"The House will come to order. For one reason or another the Chaplain is not here, so Mr. Clerk..."
"Members should be seated at their temporary seat assignments that were given out yesterday for the inaugural so they can be recorded properly on the Quorum Roll Call."
"Reverend T. D. Robinson. The Chaplain is from the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Springfield, and is a guest of Representative Mike Curran."
"May we pray. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, as we look back upon last year we give thanks for the richness and abundance of thy blessing, we give Thee thanks for food and shelter, and for those material things which we have come to think of as necessities of life. We give thanks Oh Lord, for the freedoms which we have enjoyed. Freedoms which have been won for us by men and women whose trust in Thee gave them the courage, the zeal, the unselfishness and the heroism necessary for victory. Grant to us, Oh God, the necessary courage, zeal and heroism to defend those freedoms in order that our children and our children's, children may continue to enjoy them. As we stand on the threshold of another Assembly Session grant these Representatives abundant wisdom, integrity, courage and faithfulness in the performance of the duties assigned them. May they remember that government is an institution ordained by Thee. May therefore, every officer of State Government remember that he will give an account, not only to his fellow citizens but especially to Thee in the day of judgement. These petitions we present to Thee in Your son name. Amen."
"We'll be led in the Pledge of Allegiance by Representative Nelson Rice."
"I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 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. Representative Piel. Representative Kubik."
"There's a great likeness isn't there? Incidentally, Representative Piel is not here today. He's excused, he is our only excused absence this morning, Mr. Speaker."
"Thank you. Representative Matijevich."
"No excused absences on this side, Mr. Speaker."
"Thank you. Take the roll Mr. Clerk. 116 Members answering the Roll Call a quorum is present."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, let us begin. There are reports of bad weather moving into the Springfield area so we should move along with our business and then permit ourselves to depart and get back home. The first thing that I would do would be to announce the Members of the Democratic Leadership Team. This will not be as momentous as two years ago. So first the Majority Leader will be Jim McPike. Assistant Majority Leaders will be Zeke Giorgi, John Matijevich, Helen Satterthwaite, Lou Jones, William Laurino, Ralph Capparelli. Deputy Majority Leaders James Keane, and Anthony Young. The Conference Chair, Frank Giglio. And the Speaker Pro Tem, John Cullerton. Mr. Daniels. Mr. Daniels."
"Thank you Mr. Speaker and congratulations on your appointments. I appoint the following Leaders. Tom Ewing, Deputy Minority Leader. Bob Churchill, Deputy Minority Leader. Penny Pullen, Assistant Minority Leader. Tim Johnson, Assistant Minority Leader. Virginia Frederick, Assistant Minority Leader. Roger McAuliffe, Assistant Minority Leader. Bill Black, Assistant Minority Leader and designated Floor Leader. Kay Wojcik, Assistant Minority 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 Leader's desks please? Can I have some Democrat staff people? Selection of seats, eleventh termers. Monroe Flynn. Tenth termers, Bruce Farley. Could the Pages come over and run some of these cards back to Members? Have we got any pages here? Ninth termer. We have nine ninth termers. They will be drawn at random and in the lower right hand corner I'll put the order of drawing which will be your order of selection. First ninth termer is Jane Barnes. Jane Barnes. Second is John Dunn. Third is Ted Leverenz. Fourth is Wyvetter Younge. We got any Pages or