"The House will be in order. Members will be in their Chairs. We shall be led in prayer today by Pastor Charles Ferris, who's with the Niantic Four Square Church in Niantic, Illinois. Pastor Ferris is the guest of Representative Scherer. Members and guests are asked to refrain from starting their laptops, turn off cell phones and rise for the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Pastor Ferris."
"Great God and Father of us all, we thank You for the privilege of being here. We thank You, Almighty God, that You have selected these men and women to lead the State of Illinois and to do our business. And, Father God, we ask that You would help them to understand that You raise up leaders and You pull down leaders and, Almighty God, that You have put them in this place for a specific purpose for a specific time. There is nothing by accident. And I would ask for them this morning, Lord, that You would give them wisdom. Wisdom to know what the right thing is, to know what decisions need to be made for the State of Illinois to prosper. And, Father, I ask that You would give them courage to make those decisions that, Almighty God, as hard as they may seem to be, they need to be done and they need to be made. Give them the courage to make those and then, Lord, I would ask that You would give them the knowledge and the understanding to be able to communicate, that they hear not only with their ears but with their heart. For Lord, what they do in this place affects so many people in so many areas of our state. Father, You know the troubles we have, but You're greater than all of our 09800034.doc 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 troubles and Father, I pray that You would help them to lift Illinois as a… as an example to the rest of the nation of what a state can be when all the parties work together for the common good of the people they represent. We ask that You'd bless them this day with all that they need in order to make those decisions and make them count. And we give You all the praise in Jesus' name, Amen."
Speaker Lang: "We'll be led in the Pledge today by Representative Sommer."
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
"Roll Call for Attendance. Leader Currie."
"Thank you, Speaker. Please let the record reflect that Representatives Chapa LaVia, Flowers, Mayfield and Smiddy are excused today."
"Mr. Bost."
"Thank you, Speaker. Let the record reflect that Representative Brady, Fortner, Osmond and Wheeler are excused on the Republican side of the aisle today."
"Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. There are 109 Members present and we do have a quorum. Mr. Clerk, Committee Reports."
Clerk Hollman: "Committee Reports. Representative Rita, Chairperson from the Committee on Tollway Oversight reports the following committee action taken on March 22, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2642; recommends be adopted is House Joint Resolution #9. Representative Berrios, 09800034.doc 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Chairperson from the Committee on Financial Institutions reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2927; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 2432. Representative Nekritz, Chairperson from the Committee on Personnel and Pensions reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 116, House Bill 1277, House Bill 1296, House Bill 2583, House Bill 2620, House Bill 2767, House Bill 3088, House Bill 3372; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 2900, House Bill 2993. Representative Mayfield, Chairperson from the Committee on Public Safety: Police & Fire reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 3233; recommends be adopted is Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 1710. Representative Ford, Chairperson from the Committee on Restorative Justice reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2470. Representative Jackson, Chairperson from the Committee on Counties & Townships reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2572, House Bill 2664, House Bill 3385; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 3312. Representative DeLuca, Chairperson from the Committee on Cities & Villages reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2755. Representative Hernandez, Chairperson from the Committee on Consumer Protection reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 25… 09800034.doc 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 correction House Bill 2855, House Bill 2962, House Bill 3243, House Bill 3300, House Bill 3380; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 2909, House Bill 2924. Representative McAsey, Chairperson from the Committee on Environment reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 3348, House Bill 3369; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 2335, House Bill 3319, House Bill 3349; recommends be adopted is Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 1849, Floor Amendment #1 to 2753, Floor Amendment 2 to House Bill 2780. Representative Flowers, Chairperson from the Committee on Health Care Availability and Accessibility reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 942; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 12. Representative Chapa LaVia, Chairperson from the Committee on Elementary & Secondary Education reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 2322, House Bill 2660. Representative Sente, Chairperson from the Committee on Business Growth & Incentives reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 75. Representative Gabel, Chairperson from the Committee on Human Services reports the following committee action taken on March 21, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2535, House Bill 2802, House Bill 3060; recommends be adopted is House Resolution #4. Representative Lilly, Chairperson from the Committee on Museums, Arts, & Cultural Enhancement reports the following committee action taken on March 22, 09800034.doc 4 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 2013: do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 1200. Representative Chapa LaVia, Chairperson from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs reports the following committee action taken on March 22, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2639, House Bill 3058, House Bill 3346; recommends be adopted is House Resolution 106. Representative Mell, Chairperson from the Committee on Mass Transit reports the following committee action taken on March 22, 2013: do pass Short Debate is House Bill 2453; do pass as amended Short Debate is House Bill 3178."
"Members, please pay attention to the Chair. We're going to start where we loft… left off yesterday on the Order of House Bills-Third Reading on page 28. The Chair intends to use the timer today. That’s right, so Members, there are lots of Bills on the Calendar. The more Bills we can clear off the Calendar today, the less Bills we have when we return and the more Bills we can all run. Just as a reminder to Members, the word 'Short Debate' on the Calendar mean the following: a presentation by the Sponsor, a two minute response by someone opposed and a one minute close by the Sponsor. We will adhere to these rules. The first Bill on the Calendar is House Bill 1046, Representative Greg Harris. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1046, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Harris." Harris, G.: "Very quickly, Mr. Speaker. This legislation deals with severe mentally ill persons who are in our corrections system. As we know from our sheriffs and from the 09800034.doc 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Department of Corrections, 20 percent of inmates and prisoners suffers from severe mental illness. They are currently returned to the community at the rate of about 40 thousand persons per year with untreated mental illness and no active way to… refill prescriptions for antipsychotic and other… other medications. This Bill would take away an artificial restriction on a time frame where they could begin to apply for benefits, if they are eligible. This would allow them to refill their prescriptions after their release date and hopefully will make a small chink in the returning cycle of people with severe mental illness and behavioral disorders returning to our corrections… system and into our communities. It passed out of committee unanimously. I know of no opponents. I'd be happy to answer any questions."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Rebol… Reboletti in response for two minutes."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, I support the concept of your legislation. I think it's important when people get out of an institution that they have mental health coverage. We know that… that many times those individuals end up back in the system. Is there an issue with… if Medicaid approves them for coverage, but they're still in custody? Is there any issues for fraud there that they could start collecting benefits while they were still in custody, or only upon the release date would they receive benefits?" 09800034.doc 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Harris, G.: "It is my understanding this would be upon release."
"Thank you. Was that short enough, Mr. Speaker?"
"It was way short and enough."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Harris to close." Harris, G.: "I quickly ask you for an 'aye' vote."
"Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves, Members. We're not waiting for you. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 90 voting 'yes', 17 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1063, Mr. Jefferson. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1063, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Jefferson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill simply amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that a prosecution for any sex offense may be commenced at any time if the victim was under 18 years of age at the time of the offense. And I would encourage an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill's on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. David Harris in response." Harris, D.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I'd simply like to say this Bill passed out of the House I believe unanimously 09800034.doc 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 last year, but got hung up in the Senate. I applaud the… the Representative for bringing it again this year and encourage a 'yes' vote."
"Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves, Members. Have all voted who wish? Harris, Hatcher, Sosnowski. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes'; 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1070, Mr. Costello, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1070, a Bill for an Act concerning business. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members of the House. House Bill 1070, amends the General Not For Profit Corporation Act. It adds a 34th purpose for which a not for pro… for profit can be formed, which is operating an agricultural base anaerobic digester system. This produces methane gas which is a renewable source of energy. I cannot think of a better purpose to form a not for profit. We're talking about jobs and green renewable energy. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 09800034.doc 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Moving to page 29 of the Calendar, House Bill 1189, Representative Hernandez. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1189, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Hernandez."
"Thank you, Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 1189 is an agreed Bill among the… all parties concerned; that’s the State Police, Attorney General's Office, State Treasurer and Sheriffs' Association. The Amendment clarifies the distribution of funds that come from sex offen… offender registration fees collected by police departments which is $100. Currently there is a confusion as to how those funds are deposited to the respective agencies state accounts. This Amen… with the Amendment will allow the police to retain their $35 portion and forward $5 to the State Treasurer, 30 to the State Police, 35 to the Attorney General and they in turn submit the funds into their accounts. So, it's all clear, an agreed Bill. And I ask for your 'aye' vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Davis, Durkin? Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1225, Representative Dan Burke. 09800034.doc 9 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Out of the record. House Bill 1233, Representative Sacia. Out of the record. House Bill 1238, Mr. Sandack. Out of the record. House Bill 1250, Mr. Ford. Please read the Bill. Mr. Ford, you have a Floor Amendment. Mr. Clerk, please put this Bill back on the Order of Second Reading and read the Bill."
"House Bill 1250, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. The Bill was read for a second time on a previous day. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Ford, has been approved for consideration."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. I just move for the passage of 12… House Bill 1250. It just simply asks that the Department of Corrections…"
"Mr. Ford…"
"May I please adopted House Amendment #1, Floor Amendment #1."
"Tell us what the Amendment does, Sir."
"The Amendment #1 just says that the Department of Corrections will add the age, race and ethnicity of drug offenders on their report."
Speaker Lang: "Gentleman moves for the adoption of the Amendment. Those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
Speaker Lang: "Third Reading. Moving to page 30 of the Calendar, House Bill 1256, Representative Gordon. Please read the Bill." 09800034.doc 10 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 1256, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Gordon."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1256 amends provisions covering traffic signals by adding the flashing yellow arrow indication. All but six other states are using or have laws in place that use flashing yellow arrow indications. A national study from the Federal Highway Administration has found that left turning drivers better understand the meaning of a flashing yellow arrow as opposed to a standard green light. The result is fewer crashes, greater intersection traffic flow, and a greater traffic management flexibility. This is a… this is a Bill from IDOT. And I ask for your support."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Davis, Smith, Mr. Smith. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Mr. Franks. For what purpose do you rise, Sir?"
"A point of personal privilege, if I may."
"Please proceed."
"Mr. Speaker, I appreciate how quick we're moving today and we're going to have a lot of Bills moving in the next couple weeks and there is a tradition here in the House. I'm not sure it’s a tradition, it’s something that’s… that 09800034.doc 11 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 started recently with a hat and then a red jacket and I know it's… I'm probably not being very popular right now, but after the events that we're in right now and the votes that we're having to take are so serious that I think it looks frivolous to outsiders who are watching, when we do the first Bills and we have the hazing. And I don't mean any disrespect, but I think that we should consider not doing that. Our freshman class is proportionately the largest group in the House of Representatives. They are equal co-Members and don't need… some may feel it's being demeaning wearing… having to wear a silly hat or a jacket and I'd like to dispense with that. And especially since we're limiting debate and we have so many serious issues here that I don't think it's time to be frivolous, I don't think it's time to be light-hearted. We have very serious work by very serious Members that must be carried out and I would ask, in all due respect, that we eliminate that frivolity, go forward soberly and certainly good naturedly. But I would ask that we not do those antics anymore on the House Floor. And I would ask you to join me in that."
"I now have four lights on to speak on this same topic. And we'd like to… if we're going to spend two hours on this, we might as well debate all the Bills. The Chair recognizes Mr. Morrison."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"I would just concur with Representative Franks. It's something that I brought up with our caucus last week and 09800034.doc 12 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 happy to hear that on the other side of the aisle the same sentiments are felt. So, thank you."
