“The hour of 12:00 having came and went, the House shall be in order. Actually 2:00… 1:00 having come and went. We have a very unique situation today. We’re going to be led in prayer by two ministers. That is no reflection of the work you’ve been doing in this chamber. It’s just that we know that a little divine prayer will certainly help us move forward. Today, first of all, we shall be led in prayer by Reverend Randy White who’s with Golden Point Christian Church in Hamilton, Illinois. Reverend White is the guest of Representative Rich Myers. Rev… Reverend Randy White.”
“Shall we pray. Heavenly Father, today I pray for the men and women who gather in this House. I pray for wisdom for them as they come together to create the laws that govern the people of this great state. I pray that the men and women of this House would remember their promise to serve the people. To serve with honesty, with integrity, without prejudice or bias to the common man or favoritism to the rich. I pray that, just as this country was founded on religious freedom, that the servants of the people gathered here today would create laws that seek to preserve our heritage as a God-fearing, God-serving nation. And Father, most of all, I pray that these men and women do all of this with love in their hearts for their fellow man. Seeking to make laws that help all men to seek out joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such, there is now and never should be any laws created. Father, remind us 09400025.doc 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 that as long as all men keep these things in mind then this country will truly prosper as one nation under God. The hungry will be fed, the naked shall be clothed and the enemies of democracy will be defeated and peace shall reign forever and ever. Amen.”
“We shall also be led in prayer today by Father Dennis Holtshneider who’s the president of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Father Holtshneider is the guest of Representative Joe Lyons. Father Holtshneider.”
“I think the prayer should be what he said. Let us pray. Gracious God, we turn our attention this afternoon back to the people’s work and we thank You for it. We thank You for the opportunity day after day to question what’s in the best interests of the people of Illinois, to wrestle with competing needs and claims, interests and ideals, hopes and dreams. This work is sacred in its own way for its decisions shape the lives and the future of our citizens and our state. And so, we ask Your assistance. We begin this afternoon humbly requesting insight, wisdom, creativity and hearts large enough to see the humanity in the midst of the political. May our differences never cloud our respect for one another. May our commitments and our convictions never blind us to the greater good. May we always have a special care for the poor and those at the margins of our society. Gracious God, bless this Session. Gracious God, may the work we do today help Illinois and its people to prosper. Gracious 09400025.doc 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 God, thank You for the opportunity and the sacred trust to work on behalf of the people of Illinois. We pray all of this of You, You who give us light and life, now and forever. Amen.”
“We shall be lev… led in the Pledge today by the Gentleman from Cook, Representative Delgado. Only one Pledge.”
"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. The Gentleman from Jackson, Representative Bost, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let the record reflect that Representatives Millner and Parke are excused today.”
“The record will so reflect. The Lady from Cook, Representative Currie, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Speaker, to report that the record should reflect that Representative Verschoore is excused today.”
“The record shall so reflect. There are 115 Members present. We do have a quorum to proceed. Mr. Clerk, Committee Reports.”
Clerk Mahoney: “Representative Burke, Chairperson from the Committee on Executive, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 1289, House Bill 1391; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 56, House Bill 323, House 09400025.doc 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Bill 1340, House Bill 315 and House Bill 325; 'do pass Standard Debate' House Bill 1285. Representative Osterman, Chairperson from the Committee on Local Government, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 909, House Bill 2611, House Bill 2613; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 1157, House Bill 1389 and House Bill 1500; 'do pass as amended Standard Debate' House Bill 730 and House Bill 2692. Representative Holbrook, Chairperson from the Committee on Environment & Energy, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 931 and House Bill 1362; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 669. Representative Delgado, Chairperson from the Committee on Human Services, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 390, House Bill 688, House Bill 1365, House Bill 1406, House Bill 599, House Bill 822, House Bill 1366 and House Bill 3420; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 904, House Bill 2343, House Bill 1548 and House Bill 2344; 'do pass Standard Debate' House Bill 990. Representative May, Chairperson from the Committee on Environmental Health, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the 09400025.doc 4 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 471 and House Bill 695. Representative Giles, Chairperson from the Committee on Elementary & Secondary Education, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 1540; 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 728, House Bill 881, House Bill 1141, House Bill 1404, House Bill 1463, House Bill 1475, House Bill 1541 and House Bill 2589. Representative Fritchey, Chairperson from the Committee on Judiciary I-Civil Law, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 2341, House Bill 2547, House Bill 3415; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 254, House Bill 348, House Bill 950 and House Bill 1000. Representative Mendoza, Chairperson from the Committee on International Trade & Commerce, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 962. Representative Franks, Chairperson from the Committee on State Government Administration, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 476, House Bill 769, House Bill 1457; 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 2708. Representative 09400025.doc 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 McKeon, Chairperson from the Committee on Labor, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 2, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Standard Debate' House Bill 1568; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 1368; 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 2460 and House Bill 2526. Representative McCarthy, Chairperson from the Committee on Higher Education, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 02, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 2515. Representative Saviano, Chairperson from the Committee on Registration & Regulation, to which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 02, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 2492 and House Bill 2525; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 298. Referred to the House Committee on Rules is House Resolution 188, offered by Representative Jakobsson.”
“It’s the intention of the Chair to do the Orders of Third Reading. We’re going to start on page 11 of the Calendar. If you would take a look and be aware when your Bill is about to be called, we’d appreciate it. If you want it out of record, let us know ahead of time. The first Bill on the Order of Third Reading is House Bill 132, Representative Millner. Out of the record. We have House Bill 165, Representative Monique Davis. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 165, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Davis.” Davis, M.: “House Bill 165 is for elections of board employees. Currently, everyone votes for everyone. But this Bill states that principals are administrators and administrators will vote for the administrative representative, teachers will vote for teachers. And I think, we have a consensus on this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I will answer any questions.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 165 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 173. Representative Bassi. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 173, a Bill for an Act concerning families. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Bassi.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. I bring to you House Bill 173 which was brought to me by a constituent, a single parent, with a child turning 16 who was going to work. She had major concerns that the… 09400025.doc 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 her ex-husband would be trying to not only find the child, but misuse the child’s Social Security number. And had requested that the Social Security number of her child be kept from the income withholding notice from the part-time job that her daughter was holding. It turns out that the State Law does not allow that. So, we are attempting to change that State Law which will fit right in with the task force that Rep… Representative Munson is working on right now, to reduce the risk of identity theft. SIU has already changed their student IDs to reduce the risk of identity theft. And this… this goes right along with that, is protection for young people, prevents identity theft. And I would ask for an ‘aye’ vote.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 173 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk… the Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 187. Representative Lang. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 187, a Bill for an Act in relation to transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Representative Lang.” 09400025.doc 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Thank you. Let’s take this Bill out of the record, Mr. Speaker.”
“The Gentleman requests leave to take the Bill out of the record. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 188. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 188, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Gentleman from Cook, Representative…”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen. This is a Bill designed to make sure that companies that are doing state business on contracting jobs that are supposed to be paying prevailing wage are actually doing it by requiring they provide a certified payroll once a month. Originally, it was once a week. We changed it to once a month. We indicated in the Bill this information can be transmitted in various different ways. And we put some provisions in an Amendment that made the information confidential, the Social Security numbers and the like. It’s an important Bill to insure that our workers doing jobs that… that are getting paid with state money are being paid the appropriate wages under the law. And I would ask your support.”
“The Gentleman from Vermilion, Representative Black, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“Indicates he will.” 09400025.doc 9 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Representative, are there any states in the Midwest doing this as a matter of statute that you’re aware of?”
“I’m not aware, Mr. Black, if there are or are not but I seem to recall in a conversation with somebody that I was told that there are but I can’t tell you for sure.”
“Okay. Did anyone offer testimony in committee… anyone representing the business community, as to what they thought the paperwork burden might be on the contractor seeking the state con… the state contract?”
“Strangely enough, the business group that testified in opposition to the Bill said nothing about paperwork to my knowledge. This is just something that some of them did not want to do, but I think they would also tell you that we made a good faith effort to change the original Bill to make it less cumbersome and less burdensome on them.”
“Thank you very much. As always, Representative, I appreciate your forthright answers. Mr. Speaker, to the Bill. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, Representative Lang has accurately portrayed his attempt to make what started out to be a very burdensome Bill on business less burdensome. But the fact remains is that we will now be one of the very few if not one of the only states in the Midwest that requires contractors to submit monthly payroll reports if they are doing business with the state. In all due respect to the Sponsor, I don’t think this meets the test that the Governor talked about in his State of the State address, and that is making Illinois a more friendly state for business in which to do business. We all know 09400025.doc 10 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 from our own jobs that when you are required to fill out forms, certify those forms, have those forms sent and filed with the appropriate state agency, that takes time, that takes effort, that takes someone on your payroll time to do that. It does have an impact on that business. The cost… and because of Representative’s… because of Representative Lang’s good faith effort, he has reduced that burden. I… I will grant that and we appreciate that. But the fact remains is that we are still adding to the cost of someone wanting to do business with the State of Illinois. That cost, let’s not kid ourselves, that cost will be passed on in the form of a higher contract amount. I rise in relucted opposition to this Bill simply because it’s putting another requirement, a burden if you will and that… that definition may be subject to debate, I understand that. But it… it does create another requirement, another hoop to jump through for business… businesses that want to do business with the State of Illinois. We already, I fac… I think, have a problem in this state in getting businesses to fill out a request for proposal, to file a bid sheet. There are too many businesses today that say it isn’t worth the hassle. They don’t think the playing field is even or level and… and Comptroller Hynes is seeking legislation to perhaps diminish that perception. In the meantime, I cannot in good conscience vote for a Bill that puts another requirement on Illinois business that I don’t believe they would have to have if they would prefer to do business with the State of Indiana, the State of Wisconsin, the State of 09400025.doc 11 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Michigan, the State of Missouri, the State of Iowa. We cannot continue to add requirements and burdens on Illinois business that they don’t face in other states. That’s not the way to make the business climate in Illinois more conducive and attractive for Illinois business. I urge a ‘no’ vote.”