staff people to help us here? Take that to Wyvetter Younge. Ted Leverenz. There's Ted. The fifth name is Richard Mautino. Sixth is Dick Mulcahey. And seventh is Bruce Richmond. Eighth termers...we've got three eight termers. At random they are Terry Steczo, Sam Wolf and Jesse White. Seventh termers, at random is Gary Hannig, Myron Kulas, Lee Preston, Robert Piel, Al Ronan, Ellis Levin and Barbara Flynn Currie. Oh, and Gordon Ropp. Sixth termers, at random are Don Saltsman, Art Turner, Sue Deuchler and Dick Klemm. Fourth termers, at random are Charles Hartke, Robert Regan. Hold it. Four fifth termers got skipped. Back to the drawing board. Fifth termers, Tom McCracken, second is Larry Hicks, third is Tom Homer, fourth is Loleta Didrickson, fifth is Bernard Pedersen, sixth is Jim Kirkland, seventh is Bob DeJaegher, eighth is David Harris, ninth is John McNamara, tenth is Ronald Wait, eleventh is Nelson Rice, twelfth is William Shaw, thirteenth Margaret Parcells, fourteenth Joel Brunsvold, fifteenth Mary Cowlishaw, sixteenth Donald Hensel, seventeenth William Peterson, eighteenth Robert LeFlore, nineteenth is Michael Curran, twentieth is Andy McGann, and twenty-first Jay Ackerman. Are there any fifth termers that haven't selected their desk yet? Everybody done? 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 be a brief Session. So the Motion now is to adopt the Adjournment Resolution. Those in favor say 'aye', those opposed say 'no'. The 'ayes' have it, the Resolution is adopted. Is there any further business to come before the Body before we begin the selection of seats? Any further business? There are Agreed Resolutions. Mr. Clerk."
"House Resolution 5, offered by Representative McNamara. House Resolution 6, Leitch. House Resolution 7, Morrow. House Resolution 10, Mautino. House Resolution 11, Flynn. And House Resolution 12, offered by Representative Preston."
"Mr. Matijevich on the Agreed Resolutions. The Gentleman moves for the adoption of the Agreed Resolutions. Those in favor say 'aye', those opposed say 'no'. The 'ayes' have it, the Agreed Resolutions are adopted. Death Resolutions."
"House Resolution #8, offered by Representative Morrow, with respect to the memory of Samuel E. Taylor; House Resolution 9, offered by Representative Morrow, with respect to the memory of Mary Alice Robertson Brown."
"Mr. Matijevich moves for the adoption of the Death Resolutions. Those in favor say 'aye', those opposed say 'no'. The 'ayes' have it, the Death Resolutions are adopted. Mr. Clerk, General Resolutions."
"House Joint Resolution #1, offered by Representative Weller; House Joint Resolution #2, offered by Representative Wyvetter Younge."
"Committee on Assignment. Mr. Clerk, anything further? Mr. Clerk, we will stay in regular Session and we will begin the assignment of seats."
"On the selection of seats, the Republican Leadership already has their cards. Democrat Leadership, will the staff come up and put the cards on Democrat 4 2nd Legislative Day STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE January 10, 1991. Leader. And Myron Olson, Conference Chairman.
"The next Order of Business will be to select seats. Mr. Clerk, are you prepared to do that? Fine. So the Clerk will read the Adjournment Resolution."
"Senate Joint Resolution 3. Resolved by the Senate of the 87th General Assembly of the State of Illinois, the House of Representatives concurring herein, that when the Senate adjourns on Wednesday, January 9, 1991, it stands adjourned until Wednesday, November 13, 1991, at 12:00 O'clock noon. And when the House of Representatives adjourn on Thursday, June 10th, (sic - January 10th) we adjourn until Monday June 14th (sic - January 14th) at 12:00 O'clock noon. And when we adjourn on that day we return February 13th, 1991, at 12:00 O'clock noon. There's an Amendment to change the time of Session on Monday, January 14th from 12:00 noon until 2:00 p.m. That's January, not June."
