"The House will be in order. Members will be in their chairs, please. We shall be led in prayer today by Reverend Cyndi Robinson Gavin, who is with St. John United Church of Christ in Aurora. Reverend Gavin is the guest of Representative Chapa LaVia. Members and ask… guests are asked to refrain from starting their laptops, turn off cell phones and rise for the invocation and Pledge of Allegiance. Reverend Gavin."
"Good morning, 99th General Assembly, House of Representatives of the State of Illinois. I invite you, if you're so inclined, to bow your heads and look into your hearts. Love and loving one, source and salvation of all, God of many names, Your spirit reaches beyond the farthest universe, yet, You are as close as our very breath. You hear our prayer. We gather this day in exploration. Together in this place and time we honor the creative spirit You've given us. The spirit that flows through each one of us, but especially through the women and men of this governing Body. Those who You have purposed to represent the people of Illinois and render their policy and laws of governance. We offer thanksgiving for Your trust these few of this House and us all to do great things in Your many names. We gather this day in dedication. Together in this place and time we recognize dedication is our greatest resource. Strengthen us, Oh Holy One, in this resolve. Give us faith in the power of Your mighty presence and free us from self-serving interest to form common bonds of duty and diligence of collaboration and compassion and commitment and illuminate our vision so that we may apply the wisdom former lawmakers gained in the 09900118.docx 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 political terrain they traversed and to envision a prosperous and faithful future in which all Your people may be beneficiaries and live lives free of the social inequality that currently plagues our land. On this day of no hearings, may each Member here be dedicated to deep and heartful listening to each other. We gather this day in anticipation. Together in this place and time, we recognize our approach to issues can open up possible solutions in committees, in task force and seated in this chamber. And we pray for hearts and minds that will see in You; we are many lands, we are many colors, we are many cultures woven together by Your holy and unseen hands into an intricate web of promise and possibility. Make us like Lincoln's team of rivals, not for generations to come, maybe we as a people will be of one heart and mind and be leaders who prize peace more than partisanship, people more than power, praise more than punishment. And they receive many diverse communities in the Land of Lincoln as the essential safety net protecting each of us in the face of loss and tragedy and lifting up ordinary ones to do ordinary things… do extraordinary things. We gather this day finally in celebration, Oh Holy One, when our gathering together in this place and this time closes and we depart this evening, may we leave with Your blessing and a sense of joy, may we also hold on to a sense of urgency about how little time we have left to do noble action in this great state. Claiming the highest gifts of compassion and empathy, give us Your courage and strength to stand as pillars of community set to change this world into a world of peace. Each equipped with our legacies in excellence and passion, inspire us to work 09900118.docx 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 diligently this day and then to go forth committed to doing good works to build Your view of the community making it stronger for our neighbors and ourselves, Amen."
"Be led in the Pledge by Mr. Kay."
"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 show that Representatives Acevedo, Monique Davis, Reaves-Harris, Jones, Lilly, Riley and Zalewski are excused today."
"Mr. Brown."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Please excuse for this morning Cabello, Stewart and Tryon. Thank you."
"Mr. Clerk, please take the record. There are 108 Members, we do have a quorum and we're ready to do the peoples' work. Mr. Clerk, Agreed Resolutions."
"Agreed Resolutions. House Resolution 1163, offered by Representative Kelly Burke. House Resolution 1164, offered by Representative Fortner. House Resolution 1165, offered by Representative Bellock. House Resolution 1166, offered by Representative Costello. House Resolution 1167, offered by Representative Costello. And House Resolution 1168, offered by Representative Lilly."
