 'against', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4018, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 8 of the Calendar is House Bill 4024, Representative Hirschauer. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 4024, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hirschauer."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4024 is an initiative of the Illinois Department on Aging and the Department of Human Services. Currently, there is a requirement in statute that the Department on Aging label their consumer care choice search tool with the name 'Resident's Right to Know'. The Long Term Care Ombudsman testified this labeling is misleading and confusing. They would like to change it. The Department of Human Services faces a similar requirement in statute and would like to rename their 'For Customers' tool. This Bill allows them to do that. I'm happy to answers questions and ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4024 pass?' All those in favor vote 'aye'; opposed vote 'nay'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz." 10200096.docx 60 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 106 voting in 'favor', 0 voting 'against', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4024, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 8 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 4025, Representative Stuart. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 4025, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Stuart."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 4025 is an IDHS initiative that will increase the quality, integrity, and fairness of the reporting procedures for the Health Care Worker Registry. And I would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4025 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz." 10200096.docx 61 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4025, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 8 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 4056, Representative Mussman. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 4056, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Mussman."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the chamber. Senate Bill 4056 is the State Board of Education's annual school cleanup Bill, which removes obsolete language and makes technical adjustments to the School Code without making any substantive changes to the statute. It touches on aspects of finance, licensure, task forces, CTE reporting and data, bullying prevention, et cetera. Passed the Senate unanimously and there is no known opposition. I request an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no… no one seeking to speak, question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 4056 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Clerk." 10200096.docx 62 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', and 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 4056, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Mr. Clerk, Rules Report. On page 2 of the… Ladies and Gentlemen, we're returning to the Order of Second Reading. Second Reading. On page 2 of the Calendar is House Bill 1449, Representative Willis. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"House Bill 1449, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. The Bill was read for a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1 is offered by Representative Willis."
"Representative Willis on Floor Amendment 1."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment 1 is a gut and replace that combines two regulatory Acts. The Elevator Safety Regulatory Act and the Fire Equipment Distributor 10200096.docx 63 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 Employee Regulatory Act. Both basically going for sunset extensions on them and some cleanup agreed language. I'd be willing to debate it on Third, please."
"Representative Willis has moved for the adoption of House Bill 1449. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And Floor Amendment #1 is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"House Bill 1449, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Willis."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I stated earlier, this is the Elevator Safety Regulatory Act looking for a sunset extension for five years, along with some cleanup language. All of the language in here has been agreed upon by all the stakeholders in there, same with the Fire Equipment Distributor and Employee Regulatory Act. Again, looking for a five-year extension. It does change, in that Act, the licensing fees to be determined by rules instead of statute. I request an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Batinick, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she'll yield."
"Representative, you said the Amendment included agreed language with everybody. In our initial analysis, you had the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers opposed the Bill." 10200096.docx 64 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"So, the engineers had requested… they came in after we were done with committee and asked that they would be exempt from this. And I told them, at this point, it was too late for us to do that. We are open to that and I am happy to carry a trailer Bill next Session for them on this. But they are not… they told me clearly they were not opposed. They had just asked for that to be in there."
"So, there are no… they're neutral now?"
"I believe they're neutral."
"Okay. Mr. Speaker, can we just have one more speaker on this off Short Debate?"
"Certainly."
"Thank you. I have no further questions."
"On Short Debate, Representative Mazzochi."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she'll yield."
"On page 46, you're eliminating the temporary certificate of operation. Is that for an elevator?"
"Yes, Ma'am."
"All right. Why are we getting rid of the temporary certificates of operations? 'Cause sometimes those are necessary when you're in the process of engaging in building construction."
"All I can tell you is that the… it was agreed upon by the stakeholders. They didn’t have any opposition to taking it out. So, I was not in on those discussions. The Office of the Fire Marshal had those discussions with them and they… it was part of the cleanup language of the Regulatory Act." 10200096.docx 65 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yeah, well, I just want to state for the record and maybe the Governor will hear this when he… and do an Amendatory Veto, but getting rid of the temporary certificate of operation, it may very well be that the fire marshals aren’t necessarily thinking about it. But from a building contractor perspective, the ability to have a temporary certificate of operation can be critical and actually can be very helpful to laborers because what it means is you might be able to send supplies up in a temporary elevator, which is going to take a lot of burden off of them so they're literally not carrying stuff off of stairs. Even though you recognize it, it's not yet ready for full operation. So, I think this is an area where maybe not everybody realized that this was going to be coming and I… I certainly would encourage that… that eliminating the temporary certificate of operation, that’s… that's a deletion that we shouldn't be making. Thank you."
"One of the things I'd like to point out is that the City of Chicago is exempt from this… these guidelines. So… which would be probably where the majority of those temporary certificates would be put through."
"Having relied on these myself in connection with building construction, I can assure you it is not just in Chicago."
"Okay."
"It can be anywhere where you… you could even have a two-story, three-story type situation. You could be building something that's going to be used for warehousing where you just need to have it so that you can move supplies from the 10200096.docx 66 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 floors as your building them. So, getting rid of this is a mistake."
"Representative Willis to close."
"I encourage an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"The question is, 'Shall House Bill 1449 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar. Representative Meier."
"No."
"Representative Meier votes 'no'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 88 voting 'yes', 18 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', House Bill 1449, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. We are returning to the Order of Third… Senate Bills on Third Reading. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 153, Representative Didech. Out of the record. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 645, Representative Hoffman. Out of the record. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 702, Representative Avelar. Avelar. Representative, do you wish to move this back for the purpose of a Floor Amendment? Representative Avelar." 10200096.docx 67 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"We adopted the Amendment. Yes. Yes, to the floor… yes."