"Mr. Brauer."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Proceed, Sir."
"You know, I don't get the opportunity very often to agree with Representative Franks and I just wanted to go on record that I… I do agree with him and certainly do anything I can to further that thought along. Thank you."
"Mr. Reboletti."
"Mr. Speaker, point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"Mr. Speaker, I think even you and I had a conversation about this yesterday and I think that our staff has reached out to your staff to discuss this actual topic. So, I don't think we're in disagreement, just a matter of how we're going to go about it moving forward. So, I know we're on Short Debate today anyway, so I think we can work something out."
"Thank you. We're going to exempt your first Bill though. Mr. Bost. All right. Mr. Meier."
"Yes, a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed, Sir."
"I'd like to announce that from my district, one of the Marines killed in California. It was 26-year-old, Marine, Aaron J. Ripperda. Okay. One of the Marines killed in California on Monday in the explosion was 26-year-old Marine, Aaron J. Ripperda. Grew-up and graduated from Highland High School in 2005. He was stationed in Camp 09800034.doc 13 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Lejeune on a training mission in Nevada. Monday a shell exploded killing seven Marines. I ask for a moment of silence for Aaron and his family, and the other six families who lost their loved ones. Thank you."
"Thank you. Continuing on the Calendar. On page 30 of the Calendar appears House Bill 1272, Mr. Yingling. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1272, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"The lucky, Mr. Yingling."
"All right. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move for the passage of House Bill 1272, which promotes buying and eating Illinois agricultural products. This Bill is an initiative of the Department of Agriculture through its 'Where Fresh is' campaign that is working to highlight Illinois grown produce through signage at grocery stores and farmers markets throughout the state to promote awareness and increase sales. Specifically, this Bill would designate the first Saturday of every month as 'Eat Local, Buy Illinois Product Day' to promote local food initiatives, Illinois agribusiness and to encourage residents to reinvest in the local economy. We are all looking for ways to improve our state's economy, albeit small, this is one way we can promote what our local farmers are doing to sustain our economy. This is, of course, not going to save our state's economy, but every little thing we can do to bring attention to Illinois products and encourage people to buy locally is positive. It is estimated that if every household committed just $10 09800034.doc 14 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 a week to buy Illinois grown products, it would generate approximately $2.4 billion in additional economic growth. This Bill shows support, for those farmers who are growing produce in our state, grocers who choose to sell locally grown food and consumers who make the conscientious decision to purchase Illinois products. This is a commonsense Bill that raises awareness and increases sales of Illinois agribusiness products. I'm open to questions."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on Short Debate. Mr. Bost in response."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. First off, let me tell the Representative, congratulations on moving your first Bill here, but… and there is a… there is a… I don't know if you're familiar with NASCAR, but there is a thing called the 'lucky dog’ position, and that’s the person that gets to come up one lap if a yellow light comes out. You just hit the 'lucky dog' position just so you know. But with that being said, it, in… in seriously in response to your Bill, all of us I believe are in support of wanting to make sure that people support our local businesses. Of course, we could probably support them a whole lot better by not putting such stringent requirements on them as we do in a lot of these laws. But I'm a little concerned and I'm serious about this, we're doing these type things and putting it in as a designated day where a Resolution would probably, except for the fact you'd just have to keep bringing it back every year, you could've done the same thing with a Resolution. And anything in the future, I would just make a suggestion to you to do that." 09800034.doc 15 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Right. And I appreciate your standpoint. And I didn't want to deny you the opportunity to haze me until Representative Franks so eloquently brought it up. So, that’s why I went in Bill format."
"You know… like I said, in that case, but I'm not joking, we're piling things into statute that should be left out. Let me explain this to the whole Body. When the Speaker of the House worked on the constitutional rewrite of 1970, Illinois Revised Statutes were two books. There are 12 today. This is fine; it's probably going to pass out of here, no problem. We all want to encourage, but folks, sometimes we load statutes… the statutes up with stuff like this and it's really not necessary."
"Mr. Yingling to close."
"I would appreciate an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves, Members. Ives, Reese. Reis, sorry. On this… Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question there are 103 voting 'yes', 6 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Representative Jakobsson."
"Thank you Mr. Speaker, I rise for a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"I would to take this opportunity to have all the directions… pointed in the direction up here and meet 09800034.doc 16 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Charlotte Elizabeth Jarmer. Charlotte is the daughter of Christine and Mark Jarmer. Mark is our staffer who staffs Higher Ed Committees as well as Veterans. And I don't want to be neglectful of other things that he does, but we all know Mark and this is Charlotte Elizabeth."
"Welcome. Chair recognizes Representative Fine."
"A point of personal privilege. I would like…"
"Please proceed."
"Thank you. I would like to welcome to the floor today Hunter Clifton. Hunter is the number one student in her class in Rantoul, Illinois, and her aunt Christine Salvator who's in the gallery. Thank you."
"Welcome to the House chamber. Proceeding down the Calendar, House Bill 1292, Representative Gordon. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1292, a Bill for an Act concerning property. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Gordon."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1292 authorizes DNR to return the land referred to as Wildlife State Prairie Park to the Forest Park Foundation, a not- for-profit Illinois corporation. This particular site became too costly and increasingly difficult for the state to manage the ownership. So this particular property was given to DNR in 2000 by this particular group with the reverter clause that required the land to remain a public park. DNR does not have the funding to make the necessary infrastructure and other capital improvements to allow the park to operate safely and effectively. In order to ensure 09800034.doc 17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 the continued functioning of the state park, the friends group, Friends of Wildlife Prairie Park has proposed this Bill to obtain ownership of the park to seek partnerships with local governments as well as to take out loans for improvements of this park. I might add that we had a lengthy State Government subject matter hearing during the Veto Session with a strong willingness of the entire committee to work with us on this Bill. We have no opponents and no opposition at this time. And I'm open for your questions."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on Short Debate. Mr. Franks rises in opposition or at least in response. Mr. Franks for two minutes."
"I was going to ask whether this was the Bill that we had in Veto Session in the last General Assembly, but you answered that. I just want to rise and to commend the Lady. This is very important to her district. It's something we had done similarly in McHenry County when we were getting… the state could no longer take care of the Spring Growth Fish Hatchery and this is a way to preserve open spaces. And we have willing people who want to do this. This is an important Bill. And I'd encourage everyone to vote 'aye'."
"Those in favor of the Lady's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Ford, Willis. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby 09800034.doc 18 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 declared passed. House Bill 1330, Mr. Mautino. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1330, a Bill for an Act concerning land. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Mautino."
"Thank you, Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 1313… 1330, excuse me, is the Department of Transportation's annual land transfer Bill. This contains seven parcels which will be conveyed by quitclaim deed and releases for easements for the purposes of construction. There's a total value of the amount of the transfers and releases of $83,019. All appraisals have been in, they've met all of our House Rules and these seven properties are in McLean, Sangamon, Ogle, Warren, Carroll, LaSalle. Counties for the quitclaims and the easements are Madison, Ogle and two in LaSalle County. I'd answer any questions, know of no opposition. And appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Burke, Mitchell. Please take the record. On this question, there are 107 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1379, Mr. Phelps. Mr. Phelps. Out of the record. House Bill 1404, Mr. Bradley. Please read the Bill." 09800034.doc 19 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 1404, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Bradley."
"This is an initiative of the park district is to put their surety bond requirements for $5 thousand to $50 thousand consistent with state requirements. I'd ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Davidsmeyer, Franks, Mr. Davidsmeyer. Please take the record. On this question, there are 98 voting 'yes', 11 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1453, Representative Kelly Burke. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1453, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Burke." Burke, K.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1453, as amended, adds an additional element to the list of factors the ICC must consider in determining the level of resources and abilities any alternative gas supplier must demonstrate. The additional element the ICC must now… must consider under this Bill is the availability of a supplier's customer service department to customers by a toll-free number or website and the publication of the hours such access is available. As amended, House Bill 1453 has no opposition. And I ask for an 'aye' vote." 09800034.doc 20 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Reboletti in response for two minutes."
"Thank you, Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Lady yields."
"Representative, as I'm looking at our analysis, it did show that there was still opposition. You're saying that the Amendment does remove all opposition to the Bill?" Burke, K.: "We touched base with the opponent to our origin… to the original Bill, Exelon and the IEA and they have removed their opposition as amended."
"And there's ongoing discussions with the Attorney General's Office. Is that correct?" Burke, K.: "Yes, as well."
"Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Lady's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Meier. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1538, Representative Golar. Representative Golar. Out of the record. House Bill 1544, Mr. Farnham. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1544, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Farnham."
"House Bill 1544 requires a DCEO to contact businesses that are located in the state and those that have left the 09800034.doc 21 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 state in the last 10 years and request each to complete a survey. The information regarding why the businesses left, if applicable, and the location in which the business is located and any incentives that are needed to keep and attract those businesses."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Bost for two minutes in response. Mr. Bost."
"Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, what… how are we going to… is it just sending out a request because if you've sent… this sends out a request to businesses that have closed or left the state, correct?"
"That's correct."
"To find out why they did?"
"Those that have left the state and also those businesses within the state to find out what it is that they need in order to function properly and expand and be able to stay here."
"Well, I know one in Mt. Vernon that we could hold on to because we swept their funds and now that particular business went bankrupt as did the owner. So, I'm not sure that if any… we ask that person whether they’ll even send a survey back or we might not want to read… read what they… what they send back. Do you think we'll have a few of those responses?" 09800034.doc 22 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"I sure hope so, because as Chairman of the Economic Development and Manufacturing Committee, that's exactly what I'm trying to get at."
"Do we have any idea of what cost we're looking at here, and is it a cost to the state, DCEO, what cost might be involved as far as the person you're contacting, since for some reason we might have already put him out of business anyway?"
"They recently did do a survey that cost about $30 thousand and they're compiling the results, but that was a… just a one-time thing. I think that it would probably be a little easier once they've done that first time to be able to do it. And they're not in opposition to this at all, DCEO isn't."
"Okay. Thank you."
"Mr. Farnham to close."