"Leader Currie moves for the adoption of the Agreed Resolutions. Those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Agreed Resolutions are adopted. Mr. Clerk, Committee Reports." 09900118.docx 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Committee Reports. Representative Fine, Chairperson from the Committee on Youth & Young Adults reports the following committee action taken on April 14, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #4 to House Bill 114. Representative Gabel, Chairperson from the Committee on Human Services reports the following committee action taken on April 14, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5576, Floor Amendment #2 to House Bill 5603, and Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5763. Representative Nekritz, Chairperson from the Committee on Judiciary - Civil reports the following committee action taken on April 14, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5902 and Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5924. Representative Sims, Chairperson from the Committee on Judiciary - Criminal reports the following committee action taken on April 14, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #2 to House Bill 5613 and Floor Amendment #3 to House Bill 6266. Representative D'Amico, Chairperson from the Committee on Transportation: Vehicles & Safety reports the following committee action taken on April 14, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 1056, Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5912 and Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 6093."
"Chair recognizes Mr. Martwick. For what reason do you rise, Sir?"
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed."
"Mr. Speaker, I understand that there's a birthday in the chamber today. Would all the Members join me in wishing 09900118.docx 4 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 our staff person here, Craig Willert, a very happy birthday today."
"That's right, Kurt. I'm sure Craig has the cake somewhere. Mr. Meier is recognized."
"Point of personal privilege."
"Go ahead."
"I would like to recognize my Page for today. Nathan Lintker from Okawville. His parents are Dennis and Christine Lintker, up in the balcony. Dennis is a former schoolmate of mine. And I like to say they really come from Lintkerville."
"Welcome. Glad to have you here with us. Mr. Wehrli."
"Point of… point of personal privilege."
"Go right ahead."
"I'd like to… the House to welcome my Pages for today. I have two twin brothers, Steve and John Harvey. They're fourth- graders at Eldred Elementary in Naperville. And they're joined by their parents, right back here, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey."
"Thanks for joining us. Happy you're here in the House chamber. Representative Wheeler." Wheeler, B.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Point of personal privilege."
"Proceed." Wheeler, B.: "Well, we have another birthday in… on April 15 and that would be our accountant and colleague, Sheri Jesiel who turns 29 today."
"Happy birthday. Must always tell the truth on the House Floor, Representative. Mr. Sandack." 09900118.docx 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Personal privilege."
"Proceed."
"I think Mr. Bolin's birthday is today too. Brad Bolin, right in front of you, Mr. Speaker. It's his birthday."
"Happy birthday, Brad."
"I think he's 29, I think."
"Another person who’s 29, excellent. On page 32 of the Calendar, under the Order of Constitutional Amendments- Second Reading, there appears HJRCA5. Mr. Clerk, please move this to the Order of Third Reading. On the same page appears HJRCA33. Mr. Clerk, please put this on the Order of Third Reading. HJRCA36, Mr. Clerk, please place this on the Order of Third Reading. Chair recognizes Mr. Franks."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I filed a Motion…"
"Mr. Franks, we'll… we'll return to you on that."
"Thank you."
"Thank you. Ladies and Gentlemen, we're moving back to our priority Bills starting with Bills on Second Reading. The first one is House Bill 699, Mr. Bradley. Mr. Bradley. Out of the record. House Bill 4447, Representative Kelly Burke. Representative Kelly Burke. Please… please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4447, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #3, offered by Representative Kelly Burke, has been approved for consideration."
Speaker Lang: "Representative Burke on the Amendment. Representative Burke on the Amendment." 09900118.docx 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Burke, K.: "So sorry. Thank you. This Bill… this Amendment is a follow up… the Bill is a follow up… clean-up of the Parentage Act which we passed last year. This makes some technical changes regarding voluntary acknowledgements of paternity and whether a child can ask for the parent to have a DNA test. I know of no opposition to either the underlying Bill or the Amendment. And I ask for its adoption."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 4156, Representative Kelly Burke. Out of the record. Mr. Clerk, Rules Report."
Clerk Bolin: "Committee Reports. Representative Currie, Chairperson from the Committee on Rules reports the following committee action taken on April 15, 2016: recommends be adopted Floor Amendment #3 to House Bill 3408, Floor Amendment #3 to House Bill 4554, Floor Amendment #1 to House Bill 5882; and approved for consideration, referred to Second Reading is House Bill 2262."