“The Gentleman from Winnebago, Representative Winters, for what reason do you rise?”
“Mr. Speaker, to the Bill. To the Bill.”
“To…”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I think this is just another example of another way that we can drive businesses out of Illinois. We’ve… we’ve looked at fees on trucking firms, what did we see? We say 17 thousand truckers leave this state. We raised fees on every… everything that you wanna do in this state it seems like it has a fee. We’re not only gonna raise the fees but when we build up a surplus then we’re gonna sweep those and spend the money. This is simply another nail in the coffin of Illinois business. We’ve seen that Illinois is not recovering from the national recession nearly as quickly as the rest of the states around us. Representative Black mentioned that none of the states around us force public contractors to release the names of their employees. If, in fact, there is problems with this we have adequate resources to check on the prevailing wage payment. It’s simply a way to help the unions insure that they have… the names of all those workers out there. Federal contracts, fine, they can do it 09400025.doc 12 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 on those larger federal contracts that are in the millions of dollars, but we have smaller state contracts that will be covered by this. Again, I think it’s simply a signal to business that we don’t really wanna… we really don’t care that much whether you continue to operate in Illinois. We simply wanna tax you or make it… your life harder, fill out more paperwork on the small contracts that the state sometimes has. A businessman will look at the amount of paperwork that he file… has to file and simply throw up his hands and say, ‘The heck with it.’ Well, that hurts the state taxpayers because of potential low bidders… the potential competitors are gonna walk away from the state business. We will pay more money than we should and our taxpayers are the ones that are gonna suffer. And I urge a ‘no’ vote.”
“Representative Lang to close.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen. The opposition to this is overblown. These businesses are already required to keep these payroll records for 3 years. All this Bill says is they have to submit them monthly to the public body in charge of the contract so that we can determine if they’re following the law in paying their employees. What good is it to have a Prevailing Wage Act unless on these public projects we can insure that the employees are being paid what they’re supposed to be paid under the law of the State of Illinois. So, they’re already doing this paperwork, it simply requires it to be submitted electronically, by fax, by mail. It’s not a huge 09400025.doc 13 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 burden. This is to protect the workers in your district, in my district, on these public projects to make sure that the contractors are following the law. The contractors themselves in committee said that some contractors are not really following the law, either in doing the records or in pre… paying prevailing wage. Most of them are, some are not. And we need to insure that contractors are paying prevailing wage because that is the law of the State of Illinois. Please vote ‘aye’ on this Bill.”
“The question is, 'Shall House Bill 188 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 74 voting 'aye', 41 voting 'no', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 339. Representative Currie. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 339, a Bill for an Act concerning jurors. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Currie.”
“Thank you, Speaker and Members of the House. This measure is intended to help attract jurors to do their duties when they are called upon to participate in trials. More and more people are opting to ignore the jury summons and we think one helpful solution would be to increase the reimbursement that the juror is… is entitled to. So, this 09400025.doc 14 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 measure would increase from $4 to 25 juror reimbursements in the smallest counties those 25 thousand or less. From $5 to 30 to… in those counties that are above 25 thousand but less than a million. And in the largest county the reimbursement rate would go from $10 as a minimum to $40 as a minimum. We would enable counties to do studies to find out what they would need to do in terms of fees assessed litigants in their court system in order to meet the requirements of the Bill. The moneys that they collect would be available to pay for these increases and could be used for no other purposes. I’d hope you will join me in helping to attract jury pools that are jurors of our peers. I would be happy to answer your questions and I would appreciate your support for passage of House Bill 339.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 339 pass?' All those in favor say ‘aye’; all… vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 64 voting 'aye', 50 voting 'no', 1 voting ‘present’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 340. Representative Reis. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 340, a Bill for an Act concerning crim…” 09400025.doc 15 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Out of the Record. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 350. Representative Joyce. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 350, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Joyce.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 350 is a… forbids sex offenders from being placed by the par… Department of Corrections, that are on parole, more than one person in a single dwelling. There is an Amendment that was approved yesterday that would account for transitional housing as long as there is a plan for no longer than 90-day length of stay, a treatment plan for each offender, 24/7 security and notification to the community. I’d be happy to answer any questions concerning this Bill.”
“The Lady from Kane, Representative Lindner, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Could… does this arise from a problem in your area?”
“Yes. Yes.”
“Does this arise from a problem in your area, Representative?”
“Yes.”
“What happened?” 09400025.doc 16 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“The Department of Correction placed four convicted felons that were released on mandatory supervisory release. And they allowed the four of them to live in one house with no supervision, no security, and no notification to the community.”
“All right. Has… is the Department of Corrections supporting this Bill?”
“Yes, they are.”
“And is there cost associated with it?”
“The cost is estimated to be approximately $7 million a year.”
“All right. And how’s that… how’s that estimated?”
“That is Department of Correction’s cost estimation.”
“What… how is this going to work if…”
“Because of additional parole officers…”
“Okay.”
“…need to be hired.”
“How… could you tell me how this is going to work if… if there is a sex offender living in an apartment building and another one moves in, who has to move? Who’s going to determine that? How… how is this going to work?”
“Department of Corrections will not be able to place another sex offender on parole into one of those buildings.”
“But what happens if, ya know, if they do and they don’t know about it or if something…”
“They have to know about it because in the Bill it also requires every parole officer to check no… no less than 09400025.doc 17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 every 30 days of who’s living… who’s on… who’s a registered sex offender is living in those facilities where they’ve placed their parolees.”
“All right. And is there any… anything that a landlord has to do or…?”
“Not under this Bill, no.”
“Not under this. Is there under another Bill?”
“We are considering doing a companion Bill that we’ve been dealing with the real estate folks that would allow for leases to be broken if a nonparolee sex offender. But that has nothing to do with this Bill.”
“Okay. Thank you very much.”
“Thank you.”
“The Lady from Kankakee, Representative Dugan, for what reason do you rise?”
“Yes, will the… will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Yes, Representative, I just wanted to check. We had talked about this piece of legislation and how it may affect residential treatment facilities for minor youth sex offenders who have been sexually abused themselves. And I understand after talking to you that as this goes to the Senate there’ll possibly be… be an Amendment to also exempt residential facilities, so a facility in my district will be exempted from this particular issue?”
“Yes. Thank you, Representative. There will be in the Senate to address both Representative Dugan and Representative Cultra’s issues. There will be three per… 09400025.doc 18 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 per… revisions to this Bill. One will be to allow the… the written express consent to the… of the director of the Department of Corrections to extend the 90-day stay limit if that parolee has made good progress and is still looking for housing and they’ve done everything according to the plan laid out by the parole officer. The second thing would be to address children’s facilities, those persons that are convicted sex offenders as minors that’ve been placed by Corrections in a facility for rehabilitation and treatment as long as those facilities have treatment going on at those… at the institution.”
“Thank you very much, Representative.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 350 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Representative Hamos. Representative Joyce, you voting for your Bill? Right. The Clerk shall take the record. There are 112 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 2 voting ‘present’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 384. Representative Monique Davis. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 384, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Davis.” 09400025.doc 19 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Davis, M.: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 384 with Amendment #1 provides that all teachers must pass the subject matter exam before certification. They, however, will be allowed to do their student teaching before completing the subject matter test. The subject matter test is required that it be passed before certification takes place. I urge an ‘aye’ vote.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 384 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Soto, Lindner, Myers, Lindner. The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 109… 110 voting ‘no’… 'yes', 5 voting 'no', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 442. Representative Rose. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 442, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Gentleman from Champaign, Representative Rose.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill came to me from a Champaign Police Department officer who’s also a constituent of mine. The problem we’ve having is that most police departments over the last several years have adopted new policies regarding fleeing and eluding. Essentially, when a defendant or a potential suspect reaches such a 09400025.doc 20 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 speed… such a high rate of speed, most police departments will cut chase because too many innocent people have been injured in the ensuing chase that happens. Unfortunately, however, the bad guys, for lack of a better word, have caught wind of this and now every time the lights and sirens get turned on, the bad guys cut… cut and run. As soon as they hit 50, 60 miles an hour, they know that the police are going to back off and they… and they walk away. What we’re asking for here is the civil ability to boot a vehicle and/or otherwise impound a vehicle involved in a fleeing and eluding and/or leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident. I would note that this is simply another alternative that… to what’s already available which would be the actual seizure and forfeiture of that vehicle that’s currently available under law. I think most people would agree that seizure and forfeiture is a little bit more severe a penalty than actually just having your vehicle booted and impounded and then you… you’d pay the civil fine here. I would ask for the Bill’s favorable consideration. Be happy to answer any questions.”
“Seeing no questions… The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Fritchey, for what reason do you rise? Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 442 pass?' The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Giles, for reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr… Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield for a question?”
“He indicates he will.” 09400025.doc 21 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Representative Rose, could you just sort of give me the example. I know this legislation stem from… from an incident…”
“Sure.”
“…that happened in Champaign. Could you give me maybe a little details about that so I can be clear as to what you’re trying to do?”