"So, Mr. Clerk, please move this Bill back to the Order of Second Reading for purposes of an Amendment. What's the status of Senate Bill 702, Mr. Clerk?"
"Senate Bill 702, a Bill for an Act concerning aging. The Bill was read for a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1 is offered by Representative Avelar."
"Representative Avelar on Floor Amendment #1."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment #1 to Senate Bill 702, what this Amendment does is that it adds a member from the collar counties to be part of the Senior Housing Residents' Advisory Council."
"Representative Avelar moves for the adoption of Floor Amendment #1. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 702, a Bill for an Act concerning aging. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Avelar."
"Thank you, again, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 702 creates the Senior Housing Residents' Advisory Council, which would be focused on evaluating resources, services, and state outreach for seniors in residential facilities. Our seniors deserve the best quality of care and we must stay committed to combating some of the common systemic issues that many individuals at these facilities face, such as vacancies, 10200096.docx 68 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 isolation, and inaccessibility to essential services. I'm open to any questions."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 702 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy is 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 702, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3073, Representative Mayfield. Out of the record. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3172, Representative LaPointe. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3172, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative LaPointe." 10200096.docx 69 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. SB3172 extends an interagency agreement that was put into place in statute in 2015. It extends it by five years. It's an interagency agreement between DCFS, Human Services, HFS, ISBE, IDJJ, and the Department of Public Health. It establishes a clinical team that is responsible for connecting our youth and their families with appropriate services, with the goal to fend off custody relinquishment."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3172 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Sorry. Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3172, is here… having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next on page 4 is Senate Bill 3416, Representative Evans. Evans. Out of the record. On 10200096.docx 70 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 page 4 is Senate Bill 3465, Representative LaPointe. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3465, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative LaPointe."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. SB3465 is another tool in the toolbox to address our teacher shortage at this specific moment in time by allowing retired members of the Chicago Teacher Pension Fund to return to work through June 30, 2024 without affecting their annuities if they teach in a subject shortage area. There are no opponents to this Bill. It passed the Senate unanimously in February. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3465 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. 10200096.docx 71 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3465, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Next on the Calendar is House (sic-Senate) Bill 3474, Representative Avelar. Avelar. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3474, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Avelar."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3474 ensures that accurate information is provided to families of children with disabilities who have an individual education plan. So, what this Bill does is that it provides that the Office of the State Treasurer develop informational materials, such as brochures, frequent… FAQ documents, about the ABLE savings account and to send these materials to the State Board of Education for distribution to school districts. Districts would then include the materials in the document packets provided to parents for their children's individual education plan review meetings. This Bill passed unanimously in the Senate and it also passed unanimously out of committee. And I am open to any questions."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3474 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. 10200096.docx 72 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
Clerk Bolin: "Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 102 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3474, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3482, Representative Harper. Harper. Out of the record, Mr. Clerk. Members, we're starting on the Order of Senate Bills-Second Reading. On page 8 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 670, Representative Halpin. Halpin. Out of the record. On page 8 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 705, Evans. Representative Evans. Out of the record. On page 9 of the Calendar, on Senate Bill 1486, is Representative McCombie. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 1486, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. The Bill was read for a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #3 is offered by Representative McCombie."
"Representative McCombie on Floor Amendment #3."
"Thank you, Speaker. SB1486… ask for your indulgence to first thank Senator McClure and Representative Hamilton, and all the players that have been instrumental in this, including Chair… Representative Moeller and Representative Hammond. 10200096.docx 73 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 SB1486 is brought forward, as many of you are familiar with the murder… because of the murder of Pam Knight and Deidre Silas. The Amendment basically is a full gut and replace, and it defines what pepper spray is, who will use it, how it'll be used, what happens if it's used, how to report the use, and annually reporting component brought forward by ACLU and that it will also be posted to the Web site. It also states that DCFS and ISP will identify the approved devices and jointly develop a training curriculum and program for proper use. It sets forward specific parameters that will limit the risk for our frontline workers and the families they serve."
"Representative Ammons, for what reason do you seek… Representative Ammons."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?"
"She indicates she'll yield. Or, Representative, would you like to adopt this and debate the Bill on Third? Is that…"
"Please. I'm sorry. Yes."
"Representative Ammons, is that all right? Okay."
"Thank you."
"All right. Representative McCombie has adopted for the resolution of Floor Amendment #3 to Senate Bill 1486. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Anything further Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 1486, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill." 10200096.docx 74 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative McCombie."
"I just explained everything that was in the Bill. So, I'll take questions on the Amendment."
"Representative Ammons."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Sponsor yield for a few questions?"
"Sure."
"She indicates she will."
"Thank you. In this gut and replace, does this gut and replace speak to a age limit that these devices could be used on? On children?"
"No, not… there's no age. There was an original idea for that, but that is pretty difficult to determine. However, it does state that it shall not be used negligently."
"And is there a clear definition of what negligible means to a worker?"
"Well, it states… I'm trying to find it here exactly so I can read it to you. Reasonable… let's see here. It's very clear that the device may only be used when they believe… reasonably believes it's necessary to protect themselves from imminent physical danger posed by another person. They can only use the device to capacitate a person attempting physical assault in order to avoid imminent physical harm and to facilitate escape from danger when there is no other alternative."
"And does this Bill also hold a person liable in any way, shape, or form? Are they going to be put on leave for investigation if they use these devices on someone?" 10200096.docx 75 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Well, if they use the devices improperly, regardless of any plan set in place, there will be… there could be a battery charge. However, the department and CMS, as well as AFSCME, will… through collective bargaining, will determine any sort of punishment through their collective bargaining."