"Next, House Bill 694, Representative Cloonen. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 694, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. The Bill is read for a second time on a previous day. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1 is offered by Representative Cloonen."
"Representative Cloonen." 09900118.docx 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment 1 gives Grundy County the ability to extend its EDPA. And we're asking for an 'aye' vote."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 4589, Representative Feigenholtz. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4589, a Bill for an Act concerning liquor. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5651, Mr. Bennett. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5651, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2 is offered by Representative Bennett."
"Mr. Bennett."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to move to adopt Amendment 2. It will allow the Secretary of State the option to require motor vehicle owners to select a birthday as a date that their motor vehicle's registration expires. If the motor vehicle has more than one registered owner, the owners may select one registered owner's birthday as the date registration expires. Additionally, this Amendment will allow the Secretary of State to adopt rules to administer the proposed change thereby allowing the Secretary of State the 09900118.docx 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 discretion to implement the change at a time that will avoid additional costs registering the next replating process. So, the purpose of this legislation provide motorists an easy date to remember that their vehicle license plate renewals are due. And it's very similar to the way driver's license renewals are handled. I'd like to thank H. W. Devlin, Nathan Maddox, and Ellen Schmidt with the Secretary of State's Office for meeting with me and for drafting this agreed to Amendment. I move… Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. Senate Bill 1564, Representative Gabel. Out of the record. House Bill 5201, Representative Gordon-Booth. Representative Gordon-Booth. Do you wish to move your Bill? Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5201, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Out of the record, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 5762, Representative Harper. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5762, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. The Bill was read for a second time previously. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. But notes have been requested on the Bill and have not been filed." 09900118.docx 9 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"The Bill will be held on the Order of Second Reading pending notes. House Bill 5938, Mr. Frese. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5938, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1 is offered by Representative Frese."
"Mr. Frese."
"Wish to adopt Amendment #1."
"Briefly explain it."
"Yes. It simply adds nurse practitioners to the list who may apply for the reimbursement."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. The Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 6125, Mr. Harris. Out of the record. House Bill 4351, Mr. Harris. Please read the Bill. Excuse me, Mr. Clerk. Out of the record. House Bill 6226, Mr. Hoffman. Mr. Hoffman. Out of the record. House Bill 6086, Representative Kifowit. Out of the record. House Bill 4528, Representative McAsey. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4528, a Bill for an Act concerning safety. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5897, Representative Hammond. Representative Hammond. Out of the record. House Bill 4377, Representative Mayfield. Out of the record. 09900118.docx 10 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Returning to Representative Hammond's Bill, 5897. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill. Sorry, Norine."
"House Bill 5897, a Bill for an Act concerning land. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 4377, Representative Mayfield. Out of the record. House Bill 4462, Representative Mussman. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4462, a Bill for an Act concerning public health. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendments 2 and 3 were adopted in committee. Floor Amend… Amendment #4 is offered by Representative Mussman."
"Representative Mussman."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Members of the House. House… House Floor Amendment #4 just makes a technical change allowing the Department of Health to put a link on their website and… that's it."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5561, Mr. McSweeney. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5561, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 4432, Mr. Moffitt. Mr. Moffitt. Please read the Bill." 09900118.docx 11 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"House Bill 4432, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5918, Mr. Thapedi. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5918, a Bill for an Act concerning education. The Bill was read for a second time on a previous day. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. But two notes have been requested on the Bill and have not been filed."
"Please hold the Bill on the Order of Second Reading. House Bill 5607. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5607, a Bill for an Act concerning property. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 4232, Mr. Reis. Please read the Bill."
Clerk Bolin: "House Bill 4232, a Bill for an Act making appropriations. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5580, Representative Wallace. Out of the record. House Bill 50… Excuse me. House Bill 4648, Mr. Welch. Out of the record. House Bill 5551, Representative Williams. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5551, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #2 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed." 09900118.docx 12 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Third Reading. House Bill 4529, Mr. Sandack. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4529, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5602, Mr. Unes. Out of the record. House Bill 5584, Representative Wheeler. Representative Wheeler. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5584, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 6069, Representative Willis. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6069, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 6086, Representative Kifowit. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6086, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1 is offered by Representative Kifowit."