“Absolutely, Representative. Here… here’s the situation. For the last, well, since the mid-1980’s, let’s say you have a drug transaction that’s going down and… and someone’s in a vehicle. The police come upon the drug transaction, the vehicle takes off. Okay. The police give… give chase, high speed pursuit. Okay. The vehicle accelerates. Over the last couple decades there’s been far too many innocent people injured, killed. Champaign County, last year we actually had the defendant kill himself in… in the middle of a high speed chase, trying to get away from the police. But then about a month and a half or a month ago or so, we had another person get injured because the defendant was flying through an intersection, ended up t-boning an innocent vehicle. Here’s the point, most police departments today have adopted what… I think most of us agree is a… is a responsible approach. And that is if it’s a… if it’s a drug transaction that, ya know, it’s something short of a murder or rape or forcible felony, for lack of a better word, they’re gonna cut chase at 40, 50 miles an hour. I mean, as soon as it becomes apparent that they’re flying 09400025.doc 22 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 down a brick road street that might have a school next to it, they’re gonna cut chase because they don’t want an innocent person getting hurt. The problem is the bad guys have figured this out. So, the first thing that they do now is hit… hit the gas jets, gun it and take off. So, too many folks are getting away. The current remedy for this, Representative Giles, is if you wanted to, you could actually file a civil forfeiture action against the vehicle and take the vehicle and sell it at a sheriff’s auction. Our point is that, ya know, frankly, that’s a real pain in the tail for the… for the police. It’s a real pain in the tail for the county and the municipality to do that. Also, there might be an innocent owner of that vehicle that ends up getting called in to it like a husband, you know, whose wife did… committed a crime or a wife whose husband committed a crime, etcetera. All we’re saying here is this would open up another avenue. Impound the vehicle at a later date, pay a hundred dollar civil fine and ends up getting released, plus the cost of the towing. It’d be simply another avenue for law enforcement to catch up with the vehicles that are being used in the commission of a crime.”
“Okay. I understand the situation that you’re giving. What… what if there’s a situation where an individual is using a rental vehicle or a vehicle… some other vehicle that is not owned by that individual that takes off?”
“Well, is it…” 09400025.doc 23 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Or… or let’s just say that, you know, let’s just give a… a teenager or… or someone who goes into their parent’s house and they see the keys laying on top of the dresser and they take the keys and they go out for a joy ride and then it escalate and leads into this particular type of incident.”
“If the vehicle’s stolen…”
“Or and… and this…”
“…this… this doesn’t apply.”
“Okay. And that’s the same thing if… if a vehicle is… is rent… rented?”
“Well, not necessarily. If the rental company reported it stolen…”
“What if it’s not reported stolen? What if it’s legitimate customer rented the vehicle and let’s just some… somehow someone got keys to… to that vehicle and began to go out and… and a situation like this escalate?”
“Well, that’s a good point, Representative. That’s not been addressed. I’d be more than happy to address that situation where the… ya know, made an exemption for rental agencies, ya know, in the Senate. We do have it in there that if the vehicle’s stolen, ya know, if your kid takes the car and takes off on ya, you’re not gonna get stuck with the tab, because the vehicle was stolen.”
“Okay. And… and that’s my only purpose. I… I agree with the legislation. I just wanna pro… protect…”
“That… that’s a very…”
“…an individual…” 09400025.doc 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“…good point about rental vehicles and I’ll be sure to address that if we’re favorable enough to get outta here.”
“Thank you. Thank you, Representative.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Fritchey.”
“Thank you, Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield? Representative, on a follow up to the previous speaker’s questions. An individual, let’s say the individual’s brother borrows the car, so the car’s not stolen but it’s not the car of the offender, so are you gonna have the vehicle of an innocent party impounded in this situation?”
“Representative, the situation is such that… Let me give you the analogy, Representative. If I borrow your car and get a parking ticket, where’s the parking ticket get sent?”
“The parking ticket comes to me. That’s a very different… that… that’s not the strongest analogy I’ve heard you come up with. Oh yeah, oh…”
“Well, yes…”
“Let me… let me… let me see if I can get us where I’m trying to get us to go here. It’s not your intention to impound the vehicle of an innocent party, correct?”
“That’s correct.”
“Presently, if an innocent party, with no knowledge that a crime is to be committed, loans a vehicle to somebody, that person flees and eludes…”
“I didn’t… I didn’t hear what you just said. Sorry.” 09400025.doc 25 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“If an innocent party, with no knowledge that a crime is to be committed, loans the vehicle to a third party. That third party flees and eludes.”
“Um hmm.”
“That car is then subject to be impounded.”
“Yes.”
“The innocent party is going to be penalized in order to try to get their car back through no culpability or intent of their own. Correct? But that’s not your… that’s not what you wanna do.”
“No. In fact, that’s why we addre… that’s why we added in the stolen exception in the legislation.”
“Stolen is different. I’m talking about somebody in good faith that loans a car to a spouse, a sibling, a neighbor, a friend with no idea that something wrong is going to be done. It… what you wanna do is good. The Bill does more than that. I… I’d ask you to commit to…”
“And…”
“…doing one of two things and I’d be more than satisfied with either one. Pull this out, do a Floor Amendment to exclude out this situation or give a commitment to this Body that an Amendment will be put in on the Senate to take care of that and will come back so that this Bill doesn’t go to the Governor’s desk in this form. I’d be happy with either one and I think you would be too.”
“Absolutely, I’ll… I’ll be happy to do the latter.”
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“I’d be happy to do the latter to have it admitted in the Senate.”
“But you’ll commit to doing that?”
“Yes.”
“Rep… Representative, just for a matter of housekeeping. It’s been… it’s been re… requested by me and I’d ask you as a reasonable person, we’ve… we’ve got some time. Would you consider pulling this out, we can just throw that paragraph in and just do this next week?”
“Okay.”
“I really appreciate it. Thank you.”
“No problem.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Davis.” Davis, M.: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield? Representative…”
“Wait… wait. We’re pulling it from the record.” Davis, M.: “You’re pulling it. Okay.”
“Yeah.” Davis, M.: “I just wanna mention one thing.”
“Okay.” Davis, M.: “You say if the owner tells who had the car, then… Representative Rose…”
“Wait… wait… Representative, we’re pulling this out of the record. I’ll talk to ya…” Davis, M.: “Okay, but I still… I don’t want you to bring you to bring it back with this…”
“The Gentleman has asked to take it out of the record and you can have your discussion with him over 09400025.doc 27 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 there. This Bill will be taken out of the record. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 451. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 451, a Bill for an Act concerning business. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Joyce.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 451 would allow for persons that pay for their groceries with Link cards or food stamps to get the most… the lowest available price posted in the store. What this really is aimed at is if someone has a Jewel or Dominic’s or Kroger card, milk may be 2.50 as opposed to 2.99. Persons that pay for but don’t have one of those cards but they pay for their groceries with a Link card would be allowed to get that same posted price of 2.50. It does two things: (1) It helps out people that are on this program to hopefully get more with… with less. And it also, hopefully, in the long run saves the state some money because these are subsidized programs that the state is spending money on. We have been working with the Illinois Retail Merchants Association. They have agreed to let this Bill move forward and to work further on it in the Senate. I’d be happy to answer any questions.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from McHenry, Representative Franks, for what reason do you rise?”
“I stand in support of this Bill. Representative, I want to congratulate you. I had this same Bill last year. I couldn’t get it moved. You’ve obviously done very good 09400025.doc 28 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 work on it. I’m sorry it had to take an extra year but under your expert tutelage it got moved. So, congratulations and on this… we should have a lot of ‘aye’ votes on this Bill.”
“The Gentleman from Vermilion, Representative Black, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Representative, these grocery chain discount cards, they’re free. Aren’t they?”
“They are.”
“And anybody who wants one can ask and get one. Right?”
“That… that is correct. Some of them are… yeah, I think I know where you’re going, Representative.”
“Okay.”
“Some of them… some of them require you to fill out a Social Security num… card… put your Social Security number down on a piece of paper. And as you know, with identity theft, if you look at the cover of U.S.A. Today, it’s every day, it’s in the newspaper. And that… and that’s really what this is aimed at. Some people that may be on… may not have an address that they want to put down. Maybe they don’t have an address, a permanent address. This is really trying to reach out to people that are in this program. To pe… and also, save the state some money or get more quality or more quantity out of the state… out of the state’s dollars.” 09400025.doc 29 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Representative, that… that raises a couple of additional questions. If… if you don’t have a permanent address, how do you get a Link card?”
“I’m sorry?”
“If you don’t have a permanent address, how do you get a Link card?”
“I don’t know… I’m not… I don’t have a Link card, so I don’t know…”
“All right.”
“…what that process is.”
“Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, to the Bill.”
“To the Bill.”
“Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, I appreciate the Sponsor’s willingness to try and get this Bill amended when it goes over to the Senate. And I commend him for that, but in its current form if you’ll just look carefully at the Bill. If you have a grocery store chain discount card that you put on your keychain, anybody can get them. There’s no fee. There’s really no hassle that I’ve ever encountered. I don’t have any. My wife has two or three. If I go to pick up a gallon of milk, I don’t want to fool with the discount card. I don’t know why ya hafta link, no pun intended, link a Link card to a grocery store discount card. Somebody’s gonna have to reprogram the computer, do all kinds of work to get this to mesh with the system and… and there’s no discrimination here. If the Link card recipient wants to get that discount card, they can get it in probably 90 seconds. So, why would we want a grocery 09400025.doc 30 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 store chain, when milk is at an all time high, to have to raise prices to enable their computer to figure out the discount that they would offer on their courtesy card vis- a-vis a Link card. This I… I think, in all due respect to the Sponsor, this Bill is trying to address a problem that I for the life of me don’t see how it even exists. I… I know it’ll pass but I do appreciate the Sponsor’s willingness to seek some clarification and/or an Amendment in the Senate. But I intend to vote ‘no’.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from DuPage, Representative Meyer, for what risen do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Representative, is there any opposition to this Bill?”
“There was some opposition from the Illinois Retail Merchants Association in committee. And as I stated earlier, they have agreed to let this Bill move forward so that we can address any concerns that the previous speaker mentioned in the Senate.”