"So, currently as this stand, the Bill has no protections for abuse or misuse. There's no clear definition of negligent. They have to determine whether they feel like they're in danger or not. And all of that is based on subjective ideas of the person who's authorized to use it."
"Well, it states point blank in it that the use of it is prohibited for reasons outside of their own personal protection. That being said, there is parameters set in place here in the Bill that are… that were brought forward between ACLU and AFSCME to help actually set up parameters. And just… I'd like to remind the Body that there is no… there's nothing stating in the law today that DCFS workers cannot carry. So, this Bill would directly set up parameters to have them carry. And actually, I think the most important thing, that it would be adding a training that would help them deescalate a situation so they would not have to be using it. It also is not a mandate for staff to carry. And if they do carry, they have to go through this training as well."
"Thank you. To the Bill. This Bill does not solve any problems of the Department of Children and Family Services, nor does it actually offer any real protection for a worker. I use to be a worker, and whether I have mace or not, this does not offer any true protection for the workers. The Department of Children and Family Services needs to be 10200096.docx 76 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 completely reformed, revised, restructured, and readministered. And this is just one of those Band-Aid kind of Bills that would put a lot of people in harm's way and create serious dangers for children and their families. And let's not forget that there is a cultural difference and an anti-black bias that is very real in this society. And I would be very concerned about a person who just said, I feel… felt threatened. Just to remind people that there have been many, many, murders of innocent, unarmed African Americans in this very society with people who have many weapons on their hips and sides and very little accountability for the murders of innocent citizens. And so, once again, we want to arm and change our society into that which we think protection is violence and this is a violent mean to protect workers. I do not support this and ask our Members not to vote for it. I urge a 'no' vote on this measure."
"There are other Members seeking to speak. We are on the Order of Short Debate. One in favor, one in opposition. We have heard an opponent. Representative McCombie to close."
"Thank you. Let me remind the Body that if this does not pass today, that is a win for DCFS workers because they will be able to carry without any parameters set in place. They will be able to carry without any approved devices known. They will be able to carry without any training. So, let me be clear that that can happen if this Bill does not pass today. And let me remind the Body that this Bill… you're absolutely right, Representative Ammons. DCFS needs a lot of work. We've talked about it, and we continue to talk about it. Will this end up saving lives? I don’t know. But it sure 10200096.docx 77 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 might've helped Pam Knight have three seconds to get away before she was brutally murdered by the hands of a man whose child she was checking on. And it also may have given Deidre Silas a second or three seconds to get away. That's the point of this. I have faith in our ISP and our DCFS workers that they are not going to be using this as a tool to hurt children. They are doing this only to protect themselves and to get away. Is this the end-all? Absolutely not. Will this be helpful in a knife fight? Probably not. Will this be helpful if they have a gun to their head? Probably not. But this is one tool we can give them and we can allow them to have parameters put in place. And the training that they're going to receive for this is also going to help them in other areas of their job performance. I ask for your support in the name of Pam Knight and the name of Deidre Silas and in the future name of anybody who might be in this position. Thank you."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 1486 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"No."
"Representative Cassidy votes 'no'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier." 10200096.docx 78 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 100 voting 'yes', 0 voting… I'm sorry… 100 voting 'yes', 4 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 1486, having achieved a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Representative Welter, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Mr. Speaker, let the record reflect that Representative Sosnowski is excused for the rest of the day."
"The record…"
"However long the day may be."
"The record shall so reflect. Members, returning to the Order of Senate Bills on Third Reading. On page 4 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 645, Representative Hoffman. Hoffman. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 645, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hoffman."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Committee. Senate Bill 645 is an initiative of the operating engineers here in Illinois. What it indicates is that the sick leave that is contained in the Employee Sick Leave Act, for the purposes of intent and for collective bargaining, is simply the minimum that it can be provided. I ask for a favorable vote."
"Representative Reick, for what reason do you seek recognition?" 10200096.docx 79 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Sponsor yield?"
"Indicates he'll yield."
"Representative, we've been through this Bill a lot in committee and it… it brings up some issues dealing with… first of all, it was brought up as a Bill to help airline employees who are subject to the Railway Labor Act and this Bill does not even address that." Hoffman: No. This is… we used that Bill as a vehicle."
"I realize that. But the fact that what we're doing is… would you flesh out the idea of what it is that we're adding to the rights of workers here? Are we adding additional days of sick leave? Are we… what are we adding in terms of the ability of people to take sick leave?"
"The Act doesn’t provide any sick leave for anybody. We're not changing that. It simply indicates that employers to allow employees to use a portion of sick leave time, already available to them, to care for certain relatives, including a child, stepchild, spouse, domestic partner, sibling, parent, mother-in-law, father-in-law, grandchild, grandparent, or stepparent. That's what it does. That's what it currently does. And this simply indicates that for the purposes of collective bargaining, that that is simply the minimum, not the maximum."
"I guess my problem with it is, is the fact that, why are we establishing a new floor for collective bargaining when collective bargaining itself anticipates the establishment of rules dealing with these particular things? I have… again, I have a problem with establishing floors on discussions between parties in their collective bargaining, especially 10200096.docx 80 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 when we're… we already have a reasonable amount of… of allowance here. What we're doing is we're raising the floor, we're interjecting ourselves into the collective bargaining process in… in a manner that I believe goes way beyond what we should have the authority to do."
"Well, I think… I think you're… I respect what you're saying, but I think you're reading into this a lot more than what it actually is. We're not changing, at all, the current law with regard to who can utilize the sick leave or for what reason you can utilize your sick leave. We are not saying that you are mandated to give sick leave. We're just saying for the purposes of negotiation, that is the floor."