"Representative Kifowit."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm requesting that we adopt House Floor Amendment #1. What House Floor Amendment #1 just replaces the language and reduces the Bill to just take into consideration of length of time."
"Mr. Sandack on the Amendment."
"Question of the Sponsor, please." 09900118.docx 13 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Sponsor yields."
"Stephanie, my notes have it that you agreed to bring back an Amendment. That the Amendment would be… make it a basically an agreed Bill. Is your Amendment the agreed Amendment or is it still a point of contention?"
"We were under the impression that it was agreed Amendment until literally the 11th hour when the department changed their position. In committee, the… the department testified and just pretty much said they had no basis to be opposed except they didn't like it."
"All right. And so, as you stand here today, there is no agreement. So, your Amendment… your Amendment with the department is not in agreement."
"Correct."
"Okay. Thank you."
"Representative Wallace."
"Thank you. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Thank you, Representative Kifowit. I was wondering does your Bill do anything to remove the powers of DHS?"
"No. In fact, what it does is it codifies what they are already doing and it ensures that. They do… they consider length of time on the PUNS list. It doesn't mandate they do anything."
"So, in effect, their opposition is really like you said, they just don't like it?"
"I believe their opposition is baseless, correct." 09900118.docx 14 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Okay. Well, I do think that this is a very important Bill. I appreciate you bringing it forth. I do encourage everyone to support it. Thank you."
"Thank you."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. On page 37 of the Calendar, under Motions in Writing, Mr. Franks has made a Motion in regards to HJRCA58. In accordance with House Rule 25, to suspend the posting requirements, so that HJR58 (sic-HJRCA58) can be heard in the Executive Committee at its next meeting. Mr. Sandack on the Motion."
"Yeah. May I have a question of the Sponsor on the Motion, please?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Jack, when did you file your House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 58?"
"I did it yesterday morning."
"And what is the… it says redistricting. Where'd you get your language?"
"I was working on it… What the Governor's Turnaround Agenda one of its main points…"
"Where'd you get the language?"
"I'm telling you. He was talking about wanting to do redistricting."
"Right." 09900118.docx 15 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"So, I was trying to come up with a most fair way to do it because all the proposals that I've seen have been… I don't think they… they took all parties of interest intact. So, I came up with what I thought would be the fairest way to do that to protect minorities as well and to go forward with this proposal."
"Where did you get your language?"
"It was a collaborative effort."
"Did you look at HJRCA40 or 42?"
"I'm sure we did. Is there some specific portion in there that you'd like me to add?"
"Well, it was filed by Leader Durkin on May 22, 2015 and it has not had the privilege of being released from Rules where you bring yours last week and you want us to waive the posting requirement kind of in a last minute fashion. And what I'm suggesting, Jack, is, is in large part you borrowed from that provision…"
"Okay."
"…and we probably should have let… let Leader Durkin's out maybe a year ago or a month ago or today concurrently with your last minute version. Do you agree with that proposition?"
"Well, I think that Leader Durkin's provision is also being circulated right now by the fair map folks… I mean, the independent map folks. And I know there's been a lot of push behind that and I think that's been… that's been out there in the public as well. Mine is different. I… I supported Leader Durkin's Amendment, as you know, and I signed on to that. I actually think this is a better provision. After having 09900118.docx 16 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 studied his and gone forward, I think that one had some fault… faults that need to be fixed. And I think that this… this Amendment it has protections that Leader Durkin's I think was left out inadvertently. And I think Leader Durkin would probably… there he is… I think that… I think he'd after looking at this you'd probably agree that this is a better provision to protect all those."
"He might, Jack, but we're talking about waiving posting requirements and you're talking about the merits of the propositions. You're asking that we waive posting requirements and you're seeking to compare yours with something that hasn't even given the…"
"I'm not seeking to compare it, you are."