"Again, it's gathering information and using it. And I think to the Representative's credit, that that's exactly what we are trying to look at. Those things that we do wrong and those things that we do right. So, I move for passage."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 88 voting 'yes', 21 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1545, Representative Berrios who's standing and waiting. Please read the Bill." 09800034.doc 23 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 1545, a Bill for an Act concerning insurance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Berrios."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation licenses title insurance underwriters and the department registers title agents. Both underwriters and agents handle important financial information, but agents also deal directly with disbursing settlement funds at real estate closings. Under current law, underwriters must be qualified to do business in the state, pledge a million dollars to the department, maintain a minimum capital and surplus of $2 million, follow specific guidelines regarding investments and a few other things while the only requirement for title agents is that they be 18 years old, that's it. House Bill 1545 will require title agents to provide an affidavit to the department affirming that the applicant has never been convicted or plead guilty to any felony or misdemeanor involving a crime of theft or dishonesty. This language is the same language that’s contained in other statutes the department regulates and it is an agreed Bill. I'd ask for your favorable vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Cavaletto. Please take the record. On this question, there 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the 09800034.doc 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Moving to page 31 of the Calendar. House Bill 1561, Mr. Demmer. Please read the Bill"
"House Bill 1561, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Demmer."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 1561 changes the category of a felony for forging state documents or invoices. This is in response to a pretty brash case of embezzlement that happened in my hometown of Dickson, in which the city treasurer embezzled $54 million over the course of 22 years. This adds a level of severity to a Class II felony for forging a document or an invoice from a unit of government. I ask for its passage."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1569, Representative Roth. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1569, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Roth."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen. This Bill simply cleans up the language. It updates the statutes to authorize the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, 09800034.doc 25 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 which is the agency now responsible for dam safety, to acquire the Kankakee River dam from the City of Wilmington rather than IDOT. In statute now it just says IDOT and it'll be transferred now to IDNR instead. I request an 'aye' vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Costello, Harris, Mitchell, Sosnowski. David Harris. Please take the record. On this question, there 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1651, Mr. Rosenthal. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1651, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Rosenthal."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment 1 simply becomes the Bill and amends the Wildlife Code to provide that it's lawful to take any fur-bearing mammal with a shotgun slug… loaded with slugs and is supported by the Conservation Police and Illinois Trappers Association."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. And on this question, the Chair recognizes Representative Will Davis in response." Davis, W.: "Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentlemen yields." Davis, W.: "What… I?" 09800034.doc 26 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"This allows the use of deer slugs for the taking of fur-bearing mammals anytime outside of deer season which this is an obsolete… currently it's an obsolete law in the books because you can use rifles, handguns and other shotguns. And this just up states sic-updates the law." Davis, W.: "So, we're talking about killing animals? All right."
"We're talking…" Davis, W.: "I'm just…"
"…we're talking about harvesting fur-bearing mammals with a shotgun." Davis, W.: "Okay. I just needed to hear that again. Thank you very much."
"Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Evans, Harris, Nekritz, Sosnowski. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 107 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present. This Bill having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1745, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1745, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Bill amends the Illinois Power Authority to do what we did for townships a year or two ago and allow a county to have an aggregation referendum only in the unincorporated areas. So, that there 09800034.doc 27 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 isn't any confusion, a lot of municipalities have already passed this or voted it down. This would only apply to the unincorporated areas. I ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Harris, Jefferson, Sosnowski. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1809, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 1809, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Bill amends the Illinois Vehicle Code dealing with the disability placards. Right now the law does not allow those people taking oncology treatments to be able to get a placard and this Bill would change that allowing them to get treatment."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Continuing on the order of Pritchard, House Bill 1918, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill. 09800034.doc 28 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill…"
Speaker Lang: "Ladies and Gent… Mr. Clerk. Ladies and Gentlemen, I know we're moving quickly, but we'll move even more quickly if the chamber is quiet. Mr. Clerk."
"House Bill 1918, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Bill amends the unified Code of Corrections at the request of a police officer who was injured and the party that perpetrated that was out of prison before they had served at least 50 percent of their time. So, what this Bill is doing it says that they shall not receive credit more than 4.5 days of sentence for each month of their sentence imprisonment. I ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. And for two minutes Mr. Franks rises in response."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, I'm not sure I understand what's happening here. Right now how much credit can a… an inmate receive during the first 60 days?"
"I'm not sure that there's a limit to how much of the sentence they have to serve. What this is doing is putting a standard in place."
"I'm just not sure it's the right standard. I… I just need some more information because right now I'm looking at our analysis and admittedly, I've had a very brief time to 09800034.doc 29 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 look at it, but it looks like currently there's one day sentence credit per day served after 60 days of imprisonment. And it looks to me as though you're trying… and I don’t know if I'm… if this is correct that’s why I'm asking. Are you giving four and half days of credit where previously we'd only given one day of credit? I'm just wondering if you're increasing the amount of credit."
"So, I'm saying they may not receive more than 4.5 they could receive less than that."
"But what are they receiving now? Could it be that the max is one? That’s… I'm just trying to understand. Are we increasing?"
"Are we increasing the time that they must serve? Is that what your question is?"
"I guess that's probably a more artful way of asking it than I am… than I’ve been ask…"
"Yes. We are increasing the time that they must serve of their sentence."
"Okay. So right now they are possibly getting more than four and half days of credit during that…"
"Yes."
"Okay. So, this would reduce that credit time?"
"Correct."
"And it's only for aggravated battery?"
"Yes."
"Okay. But not for other crimes?"
"No."
"Okay. Tell me why we're doing that. What's the… what's the legislative intent?" 09800034.doc 30 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"The legislative intent is to get more of the sentence served so that those that have been injured in this situation feel that justice has been done.
"Does this only apply to someone who's…"
Speaker Lang: "Mr. Franks, please bring your remarks to a close, Sir."
"Representative, in all due respect, I… I don't know enough about this Bill to vote on it. I need a little bit… I have to ask a few more questions."
Speaker Lang: "Mr. Franks moves that this Bill be allowed Standard Debate.
"Thank you."
"There is leave. Please proceed."
"Thank you. Is this dealing only with police officers or someone who's committed a crime on a police officer?"
"No. There is a number of public officials… I shouldn’t say public officials… law enforcement officials that are included in on this and… if I can get my list, they include community policing, volunteers, peace officers, firemen, private security officers, correction officers, DHS employees supervising violent persons."
"Okay. So, basically what you're doing here is taking away the day for day credit if someone knowingly caused great bodily harm to those listed folks that you just listed."
"Yes."
"Th… Now, I get it and I apologize for the delay. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think it's a good Bill." 09800034.doc 31 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
Speaker Lang: "Representative Monique Davis. Representative Davis." Davis, M.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields." Davis, M.: "Representative, you are removing the good time that people earn while their incarcerated for one particular crime. Is that is?"
"That is the intent." Davis, M.: "And what is that particular crime in which you… for which you're removing good time?"
"It deals with aggravated battery." Davis, M.: "Okay. Aggravated battery gives one a sentence of about how much time? What's the approximate time of one who is sentenced for aggravated battery?"
"I don’t have that answer." Davis, M.: "So, you don’t know exactly what you're increasing the time to?"
"So, we are increasing the time served to… so that there is no less than 4.5 days of good time per each month of that sentence." Davis, M.: "And currently what is the amount of time?"
"That’s left up to the courts." Davis, M.: "So, the court can give a person one day for each day served if they choose?"
"So the court determines the sentence time. The good time comes back to the Department of Corrections and their early release." 09800034.doc 32 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Davis, M.: "But currently they get… for each day served, they get one day… for each day served, they get one day that is what?"
"I don’t know that. I don’t have that answer." Davis, M.: "Okay. You don’t know and I'm sorry that you don’t know. And the reason I'm sorry is because we have a fiscal crisis in the State of Illinois and you continue to keep people in prison longer, the taxpayer is once again being taxed just for keeping someone prison longer, not solving those kinds of crimes, not reducing those kinds of crimes, but simply keeping them longer at the taxpayer's expense. Ladies and Gentlemen, as we pass these types of Bills recognize they are not neutral financially. Financially it is an increase to the State of Illinois and their budget. Every time we decide to remove good time, keep people in prison longer, you've got to have what? You've got to have the money to pay for their keep. Does it deter crime? Frequently it does not. Frequently it does not. And I know that your intentions are extremely noble, but I would urge a 'no' vote on this legislation based upon the fiscal condition of the State of Illinois and what it would cost at this time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"Mr. Reboletti."
"Mr. Speaker, to the Bill. I know there's some confusion to this matter, but most other aggravated battery cases involving disfigurement or permanent injury, great bodily harm, those individuals after their sentenced and it's proved that they've committed a great bodily harm or disfigurement… permanent disfigurement to an individual 09800034.doc 33 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 such as, aggravated battery, aggravated domestic battery is at 85 percent. When all those statutes were amended, somehow the aggravated battery took to a police officer, correctional officer, firemen, other first responders was not increased. So, actually you would serve less time for breaking a police officer's arm than you would if you broke somebody else's arm. These should all be consistent. They should either all be at 85 percent or they should be at some different number, but they certainly shouldn’t be less than what we have elsewhere. And if people didn’t break police officers' arms or shoot them or disfigure them, they wouldn’t have to go to prison; therefore, we wouldn’t have to pay for their three hots and a cot. Thank you."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?
"Gentlemen yields."
"I just want to highlight to everybody in the chamber here that we're talking about law enforcement officials, typically in one shape or form and also firemen, correct?"
"Correct."
"So the people that typically commit crimes against law enforcement officials are typically the more violent or heinous offenders in our state, correct?"
"Correct."
"I think that’s extremely, extremely important to realize in this Bill. I think it's a good piece of legislation. And I ask for a 'yes' vote."
"Representative Will Davis." Davis, W.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?" 09800034.doc 34 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Sponsor yields." Davis, W.: "So, I heard a little bit, Representative, about the financial impact on us. So, this Bill is not revenue neutral in any way is it? 'Cause we're talking about keeping people in prison possibly longer which does have a cost associated with it, correct?"
"So, the court system imposes a sentence and we have to carry out what the courts have given as… as that sentence. What we find is, through the supplemental sentence credit, that the Department of Correction director can give good time credit for someone for some good behavior. What we're trying to do is look at just one segment for aggravated offenses against a police officer causing great bodily harm. That's the niche that we're trying to look at and saying for those situations, they need to serve more of the time for which they were sentenced." Davis, W.: "So… so, your Bill limits the amount of credit that an individual…"
"Yes." Davis, W.: "…under this circumstance, can have?"
"Correct." Davis, W.: "Okay. But again, so… so it's about keeping individuals in prison a little bit longer.
"Correct." Davis, W.: "Okay. But you're focusing on law enforcement in particular."
"Correct." 09800034.doc 35 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Davis, W.: "And… and the previous speaker, Mr. Reboletti, talked about that if people didn’t commit crimes then they wouldn’t need to be in prison and I wouldn’t disagree with that, but let's examine why people commit crimes sometimes. They commit crimes sometimes out of desperation because there are no jobs, there are no opportunities and again, it seems like sometimes when we try to create opportunities for individuals to have something so they wouldn’t commit crimes therefore they wouldn’t be in jail. We have trouble passing those kinds of opportunities because many people in this chamber feel that if I offer a tax credit to a business that wants to hire someone who's an ex-offender that somehow or another I'm being viewed as being soft on crime. Well, the crime has already been committed. You mean we can't be passionate enough to offer an opportunity for someone on the back end of them committing a crime. There've been even Bills in here to try to expunge records for individuals who've been in the system for a very long time, who've been out for a long time, who are above 50 years of age, and have never reoffended and that’s a problem sometimes in here. So, at what point are we going to balance, balance out the ability for us to, yes, recognize that people who do bad things should possibly be in prison, but at the same time recognize that individuals who maybe have done something bad when they were young, now they're older, have served their time, have been out for periods of time, not reoffended, when are we going to give them the opportunity to be able to not try to reoffend and be able to take care of their families. Where's the 09800034.doc 36 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 balance that needs to exist here? And it seems like we have no problem increasing minimums, mandatory minimums, taking away credit like this for individuals that have been in the system, but for whatever reason we cannot seem to be able to balance that with helping people that have been in the system and giving them the opportunities. When can we figure out how to create that balance?"