“All right. Thank you. I’d missed that. It was very noisy in here and just didn’t here it.”
“I understand, Sir.”
“Thank you.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 451 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. 09400025.doc 31 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 On this question, there are 69 voting 'aye', 45 voting 'no', 1 voting ‘present’. This Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Gentleman from DuPage, Representative Daniels, for what reason do you rise?”
“Well, there’s not many of us that were around here in 1983, but the Gentleman to my left was a Member of the House for two terms from Oak Park. And he actually ran with Representative Turner until the cutback Amendment, that ill-advised, ill-thought cutback Amendment, excluded Redd Griffin from the district in Oak Park. He was a great Member when he was here. And will you welcome our former colleague, Redd Griffin, from Oak Park.”
Speaker Turner: “Welcome, Redd. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 472. Representative Eddy. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 472, a Bill for an Act concerning ethanol. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 472 establishes a council to promote the development and use of ethanol in the State of Illinois. The… the Bill in its current form will be amended in the Senate to get agreed language, as to the Members. This morning we had a meeting with DCO(sic-DCEO) and several farm organizations to discuss that final language, but we wanna get it out of here, get it over to the Senate and… and have that membership finalized. But this is… this, I think, an important Bill for the ethanol industry in the state. And 09400025.doc 32 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 would appreciate your ‘aye’ vote and would answer any questions you may have.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 472 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. There are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. This Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 472… 474. Representative Eddy. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 474, a Bill for an Act concerning environmental safety. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. This is another Bill that’s designed to promote ethanol industry and basically, is a notification requirement that those who have the E85 vehicles be notified of loc… of the locations of the fueling stations by the Department of Transportation in their maps. It also requires that there be a notification component by the Secretary of State regarding the importance of the E85 vehicles. The Secretary of State’s Office and I are working on the final language, again, that will be amended in the Senate that would take care of any problem they may have with the actual insert. But I believe, again, this is another in a series of Bills that will help promote that industry. And I’d be ap… happy to answer any questions you might have.” 09400025.doc 33 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 474 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Gentleman from Vermilion, Representative Black, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Table some Bills. Pursuant to House Rule 60(b), I move to table House Bill 46, House Bill 385, House Bill 545, House Bill 553, House Bill 1034, House Bill 1309 and House Bill 1598. I have filed those Motions in writing. They’re carried on the Calendar. I am the Chief Sponsor of each Bill. I would ask that those or move that those Bills be tabled.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman asks leave to table the previously mentioned Bills. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And those Bills will be tabled. On the Order of Third Reading, we have House Bill 594. Representative Boland. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 594, a Bill for an Act concerning volunteer emergency workers. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you, Mr… thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 594 amends the Volunteer Firefighter Job Protection Act, that 09400025.doc 34 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 we passed in the last Session, to also provide volunteer emergency workers with those same job protections. It says that volunteer emergency workers including firefighters, EMTs, ambulance drivers and first responders who receive no compensation and who do not work full-time for a governmental entity as an emergency worker, has the protection that if they’re absent or late to work because of being out in an emergency that their employer may not… can’t terminate ‘em because of that.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Knox, Representative Moffitt, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just to the Bill. I wanna commend Representative Boland for sponsoring this legislation. Last year he did it for volunteer firefighters and this is simply extending the same protection to volunteer EMTs is what our firefighters received as a result of that legislation. I hope all of you’ll take a moment and… and realize how serious this issue is. Volunteer EMTs are getting more and more difficult to find. As more regulations are put on ‘em, more demands on their time, volunteers are harder to… to maintain. Unfortunately, I think even the State of Illinois has made it more difficult when it used to be able to take a test through the Department of Public Health and at least temporarily they’re being required to take a national registry test. More costly, more difficult, less help to our volunteers EMTs. I hope that’s gonna change. But in the meantime, we need to do everything we can to 09400025.doc 35 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 support our EMTs. As each of you in this chamber travel home tonight, there’ll be places as you travel, if you would need emergency service… medical services, it would be a volunteer EMT that would possibly respond protecting different portions of our rural highways. I recently stopped at a volunteer ambulance service in my district. It was Oneida, Illinois. And… and they indicated how much trouble they’re getting in… in retaining volunteers and if we would pass this, it would be a big help to them. I know there have been some indicate some concern, but anyone that would be opposed to this, if you need the services of an EMT and that local volunteer EMT service has not been able to retain and keep the volunteers that they needed, I hope anyone that would oppose this would understand that they might just have to wait an extra 20 minutes, hour, for an ambulance to come. This is important legislation. It’s a message to our EMTs. It’s needed and I appreciate Representative Boland sponsoring it. Thank you.”
“The Gentleman from Vermilion, Representative Black, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Representative, is it your understanding that this Bill corrects a drafting error that occurred last year under House Bill 4851 now Public Act 93-1027? Is that the intent, was to… is to clear up the drafting error that appeared last year?” 09400025.doc 36 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“It… it does include that, yes. Yes.”
“Okay. Now, let’s see if we can narrow the focus of this Bill. And nobody… nobody on this House Floor would be opposed to doing whatever we can to assist volunteer firefighters and volunteer EMTs. But we often create the law of unintended consequences here. Who is covered under this Bill?”
“First of all, it applies only to municipalities of less than 35 hundred. So, it narrows it quite a lot. And then secondly, let me… let me go through the… the definitions: emergency medical technicians licensed as an EMTB, EMTI or EMTP under the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act, a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant or a volunteer first responder as devine… as defined in Section 3.60 of the Emergency Medical Systems… Services Systems Act to a fire department, fire protection district, or other governmental entities and who does not work in one of these capacities as a full-time person.”
“All right. So, in my district, I’m… I’m thinking now of a community that has an excellent volunteer fire department and they also want an ambulance service, but that town is about 9 thousand people. So, if I read this Bill correctly then that Bill would… this Bill would not apply to a volunteer firefighter or EMT who worked for that… work is the wrong word, who volunteered for that particular department.”
“Yes. That is… that is correct.”
“Okay.” 09400025.doc 37 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“We would like it to apply to others, but the population standard was put in there to basically keep opposition from the full-time firefighters association. I might also add that seven states already do this, so we’re not the first.”
“But what confuses me, Representative, is this Bill would apply to an employer anywhere in the state with no threshold. I… let’s… let’s just face the economic realities today. I don’t have many employers in my district in towns of 35 hundred or less. They generally work outside of that town. And they may work for an employer who employs 50 people or they may work for an employer that employs 900. That employer is covered under this Bill. Correct?”
“You’re talking about if he lives in a… lives in a community of under 35 hundred but works for…
“Right.”
“…an employer somewhere else that is in a much bigger… Yes, that… yes, that applies to them.”
“In fact, it’s not unusual today and one of the problems in… in attracting volunteer firefighters and EMTs and we won’t even get into the ever increasing training requirements. One of the big problems of covering these volunteer departments during the normal 8-5 day, is that many of these people are employed 25, 35, 45 miles away from that community. My only fear is that this could create a real hardship on an employer if… if that person… if the employee gets a page and decides at 10:00 in the 09400025.doc 38 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 morning to answer that page knowing that it’s a 40-mile one-way ride to see what the fire or the accident is, that’s going to be an hour off work, whatever time he or she spends at the fire or accident scene and then an hour trip back to work.”
“Act… actually, Representative Black, that person would not qualify for this because you can’t leave work to respond to an emergency. It only applies if they’re already out on an emergency. Let… let me give you an example that actually happened in my district. I won’t name the community, but there was an individ… a volunteer firefighter that was out fighting a fire at the plant that he worked at. He went back to the station, changed his clothes, went back to work and was terminated.”
“Representative, I think that’s a very important point that we need to focus on in the language of the Bill. Let… let me find that line, that specific language where it says, ‘may be absent from…’ Just a second and we’ll get you that line number.”
“Okay.”
“If you’ll look on line 26, page 2. It says, ‘an employee who is a volunteer emergency worker and who may be absent from or late to his or her employment.’ There is a definitional concern on the part of some people that that does allow you to take off work. In other words…”
“Hmm.”
“…I clock in, I clock out, I’m absent from work.” 09400025.doc 39 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Our… our understanding of it, Representative Black, and… and this was the intent last year as far as the volunteer firefighters and would apply to these as well, that it does not allow you to leave work to respond to an emergency, only applying if you’re already out at an emergency and then you’re late for work. Let’s suppose that, ya know, there was an emergency at 4:00 in the morning. The person is out doing something, rescuing somebody, driving the ambulance, whatever, and gets… and he has to be at work at 6 and he’s, ya know, 15 minutes late. Ya know, he couldn’t be fired. Now he could be docked. He could actually be charged, but he couldn’t be fired.”
“Let me apologize to you, Representative. I stand corrected. Staff told me that that issue was clarified by legislative intent last year.”
“Yes. Thank you.”
“So, that issue is moot. And… and quite frankly I’m glad to hear that. Again, I think the only problem and… and I… I certainly want to do all that I can to help volunteer firefighters and emergency personnel because it gets harder and harder to find them. And quite frankly…”
“Very good.”
“…in most areas of the state, that’s what we have.”
“Yes. Yes.”
“But at the same… in fact, staff just told me 70 percent of our emergency responders are volunteers.”