"Alright. First of all there's an Amendment to the Resolution offered by Mr. Cullerton. Those in favor say 'aye', those opposed say 'no'. The 'ayes' have it, the Amendment is adopted. Now, by way of explanation, we are providing for a Session on Monday at 2:00 O'clock. So if you wish to go to the inaugural ceremonies for the Executive Offices I'm told they will begin at 11:00 O'clock over at the convention center. We expect that they'll last no longer than three hours and then you can come here for what will be a brief Session. Again, there's a Session scheduled on Monday for 2:00 O'clock and so if you wish to go to the inaugural ceremonies for the Executive Officers starting at 11:00 a.m. in the convention center then you can come over here for a brief Session. The Session on the February 13th is for the purpose of the Governor's State of the State Address. So you can expect that that also will 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 Fourth termers Robert Regan, Jack Kubik, fourth is Grace Mary Stern, fifth is Ben Martinez, sixth is Charles Morrow, seventh is Mary Flowers, eighth is David Phelps, ninth is Bob Olson, tenth is James DeLeo, eleventh is Terry Park, twelfth is Representative Stange, thirteenth is Karen Hasara, fourteenth is Larry Wennlund. We'll wait for the fourth termers to complete their selections before we start the third termers. Are there any fourth termers that haven't completed their selection? I assume everybody's done, we'll start on the third termers. At random they are first is David Leitch. David Leitch. Number two is John Novak. Three is Shirley Jones. Four is Bob Bugielski. Five is David Hultgren. Sixth is Louis Lang. Seven Jerry Weller. Eight Monique Davis. Nine Donne Trotter. Ten Ed Petka. Eleven Paul Williams. Twelve Delores Doederlein. Thirteen Todd Sieben. Fourteen Kirk Granberg. And fifteen Larry Woolard. We'll give the third termers a minute to select their desk before we call second termers. Are there any third termers that haven't selected their desk yet? Throw up your hand if you want me to wait. All third termers completed? We'll go to second termers. First is Bill Edley. Number two is Miquel Santiago. Three Pam Munizzi. Four Clem Balanoff. Five is Art Tenhouse. And six is Dwayne Noland. Three termers, they selected their desk? Representative Phelan you want to come over...Burzynski. Now, we're down to give those appointed Members a chance to select their seats, then we'll be down to freshmen first termers. If the Members will leave their blue leather chairs where they are we will move them. So please don't be moving the blue leather chairs. All the senior Members have got their assigned chairs, we'll move them to your new location and we'll move chairs to the desks of the new freshmen. Okay, freshmen Members Jay 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 Hoffman, Dan Cronin, Dan Burke, Jack McGuire, Mike Rotello, Persico, seventh is David McAfee, eighth is Tom Walsh, ninth is Terry Deering, tenth Obrzut and eleventh Jeff Schoenberg. If you'll attach those names to the desk you select then we will wire the voting machine so that when you came back Monday you'll be able to vote from your selected desk. Be sure and attach the ticket that I just gave you to your desk or voting machine. Kevin Schoeben. If you've selected a desk without a chair we will move a chair to the desk. Please don't move any of the chairs. Are there any freshmen that have not yet found a desk? Give me a show of hands. Any freshmen that hasn't completed their selection? All finished? Not yet?
"Mr. Clerk, on the acknowledgement of correspondence."
"The Clerk's Office has received a petition of contest election, John Ostenberg petitioner versus Robert T. Regan respondent."
"And that will be assigned by the Chair to the Committee on Elections. The House is prepared to adjourn. If I could have your attention for just a minute. The House is prepared to adjourn. The Democrats are going to select parking spots immediately after adjournment and this takes a few minutes. We'll do it right here at the well. Republicans are not going to select parking spots today. They will do it at their leisure. Representative Cullerton moves that the House stands adjourned until Monday at the hour of 2:00 p.m. Leaving Perfunctory time for the Introduction and First Reading of Bills. All in favor say 'aye', opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it, and the House stands adjourned. So the Democrats should come to the well and this shouldn't take five minutes to get this done."