"Mr. Davis." Davis, W.: "And you'll probably say, well, that’s not this Bill. And I get it, it's not this Bill. But in past Bills, for whatever reason, we can't seem to be able to move those things forward. So, unfortunately, this is the Bill that we're talking about that issue on. Now mind you, this may pass and I understand, but at what point can we sit down and have the conversation about why people commit crimes and giving them reasons not to commit crimes so that we don’t have to do Bills like this."
"Mr. Davis, are you…" Davis, W.: "I've said enough."
"Thank you. Mr. Bost."
"I recuse my own debate."
"Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield, please?
"Sponsor yields."
"Mr. Pritchard, I'm looking at the analysis of this Bill and we did hear this in Judiciary and I thought you gave a pretty good explanation of why you're doing this. Does this Bill in some way point a finger at any given person with 09800034.doc 37 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 any particular background whether they be white or black or Hispanic, green, blue, yellow?"
"It does not and I would hope it would not. I know from the previous speaker's comments, over the years, there's a lot of suspicion that that may be the case. But what we're focusing on here is individuals charged with aggravated battery that caused great bodily harm, irrespective of race or nationality or other factors."
"Yeah. Thank you. To the Bill, Mr. Speaker. I have spent a lot of hours putting together Bills to encourage jobs and that comes by encouraging businesses to stay in this state who provide jobs. Not one of those Bills, not one of them, is going to come to this floor. So when we talk about jobs for those people who really need them, let's be sure to tell everybody that we have done nothing, not one thing to move one job Bill through this Assembly and it won't happen. Thank you very much."
Speaker Lang: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the sound level's increasing. Thank you. Mr. Reboletti."
"Mr. Speaker, my name was used in debate. I tried to discharge about seven Bills regarding creating opportunities for people all throughout the state. Couldn’t get those Bills out. Your side of the aisle voted against that. That’s one… that's one way and Representative Davis, my door is always open. I've been working with La Shawn on his Bill. I've been dealing with this before Christmas talking… negotiating this out. So, it's not like I just stand here and only want to lock people up. I know that’s a perception. Trust me. I under… we are working on putting 09800034.doc 38 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 together and I hope you come to the meeting, explaining expungement, sealing and how we could expand it. And we're going to work on that over the break and I hope that once we set it up, when we get back here that you and many other folks here will attend because it's a lot… it's a very complex situation. There's differences between expungement and sealing and many times sealing can accomplish that and I'm hoping to work with Representative Ford to get an agreed Bill that many of us can support. And I appreciate your position on that and I will be more than glad to work with you after Session today, all through the break and including the rest of this Session this year."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd just like to say that I stand in opposition to this Bill simply because when people are sentenced to jail they're there to be reformed. And I think that our correctional system failed to reform people in jail and we should spend more money to try to reform individuals that’s incarcerated and if we do that then we won't have to worry about Bills like this. So I urge a 'no' vote."
"Mr. Turner."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to yield my time to Representative Will Davis."
"Mr. Davis." Davis, W.: "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Reboletti, I appreciate that and I know probably you're one of the people who has at least came forward and said let's work on these issues and I appreciate that, but you also in your 09800034.doc 39 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 comments you said that you've got several Bills and asking Motions to Discharge. Okay. So, there's a procedure and I understand that, but we've had Bills that have been out that we've not been able to pass. Now again, I can't speak on why your… why your Bills aren't being let out of Rules and why those Motions to Discharge fails, but on the Bills that have been out, the ones that we can vote on and debate on we haven’t been able to get them across the finish line so there have been opportunities, in addition to what you've said and your willingness to work with us, but there have been opportunities to do those kinds of things, and for whatever reason, we haven’t been able to push those across the finish line. Now, is it because you say, well, if I can't get my Bill out, therefore I can't vote on this one, or maybe that’s how other people feel, okay, I get it. That’s the balance here, at least in that respect, but again, we've had opportunities and for whatever reason, we've not been able to get those things across the finish line."
"Mr. Cavaletto."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield to Representative Kay."
"Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?
"Gentleman yields."
"I just want to make it very, very clear to Representative Davis's comment with regard to not being able to cross the finish line in this Bill. There is a difference between what this Bill does and getting an environment in the State 09800034.doc 40 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 of Illinois where we can create jobs and encourage business. There are at least 21 Bills dealing with incentives one of which is to people to work that would incentivize business to do so. That’s a good Bill. There's an EDGE tax credit. That’s a good Bill. There's a carve out for workers' compensation reform which makes us competitive with all states around us. That’s a good Bill. Probably 8 or 10 others that I have not mentioned. You want to create jobs in this state, I'd love to work with you. You want to bring business back to this state? I'd be the first one to help you, but please, please don’t tell me that we haven’t crossed the finish line because we can't pass Bills. We've got 21 Bills, pass one of them. Thank you. Mr. Speaker."
"Mr. Smith."
"I would like to yield my time to Representative Davis."
"Mr. Davis." Davis, W.: "You know what, Representative Kay, I appreciate you saying that. You're right and I support all of those credits but when we talk about jobs and creating jobs, unfortunately they are not being created in my community because if I try to pass a Bill that says that we need to make those companies go into underserved communities where the unemployment is much higher, probably than in your area, you don’t vote for those Bills. You don't… 'cause you don't want to make them come to my communities. You don't want to make them do that, so yes and I vote for EDGE tax credits and I know businesses in my area that utilize them, so there again are plenty of opportunities to do those kinds of things, to put jobs in areas where they need jobs, 09800034.doc 41 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 not continue to populate the I-88 corridor, not continue to do that. Plenty of opportunities out there, but there are none out south in certain areas. Even in downstate Illinois they need jobs, but we cannot seem to be able to encourage businesses to come to areas where there is a need for employment. So, yeah, I vote for all of those job creation Bills that we have, you know, but would you be willing to amend them to say that they need to come to underserved communities where the unemployment is much higher than certain areas. You know, there's the balance right there. So, let's amend those Bills and but that kind of requirement in them sure and then let's all vote for them. Would you be willing to support that?"
"Mr. Pritchard to close."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we've had some very spirited debate that got well beyond the intent of this piece of legislation. I think there are very serious issues that we do need to deal with whether they're jobs, whether they're unemployed areas, whether they're undereducated areas, but this particular Bill just deals with individuals that have been convicted of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm or permanent disfigurement to a police officer or someone in that line of work. I ask for your support in trying to put a minimum amount of credit so that individuals that cause this kind of aggravated… battery will serve some time and think about the damage and harm that they have done to others. I would ask for your support." 09800034.doc 42 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 86 voting 'yes', 23 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Mr. Reboletti."
"Point of personal privilege, Mr. Speaker."
"Please proceed, Sir."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, what would be a good idea is to actually have an order of business one day a week to talk about job creation everywhere across the state, not playing these games about guns every week or have one day order of business about expungements and sealing, not guns every week. But we spend so much time on that, we've lost focus on all the other issues that affect all of our communities. I want every person in the state who wants to get a job, to go get a good job no matter what community they live in, doesn’t matter if it's DuPage, the south suburbs or in Cairo. But we keep screwing around with this gun show every week to which we haven’t gotten any closer to taking care of the constitutional requirements by the Federal Court. We're marching towards constitutional carry. We're no closer to any agreements and we're no closer to creating any jobs for anybody, so maybe the orders of the day should be changed so that we can actually create jobs, create opportunities so people will stop leaving the state." 09800034.doc 43 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Representative Williams."
"I'd like to request a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"Just wanted to welcome some guests in the chamber today. We have two Pages, Mary and Kate Burns, third graders at Hamilton School which is in my district. And their parents Ally and Travis. They actually are constituents of Representative Harris's, but they're very engaged in the process and noted to me that Representative Franks votes 'no' on a lot of Bills and they were curious as to why. He spoke with them and assured them that he does, in fact, think over each Bill thoroughly before making a vote. Thank you."
"They aren’t the only ones who are curious. On page 31 of the Calendar, House Bill 2009, Mr. Leitch. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2009, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Leitch."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. This Bill would simply ask the Department of Public Health and the State Board of Education to provide some materials to schools on the strep infections. We have over 120 different variants of strep infections some of which, frankly, can become fatal. And, it's a simple Bill and I'd ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all 09800034.doc 44 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Crespo, Durkin. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes'; 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2213, Mr. Ford. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2213, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. I move for the adoption of House Bill 2213. It simply modifies this section of the School Code in order to better identify, protect and serve students who are parents, expecting parents or victims of domestic violence or sexual violence. I move for the passage of House Bill 2213."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no… Chair recognizes Mr. Franks."
"I'm sorry, Mr. Speaker. I'm just trying to go through the analysis and I can't even get to the bottom of it before… I'm sorry. I'd just like to know… I'd like to ask the Sponsor some questions."
"Sponsor yields for two minutes."
"I see that there are some opponents on my… our analysis. Could you tell me what their opposition is or whether its been taken care of?"
"The opponents are still in opposition because it's… they believe it's more work."
"I'm sorry. The people… why?"
"They believe that it's more work."
"Okay." 09800034.doc 45 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"It doesn’t cost anymore for the schools, but they believe that it's more work for the schools."
"So, what are you trying to accomplish here? What will this Bill do?"
"It just sets up a foundation for students that have… were… in the school, they would have someone to go to in case they are victims of violence, sexual violence or domestic violence or something like that in their life. It just gives some type of safety net in schools for some kids."
"Well, that makes sense, but are you requiring the school to provide a counselor or a nurse or is it only if they have a counselor or a nurse right now. You wouldn’t require them to hire anybody extra, I presume."
"That’s a… that’s right. No one new would have to hired. They just will appoint someone at the school to be the point person."
"What happens if they don’t… would someone have to be trained for instance? Would it have to be a superintendent or a principal or give someone training, if they don’t have it 'cause I presume this is pretty specif… specific type of training?"
"No, there is nothing in the Bill that says that there has to be any special training. A teacher, a school counselor, principal, or anyone that has education backgrounds are… will be able to fill this responsibility."
"Well, thank you. I think this seems to make very much sense. Thank you for bringing it forward."
"Thank you." 09800034.doc 46 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"This Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. Mr. Ford to close."
"Thank you very much and I ask for the passage of 2213."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Nekritz, Tryon, Unes, Zalewski. Please take the record. On this question, there are 76 voting 'yes', 33 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2267, Representative Gordon. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2267, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Gordon."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2267 is legislation from the Lieutenant Governor's office. This legislation aims at reducing barriers through voluntary… voluntary school district reorganization. This Bill in no way impinges on local control. What this Bill does is it allows noncontiguous but compact school districts to realign, it expands the existing process of abbreviated dissolution to more school districts and permits two or more reorganizing school districts that require a new school building to delay the effective date of reorganization until one of the school districts is awarded the funding under the school construction law. Bottom line is it gives more options for voluntary school reorganization to local communities. There is no opposition 09800034.doc 47 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 to this Bill. And I'm open for your questions at this time."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Bost for 2 minutes in response."
"Representative, I'm just… Now, this is… this allows a different procedure for consolidation?"
"Yes."
"Okay. What's… what's the different procedure? I'm… I'm right now you go you have to have both school districts that are consolidating go through a referendum. Does it remove the referendum?"
"The referendum would have to be approved by the school board and they would still go to referendum."