“Yes. Yes.” 09400025.doc 40 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“But I also want to be very cognizant and make sure that we all realize that the economic realities of today’s employment market. If… if they’re planning on doing something today and many people today are on a on-time delivery. They might get an order and it has to go out of that shop by 4:00 that afternoon to be received by the business that paid for it. And in many cases if there isn’t, if… if that doesn’t happen, the receiving company won’t pay for it. And so, they’re counting on John Smith to be there because he’s the only MIG TIG welder they have. And he gets called out on a call at 6 a.m.; it’s a fire with injuries and he’s just not able to get away until 11:00 in the morning. He gets to work about noon and they don’t finish the job. I think that’s why the employers signed in in opposition of the Bill. It’s the economic realities, Mike, that we didn’t have to face 10 or 15 years ago. I’m gonna vote for the Bill but I do think this Bill presents some very unique problems that I would hope our volunteer departments and their employers of… of those people can get worked out because if they don’t, I don’t think in the long run it does the volunteer any good and it has the impact and not the… not the beneficial to employers and without that symbiotic relationship, we’re in trouble. I appreciate the work that you’ve done. I don’t know if you can continue the negotiation as the Bill gets to the Senate, but I can understand the employers reluctance to sign on to this Bill, given the economic realities that they face today. But I… I… not that I’m antibusiness 09400025.doc 41 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 either, but I have to vote for the Bill recognizing my district, recognizing the concerns that we have…”
“Right.”
“…but maybe the Senate can do a little bit more to figure out how to lessen the impact on business. Thank you very much.”
“Thank you.”
“The Gentleman from Crawford, Representative Eddy, for what reason do you rise?”
“Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Just a couple quick questions. I noticed that there is some concern by the School Management Alliance, they are opponents. Can you… can you give us a brief description as to why they oppose the legislation? Did they mention their… their opposition?”
“I think they did initially, but they did not, as I recall, they didn’t put in a slip and nobody testified in committee. And I believe whatever their concern was I thought they got it straightened out. I think they were worried in… it had something to do with the population, I think. But I’m… I’m not sure. I can’t recall right now.”
“Well, I think the pre…”
“But I talked to Deanna Sullivan about it.”
“Okay. I think the previous speaker brought up some concerns that that may be the source of their concern and that has the… the fact that in a school situation, if someone happens to also be a member or an EMT or a member 09400025.doc 42 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 of that volunteer fire department EMT, that if they needed to leave or wanted to leave, they’re in a position that they’re certified and… and how does the employer then replace the certified…”
“Well, the crucial thing, again, is they can’t leave work. They can’t leave work. If… if one of these folks is a teacher, they can’t just take off. Ya know, they… they hear there’s a call, they can’t just take off. This does not protect them there. It only protects them if they’re already out on a job rescuing somebody and they’re late for work. They just… and they can’t be fired, they can be docked, they can have… ya know, they… they can be required to provide a written verification from the department that they were actually doing this, ya know. They can… they have to make a reasonable effort. Ya know, they can’t just stop and drink coffee, ya know, and be late.”
“So your… so your interpretation of the ‘absent from’ means that they have not been there yet, not that they’re there, they leave and they come back. That…”
“Yes. Ab… absolutely.”
“Okay.”
“Absolutely. It’s only if they’re already out.”
“And… and if… if the school district so desires, they could by local policy, require that they use personal time or some other form and really this is just… just an attempt to… to make the fact that their employment continues safe.”
“Very definitely. Ya know, it’s a rare incidence as what happened in my district.” 09400025.doc 43 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.”
“Thank you.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 594 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 100 voting 'aye', 15 voting 'no' and 3 voting… 100 voting ‘aye’, 15 voting ‘no’, none… 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 596. Representative Boland. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 596, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 596 adds sections to the Criminal Code of 1961 that makes impersonating a firefighter a crime. Currently, as we know, it’s a crime to impersonate an attorney, a judicial or governmental official, peace officer, a parent or guardian. We had an Amendment which added, also, false impersonation of an emergency management worker and aggravated false impersonation of an emergency worker. The Bill makes it an offense to knowingly and falsely represent that they are firefighters of any jurisdiction. And the violation is a Class IV felony, 1-3 years. If the person is also attempting or committing a felony, then the violation is a Class III felony and is considered 09400025.doc 44 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 aggravated person… impersonation of a firefighter. The proponents are the Illinois Fire Chiefs, Illinois Association of Fire Protection Districts, Office of the State Fire Marshal, American Red Cross, Illinois Emergency Services Management Association and the Illinois Firefighters Association. There were no opponents in committee.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Jackson, Representative Bost, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Representative, I… and I know that we deal with this same type thing with police officers and everything. Suppose it’s like a costume party and… and just seriously ask ya.”
“Yeah. Yeah.”
“I know… How do we deal with that with the police?”
“Actually, this… this does not covers those. It’s in the… in the professional activity of the firefighter or the emergency worker. Let me give you a couple of examples. One happened after the tornado in Utica, where the MABAS they call it, the Mutual Aid… you know all about this, you’re the… you’re the expert, had a response plan and fire and EMS from several areas came to help. And in the meantime there was a group of phony firemen, this almost sounds comical but of course, it wasn’t, calling themselves the Lost Creek Fire Department. Showed up in a used fire truck that they had purchased. They were detained at a 09400025.doc 45 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 checkpoint and following the incident, the State Police and county sheriff were contacted but they only… they found to their dismay that there’s nothing illegal about impersonating a firefighter. There would be a policeman but not a firefighter. Another example, is after the Oklahoma City bombings, a photographer disguised himself as a firefighter to gain access to a restricted area.”
“Okay. I think… I think the Bill’s real… real good. The only… we… we have some firefighters themselves that know and work with other firefighters and they believe that they don’t do their job well enough and they accuse them of impersonating firefighters, too. But that’s a… But I think… the Bill’s a good Bill. I’ll be supporting it.”
“Thank you.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Molaro, for what reason do you rise?”
“Will the Sponsor yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Thank you. Did you say it was a crime to be an attorney or a crime to impersonate an attorney?”
“Impersonate an attorney. We know that nobody could impersonate…
“Why would someone wanna do that? Who knows.”
“…a real attorney like you.”
“But… and I… and I assume this has nothing to do with these kids who dress up as firemen and all that.”
“No, this has nothing to do with that.”
“Okay.” 09400025.doc 46 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“The Gentleman from Vermilion, Representative Black, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you very much, Mr… Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“Indicates he will.”
“Representative, I’m going to ask you… I have two questions. One, sounds silly, but I’m sitting here trying to think of an answer and I couldn’t come up with one. And that isn’t unusual. This in no way prohibits me from dressing up as a firefighter on Halloween, does it?”
“No, it doesn’t.”
“All right. I just…”
“You can come to my house and I’ll give ya a treat.”
“Oh, I’ve heard you have wonderful treats, so I just might do that. The concern I have focuses on the Amendment. And it says, ‘the false impersonation of an emergency management worker’, and the Bill… and the language goes on. Is there in statute a definition of ‘an emergency management worker’? We can’t find it if there is.”
“Hmm. You know, my staff tells me and they’re… they’re the lawyers, they… they’re not sure there is. But we do say in the… in the Amendment… we mention the American Red Cross in that regard. And they were the ones who brought this to me, the Amendment, asked to be included.”
“Wha… Representative, and I’m not opposed to the Bill. But I… I, as you, I rely very heavily on staff and I’ve come to trust their judgment and their expertise. As 09400025.doc 47 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 there’s no definition of this in this chapter, this may create some real problems if one of these cases is taken to court. I… if… and I’m not trying to… to delay the Bill. I would suggest you take this Bill out of the record and let’s let staff get together on the definitional language on the Amendment of emergency management worker and make sure that we’re not doing something that we have to come back a year from now and correct.”
“Well, you make a good point, Representative Black. What I’d rather do since, ya know, we’re under these guidelines… these… these deadlines. If we could move the Bill and ask the Senate not to do anything ‘til they got a… a definition there. And… and my staff says that he will work…”
“Okay, I…”
“…with them and with your side of the aisle…”
“I’ll… we’ll…”
“…to make sure.”
“…we’ll work on that. I’m not sure the deadline kicks in because now the Bill has to come back to us anyway in May.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
“But with your word that the Senate will carefully look at that Amendment, I think we have a potential definitional problem. As long as we get that straightened out, I… I certainly support the Bill.”
“You’re…”
“Thank you very much.” 09400025.doc 48 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“You’re absolutely right on that. We do want to get that definition. I did not know that we did not have a definition there. My staff is writing that down.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 596 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 114 voting 'aye', 1 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 602. Representative Eddy. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 602, a Bill for an Act concerning advertising. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 602 results from a problem in my district in rural areas where some adult bookstores have created issues locally with advertising concerns. For example, in… in one small community near my district, there is a cemetery behind which an adult bookstore is located. The folks in that community are obviously concerned of what type of advertising that might be allowed on the billboards, message boards, that are located near that cemetery. Basically, what this Bill does is it restricts what type of messages can be displayed on that advertisement. It is very, very strictly constructed to define specific items that are not allowed. And I wanna point out one thing, 09400025.doc 49 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 the… there was some opposition to this Bill and there have been a couple of Amendments. I’ve worked with the Outdoor Advertising Association of Illinois to change language and at this time they are not opposing the legislation. Also, on… on our analysis, there was an indication that some theater associations were opposed to the Bill. However, this afternoon I received word from that association that they have removed their opposition to the Bill. And I’d be happy to answer any questions someone might have regarding this legislation and ask for your support.”
“The Lady from Kane, Representative Lindner, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to change my vote. I meant to vote ‘aye’ on House Bill 594.”
“The record will so reflect your wishes. The Gentleman from Bond, Representative Stephens, for what reason do you rise?”
“Well, thank you, Mr. Chair… Mr. Speaker. Will the Gentleman yield?”
“He indicates he will.”
“Representative, some of us in committee were concerned with the language in your Bill and how it refers to certain things that can’t be on a billboard, as long as that billboard is advertising adult facilities.”
“Yes.”