"Then again, what you're doing is you are interjecting yourself into the collective bargaining process by… by gerrymandering, so to speak, the beneficiaries of care from somebody who is entitled to sick leave under a collective bargaining agreement."
"I believe what we're doing is we're clarifying the initial intent of the law."
"By adding various stages of (unintelligible) as to who it can and cannot be the… be the recipient of care from an employee who is subject… what I'm saying is that the employer is dealing here with the employee and we're giving the employee all of these abilities to further use this sick time that is negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement. I mean, where does it stop?"
"Well, again, this is an attempt simply to clarify who is entitled to this and what you can use it for, whether it is a collective bargaining or it isn’t. However, my 10200096.docx 81 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 understanding, in some instances, what has happened is, in the act of bargaining, some folks have said, 'Well, this is the ceiling'. It's not. It was intended to be applied to everyone, whether you're part of a collective bargaining agreement or not."
"See, you and I are seeing this entirely… entirely differently. I see it as a means by which we, here in this room, are injecting ourselves into a collective bargaining agreement. You said yourself just in your recent remarks that this is something that is subject to collective bargaining. Why not allow a business and… and a labor representative to make that decision themselves? Why are we injecting ourselves into this process? I just don’t understand why it is we have to take this further step, further step, further step in making things part of a floor that should be part of the process going in a room that's… where people are negotiating a labor contract."
"Well, the… the Bill in Illinois and our current law applies to everyone, whether it's collective bargaining or otherwise. And it was intended to be a floor, not a ceiling, for everyone. Whether you're subject to collective bargaining agreement or not. And this just clarifies that and clarifies that intent."
"To the Bill. I don’t believe that that's what this says at all. What I believe is, is that what we're doing is we're, again, injecting ourselves one more time into a process that is best left in the negotiating room and not on the floor of the Illinois General Assembly. I would urge a 'no' vote on this Bill. Thank you." 10200096.docx 82 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Hoffman to close."
"I respect what the previous speaker indicated, but I think we just have a fundamental policy disagreement. This does not change existing law. It simply clarifies our intent for individuals who are part of a collective bargaining agreement, who are or not. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 645 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier. Representative Meier."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 77 voting 'yes', 25 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 645, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 5 of the Calendar appears Senate Bill 3848, Representative Delgado. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3848, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Delgado." 10200096.docx 83 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3848 is the Senate companion to House Bill 4608. So, as a reminder, Senate Bill 3848 has a Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, CMAP, and its policy committee, in coordination with the RTA, develop and submit a report of legislative recommendations. There was a clarification made in the Senate in regard to the RTA's strategic plan being taken into account. But I think that this report is a really important first step to review the health of our transit system in Northeastern Illinois today. This Bill passed unanimously out of the Senate and unanimously out of the House committee. I know of no opponents, and I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Welter, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Mr. Speaker, please let the record reflect that Representative Demmer is excused for the rest of the day."
"Record shall so reflect. Seeing no one seeking a chance to speak, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3848 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes." 10200096.docx 84 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With a vote of 105 in 'favor', 0 'opposed', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3848, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 9 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 2942. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 2942, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. This Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendments 2 and 3 have been approved for consideration. Floor Amendment #2 is offered by Representative Cassidy."
"Representative Cassidy on Floor Amendment #2."
"Actually, I want to withdraw 2 and adopt 3, please."
Speaker Harris: "Representative Cassidy has withdrawn Floor Amendment #2. Mr. Clerk."
"Floor Amendment #3 is offered by Representative Cassidy and has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Cassidy on Floor Amendment #3."
"Floor Amendment 3 represents some language from the McLean County State's Attorney addressing an issue that was missed in the Senate. I'd like to adopt it and debate on Third."
"Representative Cassidy has moved for the adoption of Floor Amendment #3. All those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 10200096.docx 85 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 say 'no'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 2942, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. Senate Bill 2942 represents an initiative of the McLean County State's Attorney in cooperation with advocates for survivors of sexual assault to address issues of privacy and retraumatization for folks who are survivors of sex crimes who were minors at the time of the offense. But given some of the realities of our court systems, sometimes they're not still minors by the time the case goes to trial. This allows the same levels of protection for those survivors that those minor survivors would have, even when the trial takes longer than their 18th birthday to be able to get to trial. So, it allows for folks to be removed from the court room during times of sensitive testimony or evidence. And I ask for your support."
"Representative Brady, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"To the Bill. Representative, thank you very much on working with this… on this Bill from the McLean County side of things. And just to her point… to the Representative's point that this Bill seeks to allow the court the flexibility in some areas of some of the most sensitive and youngest of victims of sexual assault to be able to address the needs of 10200096.docx 86 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 the state's attorney better. So, I certainly intend to vote 'yes'."
"There being no one else seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 2942 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 2942, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 9 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3082, Representative Vella. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3082, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. This Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Vella, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Vella." 10200096.docx 87 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you. Senate Bill 3082 amends the High-Speed Rail Commission Act by clarifying the commission's members are not specifically appointed by statute or appointed by the Governor. Mandate the appointments be made by January 1, 2023. It amends the Local Journalism Task Force Act by increasing the number of members from 13 to 19 and mandating the Governor appoint a representative for each of the following organizations for the 30 days, and it lists the different organizations. House Floor Amendment 1 is a page and line Amendment that mandates the Local Journalism Task Force to submit its findings to the Governor by July 1, 2023. And House Floor Amendment #2 is a gut and replace Amendment that retains House Floor Amendment #1 regarding the High-Speed Rail Commission. It makes technical changes regarding the appointment… appointed House Members and the chairperson of Metra to take… to make their titles consistent with existing statute. Clarifies that on the gubernatorial appointments in the High-Speed Rail Commission must be made by January 1, 2023. Mandates the High-Speed Rail Commission conduct its first meeting within 30 days. And clarifies that the members of the High-Speed Rail Commission serve without compensation. This is an Amendment… is an initiative of the high-speed rail lines. And I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3082 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'… oops, I'm sorry. I got ahead of myself there. So, we are simply adopting a Floor Amendment. Representative Vella moves for the adoption of Floor Amendment #2 to Senate Bill 3082. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the 10200096.docx 88 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3082, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Vella on the Bill."