"But it still has to go to referendum?"
"Absolutely."
"Okay. Thanks."
"This Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. Representative Gordon to close."
"This Bill is… it's important in this day and age because we have a lot of schools that are dealing with very difficult financial decisions. This Bill creates more efficiencies within our School Code. And I ask that you give me a favorable vote on this legislation. Thank you."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 09800034.doc 48 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 'yes', 3 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Representative Cassidy."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A Point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"Sorry, I dropped my notes. I want to take a minute to introduce some constituents who are here today, who've joined us up in the gallery. Seven-year-old twins Evelyn and Sophia Wright and their parents Arian and Kelly have joined us. I met the twins when they were working on a project on how kids can change the world and I learned that Evelyn is going to be our future president. I'm honored that she vol… she offered me the vice presidency and I gratefully accepted. Please welcome them to Springfield."
Speaker Lang: "Welcome to Springfield. Next Bill on the Calendar is House Bill 2273, Mr. Verschoore. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2273, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Verschoore." Verschoore: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Department of Agriculture brought this Bill to me. It's clean up language. It amends the Weights and Measure Act and provides that the weights and measure of weighing and measuring devices used for commercial and law enforcement purposes must have a cert… a certificate of performance or have been certified by the department or the city sealer on or before July 2012. Provides that any apparatus certified 09800034.doc 49 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 by the department or city sealer satisfies construction and installation requirements, provides the department shall furnish and identify plates for registration and tracking purposes and for any type of weight or measure. And I'd ask for an 'aye' vote and be happy to answer any questions."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Durkin, Mr. Thapedi. Mr. Thapedi. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2327, Mr. Riley. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2327, a Bill for an Act concerning courts. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Riley."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2327, basically allows a county board to direct the county clerk to charge up to $25 as an automation fee… excuse me… for court filings and this is provided that an automated record keeping system is in process or the clerk is contemplating implementing a court automation program."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Bellock, Durkin, Thapedi. Please take the record. On this question, there are 67 voting 09800034.doc 50 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 'yes', 42 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Mr. DeLuca is recognized."
"Point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce a constituent of mine, he's Paging here today. This is Henry Therols and his mother Anne is in the gallery. Please give them a Springfield welcome."
Speaker Lang: "Welcome to Springfield. Mr. Morrison is recognized."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On House Bill 1404, I should have been recorded as a 'no' vote. Thank you."
"The record will reflect your intentions. Mr. Sacia."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Proceed, Sir."
"I would like to recognize the mayor of the great City of Pecatonica, also a fireman in the City of Rockford, Mr. Shawn Connors."
"Welcome to Springfield, mayor. Moving down the Calendar, House Bill 2370, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
Clerk Bolin "House Bill 2370, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Act amends the Public Community College Act which allows for a public measure to be submitted for the ballot only once in not more than four 09800034.doc 51 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 months. This is a request of the Illinois Community College Trustees Association to show that if a… if a referendum fails, they're not going to come back at the next election. So, this gives a minimum of four month respite before the issue can be addressed again. I would ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves. Reis, Zalewski. Please take the record. There are 107 voting 'yes', 2 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2374, Representative Kosel. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2374, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Kosel."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. This Bill amends the Common Interest Community Association Act to provide that the definition of family would include 'sibling'."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate. Those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Hatcher, Hayes, Ives, Tabares. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared 09800034.doc 52 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 passed. House Bill 2382, Representative Hatcher. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2382, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Hatcher."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2382 was created as a result of hearings being held in my district over major IDOT construction projects. It basically communi… increases communication between business and IDOT. IDOT helped me write the language and are in support of this whole project."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Cloonen. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Moving to page 32 of the Calendar, House Bill 2427, Representative Kelly Burke. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2427, a Bill for an Act concerning public utilities. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Burke." Burke, K.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2427, requires the Illinois Commerce Commission's Office of Retail Market Development to develop a plan for retail gas competition for residential and small business in light of the experience of the commission with the recent success of municipal electrical aggregation. And the goal is to see 09800034.doc 53 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 what experience can be applied… experiences learned from municipal electrical aggregation to possible municipal aggregation for natural gas. The Bill is supported by the Illinois Commerce Commission. And I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Acevedo, Walsh. Please take the record. On this question, there are 109 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Mr. Sosnowski."
"Thank you, Speaker. I rise on a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"I'd just like to ask the Body to please join in welcoming some of the future leaders, business folks, doctors, that have come from… that will be in the State of Illinois. Here I have the 8th-grade class from Holy Family whose up in the balcony to my left. I'd just like to ask all of you to join in a warm round of applause for them."
"Welcome to Springfield. House Bill 2452, Mr. Walsh. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2452, a Bill for an Act concerning health. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Walsh."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, 2452 basically requires identification badges on all 09800034.doc 54 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 health employees and health care facilities. I'd be happy to answer any questions."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, except for Mr. Bost. The Chair recognizes Mr. Bost."
"Do I… Yeah. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative?"
"Yeah."
"Can't they do that now? I mean their… without having to have the law. I mean it…"
"Well, this is a constituent initiative of… from somebody in my district that actually went to their doctor office with their mother. She was sitting in a wheelchair and she had dementia and somebody came along and just wheeled her mother off, nobody knew where she went. And they had no ID… identification. The present statute states that it's got to be a licensed health care facility by the state and some private offices are not actually licensed by the state. So, this would require those private offices to have identification tags on all their workers, employees, volunteers."
"Okay. So this is actually every… this is actually every doctors' office not just hospitals, is that correct?"
"Hospitals already require it."
"Okay."
"It would be in the private doctor offices."
"Every private doctor's office?"
"Yes." 09800034.doc 55 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Okay."
"Mr. Walsh to close."
"I'd request an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please record yourselves, Members. Bellock, Gabel. Please take the record. On this question, there are 89 voting 'yes', 20 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2489, Mr. Beiser. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2489, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Beiser."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. House Bill 2489 is a clean-up Bill to House Bill 641 from the 96th General Assembly where… is it brings into uniform for the Highway Code where its road districts have 48 months to obligate your money as opposed to 24 months. We attempted that change back in the 96th General Assembly, what we omitted in one Section and left the 24 months in."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Moylan. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared 09800034.doc 56 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 passed. House Bill 2494, Mr. Turner. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2494, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Turner."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2494 amends the Public Utilities Act by adding a requirement that gas efficiency measures must meet before they can be eligible for on-bill financing. Specifically, in order to be eligible for on-bill financing under the Bill, gas energy efficiency measures shall be applied to or replace current energy equipment and either have an estimated gas savings that covers the cost of implementing such a measure or be included in the Illinois Commerce Commission approved energy efficiency and demand response plan under Section 8104. I ask for 'aye' votes from the Body."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Ives. Please take the record. On this question, there are 83 voting 'yes', 26 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2563, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2563, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard." 09800034.doc 57 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Act amends part of our section in the Driver's Code that would assist those members from the military service who have retired and are trying to get jobs driving vehicles; would give them some relief in taking the CDL exam so that they did not have to take the actual driving portion, but would have to take the other portions of this exam. The Secretary of State agrees with this and its part of a federal program. I would ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Sacia. Do you… rise in response, Sir?"
"Pardon me?"
"Do you rise in response on this Bill?"
"However I need to, Sir."
"Mr. Sacia is recognized for 2 minutes."
"My… Sir, my seatmate as you know is Representative Pritchard and I just wondered. Representative Reboletti asked to get away from the order of guns and we were asked to go to the order of jobs and I just wondered is this the order of Representative Pritchard today? Just a question, Sir."
"You need to have a caucus about that, Sir. Mr. Franks is recognized for 2 minutes."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, I understand what we're trying to do here, but I am concerned. What is the public policy in waiving someone to take a driving test?" 09800034.doc 58 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"I'm not sure that we have a policy position on that?"
"Why would we do that? I mean, we've had… you look what happened in the Willis case, where people did not take driving tests and as a result, on the CDL, that a number of children here killed. It brought down a Governor and it ensconced the entire state in scandal. Why wouldn't we just have all procedural safeguards, when people are driving 18- wheel vehicles that are very heavy, could be very dangerous. I just don't know why we would provide this kind of courtesy at the expense of potential public safety."
"I don’t believe that we are doing any sacrificial work here. This is for military veterans who have had years of driving the kind of heavy vehicles that require a CDL and it only relates to the driving portion. They have to take the test and comply with all the other standards. This is a request of the local veterans in my area trying to get jobs and it takes time and effort. They may not have access to an 18 wheel vehicle to take that driving test."
"But, Representative, we all want to help with jobs and we certainly all want to help veterans and everybody here wants to help veterans. But this is a question… let's assume someone had driven and they've done it in the military and they're still going to be taking the written portion. I don’t see how this makes sense to say, well, okay, we're going to make you take a written portion but were not going to have you see if you're physically able to actually handle the rig because peoples' physical conditions change all the time and perhaps at one time 09800034.doc 59 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 someone could have been physically able to and that person could still take the test, but they may not be physically able to continue to drive. And I just think that we ought to continue to make sure that our roads are safe and I just I don't know why we would do this. I mean, certainly maybe we give someone a preference and we do preferences all the time for veterans and we always vote for that, but this is really a question of public safety and we've seen what's happened when we have not required tests for people taking CDL and the consequences have been tragic."
"So the situations that you are referring to were not veterans. They hadn't proven their abilities and they got the license in some circuitous way. What we're talking about here is a normal application process, but we're saving them some time and effort so that they can try to get a job quicker."
"I appreciate what you're doing and I'm going to respectfully vote 'no'. I do everything I can to support veterans at every opportunity and I just don’t believe this is in our public policy to allow people to be on the roads without being tested whether they're veterans or not. I mean veterans certainly have an exulted status here, but I think that we ought to keep honest people honest and we should trust, but we should also verify and that’s what I'd ask you to do. And I'd vote 'no'."
"Mr. Bost moves to remove this matter from Short Debate. Is there leave? Leave is granted. The Chair recognizes Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Does the Sponsor yield?" 09800034.doc 60 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Sponsor yields."
"Thank you. Representative, is this a violation of federal law?"
"No. In fact, this is complying with a provision of the Federal Law. There are standards and… and reports that have to be made and under requirements a 49 C.F.R. 38… 383.77 and part of 383.123. The Secretary of State is very aware of these federal requirements and only is supporting this because we are complying with those requirements."
"All right. So, you're saying the 380."
"383.77. 383.123"
"Okay, so you're saying that we can waive the driving portion of the test and still be in compliance with Title 49?"
"Correct."
"I don't think that’s correct. I'm going to be opposing your Bill, Representative."
"Mr. Bost."
"I stand in support of the Gentleman's Bill and the reason being is… it's very clear on statutes that we can do this. And it's also very clear those of you who have served in the military understand what training… people that are in the motor fuel… motor pool go through. It is not their training and their ability to operate larger vehicles is a lot more intense that what… then what we civilians have. Ladies and Gentlemen, for those of you who don't know, I… the previous speaker I know he's been in the trucking business. I drove trucks for years. My family's been in the trucking business since 1933, but I've also been in the 09800034.doc 61 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 military and I know what the motor pool requires. These are very experienced people. If the Secretary of State signs off and says he wants this in here, then we should agree with him. He's not going to support this and say, oh, oh no, I just want to go ahead and take all these risks. This is sensible legislation. And I would ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Representative Ives."