“And my question to you in committee and remains, can you use those things that are described so much in detail in your Bill on other advertisements, such as a beer ad or 09400025.doc 50 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 a swimsuit ad or a lingerie ad or anything like that? Why are we discriminating one part of the economy against another? Is it… is that your intention?”
“This… the reason that it’s restricted to that particular industry is the fact that that was the concern of the citizenry that brought the language or the initiative to me. That’s what their exact concern was. However, I understand the concern there might be with other advertising, automobile advertising. Like… like you mentioned, some… some other types could certainly be a problem as well. But… but the answer to your question is that was the original venue in which this concern was brought to me.”
“One other question. In your opening remarks, you reference a cemetery that’s close to… are they close to an adult bookstore or are they close to an outdoor display ad?”
“They’re… they are located adjacent to an adult bookstore that would possibly advertise within the very close constraints of that cemetery. And that’s one of the concerns.”
“Thank you.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Macon, Representative Mitchell, for what reason do you rise?” Mitchell, B.: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?”
“Indicates he will.” 09400025.doc 51 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Mitchell, B.: “Representative Eddy, I voted ‘no’ on this Bill in committee. The one reason, and I was wondering, it exempts what community?”
“The… the… at their request, the City of Chicago is exempted from this legislation.” Mitchell, B.: “So, the municipalities that have Home Rule that are here in my district: Peoria, Springfield, Decatur, Bloomington, Home Rule communities, this affects them but doesn’t affect the City of Chicago?”
“At… at the City of Chicago’s request. That’s true.” Mitchell, B.: “And Representative, you know I respect you immensely, but what is the logic behind making communities that I or most of the Members of this General Assembly represent but exempts the City of Chicago?”
“Well, I think the fact that they contacted me with their concerns was number one and number two staff tells me that most municipalities have restrictions or have the ability to restrict beyond what this legislation is intending anyway. So, that they… they may continue those restrictions and… and be more restrictive than this language.” Mitchell, B.: “Thank… thank you, Representative. To the Bill. I just wanted the Body to know that most of our communities this would be applicable to but not to the City of Chicago. But thank you, leg… Mr… Mr. Eddy.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 602 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now 09400025.doc 52 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 114 voting 'aye', 1 voting 'no', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Fritchey, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Speaker. For purpose of an announcement. To those Members that take 55 going north, I spoke with the Department of Transportation, there was a significant accident on 55 near Joilet. Traffic is present… presently closed in both directions for several miles. They don’t know the status of when 55 will be reopened. So, we would just suggest that depending on what time we get out of here, that you check to find out what the road conditions are and potentially think about taking an alternative route to get home. And again, that’s 55 right near Joilet. Thank you, Speaker.”
Speaker Turner: “So, Representative, do you recommend… Representative Fritchey, do you recommend that we just stay here and continue to work until they… ‘til they open it up.”
“Speaker, as always I’m prepared to do the people’s work.”
“That’s good to hear. We will give the Members another update before we adjourn. On the Order of Third Reading, we have House Bill 615. Representative Delgado. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 53 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 615, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Delgado.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 615 is a new piece of legislation, Reduction of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Act, based on a Florida law to establish a program under the Illinois Department of Public Health that provides grants subject to available appropriations to stimulate the development of community-based and neighborhood-based projects that will improve the health outcomes of racial and ethnic populations. The program is intended to foster the development of coordinated, collaborative and broad-based participation by public and private entities and the function of the partnership between state and local governments, faith-based organizations and private sector health care providers. And I would ask for your ‘aye’ vote.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 615 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the 09400025.doc 54 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 692. Representative Mathias. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 692, a Bill for an Act concerning motor fuel theft. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 692 creates the offense of theft of motor fuel. Today… at… at the time when we had our committee meeting, there were several gas station owners who came down who testified that because of the high price of gasoline, people actually waving to them as they leave the station not paying. It’s become a major issue for them and so, we created an offense of theft of motor fuel. We had passed the same Bill last year. And I ask for you to pass… pass it again. Thank you.”
“Seeing there are no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 692 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 113 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 1 voting ‘present’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 700. Representative Mathias. Read the… I mean, the… Representative Lyons. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 700, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Lyons.” 09400025.doc 55 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Lyons, J.: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker, colleagues and friends of the General Assembly. House Bill 700 is an initiative of the Life Services Network, Illinois Coalition for Aging, AARP, Illinois Health Care Association and the nurses’ association which is cleanup to the Assisted Living Act which we passed out of here about 4 years ago. There’s two section to it: one is a health concern, one is a consumer protection concern which basically allows the facilities governed by the Act to employee licensed health care professionals for the purpose of administering sliding scale insulin. This will basically allow more people to qualify for care in assisted living facilities. And secondly, it will require the disclosure of what they call community fees in the service delivery contract. And this… this will just make it a more consumer friendly issue when people have inquiries as to what is being charged for this community fee. There’s no known opposition to this thing. It passed unanimously out of committee. I’d be happy to answer any questions. Would certainly ask for your ‘aye’ vote.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Will, Representative McGuire, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On the previous Bill my button for ‘yes’ does not seem to operate. So, I’d like to be recorded as ‘yes’ on the previous Bill. Thank you.”
“The record will so reflect your… your wishes. Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 700 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all 09400025.doc 56 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Scully, for what reason do you rise?”
“Mr. Speaker, I’d like to ask for a waive… a waiver of the posting requirement for a subject matter hearing on the Electric Utility Oversight Committee for the purposes of hearing the subject matter of real time pricing and the tariff proposal by ame… Ameren to the Interstate Commerce Commission last Friday.”
Speaker Turner: “What day do you want to waive the requirement?”
“On… on March 9, next Wednesday.”
“The Gentleman asks leave to waive the posting requirements for his committee. All those in favor should say 'aye'; all those opposed say 'no'. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And the waiver is granted. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 701. Representative Eileen Lyons. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 701, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Lady from Cook, Representative Lyons.” Lyons, E.: “Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 701 is a Bill that creates a provision for restitution payments for long- 09400025.doc 57 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 term medical and mental health care costs incurred by crime victims. Now, all victims but especially sexual assault victims often face long-term medical and mental health expenses as a result of being raped. Illinois law, currently, permits courts to order convicted criminals to pay victims’ restitution for out-of-pocket expenses but only for a period of 5 years after conviction. Courts frequently do not order restitution when a criminal is sentenced to incarceration, leaving the victim to bear the expenses of her health care needs resulting from the rape. Some courts consider only the income of convicted criminals and do not take into consideration his assets when ordering restitution, thereby denying the victim adequate compensation for her injuries. By expanding the ability of trial courts to order restitution, greater responsibility for the financial impact of sexual assault is placed with the offender. Recognizing that these crime victims often suffer long-term medical and mental health expenses, many states have created provisions for extended jurisdictions for restitution payments for health care including: California, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and the list goes on. I would ask that Illinois be included as one of those states that par… that recognizes that crime victims need restitution long after that and would ask for an ‘aye’ vote.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 701 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now 09400025.doc 58 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Representative Soto, you with us? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 731. Representative Eddy. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 731, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. This Bill is a… was brought to me by the administrator of a small rural hospital. It passed out last year, unanimously, and simply allows hospitals, county hospitals, with less than a hundred beds to par… participate in the… the local government health insurance plan through CMS. I know of no opposition to this Bill.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 731 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 741. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 59 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 741, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Gentleman from Crawford, Representative Eddy.”
“Thank you very much. This… this particular Bill is just a cleanup of some language that allows flexibility in the Pension Code for hiring teachers in shortage areas. The Bill that originally passed to allow teachers to come back, specifically used the word ‘school term’ in all of the posting requirements for employing those returning teachers. There was not enough flexibility, special education associations felt, to allow for hiring in either the fall or spring term. So, all this does is clarify that either in the fall or spring term that those requirements are allowed to hire those teachers in hard-to-teach areas. Once again, I’d appreciate your support and be happy to answer any questions you might have.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 741 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. This Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 760. Representative Rita. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 60 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 760, a Bill for an Act in relation to funeral expenses. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
“The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Rita.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 760 amends the Public Aid Code requiring as January 1, 2005, to increase the minimal reimbursement for public aid funeral and burial expenses based on the inflation index of the customer price index. Currently, funeral costs are about between 5 and 7 thousand dollars. And the last increase was in 2000, which brought it up to $15 hundred which this will close the gap between what it actually cost. It’s become a problem with these funerals that the… it’s not mandated that funeral homes participate in public aid funerals. Be happy to answer any questions.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from McLean, Representative Brady, for what reason do you rise?”
“I’d like to speak to the Bill, Mr. Speaker.”
“To the Bill.”
“First off, Representative Rita… I’ve worked with Representative Rita on this Bill, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. What this is, is simply trying to tie to the consumer cost index, really less than 3 percent, what my fellow funeral directors, as a funeral director myself, provides in the way of public aid funerals. As the Representative indicated, it was 2001 when there was a hundred fifty dollar increase, was the last increase. This is really more of a fiscal responsible way to try and compensate in some small way the losses that the funeral 09400025.doc 61 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 industry actually has when they are providing services to those that are the most needy throughout this state. I would simply just ask for an ‘aye’ vote and certainly I’ll look forward to working with the Representative on a funding part of this which, of course, will be something dealt with at appropriations time if we’re fortunate enough to do so. So, I certainly ask for an ‘aye’ vote. Thank you.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 760 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take… Brauer… the Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 766. Representative Hultgren. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill… House Bill 766, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. Third Reading of this House Bill.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from DuPage, Representative Hultgren.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. This is a really simple Bill. We amended this in committee. The Amendment becomes the Bill. It deals with the Parental Responsibility Act. What this does is increases the amount that parents can be responsible for damage caused by minor 09400025.doc 62 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 children. It was $25 hundred, this raises it up to 2… $20 thousand. What we’ve seen is that much damage has happened throughout the state by children between the ages of 11 and 18. And even damage to a… if you go to a playground and a playground is damaged that can be well over 20 thousand. We had an in… instance up north where some children lit a… a refreshment stand on fire that burned down a house next to it. There was over a hundred thousand dollars of damage. At 25 hundred which is the current amount, it’s hardly worth even pursuing, trying to recover that amount. What this allows is recovery, both public and private, of up to $20 thousand. There’s no opposition to this Bill and would ask for your support. Thank you.”