"What I said before. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"What I said before. Wait a minute. I'm sorry, Representative Batinick would like to ask a question."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?"
"He indicates he'll yield."
"Representative, there is a few 'no' votes in committee and in the Senate. Do you have any idea what the reason was for those?"
"I believe the question, I think, was from Representative Lewis, who… the question was, were there any appointments made by anybody other than the Governor? And I said, no. And that was the objection."
"Okay. To the Bill. I think that the phrase high-speed rail in Illinois is a misnomer. It's a medium-speed rail, expensive. This has been promised for decades. It doesn’t work. Dreams of high-speed rail… Chicago to St. Louis isn’t Paris to London. So, I urge a 'no' vote."
"Representative Vella to close."
"I urge an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3082 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk." 10200096.docx 89 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"No."
"Representative Meier votes 'no'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 76 in 'favor', 28 'opposed', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3082, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 9 of the Calendar appears Senate Bill 2940, Representative Hoffman. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 2940, a Bill for an Act concerning electric vehicles. The Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Hoffman, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Hoffman on Floor Amendment #2."
"Yes, this would indicate that the floor for car rebates, electric car rebates, would be $1500, similar to what the underlying Bill is going to be for motorcycles."
"Representative Hoffman has moved for the adoption of Floor Amendment #2. All those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 10200096.docx 90 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 say 'no'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. Floor Amendment #2 is adopted. Anything further Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 2940, a Bill for an Act concerning electric vehicles. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Hoffman."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. This is a trailer Bill to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, the CEJA Bill, which makes it legal for electric motorcycles… legal electric motorcycles to be eligible for a $1500 electric vehicle rebate. And it would also indicate that the floor for cars, when they receive their rebates, would be $1500 as well. I believe that everybody is in favor, nobody is against."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 2940 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes." 10200096.docx 91 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 2940, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Just a note for Members. If you learn how to pronounce Representative McCombie's name correctly, you get excellent chocolate. So, thank you very much. On page 9 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3097, Representative Zalewski. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3097, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. Second Reading of this Senate Bill. Amendment 1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3097, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Zalewski."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. The Bill simply changes a notice requirement when it comes to tax sales and notice of redemption periods. We had given responsibility to the wrong agency. We needed to give it to the Cook County Clerk. So, this makes that change. I'd ask for an 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3097 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'." 10200096.docx 92 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 103 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3097, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 10 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3597, Representative Smith. Please read the Bill, Mr. Clerk."
"Senate Bill 3597, a Bill for an Act concerning land. The Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Smith, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Smith on Floor Amendment #2."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Senate Bill 3597, Floor Amendment 2 adds an additional land transfer from the Department of Corrections to the Lockport Township Fire Protection District as well as the existing land transfer language from the Department of Corrections to the Village of Hopkins Park. I urge an 'aye' vote." 10200096.docx 93 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Smith has moved for the adoption of Floor Amendment #2. All those in favor say 'yes'; opposed say 'no'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. Floor Amendment #2 is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3597, a Bill for an Act concerning land. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Smith."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, the… I just really explained the Bill and the Amendment. So, this is simply a land transfer Bill from the Department of Corrections to local municipal authorities."
"Seeing no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3597 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'." 10200096.docx 94 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3597, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 10 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3682, Representative Gabel. Gabel. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3682, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this Senate Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments have been approved for consideration. And no Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3682, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Gabel."
"Hi. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have an Amendment 2 actually that was just adopted in committee for this Bill."
"The Clerk informs me they have found your Amendment. So, we're going to roll this back to the Order of Second Reading. And, Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3682, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. The Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Gabel, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Gabel on Floor Amendment 2."
"Thank you. This Amendment is a gut and replace. It now addresses the issue of cervical cancer in women. I move to adopt the Amendment and then I'll explain it on Third." 10200096.docx 95 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Representative Gabel has moved to adopt Floor Amendment #2. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And Floor Amendment #2 is adopted. Anything further, Mr. Clerk?"
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3682, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Gabel on the Bill."
"Thank you. Cervical cancer, unlike many other cancers, is a hundred percent preventable. It's caused by the HPV virus and can be prevented by the HPV vaccination and regular screenings for precancerous changes. A group of doctors, many of whom filed witness slips in committee, have been working for the last two years really looking at how to lower the incidents of this preventable cancer. This Amendment really addresses a few of the ways that our health care system sometimes fails women. The first, it ensures that women always get their cervical cancer screening results in language that a layperson can understand. Many of you, I think, can understand that when you get the results from your doctor and you have no idea what they mean. The problem is, is that then these women don't follow up and their early cancer turns into a more dangerous cancer. In the second part of the Amendment, improves access to HPV vaccines for those who want to get them. They would be… the Food and Drug Administration expanded the age at which the HPV vaccine is approved for up to age 45. Research shows that for women who have abnormalities, if they can get this vaccine, they have… it can reduce the 10200096.docx 96 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 reoccurrences three to fourfold. So, this Bill addresses those two aspects of really increasing access to preventable cancer for women. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Mazzochi is recognized."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Indicates she'll yield."