"Well…"
"You brought his up, I didn't."
"…you were just talking about it. I did 'cause you were just talking about it saying yours is better. And I'm saying you're seeking to waive a notice provision when we shouldn't do that."
"Right."
"Leader Durkin's… I know, Heather wants the mic. Let her give it. But Leader Durkin's has been on file for a year and it hasn't even seen the light of day. Yours gets filed a week later. You say it may be better; you say it may be fairer. I'd like to compare the two on the floor. So, if I'm… you're going to get my vote to waive posting, I want your vote to get Durkin's out and compare them on the merits."
"I'd be happy to do that, but… but…" 09900118.docx 17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"All right. So, would you… so, wait… so, postpone your Motion."
"I don’t want to post…"
"Let's move… let's move concurrently to release Leader Durkin's and then you got my pledge that we'll vote 47 strong to release yours."
"Listen, the difference between mine and Leader Durkin's is we're trying to protect minority interests. So, I'd ask for your vote on this in order to protect minority interests that Leader Durkin's does not include. And that's what it comes down to. So, we'd ask for your support in order to make this more constitutional because quite frankly, though I like Leader Durkin's, his I think is subject to attack constitutionally where ours or this one will not only protect minorities it will also pass constitutional muster. And if we really want to allow for fair and independent maps, this is the only way we're going to get there."
"To the Motion, Mr. Speaker. The Gentleman from McHenry keeps talking about the substance of his Constitutional Amendment thinking that means something right now. His Motion is to waive a procedural requirement. I'd be happy to debate and talk about the merits of his matter if it had procedural and some real fair play involved in it. What he's asking is waive posting because I got a good Constitutional Amendment. He might have a good Constitutional Amendment. We had a good Constitutional Amendment on file for over well… yeah, almost a year now. All I ask is that we get both matters before the full Body. The Gentleman kind of agrees with that proposition, so long as we first vote to waive notice. That's not how this 09900118.docx 18 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 should work. Fair play means fair play. We ought to be debating something that's been on file for a year… for a year and let it have a full vetting and then compare and contrast to make as an informed decision as possible the propriety of both questions. That's not what we're being asked. So, I'm afraid we should vote 'no' on this procedural last minute shenanigans if we can't have a full fair vetting on both proposals and do it the right way. So, in the absence of us doing it the right way, which we never seem to do here, we shouldn't do it the Gentleman's way. Vote 'no'."
"Those in favor of the Motion say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Motion… the Motion carries. Ladies and Gentlemen, moving on to Third Reading on your priority Bills. First one is House Bill 6299, Mr. Andrade. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6299, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Andrade."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 6299 provides that support personnel employees who are removed but accept a tender of vacancy within one year from the beginning of the following school term shall maintain any rights secured during their previous service to the school district. It passed overwhelmingly in committee. I request a 'aye' vote, please."
"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 75 voting 'yes', 30… 31 09900118.docx 19 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 voting 'no', 1 voting 'present'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 6331, Representative Cassidy. Out of the record. House Bill 4552, Mr. Andersson. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4552, a Bill for an Act concerning aging. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Andersson."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 4552 would add to the Adult Protective Services Ac… Act the… the enumerated state's attorneys of Illinois as an individual who can reta… who can obtain the confidential records of an investigation related to adult protective services. I would ask 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 take the record. There are 107 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 6324, Mr. Anthony. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6324, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Anthony."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 6324 is an initiative of the Illinois Sentencing and Policy Advisory Council which I am a member along with my colleague Marcus Evans. This Bill would define SPAC as a sentencing commission and allow them access to the criminal history record information which is 09900118.docx 20 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 maintained by the Illinois State Police. There are no known opponents. And I look for its passage."
"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. There are 108 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Representative Chapa LaVia is recognized."
"Thank you, Speaker. You look mighty wonderful. I want to point out two… point of personal privilege, please?"