"To the Bill. I'd just like to let you know that as a former transportation officer in the military and one who served in Germany, I can attest to the fact that these drivers are extremely well skilled and in fact, I received my CDL in Germany, drove an 18-wheeler around the Audubon and narrow roads of Germany, but I don’t think that qualifies me to automatically get a license to drive here. I've been out for quite a few years. These people have just recently come out of the Army or the military and I can tell you they drive in very difficult situations in roads that you probably would not believe you could even find in the United States here. They're in Europe and other places and they're very well qualified in what they do. We have high, high standards in the military for these drivers and it's almost an insult to say that they then have to take an additional driving test having just completed rigorous instruction and driving in the military. I urge an 'aye' vote."
"David Harris." Harris, D.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Question of the Sponsor."
"Sponsor yields." 09800034.doc 62 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Harris, D.: "Representative, you mentioned… you referred to C.F.R. 383.77. What are the general provisions of that, that we're adhering to? I don’t…"
"I will yield to your knowledge on that." Harris, D.: "Well, I don’t know… I know that the combined federal regulations. I don’t have them committed to memory, but Ladies and Gentlemen, I know that this Bill's probably going to pass out of here by a large number because anything dealing with veterans we seem to pass out sort of routinely, but I'm a little bit troubled by the wording of your Bill, it simply says a driver who has military commercial motor vehicle experience. It places no time limit on that whatsoever. You heard the previous speaker say that however many years ago she drove an 18-wheeler in Germany. That’s great, but you know what, I would want her to take a driving test now because times have changed in the operation of those vehicles. About 8 to 10 years ago, the U.S. Army went to what's known as the FMTBs, the Family of Modern Tactical Vehicles. That was a change in the normal operation of large trucks. Certainly military people, motor pool people, transportation people are skilled on how to drive those, but that doesn’t automatically transfer to an 18-wheeler on the roads of Illinois. Again, I'm going to vote for the Bill because veterans' Bills just fly out of the House. I would encourage you, though, maybe to tighten it up as it gets over to the Senate 'cause I think there are provisions here that… that would make it a much better Bill before we enact it into law." 09800034.doc 63 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Representative Monique Davis." Davis, M.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields." Davis, M.: "Representative Pritchard, do all veterans drive?"
"No." Davis, M.: "Do they all… or those who do… do they all drive 18- wheelers?"
"No." Davis, M.: "So, in other words they really many times will not have the experience needed to drive an 18-wheeler vehicle that has many times a large amount of weight and I think in the driver's training they learn about the distance in which to apply your brakes many times based on the amount of weight you're carrying. I, too, support veterans, Mr. Pritchard, but I would hate to put our citizens at risk."
"Representative, we are taking advantage of a federal section, a rule, that has strict requirements. It's not anyone, it's an officer… excuse me, it's a military person who has had the type of experience with these kinds of heavy vehicles. They certainly have been trained in the military to deal with this and we're only talking about the driving portion of this test." Davis, M.: "That’s not such a large portion to eliminate. It's a very important portion, but it really doesn’t take that much additional time to practice driving an 18-wheeler. It's doesn’t… you know like when you drive down here on the road there's a lot of 18-wheelers behind you, on the side of you and I would feel very comfortable knowing that whoever is behind that wheel has had the adequate training. 09800034.doc 64 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 I respect veterans and I'm sure they respect Legislators, but I would hate to put the public's life in jeopardy because I'm attempting to reward a veteran or veterans. You're trying to reward them in ways that perhaps are not necessarily valuable to the rest of us."
"Excuse me. Was that a question?" Davis, M.: "Well, the question is, do you think you want to put all those lives in jeopardy?"
"No, I don’t want to put any lives in jeopardy." Davis, M.: "With that Mr. Speaker, I urge a 'no' vote. Not because we don’t love and respect are veterans, but because we do and we also love and respect their families. I urge a 'no' vote. Thank you."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Bill and hopefully reading my analysis here, this may give some clarification to Representative Franks and a few others. So what I read here is the person has to have a minimum experience of two years operating a military vehicle representative of the commercial vehicle class for which that applicant is applying. Secondly, they must be on active duty status or discharged from the military within 365 days, so discharged within one year. Thirdly, they must be an Illinois resident and eligible for an Illinois drivers license. And lastly, and I believe this is very important, there has to be a waiver provided by the Secretary that is signed by the applicant but also signed by his commanding officer. This officer is certifying that the applicant meets the criteria for the subsection. I urge an 'aye' vote." 09800034.doc 65 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Mr. Pritchard to close."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this isn’t about safety. This is about individuals that have been trained and served our country nobly in various different responsibilities and we're trying to help them by minimizing some of the process of going through a driving exam. Certainly, they are qualified. We're complying with Federal law. And I would ask for your support."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Cassidy, Gordon. Please take the record. On this question, there are 89 voting 'yes', 19 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2586, Mr. Turner. Excuse me, Mr. Turner, before you proceed the Chair recognizes Leader Currie."
"Thank you, Speaker. Please let the record reflect that Representative Acevedo is excused for the remainder of the day."
"Thank you very much. Mr. Turner, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2586, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Turner."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the Body. House Bill 2586 amends the Energy Assistance Act by extending the repeal date for the Supplemental Low-Income Energy Assistance Fund and the Energy Assistance Charge from 09800034.doc 66 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 December 31, 2013 to December 31, 2018. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Evans, Mitchell, Soto, Zalewski, Mitchell and Zalewski. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Representative Gordon."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Please let the record reflect that I intended to be a 'yes' on Senate Bill 9."
"The record will reflect your intentions. Thank you. The next Bill is House Bill 2613, Mr. DeLuca. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2613, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. DeLuca."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen, House Bill 2613 is an initiative of the Capital Development Board. And it amends the General Obligation Bond Act and the Capital Development Bond Act of 1972. It provides that the unused portion of federal funds received for a capital improvement project for which moneys from the Capital Development Fund have been expended shall remain in the Capital Development Board Contributory Trust Fund and shall be used for capital projects and for no other purposes. The 09800034.doc 67 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 issue passed committee unanimously and there's no opposition. I ask for your approval."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Soto. Please take the record. On this question, there are 107 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2614, Mr. Verschoore. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2614, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Verschoore."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is like some clean up language. What it does is it amends the Illinois Procurement Code, removes language allowing a single contract for one or more buildings to be let to a single contractor. And I'd ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Golar, Harris, Jackson. Mr. Jackson. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2619, Mr. Riley. Please read the Bill." 09800034.doc 68 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 2619, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Riley."
"Thank you so much. House Bill 2619 essentially just lowers the age for crossbow usage from 62 to 55 during the regular deer hunting season."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. And on this question, for the Bill on Short Debate, the Chair recognizes Mr. Reboletti."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, our analysis shows that it's opposed by IDNR and the United Bowhunters of Illinois. Is there… What's the particular reason for their opposition?"
"Well, Representative Reboletti, some of it is just healthy competition between different users of bowed instruments and some of it has to do with the DNR wanting to see whether or not the policy that changed, that allowed bow hunting during a certain part of the deer season to be implemented, that happened last year. There's always been, I don't know, a healthy competition between people who are purists in bow hunting, that like long bows and those who want to use crossbows. It's really no more than that."
"Why… why is the age at 62, Representative? I'm not as familiar with it, obviously, as you are."
"Well, I'm not exactly sure where it… I mean, I guess because at 62 one can retire. And the way the previous law was, was that you had to be 62 or have a permanent disability that could be proven for you to use a crossbow 09800034.doc 69 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 during the regular season. For me, even with the changes that we made, and there is a partial hunting season now, I felt that, you know, some people retire at 55 years old, to just lower that regulation from 62 to 55."
"Thank…
"It is… it is not as though we've been inundated by people wanting to use crossbows with the changes that have been made."
"Thank you, Representative."
"Those in favor of the Gentleman's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Currie, McAuliffe. Mr. McAuliffe. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no' And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Moving to page 33 of the Calendar, speaking of Representative McAuliffe, House Bill 2638, Mr. McAuliffe. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2638, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. McAuliffe."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 2638 amends the Nurses Practice Act and provides that the Center for Nursing Advisory Board shall meet annually to elect a chairperson and vice chairperson. I'd be happy to answer any questions."
"Mr. McAuliffe moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 09800034.doc 70 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 'no'. The voting's is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Burke, Davis, Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. This Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2640, Representative Kelly Burke. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2640, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Burke." Burke, K.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. House Bill 2640 is an initiative of the Illinois Attorney General's Office stemming from their experience working with victims of human trafficking. House Bill 2640 would allow a victim of human trafficking, as defined by law, to be compensated for the cost of removing a tattoo he or she received as a result of branding by the offender, who kept the victim in involuntary servitude. Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Offenders use force, coercion and fraud to keep their victims, who are men, women, and children, in bondage. In an 18-month period the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received 257 calls from Illinois, the fifth highest in the nation. The FBI has labeled Chicago one of 13 locations of high intensity child prostitution and a New York Times report described Chicago as a national crossroads for human trafficking. Traffickers in Chicago, Springfield, and Rockford have been prosecuted. One method offenders use to control their victims is to brand them with tattoos, often with the pimp's nickname or 09800034.doc 71 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 motto. One offender… or several offenders had barcodes attac… tattooed on the victim's back, a not so subtle message that the victim is the pimp's property. Victims of trafficking face many challenges when able to break free. They have to… in addition to finding housing and a job, they also have to deal emotionally with their traumatic experience. Survivors may have flashbacks of their oppression and abuse. They suffer depression, anxiety, and an intense fear, and posttraumatic stress disorder. These tattoos serve as a constant reminder of the ordeal they endured and the status as property of another. Victims also worried about how they respond when they become involved in relationships and have children. Removal of these brands is considered a vital part of the trafficking victim's psychological and emotional healing. Removal is not only painful, it is costly. The Crime Victims Compensation Act currently allows for victims of certain crimes to be reimbursed for out of pocket expenses they incur as a result of the crime, such as medical and psychological treatment or crime scene clean up. This Bill adds to the list of expensions… expenses for which a victim may be compensated. I'd be happy to answer any questions and I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting's is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received 09800034.doc 72 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2654, Representative Senger. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2654, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Senger."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 2654 is an initiative of the Treasurer's Office. The Treasurer is seeking discretion to move moneys into GRF from a fund that was used to collateralize loans to, Roseland Hospital. The moneys are sitting there and it will be done over a 30-year period, up to 180 thousand a year. So, I ask for your approval."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Simms. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2674, Representative Jakobsson. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2674, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Jakobsson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2674 merely cleans up the statutes regarding ISAC. It has no effect on existing programs. It amends the Higher Education Assistance Act by repealing a section of that Act authorizing the Illinois Student Assistance Commission to 09800034.doc 73 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 develop and provide a program of college savings. This was done in 1989. ISAC established one after 1989 known as I- CAN and was all in accordance with the commission, but it was discontinued in 2002 due to a lack of activity. And the other college savings plans came into effect after the federal tax benefits. And so, people have been participating in those, in Bright Start and College Illinois, and this one is just merely not needed, not done. And we'd like to clean up the statutes."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Currie and Drury. Mr. Drury. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2675, Representative Lilly. Please read the Bill. No running in the House Chamber, Representative."