"Do you have an understanding as to what types of preauthorization requirements were in place in connection with the HPV vaccine?"
"There would not be any preauthorization."
"No. I know that. Do you know why there were existing preauthorization requirements for the HPV vaccine? Why insurance companies sometimes imposed them?"
"No, I do not."
"Okay. Well… I mean, one of the reasons why is that there are instances where the… if you're above a certain age, if you haven’t had… if you have certain existing… pre-existing conditions, if you have… there are medical populations where the HPV vaccine has not necessarily been allowed to work well. So, one of the, I guess, downsides of this is that you are by… is that one of the reasons why the preauthorization requirements often are in place is because there might actually be some medical contraindications for this. One of the additional follow up questions is, by having this degree of coverage, is this going to make it easier to allow schools to mandate HPV vaccination as a condition of attending school?"
"No, it will not."
"Okay. And how do you know that?" 10200096.docx 97 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"This is a pilot program in the IBCCP program and this has nothing to do with mandating anything. This is a program that already exists and this is a smaller pilot program of that to be able to allow women to treat and prevent cancer."
"Okay. And by… through this process, is this going to allow Planned Parenthood to get funding for…"
"No."
"…doing HPV vaccines?"
"No."
"All right. Thank you. No further questions."
"Representative Gabel to close."
"So, this Bill was brought to me by Equal Hope. They're an incredible organization that really works to prevent and treat breast and cervical cancer and address the disparities in African American and Latino women. And I urge an 'aye' vote."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3682 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier." 10200096.docx 98 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Mr. Clerk… oh, I'm sorry. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 102 in 'favor', 1 'opposed', and 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3682, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 10 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3720, Representative Ammons. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3720, a Bill for an Act concerning children. Second Reading of this Senate Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor… correction. The Bill was read a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3720, a Bill for an Act concerning children. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Ammons."
"Thank you. Senate Bill 3720, Senator Karina Villa, who was our colleague here, worked on this Bill. It creates a three-year pilot program to ensure bias-free decision-making process in the event that a child needs to be removed from their home. Specifically establishes a Bias-Free Case Review Team with DCFS to look at these cases before the children are permanently removed. And I move for an 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3720 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy." 10200096.docx 99 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz is 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'. Representative Burke."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3720, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 10 of the Calendar is Senate Bill 3832, Representative Harper. Harper. Mr. Clerk, out of the record. Back on the Order of Senate Bills-Third Reading is Senate Bill 3793, Representative Kelly. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3793, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Kelly."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This… Senate Bill 3793 is an initiative to curb reckless driving around school zones. It amends the Vehicle Code with new penalties. The penalties… it 10200096.docx 100 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 adds community service in an amount set by the court to the existing possible punishments for speeding in a school zone and/or failing to stop when a school bus is stopped, receiving or discharging children. This Bill passed unanimously through the Senate. Also, unanimous through the committee and has no known opponents. I encourage an 'aye' vote."
"There being no one seeking recognition, the question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3793 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"Yes."
"Representative Meier votes 'yes'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 104 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3793, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On page 6 of the Calendar 10200096.docx 101 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 is Senate Bill 3930, Representative Halpin. Please read the Bill."
"Senate Bill 3930, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. Third Reading of this Senate Bill."
"Representative Halpin."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members. Back in the 100th General Assembly, we passed the Illinois Home Grown Business Opportunity Act, which helped cities, municipalities, and small businesses in poor communities to make sure established resources for them, given the competitive nature sometimes of our state borders. What Senate Bill 3930 does is to expand what must be included in DCEO's plan to facilitate this. And then also creates what we call the Border Community COVID-19 Mitigation Grant Program, subject to appropriation. So, in the first part, DCEO is required to add to the plan to make sure and notify small businesses and municipalities of all funding opportunities that the State of Illinois and the Federal Government are offering to small businesses and municipalities. And second, it requires notification to small businesses and municipalities whenever there are new restrictions placed upon those communities, as it may relate to COVID-19 public health emergency. Fortunately, most of those mitigations are… are gone, but in the worst-case scenario, if they were to come back, we'd want to make sure, especially in our border communities where the other states may have different mitigation strategies, to make sure that those local governments and small businesses are aware of what those restrictions are to make sure they can make… you know, make the best of a bad situation. And then second, the 10200096.docx 102 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 grant program, again, is subject to appropriation, but it would be specifically for communities geographically close to bordering states in order to help them recover from those public health emergencies. I think that's all I have as a summary. And I actually would be happy to answer questions for once, if anyone's surprised."
"Representative McLaughlin."
"Hello. Yes, thanks, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to take this off limited debate, as we had a number of questions from Members in committee."
"If you would like to just ask some questions, we're not running a timer for you. If you'd like to just ask a bunch of questions, we're not going to run a timer on you."
"Yeah, but I'd like to take it off limited debate. There's, I believe, three Members… Standard Debate. I'd like to put it on Standard Debate, if possible."
"We will run three Members and we'll run a three- minute timer. Is that all right?"
"Thank you. Would the Representative yield?"
"Indicates he'll yield."
"Throughout the Bill, it was discussed in committee, are we still under emergency COVID declarations from the Governor's Office?"
"I believe there are certain Executive Orders still in place. But the most… you know, the severe mitigations about indoor capacity or masks, those are all gone at the moment. Correct."
"Okay. Has this Body agreed with the current unilateral assessment from the Governor's Office? Our reading 10200096.docx 103 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 was that… and the question is, if the emergency declaration no longer exists, will that make this Bill unnecessary?"