"Proceed."
Chapa LaVia: "One, my brother, Mr. Anthony had a birthday yesterday and I don't think anybody knew. So, I want to wish him a happy birthday, wherever he went, if he did have a birthday. And the second thing is one of our colleagues… and we don't often give or shower our praises on our colleagues or their families or their accomplishments as often as we should, but our colleague, Cindy Hernandez and Charlie Hernandez, their daughter Miranda was just elected President of the Student Bar Association for Northern Illinois University. She's not only the first female, but she's also the first Latina. So, I'd like to congratulate their family."
"Congratulations, Representative. House Bill 5882, Representative Conroy. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5882, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Conroy."
"Thank you, Speaker. I believe we have to adopt an Amendment." 09900118.docx 21 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Your Amendment is in Rules. You want to take this out of the record for the moment?"
"Okay. Yes."
"Remove this from the record. House Bill 6163, Mr. Crespo. Mr. Crespo. Out of the record. House Bill 4434, Representative DeLuca. Out of the record. House Bill 5962, Representative Bourne. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5962, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Bourne."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 5962 is an initiative of the Department of Natural Resources and it creates a Youth Trapping License so that those under the age of 18 don't have to get a full trapping license as required for those over the age of 18. I ask for your '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? Mayfield. Please take the record. On this question, there are 107 voting 'yes', 1 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 4013, Representative Feigenholtz. Representative Feigenholtz. Out of the record. House Bill 4240, Representative Flowers. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4240, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Flowers."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. House Bill 4240 would require parents to complete a 09900118.docx 22 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 parent educational course and undergo family counseling. And it removes the Class C misdemeanor and the part that would require the parents do 30 days in jail or pay a $500 fine. And I would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Mr. Sandack."
"A question of the Sponsor, please?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, originally was this Bill supposed to be only for CPS?"
"This Bill is… this Bill is statewide. So, this… this Bill was not supposed to be only for CPS. There was the other Bill is for CPS."
"Okay. So, this Bill was always intended to be a statewide initiative?"
"Yes. Absolutely."
"Okay. 'Cause I think there was some confusion about that but it was always statewide your intention."
"It was always statewide, yes."
"Okay. And I… I'm looking at my analysis and I still show… at least my analysis shows two opponents: the Illinois Statewide School Management Alliance and the Illinois Coalition for Education of At-Risk Youth. Are those two organizations still opposed to your legislation?"
"The only someone that came to the table last… this week was… I can't remember… I think the opposition has been removed. One of the ladies came to the table and her name escapes me, but the opp… So, the opposition is removed."
"So, it's now an agreed Bill essentially?"
"Yes." 09900118.docx 23 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Thank you."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Bill. Ladies and Gentlemen, we had a very lengthy discussion about this in the Education Committee. And in that discussion, we really pointed out a difference that occurs in the metropolitan area around Chicago and in the Chicago Public School System and the rest of the state. In areas where there are Regional Offices of Education, they have staff that are called truancy officers. And these truancy officers work with the parents. They work with various incentives to try to get children to come to school and to deal with the State Law that we have that requires children to be in school. These officers though are not always successful. And that's why the law has provided that if parents refuse to help their children get to school, there is a hammer. There is a stick, if you will, that they can take that parent to court. The judge may fine them or may give them or threaten them prison time. Generally those sticks are strong enough that people don't serve prison time and don't have to pay a fine. But without that threat, the Regional Office of Education and the schools are unable to get all the children to attend school. So, it's important that we have laws that encourage, if you will, very strictly, that parents cooperate. And while the Sponsor of this Bill has a wonderful idea that we need to educate parents about the importance of their child attending school that doesn't always work. As I said, in my own district the truancy officers have written me about this Bill saying that simply 09900118.docx 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 talking to the parents, simply offering them education and information isn't always enough. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, despite the discussion we had in committee where I tried to encourage the Sponsor to perhaps just limit this to the Cook County Chicago Public School area where they don't have Regional Offices of Education, she has refused. And she wants to persist to take away that stick that has worked well around the state. And again, it's not an issue of putting people in prison or finding them dollars that they don't have. It's a matter of threatening those individuals to comply with what is good practice in education and to get people to do the right thing with their children or the children that are under their… their custodial care. So, while the Sponsor has good intent and while training may be helpful, it's not appropriate to take away that stick. And that's why I would encourage you to not support this Resolution or this… this Bill. Thank you very much."