"The House will be back in Perfunctory Session. 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 Introduction and First Reading of Bills. House Bill 95, offered by Representative Klemm, a Bill for an Act to amend the Toll Highway Act. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 96, offered by Representative Lang, a Bill for an Act to amend the Illinois Insurance Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 97, offered by Representative Kulas, a Bill for an Act to amend the School Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 98, offered by Representative Curran, a Bill for an Act to amend the School Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 99, offered by Representative Hultgren, a Bill for an Act to amend the Illinois Insurance Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 100, offered by Representative Shaw, a Bill for an Act to amend certain Acts in relation to status of certain employers and employee involved in labor disputes. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 101, offered by Representative Capparelli, a Bill for an Act to amend the Metropolitan Civic Center Support Act. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 102, offered by Representative Capparelli, a Bill for an Act to amend the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Property Tax Releif and Pharmaceutical Assistance Act. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 103, offered by Representative Schoenberg, a Bill for an Act to amend the School Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 104, offered by Representative Homer, a Bill for an Act to amend the School Code. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 105, offered by Representative Mautino, a Bill for an Act to amend the Rural Bond Banking Act. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 106, offered by Speaker Madigan, a Bill for an Act to create the General Assembly Reapportionment Act of 1991. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 107, offered by Speaker Madigan, a Bill for an Act to create the Illinois Congressional Reapportionment 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 87th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 2nd Legislative Day January 10, 1991 Act of 1991. First Reading of the Bill. House Bill 108, offered by Speaker Madigan, a Bill for an Act to create the Cook County Circuit Apportionment Act Reading of the Bill. of 1991. First Introduction of General Resolutions. House Resolution 13, offered by Representative Cowlishaw, assigned to Committee on Assignment. Introduction and First Reading of Constitutional Amendments. House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #1, offered by Representative Parke. RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general election next occurring at least six months after the adoption of this resolution, a proposition to add Section 8.1 to Article I of the Illinois Constitution to read as follows: ARTICLE I BILL OF RIGHTS SECTION 8.1. Crime Victim's Rights. In criminal prosecutions, victims of crimes shall be treated with fairness and respect for their dignity throughout the criminal justice process. No victim shall be denied the right to communicate with the prosecution, nor the right, upon request, to receive notice of pending court action, nor the right to attend all court proceedings open to the accused, nor the right, upon request, to receive information concerning the case's disposition and the release of the accused. SCHEDULE This Amendment takes effect upon its approval by the electors of this State. First Reading of the Constitutional Amendment. There being no further business the House now stands adjourned until Monday, January 14, at 2:00 p.m." 9 REPORT: TIFLDAY 91/02/25 PAGE: 001 15:26:17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 86TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DAILY TRANSCRIPTION OF DEBATE INDEX JANUARY 10, 1991 HR-0005 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0005 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0006 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0006 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0007 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0007 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0008 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0008 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0009 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0009 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0010 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0010 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0011 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0011 RESOLUTION JFFERED PAGE 4 HR-0012 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HR-0012 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HJR-0001 ADUPTED PAGE 4 HJR-0001 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 HJR-0002 ADOPTED PAGE 4 HJR-0002 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 4 SJR-0003 ADUPTED PAGE 4 SJR-0003 RESOLUTION OFFERED PAGE 3 SUBJECT MATTER HOUSE TO ORDER - SPEAKER MCPIKE PAGE 1 PRAYER - REVEREND T. D. ROBINSON PAGE 1 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PAGE 1 ROLL CALL FOR ATTENDANCE PAGE 2 SPEAKER HADIGAN - DEMOCRAT LEADERSHIP TEAM PAGE 2 MINORITY LEADER DANIELS - LEADERSHIP TEAM PAGE 2 AGREED RESOLUTIONS PAGE 4 DEATH RESOLUTIONS PAGE 4 GENERAL RESOLUTIONS PAGE 4 COMMITTEE ON ASSIGNMENT PAGE 4 SELECTIONS OF SEATS PAGE 5 ADJOURNMENT PAGE 7 PERFUNCTORY SESSION PAGE 7 PERFUNCTORY ADJOURNMENT PAGE 9