"House Bill 2675, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Lilly. Out of the record. House Bill 2690, Mr. Walsh. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2690, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Walsh."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2690 amends the Counties Codes by allowing certain counties to assess a fee to support the Court Appointed Special Advocate services. 09800034.doc 74 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Under the current law a county board may enact, by ordinance or resolution, a variety of fees, most paid by a guilty defendant, to finance the court system. These fees currently range from 5 to 100 dollars and the funds are used to finance DUI education programs, child advocacy centers, et cetera. What this Bill is looking to do is put… give the counties the ability to assess another 10 to 30 dollar fee to fund grants from the county board to the Court Appointed Special Advocates and I would ask for your 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 83 voting 'yes', 25 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2709, Mr. Rosenthal. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2709, a Bill for an Act concerning agriculture. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Rosenthal."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is an initiative of the Wheat Association, supported by the Farm Bureau and simply the clean-up language for the Wheat Development Act to make it easier for the wheat check off to be implemented by wheat producers, if they so choose. And I urge an 'aye' vote." 09800034.doc 75 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Gentleman's moved for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Pihos, Sims, Mr. Simms. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2737, Mr. Moffitt. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2737, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Moffitt."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, this is an initiative of the Illinois Red Cross and it prepares for a situation I hope we'll never need but reality is it's possible given our location and potential for serious emergencies. Being prepared is essential and is the first step to providing the successful response to an emergency. Having access to large facilities may be needed to safely house and protect masses of people and equipment. Just think of some that have occurred like Katrina and this would require civic centers to work with emergency providers to possibly be available and they would… where they could have mutually agreed agreements. We already have this for… where schools and colleges participate. This would add civic centers. Again, hope we never need it, but we'd be ready and they would enter into those agreements."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all 09800034.doc 76 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2747, Representative Conroy. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2747, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Conroy."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I'm presenting House Bill 2747 which will require public bodies to respond to FOIA requests received by e-mail, further promoting our efforts to expand access to government and increase transparency. Public bodies with e-mail systems in place are already required to respond to these requests and this Bill will update Illinois statutes to codify this provision. Public bodies with e-mail set up would have to set up e-mail or some kind of electronic system that allows them to accept FOIA requests electronically. This Bill only applies to public bodies with five employees or more. I would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Franks, Ives, Tryon. Mr. Tryon. Please take the record. On this question, there are 82 voting 'yes', 26 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2771, Mr. Kay. Please read the Bill." 09800034.doc 77 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 2771, a Bill for an Act concerning children. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Kay."
"Mr. Speaker, I would like to adopt Amendment #1 and that will be the Bill."
"Gentleman would like to move the Bill back to the Order of Second Reading?"
"Yes. Correct."
"Mr. Kay, I'm told the Amendment was adopted in committee.
"Very well."
"You're on Third Reading and ready to go, Sir."
"Good. Thank you. Last year we passed House Bill 3887 which was known as the Penn State Act. It added certain categories of individuals in schools to report sexually abused children. One of the errors that I made in drafting the Bill was to forget that there was an attorney-client privilege which needed to be preserved and this Bill essentially deals with that exception, that communications between an attorney and his or her client will not be abridged. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Jefferson. Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no' And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Now we turn to the order of 09800034.doc 78 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Moffitt. House Bill 2775, Mr. Moffitt. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2775, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Moffitt."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 2775 would amend the State Commemorative Dates Act and add, honoring Mary Bickerdyke, a famous Civil War nurse, designating the second Wednesday in May, which is also Nursing Week to recognize her. She was from Galesburg, served in the Civil War. General Sherman commented she out ranks him, brought nursing to a whole new status, new level on the battlefield and continued to advocate for veterans even after her service. I think it's proper to honor her and military nurses and nurses in general. Thank you."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2777, Mr. Moffitt. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2777, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Moffitt."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Again, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, House Bill 2777 is a direct result of the 09800034.doc 79 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 task force that Representative Lisa Dugan and I cochaired, held the 17 hearings, brought them to many of your districts. What this would provide for, and we're probably going to make a little change in the Senate, and I want to state on the record, initially this is going to change from an annual inspection to a semiannual as well as license, what the Department of Public Health has agreed to verbally is it'll still be an annual inspection of the vehicle, but the license could be a four year renewal and that would be a big help to our providers. And they… in talking with them, they're very pleased with this. And so, I will ask a Senate Sponsor to put that on as an Amendment, but that's what it will become. I like the Bill the way it is, but Public Health said they'd like to inspect ambulances annually. They made a good case for that. So, I appreciate your support, direct result of that task force."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Walsh. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2778, Mr. Moffitt. Please Read the Bill"
"House Bill 2778, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Moffitt."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. This also is a result of our task force that many of 09800034.doc 80 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 you helped with. And this would provide that currently licensed EMTs may perform emergency and nonemergency medical services in accordance with his or her level of education, training, and licensure regardless of the level of ambulance that they're on. Keep in mind, it's the individuals staffing that ambulance that are providing the medical care not the ambulance itself. This is recognizing the licensure, training, education that they have. It makes the potential for providing higher level of care… service. I will just tell you, as we held those hearings, we know there were places in EMT basic service and yet there might be a registered nurse, an advanced degree nurse that would be responding have a lot higher skills than paramedic. So, this would allow them to perform at the skills that they're licensed to do. Thank you."
"Gentleman's moved for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Feigenholtz, Nekritz. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. The Chair recognizes Mr. Bost."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. If the record would reflect that both Representative Poe and Schmitz will be excused for the rest of the day."
Speaker Lang: "The record will reflect. House Bill 2816, Representative Manley. Out of the record. House Bill 2820, Representative Bill Mitchell. Out of the record. Page 34 of 09800034.doc 81 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 the Calendar, House Bill 2829, Representative Hatcher. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2829, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Hatcher."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 2829 came to me as a result of damage done in one of my communities. As ridiculous as it seems, uninsured drivers are not responsible for property damage. This would change that Bill and allow those damaged to recoup their losses."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Feigenholtz and Nekritz. Nekritz, thank you. Mr. Clerk, take the record. There are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2830, Mr. Turner. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2830, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Turner."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Body. House Bill 2830 makes three changes to the Illinois Housing Development Act. First it provides that the Illinois Housing Development Authority may enter into an agreement with a limited-profit entity. It allows the Authority to regulate… regulate limited-profit entities through contract 09800034.doc 82 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 agreements and it also extends the time for submitting a tenant selection plan. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill vote 'yes'; opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Please take the record. On this question, there are 105 voting 'yes'; 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2862, Mr. Farnham. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2862, a Bill for an Act concerning property. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Farnham."
"House Bill 2862 allows the City of Elgin to use a portion of land that was previously conveyed to it by the former Department of Mental Health for purposes other than public education, recreational purposes. City intends to sell a portion of the former state land to the Elgin Community College. The college will use it for expansion, which may include a book store or a restaurant that could be considered commercial usage. This Bill is intended to prevent potential use restrictions."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Durkin. Please take the record. On this question, there are 105 voting 'yes'; 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, 09800034.doc 83 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2869, Representative Greg Harris. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2869, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Harris." Harris, G.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, I just have to tell you that this is the first Harris-Harris Bill we've had. With two Harrises, it's got to be good legislation. Probably enough said, but what this Bill does is it closes some loopholes in the transparency reporting for state contracts. I would urge an 'aye' vote. It passed out of committee unanimously in the last Session. We didn't get to it and it passed out again unanimously this Session. And I would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"The Harrises move for the passage of the Bill. And the Chair recognizes the other Harris." Harris, D.: "Mr. Speaker, this may be the only Harris-Harris Bill of this Session but I'm proud…"
"We'll try to enjoy it for as long as possible." Harris, D.: "…I'm proud… I am proud to cosponsor this Bill."
"Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mitchell, Turner. Please take the record. On this question, there are 105 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2840. Mr. Ford. Please read the Bill." Excuse me. House Bill 2880, Mr. Ford." 09800034.doc 84 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 2880, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. 28… House Bill 2880 simply requires the Illinois State Board of Education to establish a standard student expulsion policy for all school districts including Chicago. With the recent crimes and… that's happening at schools, I think it's better and… that we set expectations in some form for school settings. And I move for the passage of House Bill 2880."
"The Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. And the Chair recognizes Representative Pihos in response."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Yes. What we need to remember that in the State of Illinois school districts, we have made those local entities and every school district is unique and school districts do put together student expulsion policies that really conform to the population that they serve. So, this would be a mandate across the state to have something uniform. Well, I think it's important that every school district has the right to put into place their own policy that serves their own student population and you have a lot of people that are opposed to this Bill: the ISBE, the Illinois Statewide School Management Alliance, LEND, SCOPE, HDSO. They're all opposed to the Bill for that reason." 09800034.doc 85 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Mr. Sullivan moves, accompanied by the necessary people, that the Bill be removed from Short Debate. Is there leave? Leave is granted and we're back to Standard Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Hays."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, do you think the autonomy that the local school districts have in all four corners of our state is an important… it's important?"
"And this Bill would not remove that."
"I… My understanding of your description was that the expulsion rule would be a common standard across the entire State of Illinois. Would that not, by definition, supersede the handbook at our local school district?"
"No. The State Board of Education could issue standards that could be applied to each school district as well. This does not take away the school districts ability to set their own expulsion standards, but to a certain degree, we're… we're moving in different directions and I believe that the State Board of Education should have some say into certain offenses that should be considered heinous enough for expulsion or not."
"You know there's a standard in… in other parts of our… our Codes that… that does acknowledge that the expectations and mores in our individual communities, perhaps it's not a one size fits all dynamic. And I think as it relates to this, I guess my concern would be that we really would, yet again, be removing from our local elected school board officials the ability to set policy that underscores and 09800034.doc 86 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 illustrates what those priorities are in our individual communities and giving to… to the state in an area that is not necessary. I know how passionate you are about these issues, but I respectfully request a 'no' vote. Thank you."
"Mr. Sullivan."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative, in your legislation line 7 and 8 and 9, this is where you… The State Board of Education shall establish a standard student expulsion policy. Is that correct?"
"Yes."
"Okay. Further down the Bill you go in and talk about expulsions in certain levels and areas. On the same page on line 16, starting on 15, but really on 16 is where I want to focus a little bit in regard to what people have said. It says, with respect to expulsions the policy must conform to the standard student expulsion policy. Can you explain that sentence in regard to your legislation not requiring local boards to conform, where it says must conform, to the policy that is established in the beginning of the legislation?"
"And so, it simply says that if the state board makes a rule that they believe that a possession of a gun in a school is an offense that should be expellable. then the board… the school board must comply with that. But nothing in this Bill would say that each school board cannot continue to add other offenses to their board policies." 09800034.doc 87 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Well, that’s… that's the point of the previous speakers and so your legislation is going to require the state to do the policy and the locals then could not have their own policy. They cannot…"
"No. They can still have their own policy. If we could really read it correctly, I mean and not… there's nothing in this Bill that says that each school district… nothing removes the school districts' ability to have their own policy. There's nothing in there, but it does say that if the state has some certain offenses that should be included, that the school districts should comply with."