"Mr. Meier."
"Yes. I have a few questions."
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative Flowers, how many people have been fined or locked up that you know of?"
"I don't know, Sir. Do you have the answer?"
"I can tell you in my…"
"Do you have the answer to the question that you're asking me?"
"I can tell you in my district. How many in your district? Let's do that way." 09900118.docx 25 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"You asked me the question. I don't know. Do you have the answer?"
"For your district, I do not. For my district, I can tell you we have had parents in front of judges and the next day those students are back in school. We've gone through the truancy officer. They've gone through counseling and nothing works to get these parents to bring their kids to school until they go in front of a judge and they have the threat of being locked up or fined $500. What you're doing with this Bill to southern Illinois is you're going to cause students not to go to school because their parents no longer have that threat. Nobody in my district has been locked up, but going in front of the judge has scared those parents into the fact that they then will bring that child to school. So, down in my district, you will have parents not bringing their children to school because you've taken that incentive away from them that threat that they could go to jail. I wish this would only be for the Chicago Public Schools. Thank you."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative Flowers, thank you for the Bill. I just have a few questions. The first question I have is, under the current law, what impact does the current law have on families if a parent is locked up?"
"Well, under current law, if a family would be locked up, that means that the child would obviously be a ward of the state. It means that the family's home would be lost. It means that the family would be without a job. That means that 09900118.docx 26 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 the child will be without anything or anyone. What this Bill tends to do is something that current law does not do. Currently, the law for truant students require the truant student to get some type of service. This Bill would require the parent as well as the student to get some type of services. It would require the school district as well as the truancy to let the parents know of the services that may be available to them in the community that they may not have been aware of. It is not cost-effective to lock up a parent up to 30 days. It is not cost-effective to charge a parent $500. There are reasons for these parents who may allow their children to be truant, some knowingly some unknowingly. But when you're working three part-time jobs and other problems in the families, things can occur, mental illness and others."
"Well, so you're saying that a parent will be… will have a criminal record…"
"Yes."
"…which will probably put them in a position where they lose their job…"
"Yes."
"…and not be able to take care of their family. And you want to remove that from current law."
"I want to remove that threat and offer something that's more realistic than a threat for or stick. I want to offer some services. I want to offer help. I want the taxpayers' dollars to work for the family to help them."
"And… and the final question. If a parent is locked up, it will cost the state and all of the people across the state money, locking the parent up, taking them to court, doing all 09900118.docx 27 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 the things to follow up with the situation. So, if we remove that, that really helps taxpayers throughout the state not just in Chicago, right?"
"Absolutely. This Bill is really in the best interest of the state. It's in the best interest of the family. And it's truly in the best interest of the child."
"Thank you, Representative Flowers."
"Representative Wallace."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Thank you. Representative Flowers, I heard you explaining a little bit more about the intent of this Bill to prevent the snowball or the domino effect of truancy, really. So, if there's no parents in the home, how… how does the child get to school thereafter?"
"I have no idea how and who would be responsible for getting the child to school if the parent is not there, and/or if they don't have a home or whatever the impediment that may have been causing the child not to go to school has not been addressed."
"Okay. And I'm also wondering how are we defining 'truancy'? 'Cause I'm thinking about my 16-year-old self and I don't know that parents always have as much control over their teenagers as we would like to think they do. So, how is 'truancy' being defined?"