“Seeing no further questions, the question is, 'Shall House Bill 766 pass?' All those in favor should vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is now open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? The Clerk shall take the record. On this question, there are 115 voting 'aye', 0 'noes', 0 ‘presents’. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Mr. Clerk, what’s the status of House Bill 783?”
Clerk Mahoney: “House Bill 783, is on the Order of Third Reading.”
“The Lady asks leave to bring the Bill back from Third to Second. Leave is granted. Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re going to the Order of Second Readings. If you’ll turn to page 8 of the Calendar, this should not take 09400025.doc 63 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 long. Just tell us if you’re ready or not. Ready or not. House Bill… First Bill on Second Reading that we’re gonna call is House Bill 1383. Representative Brauer. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1383, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings we have House Bill 1402. Representative Smith. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1402, a Bill for an Act in relation to firefighters. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 1403. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1403, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.” Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1432. Representative Cross. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” Clerk Mahoney: “House Bill 1432, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.” 09400025.doc 64 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1434. Representative Patterson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1434, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1458. Representative Chapa LaVia. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1458, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1471. Representative Black. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1471, a Bill for an Act concerning driving offenses. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1480. Representative Phelps. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1480, a Bill for an Act concerning labor. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1487. Representative McCarthy. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1487, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No 09400025.doc 65 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1504. Representative Boland. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1504, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1511. Representative Tenhouse. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1511, a Bill for an Act concerning human services. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1522. Representative Coulson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1522, a Bill for an Act concerning loan repayment assistance for physicians. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1523. Representative Mathias. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1523, a Bill for an Act concerning civil procedure. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1529. Representative Krause. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 66 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 1529, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“We have House Bill 1533. I should say… Third Reading. Read… We have House Bill 1533. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1533, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee…”
“Take it out of the record. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 1539… Second Reading. We have House Bill 1539. Read that Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1539, a Bill for an Act concerning Public Aid. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 1549. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1549, a Bill for an Act concerning public health. Second Reading of this House Bill. No…”
“Thir…”
"No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1553. Representative May. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill…”
“Take it out of the record. Out of the record. We have House Bill 1554. Representative Schock. Out of 09400025.doc 67 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 the record. We have House Bill 1555. Representative D’Amico. Out of the record. We have House Bill 1559. Representative Cross. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
"House Bill 1559, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1569. Representative Krause. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1569, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1574. Representative Flider. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1574, a Bill for an Act concerning counties. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1585. Representative May. Read the Bill… Out of the record. We have House Bill 1587. Representative Lang. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1587, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 1588. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 68 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 1588, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1589. Representative McGuire. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1589, a Bill for an Act in relation to State Government. Third… Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 159… 1597. Representative Black. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Out of the record. We have House Bill 2345. Representative Hamos. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2345, a Bill for an Act concerning regulations. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2348. Representative Kosel. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2348, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2353. Representative Flider. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 69 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 2353, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2380. Representative Coulson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2380, a Bill for an Act in relation to public health. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2386. Representative Gordon. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2386, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2394. Representative Munson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2394, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 2408. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2408, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2416. Representative Kelly. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 70 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 2416, a Bill for an Act con…”
“Out of the record. We have House Bill 2418. Representative Schock. Out of the record. We have House Bill 2421. Out of the record. House Bill 2432. Representative Bassi. Read the Bill, Mr… Out of the record. House Bill 2435. Representative Hannig. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
"House Bill 2435, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Com… Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. Representative… We have House Bill 2444. Representative Chavez. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2444, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have House Bill 2451. Out of the record. House Bill 2453. Representative Coulson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2453, a Bill for an Act concerning regulations. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2459. Representative Mathias. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 71 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 2459, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. We have Representative Howard… Out of the record. Out of the record. We have House Bill 2490 on Second Reading. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2490, a Bill for an Act concerning Public Aid. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2507. Representative Sacia. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2507, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Rep… House Bill 20… Third Reading. We have House Bill 2510. Representative Hoffman. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2510, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 2521. Representative Rose. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 2521, a Bill for an…” 09400025.doc 72 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Out of the record. Out of the record. We have House Bill 2594. Representative Delgado. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” Clerk Mahoney: "House Bill 2594, a Bill for an Act concerning…”
“Out of the record. We have House Bill 2696. Representative Munson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
"House Bill 2696, a Bill for an Act concerning business. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. On page 4 of the Calendar, we have House Bill 497. Representative Hannig. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. It’s on the Order of Second Reading.”
“House Bill 497, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 15. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 15, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Hannig, has been approved for consideration.”
“The Gentleman from Montgomery, Representative Hannig, on Floor Amendment #2.” 09400025.doc 73 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. In the discussion we had in the Local Government Committee, they asked me to draft an Amendment to narrow the language of the Bill. That’s what the Amendment does and so I’d move for its adoption.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman moves for the adoption of Amendment #2 to House Bill 15. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. Ladies and Gentlemen, we’re gonna start on page 2 of the Calendar. And we will go through Seconds as we did earlier. Starting on page 2. If you see your name and you follow accordingly, we will move it right along. First Bill that we will call is House Bill 23. Representative Jerry Mitchell. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 23, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. Leave… the Gentleman wants the Bill to remain on Second Reading. Move it back to Second. We ask the Members to please follow the Calendar and let us know what you wish. On the Order of Second Reading, we have House Bill 45. Representative Yarbrough. Out of the 09400025.doc 74 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 record. We have… on Second Readings, we have House Bill 58. Representative Lang. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 58, a Bill for an Act regarding education. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. On Second Reading, we have House Bill 120. Representative Bill Mitchell. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 120, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 179. Representative Leitch. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Out of the record. We have House Bill 211. Representative Delgado. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Representative Delgado. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 211, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Delgado, has been approved for consideration.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 182. Representative Myers. I’m sorry, Representative Delgado on… on Amendment #1.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I need… The Amendment’s not posted yet on the screen here. We’re waiting for the Clerk to bring the copy of the Amendment which has been adopted. 09400025.doc 75 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 And here he comes on his Harley, Mr. Mark O’Brien. Thank you so very much. Mr. Speaker and Members of the House, Amendment #1 actually guts the Bill, replaces everything after the enacting clause with the following: Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity of the Civil Administrative Co… Administrative Code of Illinois will be amended in the following: Buy Illinois Program, the department shall have the authority to establish and administrate a Buy Illinois Program which may include but not limited to the following powers and duties: to accept grants, loans and appropriations from Federal Government or the state or any agency and to assess fees for any service performed under the Illinois program to carry out the program. Basically, what this basically we’re trying to do here is creating the Illinois Food Systems Policy Council. And the policy provide… the Bill will provide that the council’s purpose are to develop policies around food access and security to improve individual health and well- being, promote economic incentives for Illinois farmers, agri-businesses and other private enterprises which encourages public and private partnerships around healthy food options. This is part of an initiative to combat obesity in the State of Illinois and to make sure that as we continue to find ways to feed our children in schools and to make sure we have proper diets. We believe that this is a good beginning and I would ask for your ‘aye’ vote.” 09400025.doc 76 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Seeing no questions, the question is, ‘Shall the House adopt Amendment #1 to House Bill 211?’. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
"No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. Mr. Clerk, what’s the status of House Bill 497?”
Clerk Mahoney: “House Bill 497 is on the Order of Third Reading.”
“The Sponsor asks that the Bill be brought back to Second Reading. Leave is granted. And the Bill will be placed on Second Reading. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 232. Representative Lyons. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Out of the record. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 245. Representative Brady. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Out of the record. We have House Bill 264. Representative Watson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 264 has been read a second time, previously. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Watson, has been approved for consideration.”
“Third Reading. I’m sorry, Amendment #1. The Gentleman from Morgan, Representative Watson. Read the Bill. I should say, on the Amendment.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. This is just cleanup language, definitive language, 09400025.doc 77 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 as far as the definition of a ‘mausoleum crypt’. Also, adds some cleanup language from the cemetery association.”
“Okay. Seeing no questions, the question is, ‘Shall the House adopt Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 264?’ All those in favor should fa… should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 182. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 182, a Bill for an Act in relation to firearms. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Third Readings, we have House Bill 3… Second Readings, we have House Bill 399. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 399, a Bill for an Act concerning… concerning employment. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Lang, for what reason do you rise?”
“There’s an Amendment on House Bill 399. I thought you were calling it because the Amendment was on the floor. If 09400025.doc 78 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 the Amendment is not on the floor, then this should be left on Second Reading.”
“So, the Bill should remain on Second Reading. The Amendment did not make it to the floor yet. Leave House Bill 399 on Second Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 452. Representative Joyce. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 452, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 480. Representative Bradley. Out of the record. We have House Bill 506. Representative Coulson. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 506…”
“Out of the record. Out of the record. We have House Bill 610. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
"House Bill 610, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Reis, has been approved for consideration.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Jasper, Representative Reis, on Amendment #1.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. I move we adopt House Amendment #1 to House Bill 610. This provides wording to address some of the concerns by the State Fire Marshal. It’s pretty self-explanatory.” 09400025.doc 79 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“The Gentleman asks leave for the adoption of Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 610. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 657. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 657, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Franks, has been approved for consideration.”