"All right. Representative, I think I understand what you're trying to do. This Bill does not clarify that. To the Bill. Ladies and Gentlemen, I think what the Gentleman's trying to do is say we have to have a minimum level of expulsion policy and then after that, it could be added to. I hope that’s what you're trying to do, but this Bill does not do that. At this point the way I read it when it says in respect to expulsions the districts pupil disciplinary policy must conform to the standard student expulsion. That tells me on the local level, they have to conform to this and they can’t have another. I understand what you're trying to do; this does not get to it. For that reason I'll be voting 'no'."
"Representative Kosel."
"I yield my time to Representative Pihos."
"Okay. The Chair recognizes Mr. Ford."
"I think that I want to do what's right, so what I'll do, with all due respect, work with Representative Sullivan to 09800034.doc 88 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 try to correct the intent of the Bill. And I'll pull the Bill at this time."
"The Bill will be taken from the record. House Bill 2897, Representative Willis. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2897, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Willis."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill is to prevent violent felons from purchasing and owning body armor. There currently is a federal Bill that has this already as law. There are a number of states that have also incorporated it into their State law. This is for violent felons only, saying that they cannot purchase it. The states that already have this are Texas and Michigan. And I go for an 'aye' vote. Thank you very much."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Jefferson, Mell. Representative Mell. Please take the record. On this question, there are 102 voting 'yes', 4 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2898 on the order of Willis. Please proceed, Mr. Clerk."
"House Bill 2898, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Willis." 09800034.doc 89 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. This Bill is to make it a felony for a gang recruitment on school property. We already have a law similar to this, but it expands upon the definition of what is constituted as school grounds. We're adding to the definition of school grounds to incorporate the school itself, the bus stops, the school buses. Also, public spot… public parks and 1 thousand feet from the school. Also, defining the schools themselves as private elementary, public elementary, secondary, post- secondary, two and four-year institutions of higher learning. And I would urge an 'aye' vote on this also. Thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"Lady moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Bost for 2 minutes."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Lady yields."
"Well, first off let me say that… that we said that we weren't going to do the hazing anymore on the first Bill, but since you're taking two Bills, but we won't do that. Really, I do want to know, because I'm trying to figure this out. Exactly what… what is… what is the genesis of this? What are you trying… what are you trying to put in place?"
"The goal of this is to definitely have no question as to where school property is so that minors cannot be recruited into gangs. And so, that’s why we're looking at those places that we know the students are at and making no gray area as to what constitutes school property." 09800034.doc 90 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Okay. But…"
"Or school zones."
"…does it go away… go off the school property?"
"It does in the aspect where we're looking at the buses, the school buses, and school bus stops and the public parks."
"Okay. Thank you. What…"
"Those in favor of the Lady's Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Evans, Nekritz. Mr. Evans. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes, 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Mr. Clerk, returning to House Bill 2880. Mr. Ford wishes the Bill brought back to the Order of Second Reading for purpose of an Amendment and that will be done, Mr. Ford. Returning down the Calendar to House Bill 2910, Mr. Costello. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2910, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. House Bill 2910 amends the Higher Education Student Assistant Act, with respect to the Illinois Veterans Grant. A qualified… it allows a qualified veteran to apply for this grant within returning from service within one year after leaving that service. I thank you. And ask for an 'aye' vote." 09800034.doc 91 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Beiser, Rita. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Chair recognizes Mr. McSweeney."
"Point of personal privilege Mr. Speaker."
"Please proceed, Sir."
"On HB2897 I should be recorded as a 'yes'."
"The record will reflect your intentions. House Bill 2916, Mr. Costello. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2916, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 2916, also known in the past as the 'Rest in Peace Act', simply expands the area that disorderly conduct of a funeral is considered to be committed from 300 feet to 1000 feet. It also would expand the time that this would be allowed in a funeral setting or a cemetery from 30 minutes prior or after to one hour prior or after, and this Bill truly just acknowledges and honors the grieving process for families who have experienced death. It also acknowledges and preserves the dignity of death. It's based off a personal experience that I've had with my best friend who was killed in Afghanistan and it's really targeted to 09800034.doc 92 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 groups such as the hate group that we're all aware of from Kansas. I thank you. And ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Evans, Jackson, Nekritz. Mr. Jackson. Please take the record. On this question, there are 105 voting 'yes' 1 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2930, Mr. Unes. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2930, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Unes."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 2930 very simply states that if a public Body receives a FOIA request electronically, that they can respond to that request electronically. I know of no opponents. And ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moved for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; oppose 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Verschoore. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2943, Mr. Drury. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2943, a Bill for an Act concerning government. Third Reading of this House Bill." 09800034.doc 93 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Mr. Drury."
"Thank you, Speaker. House Bill 2943 seeks to close a loophole in the Lobbyist Registration Act. Right now lobbyists need to report who their client is, but subcontractors to lobbyists don't need to report who the ultimate beneficiary of their services is. This simply would require the subcontractors to report their ultimate client. This… this issue's been reported in the New York Times back in 2012. And it passed out of committee with no opposition and a number of lobbyists have reached out to me supporting the idea. I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Tryon. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2955, Mr. Drury."
"House Bill 2955, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Drury."
"Thank you, Leader. House Bill 2955 seeks to implement a requirement that the Office of Management and Budget publish online, the budget in a searchable format of preferably a CSV or an Excel file. This idea came from the University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs. Again, it passed out of committee with… unanimously and actually the Office of Management and 09800034.doc 94 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Budget has already put this online and implemented this procedure. So, I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Durkin. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2976, Representative Lilly. Representative Lilly. Out of the record. House Bill 2979, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2979, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this particular Act amends the Wildlife Code to allow a very narrow exemption from the Freedom of Information Act as to the exact location of a trap. We have found that there's problems with vandalism and this would allow, upon the approval of the Department of Natural Resources, for this location to be exempted from FOIA information. All other information would be FOIAable. I ask for your support."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. There being no debate. Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Drury, Durkin, Mitchell, Zalewski. Mr. Zalewski. Please take the record. On this question, there are 106 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the 09800034.doc 95 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 3014, Mr. Unes, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 3014, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Unes."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members of the House. House Bill 3014 is a follow-up Bill from the 97th General Assembly. We had a very comprehensive approach of attack… solving copper theft and this Bill is a follow-up to that. It very simply states that when copper theft occurs, that the person committing the theft will also be responsible for not only the amount of copper that was stolen, but also for the damages that were caused during the theft and also the cost of putting the utilities back online if utilities went offline. I know of no opponents. And I ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. The Bill is on the Order of Short Debate. The Chair recognizes Mr. Reboletti in response."
"Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Gentleman yields."
"Representative Unes, can you take this Bill out of the record? I'm not sure if Representative Pritchard has all of his legislative agenda attended to today."
"That it, Sir?"
"Nothing further…"
"That's it, Sir? Those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Bellock. Please 09800034.doc 96 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 take the record. On this question, there are 103 voting 'yes'; 2 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 3057, Mr. Sacia. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 3057, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Sacia."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Ladies and Gentlemen of the House, House Bill 3057 creates the Illinois State Police Memorial license plate to create a fund for that particular desire. It would add an additional $25 for that particular license plate, $15 would go to the Secretary of State and 10 would go to the memorial fund. I ask for your support. I know of no opposition."
"Gentleman moves for the passage of the Bill. Those in favor vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Mr. Franks, please take the record. On this question, there are 99 voting 'yes', 5 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Mr. Turner in the Chair."
"Continuing on page 35, we have House Bill 3070, Representative Farnham. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 3070, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Farnham." 09800034.doc 97 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"House Bill 3070 requires school personnel, who will work with children, to be trained to identify the warning signs of mental illness and suicidal behavior. Currently school district guidance counselors, teachers, social workers, and other school personnel are taught the warning signs of suicidal behavior. This would merely add this piece for mental illness. And it would be… it would take the form of an in-service provided by the school district."
"Seeing no debate. The question is, 'Shall House Bill 3070 pass?' All those in favor vote 'yes'; all those opposed vote 'no'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Representative Franks, Representative Hays, Riley. Please record yourselves, Members. Clerk, please take the roll. On a vote of 93 voting 'yes', 12 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present'. House Bill 3070, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 2905, Representative Lang. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 2905, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Leader Lang."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This is part of the initiative of the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, Karen Yarbrough. It increases penalties for unlawful clouding of title. I would ask for your support."
"Representative Thapedi."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields." 09800034.doc 98 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Leader just out of curiosity with respect to unlawful clouding of title, what exactly is that? So let's say, for an example, someone files a lawsuit and it's probably not the best lawsuit in the world and they file a lis pendens. Would that be problematic under the Bill?"
"The… well, that definition is not being changed in the Bill. The current law regard clouding of title is in the Act in the Criminal Code today. All this does is increase penalties."
"Thank you."
"Leader Lang to close."
"Please vote 'aye'."
"The question is, 'Shall House Bill 2905 pass?' All those in favor vote 'aye'; all those opposed vote 'nay'. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Representative Burke, Durkin, Farnham, Franks. Please record yourselves, Members. We'll ask each Member, with a nonworking button, how would… they would like to vote. Representative Kelly Burke, 'aye', Representative Durkin, 'aye'. Representative Farnham."
"Aye."
"Representative Franks."
"'Yes.'"
"Hatcher, 'yes'. Representative Martwick.
"'Yes'."
"Representative Moylan."
"'Aye'."
"Representative Roth."
"'Aye'." 09800034.doc 99 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013
"Representative Scherer."
"'Yes'."
"Representative Sente."
"'Aye.'"
"Mr. Clerk, please take the roll. On a vote of 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no', 0 voting 'present'. House Bill 2905… button issues in the well. Leader Lang. Hello. Hello. Thank you. Members, due to technology issues, we're going to adjourn for the rest of the evening. So… so, please… be patient for Agreed Resolutions and the… any wrap up for the end of the evening. Mr. Clerk, Agreed Resolutions."
"Agreed Resolutions. House Resolution 183, offered by Representative Bellock. House Resolution 184, offered by Representative Walsh. House Resolution 186, offered by Representative Senger. House Resolution 187, offered by Representative Monique Davis. House Resolution 188, offered by Representative Fortner. House Resolution 189, offered by Representative Currie. And House Resolution 190, offered by Representative Franks. "
"Representative Lang moves for the adoption of the Agreed Resolutions. All those in favor say 'aye'; all those opposed say 'no'. In the opinion of the Chair, the 'ayes' have it. And the Resolutions is adopted… the Resolutions are adopted. And now, allowing perfunctory time for the Clerk, the House will adjourn 'til Monday, April 8 at 2 p.m. Thank you."
"House Perfunctory Session will come to order. Introduction of Resolutions. House Resolution 185, offered 09800034.doc 100 STATE OF ILLINOIS 98th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 34th Legislative Day 3/22/2013 by Representative Daniel Burke. It is referred to the Rules Committee."
"House Perfunctory Session will come to order. The House Perfunctory Session will come to order. Corrected First Reading of House Bill 1042. House Bill 1042, offered by Representative Ryan… Tryon, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. Corrected First Reading of this House Bill. There being no further business, the House Perfunctory Session will stand adjourned." 09800034.doc 101