"So, the… the answer to the that question is, no, it's not unnecessary. There is no indication what may happen in the future or what mitigations the State of Illinois, either through the Governor or through this Body, may… may ultimately determine. And so, I would say it would not be made moot by the current situation."
"Okay. Thank you. And so, I just want to make sure I understand this Bill that’s proposed, and I'm quoting from it. It helps businesses and municipalities in being more economically competitive with bordering states. A question we had in committee that wasn’t clear is, does this Bill include the City of Chicago?"
"So, after committee, I did follow up with the department on that question to ask what the current definition, or how they interpret the current definition under the plan. They don’t have a specific definition. But I would say it is my intent that this is… when we think of border communities, we're thinking about smaller communities near our borders. And my intent, at least, is not to cover the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago is already a world-class city…"
"So… yeah. Representative, I apologize."
"…attracts a lot of business."
"I'm on a short… tight schedule."
"I totally understand. Go ahead, Representative."
"So, is that a yes or a no?"
"My intent is no." 10200096.docx 104 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"The intent, but the way it's written, we… we believe that it actually includes Chicago. So, can we get a…"
"No, I would say it does not."
"Okay. What anti-competitive laws exist in Illinois today for businesses and municipalities that make this necessary?"
"Well, I think the purpose of the Bill is to make sure that, especially when there's public health crises where rules may be different on different sides of, let's say, the Mississippi River, we make sure our municipalities and small businesses are prepared for that."
"Okay. So, to the Bill. I'd like to add a few… I pulled this up from the Illinois Department of Revenue, and I just want to read few of the reasons why I believe that Illinois is in a perennial anti-competitive status. Bingo tax licensing fees, charitable game tax, pull tab tax and license fees, cigarette tax, cigarette use tax, cigarette machine tax, coin operated amusement tax, dry cleaning tax, gas tax, gas use tax, and I'll refrain this Body from reading the rest, as I am not a mortgage disclosure or radio pitch man. To the Bill. This is planned to tax everyone across the straight… excuse me, across the state to artificially prop up cities where the problem has been the most notable. This Bill is trying to cover for our poor policies that have hurt our businesses, our communities, and our families. It's not competitive. It's a lot too little, a lot too late. I urge this Body for a 'no' vote for a law that penalizes all Illinoisans. Thank you."
"Representative Hammond is recognized." 10200096.docx 105 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?"
"Indicates he'll yield."
"So, Representative Halpin, for example, in your area, I know you have the Niabi Zoo. Would… under this provision, under this statute, if it were to become law, would something like an incentive for a filming like the Tiger King or something, would that be included in something like this?"
"So, yeah. So, the Niabi Zoo is a function of the local forest preserve, which would qualify as a municipality. So, I believe it would be covered, not only under the DCEO economic plan, but might also be eligible for grants through the grant program."
"And… and film credits as well?"
"Yes, I think they may… I'm not an expert on the existing film credit structure. I believe they would be eligible, but I'm not a hundred percent sure."
"Thank you. Appreciate it."
"Representative Halbrook."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. A question of the Sponsor. I guess that's approved?"
"Yep."
"Yeah. Go ahead."
"Thank you. So, Representative, we had quite a debate. This went out on partisan leave. I just want to clarify, do we have a definition on geographically close yet?"
"No. So, the department does not have a specific definition for geographically close." 10200096.docx 106 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"Okay. And it says it's subject to appropriation. I know we had a question about that in committee."
"Yes."
"Do you have an idea of what this program may plan to spend?"
"No. So, I think that… my intent is to get this program on the books, make sure that DCO completes the economic plan with these two provisions to make sure that they're… the department considers them. And then going forward, we may be able to determine what the appropriate level of appropriation would be."
"And then also, it talks about that this is COVID-19 Mitigation Grant Program. I think most would agree that COVID- 19 is pretty well over with. Why are we narrowly defining this program along this virus that's pretty well over with?"
"Well, I would hope and agree with you that it seems over with. I hope that is the case. I believe it's important to have this in place in that worst-case scenario. I think we have other levers that we can pull when we talk about DCEO grant programs with EDGE tax credits, enterprise zones, and the like. We can do… we can certainly do more of those programs if you'd like. I'd be happy to work with you to do that."
"Well, I guess I'd like to eliminate some of these programs and especially one like this. We could all agree that many areas of this state have been hit hard, some harder than others. But we agree that this… these border towns are hit extremely hard. Towns like Danville, Paris, Marshall, Robinson, all along the eastern side of the state. Quincy and 10200096.docx 107 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 the Quad Cities on the western side of state. You know, these communities are hit really hard because of the uncompetitive situation that Illinois is in compared to these other states when it comes to gas taxes, property taxes, workers' comp costs, labor and pension costs, and more of these costs just continue to go up and up when our border communities are less expensive to do business in. So, my question is, to the Members of this Body is, what is our plan to reduce these costs in our state to make us more competitive to our neighboring? Are we going to cut property taxes? Are we going to cut some income taxes? Are we going to cut some other taxes? It seems like that’s quite to the contrary that we want to just tax everybody and pinpoint just a few. And so, I think this is the wrong policy. I think we need to be looking at some reform that helps everybody in this state to be more competitive with our neighbors across the border. Thank you."
"Representative Halpin to close."
"You know, I appreciate the comments from the other side of the aisle. I would point out that one of the previous speakers talked about certain taxes that we have in Illinois. In my area, across the river in Iowa, there are dozens of services that are taxed that we don’t tax in the State of Illinois. And I think anybody can play that game. The game that I want to play is, as cheerleader for the state, make sure that our border communities are an attractive place to live and work and to make sure that we help them out when we are faced with an unprecedented health emergency. So, I'd 10200096.docx 108 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 really appreciate a 'yes' vote, and I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"The question is, 'Shall Senate Bill 3930 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. Voting is open. Mr. Clerk."