“Take that Bill out of the record. On House Bill… On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 672. Representative Yarbrough. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 672, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 676. Representative Chapa LaVia. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 676 has been read a second time, previously. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.” 09400025.doc 80 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Out of the record. Representative Bellock on House Bill 679. Out of the record. Representative Jakobsson on House Bill 748. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 748, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Jakobsson, has been approved for consideration.”
Speaker Turner: “The Lady from Champaign, Representative Jakobsson.”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 748 simply replaces line 20… line 28 by replacing the word ‘director’ with ‘division manager’.”
“Seeing no questions, the question is, ‘Shall Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 748 be adopted?’. All those in favor say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 782. Representative Sullivan. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 782, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Sullivan, has been approved for consideration.” 09400025.doc 81 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Lake, Representative Sullivan.”
“Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. All this Amendment does is adds forest preserves to the units of local government that can enter in agreements with IDOT for the lease of vacant land for less than fair market value. Thank you.”
“The Gentleman moves for the adoption of House… Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 782. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 793. Representative Osterman. Read the Bill, Mr… Take it out of the record. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 805. Repres… Representative Bradley, 805. Read the Bill.”
“House Bill 805, a Bill for an Act concerning business. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 864. Representative Sacia. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 864, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.” 09400025.doc 82 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 872. Representative Saviano. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 872, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 875. Representative Saviano. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 875, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. Have House Bill 900. Representative McAuliffe. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 900, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments…”
“Out of the record. Out of the record. We have House Bill 907. Representative Colvin. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 907, a Bill for an Act concerning business transactions. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 943. Representative Flider. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk. Out of 09400025.doc 83 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 the record. We have House Bill 996. Representative Boland. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 996, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. Representative Ryg on House Bill 1077. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1077, a Bill for an Act concerning organ and tissue donation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. House Bill 1094. Representative Rose. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1094, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Out of the record. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 361. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 361, a Bill for an Act concerning economic development. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Rose, has been approved for consideration.”
“The Gentleman from Champaign, Representative Rose, on Amendment #2.” 09400025.doc 84 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment #2 represents an agreement that was made in committee to hold the Bill until DCEO and the Illinois Chamber of Commerce to work… work out language on how this would work. This is the agreed language between the administration and the chamber. I’d ask the adoption of the Amendment.”
“The Gentleman asks leave for the adoption of Floor Amendment #2 to House Bill 361. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. In the opinion of the Chair, the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #2 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 1106. Representative Dunn. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1106, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. We have House Bill 1133. Representative Soto. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1133, a Bill for an Act in relation to Public Aid. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Out of the record. We have Representative Dugan on House Bill 1161. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.” 09400025.doc 85 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“House Bill 1161, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife…”
“Out of the record. We have House Bill 1310. Representative Phelps. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1310, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. House Bill 1311. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1311, a Bill for an Act concerning townships. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. House Bill 1313. Representative Phelps. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1313, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. House Bill 1319. Out of the record. House Bill 1351. Representative Graham. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1351, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.” 09400025.doc 86 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“Third Reading. Read the… Mr. Clerk, would you read House Bill 1319 again?”
“House Bill 1319, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Delgado, has been approved for consideration.”
Speaker Turner: “The Gentleman from Cook, Representative Delgado.”
“Mr. Speaker, once again the screens are not showing the Amendments as they come out of Rules. As we get the Amendment, House Bill 1319 seeks to rehabilitate people that are convicted a felony prostitution for the first time. The Bill allows the court to sentence a person to probation without entering a judgment and with consent of the person. And Amendment #1, basically what it does, is very technical, it just inserts ‘by a provider’ and ‘after rehabilitation’. And that was in committee and we now have a consensus. And I would ask for your approval.”
“The Gentleman asks for the adoption of House Amendment #1 to House Bill 1319. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And Amendment #1 is adopted. Further Amendments?”
“No further Amendments. No Motions filed.”
Speaker Turner: “Third Reading. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 1367. Representative Moffitt. Out of the record. Has anybody seen Representative 09400025.doc 87 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Fritchey? We’re waiting on Representative Fritchey, gang. On the Order of Second Readings, we have House Bill 1301. Read the Bill, Mr. Clerk.”
“House Bill 1301, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was approved in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions filed.”
“Third Reading. I’d like to, for the Members edification, tell them what’s gonna take place next week. You know that the deadline for getting Bills out of committee is fast moving upon us and as a result, we will change the hours of the committees next week. So, that a committee that’s supposed to meet at 2:00 in all possibilities… no, in all reality will meet at 1:00. So, we will have a new committee schedule. In other words, the committees will work longer and in some cases may start earlier. This is to accommodate the workload that we anticipate over the next two weeks. So, you wanna make certain on Tuesday of next week that we will check the committee schedules to know what time your committee starts. There will be some changes in the times, we want you to know that now. Mr. Clerk, Agreed Resolutions.”
“On the Order of Agreed Resolutions. House Resolution 187, offered by Representative Hannig. House Resolution 189, offered by Representative Madigan. House Resolution 190, offered by Representative McAuliffe. And House Resolution 191, offered by Representative Howard.” 09400025.doc 88 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005
“You’ve heard the Resolutions. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And the Resolutions are adopted. The Lady from Cook, Representative Monique Davis, for what reason do you rise?” Davis, M.: “Mr. Speaker, I know that the medical malpractice hearing in Jud I is on Tuesday. Will there be a Judiciary I meeting on Wednesday as usual?”
“You are absolutely correct. There will be the… the usual meeting.” Davis, M.: “Thank you very much.”
“Any other questions? The Lady from Cook, Representative Graham, for what reason do you rise?”
“Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Do we have an update on the traffic?”
Speaker Turner: “Representative Fritchey, have you heard anything else about the traffic? You gave us that early report.”
“No, but the weather is sunny and about 45. There’s clouds expected coming in tonight. I… I don’t have a traffic update for you, though.”
“So, are you recommending that they tune in their radios to either NPR or WGN or something?”
“All… all kidding aside, Speaker. The… the last I checked, 55 was still shut down. There’s a lot of work being done. It’s been shut down in both directions. I would suggest as an alternative route to the folks going 09400025.doc 89 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 where we’re going, take 72 to 57 or take 55 at your own risk.”
“Turn on your radio or your CB. The Lady from Cook, Representative Barbara Flynn Currie moves that the House does stand… Mr. Clerk, the Adjournment Resolution.”
“Senate Joint Resolution #29. RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCURRING HEREIN, that when the two Houses adjourn on Thursday, March 03, 2005, they stand adjourned until Tuesday, March 08, 2005 at 12:00 noon.”
“We move for the adoption… Representative Currie moves for the adoption of the Adjournment Resolution. All those in favor should say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The opinion of the Chair is the ‘ayes’ have it. And the adjournment Resolution is adopted. And now, Representative Currie moves that the House… allowing perfunctory time for the Clerk, that the House does stand adjourned ‘til Tuesday, March 8, at the hour of 12 noon. The House will stand adjourned ‘til Tuesday, March 8, at the hour of noon. All those in favor say ‘aye’; all those opposed say ‘no’. The ‘ayes’ have it. And the House does stand adjourned ‘til Tuesday, March 8 at 12:00.”
“House Perfunctory Session will come to order. Committee Reports. Representative Joyce, Chairperson from the Committee on Aging, which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 03, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass 09400025.doc 90 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 Short Debate' House Bill 3443. Representative Richard Bradley, Chairperson from the Committee on Personnel & Pensions, which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 3, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 373, House Bill 738; 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 157, House Bill 1384 and House Bill 1527. Representative Reitz, Chairperson from the Committee on Revenue, which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 3, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 270, House Bill 279, House Bill 310, House Bill 395, House Bill 405, House Bill 709, House Bill 828, House Bill 1041, House Bill 1261, House Bill 1284, House Bill 1427, House Bill 1581, House Bill 2470, House Bill 2705, House Bill 2706, House Bill 2710, House Bill 2712 and House Bill 1191; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 448, House Bill 551, House Bill 18, House Bill 1142 and House Bill 2595. Representative Daniels, Chairperson from the Committee on Developmental Disabilities & Mental Illness, which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 3, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 1345, House Bill 1447, House Bill 1448, House Bill 1449, House Bill 1450, House Bill 1451 and House Bill 1586. Representative Franks, Chairperson from the Committee on State Government Administration, which the following measure/s was/were 09400025.doc 91 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 referred, action taken on March 3, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 2388; 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 2596 and House Bill 2689. Representative Molaro, Chairperson from the Committee on Judiciary II-Criminal Law, which the following measure/s was/were referred, action taken on March 3, 2005, reported the same back with the following recommendation/s: 'do pass Short Debate' House Bill 524, House Bill 1560, House Bill 2543, House Bill 2697, House Bill 2700, House Bill 780, House Bill 2441, House Bill 2604, House Bill 2699 and House Bill 3416; 'do pass as amended Short Debate' House Bill 41, House Bill 767, House Bill 824, House Bill 2389, House Bill 779, House Bill 1017, House Bill 1039 and House Bill 1109; 'recommends be adopted' is Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 166. Introduction and Reading of Senate Bills-First Reading. Senate Bill 1, offered by Representative Holbrook, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Senate Bill 45, offered by Representative Froehlich, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Senate Bill 53, offered by Representative Sullivan, a Bill for an Act concerning firearm ammunition. Senate Bill 67, offered by Representative Ryg, a Bill for an Act concerning pollution control. Senate Bill 78, offered by Representative Rose, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Senate Bill 79, offered by Representative Sullivan, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. And Senate Bill 102, offered by Representative Feigenholtz, a Bill for an Act concerning 09400025.doc 92 STATE OF ILLINOIS 94th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 25th Legislative Day 3/3/2005 criminal law. There being no further business, the House Perfunctory Session will stand adjourned.” 09400025.doc 93