"Representative Burke."
"Burke votes 'yes'."
"Representative Burke votes 'yes'. Representative Cassidy."
"Cassidy votes 'yes'."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Cassidy votes 'yes'. Representative Gong-Gershowitz."
"Yes."
Clerk Hollman: "Representative Gong-Gershowitz votes 'yes'. Representative Guerrero-Cuellar."
"Yes."
"Representative Guerrero-Cuellar votes 'yes'. Representative Meier."
"No."
"Representative Meier votes 'no'."
"Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. With 73 voting in 'favor', 30 voting 'against', 0 voting 'present', Senate Bill 3930, having received a Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Representative Kifowit, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point." 10200096.docx 109 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022
"I just want to thank everybody who wore blue today. And if you are so inclined, we would take a picture at the front of the chamber with the photographer to celebrate Wear Blue Day and take a stand against child abuse. So, thank you all."
"Representative Marron, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"Representative Bos and Representative Elik and myself would like to ask the chamber to wish our LA, who's probably listening to us today, Jordan McCarty, a happy birthday."
"Representative Stuart, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you. Unfortunately, I think she's left the floor. But I also wanted to wish a very happy birthday to Kendra Piercy from over here on our research staff."
"Representative Spain, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, we likely all wish we had opportunities to gather on a bipartisan basis more often. I certainly do. But today, I'd like to thank one of our colleagues who really went above and beyond to help educate us about something that's very important, the Lincoln's ChalleNGe, through our National Guard here in the State of Illinois. But this was an incredible experience for Members of the House, and I hope you'll join me in thanking 10200096.docx 110 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 Representative Dan Swanson for putting together a great morning."
"Representative Stava-Murray, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"State your point."
"So, last night, the House Democratic women were able to enjoy a very nice dinner together. And for those women who weren’t able to join us, I just wanted you to know you should be expecting a gift in your office. And if you don’t get one, please reach out to my LA, DJ, and we'll make sure we hook you up with it. So, thank you."
"Representative Mazzochi, for what reason do you seek recognition?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please state your point."
"I wanted to let the chamber know that today former Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan had yet another Federal Court status hearing. He likely, once again, was using his campaign funds to pay his lawyers for his public corruption and racketeering criminal case. According to the Illinois State Board of Elections, Mike Madigan resigned from this chamber on February 18, 2021. And then in that same quarter, one of his campaign funds, the Friends of Michael J. Madigan, handed over 2.6 million to the law firm representing him in that criminal case. He has another 10 million sitting in that fund. On March 24, 2022, the Illinois Supreme Court told us that if we want to clearly ban this practice, the General 10200096.docx 111 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 Assembly should pass a law to do it. The House can make this happen if just 16 Democratic Legislators agree to vote for HB2929 in the next few days. I sent a letter to Speaker Welch asking him to release it for a vote. Thus far, he's declined to respond, let alone act. But I can expect that from Speaker Welch. But it's sad that not a single Democrat in this chamber has shown their willingness to support HB29 (sic-2929), even in some amended form. I told you about this legislation here on the floor, that it would ban this practice. Not one of you came to talk to me about it or otherwise show your support. Not one of you was willing to stand for reform by signing on as a cosponsor. And not one of you even said that there was a way you could support it as long as we could make some language changes. Now, supposedly there are at least 19 of you who claim that you want to stand up against Mike Madigan's corruption and make for a better Illinois. But are you actually going to put a real vote behind your press conference promises? Because if you don’t, each and every one of you in the Majority of this chamber who fails to act are a effectively endorsing, with your inaction, that it's okay in Illinois for public official A to use their campaign funds to fund their criminal public corruption defense. And to the people of Illinois, we're down to the last seven days in the end of the Legislative Session. Mike Madigan is scheduled to go to trial in September. So, that means if that the Democratic Party won't do anything about this now, they ain't going to and he's going to be able to use all of those campaign funds. And they will prove, once again, that if you want to end public corruption and practices in Illinois, you can't 10200096.docx 112 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 trust the Members of the Majority Party here. They're not going to do it for you. It's time for a change. Thank you."
"Mr. Clerk, Agreed Resolutions."
"Agreed Resolutions. House Resolution 784, offered by Representative Cassidy. House Resolution 785, offered by Representative Jones. House Resolution 786, offered by Representative Ann Williams. And House Resolution 787, offered by Representative Kelly."
"Leader Greenwood has moved for the adoption of the Agreed Resolutions. All those in favor say 'aye'; all opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Agreed Resolutions are adopted. And now, allowing perfunctory time for the Clerk, Leader Greenwood moves that the House stand adjourned until Sunday, April 3, at 4 p.m. All those in favor say 'aye'; opposed say 'nay'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the House stands adjourned."
"House Perfunctory Session will come to order. Committee Report. Representative Rita, Chairperson from the Committee on Executive reports the following committee action taken on April 1, 2022: recommends be adopted is Floor Amendment(s) 5 to House Bill 1293. Introduction and First Reading of House Bills. House Bill 5737, offered by Representative Elik, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. First Reading of this House Bill. Second Reading of Senate Bills. Senate Bill 1693, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. This will be held on the Order… Second Reading of this Senate Bill. It'll be held on the Order 10200096.docx 113 STATE OF ILLINOIS 102nd GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 96th Legislative Day 4/1/2022 of Second Reading. There being no further business, the House Perfunctory Session will stand adjourned." 10200096.docx 114