"Well, a ‘truant’ is, according to current law, a ‘truant’ is a… defined as a student subject to compulsive that's… compulsory… compulsory school age. So, that's age 6 to 17. But you're absolutely right. If a child walks out that 09900118.docx 28 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 door going to school, after the mother has gone to work or before the mother has gone to work, he or she has no control over where they are because they, too, have a job or other responsibilities that they have to adhere to. They cannot follow their child to school, so they may or may not know that their child is truant."
"So, are we suggesting that parents should be working and not staying at home? And… and because they are working where… they're not able to always know exactly what time that child got to school or if they went to school or if, once they got to the school building, that they leave the school."
"Or actually went into the school building."
"Yes."
"No, we have no control over that."
"Thank you. To the Bill. I do appreciate the legislative intent of this particular Bill. I think far too often we are jumping to the point of criminalizing certain behaviors rather than trying to figure out how can we mitigate those things and how can we get people on a better path. So, I, again, applaud the Sponsor for bringing forth a Bill that takes into account a number of issues and does not seek to punish people right away. And as a result of that, I do encourage an 'aye' vote."
"Mr. Davidsmeyer."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields. Thank you."
"Just to clarify, what does the current law allow?"
"The current law is a Class C misdemeanor and up to 30 days in jail or a fine of $500." 09900118.docx 29 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Okay. My analysis says up to $500 and up to 30 days."
"Yes."
"So, a court could have a family come in and say, I'm going to give you nothing. You don't have a fine. You don't have any time in jail, but you need to… you need to work with your child to make sure they go to school. What… what if… and I know where you're trying to go with this and I appreciate what you're trying to do… what if you allowed the court to make a decision to allow counseling as a first option as opposed to taking away the opportunity for a court to make that… that decision for further incentives to make sure the parents are doing their due diligence to make sure their children are going to school?"
"Well, the Bill will permit that. The Bill… not necessarily the court. Why would we have to go to court? First of all, the Bill would allow… if a truant… if a child is truant, it would permit that the child parents may be required to take some type of educational courses, may be required to take some type of counseling, engage in some type of support services that may be agreed between the school district and the parent. And so, all these things are there and what is already current law if… if the law… if the truant or the school district feel like the child is being abused or misused, then DCFS could always step in. So, the courts would automatically become involved. But before it gets to that point, what I'm saying, Sir, is that there's families out there that are hurting. There's families out there that mother and father have served in a couple of these wars that we've 09900118.docx 30 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 had. There's parents out there that are in need of mental health treatment but because of the status of the state that they have not been able to get them… get the services in which they need. There's parents out there that are in need of prescription drugs in which they cannot afford. There's all kinds of reasons. And again, I cannot say enough. Some parents are just overburdened and they cannot control their jobs as well as their children."
"Yeah. So… so, from my point of view, you're turning something that is currently permissive… currently it allows the court to make that decision based on each and every case. You're… you're taking something that's permissive, it allows the court to make this decision and you're turning it into a requirement that they go to these classes, correct? So, it's no longer permissive, it's required."
"No. It says it 'may' be required. And this is one thing that you fail to realize, Sir. You know we have a budget problem and so to…"
"I do not fail to realize that. I assure you."
"Oh, well, okay. Well, fine then."
"And I know for a… Excuse me…"
"You… you do realize…"
"…but I'm… I'm trying to find common ground here. I'm not…”
"Well… well, that's what I'm…"
"Don't accuse me…"
"…and I'm showing you… no, I'm showing you that the Bill says that the truancy 'may' be required to complete. They 'may' be required, not they 'shall'." 09900118.docx 31 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Okay."
"And to me, Sir, 'may' be required is much more cheaper than having a parent hauled into court because that, too, costs money."
"What… why wouldn't you have that…"
"That… that's not solving the problem by having the parent hauled into court. Who's going to pay for that?"
"I'm… I'm agreeing with you that this should be an option. I agree with you that this should be an option."
"It is."
"But when the parents continue to not try or not try to help their kids get to that point that there needs to be something, some extra incentive to say, hey, if you're not… What if they don't go to the counseling? What if they don't go to any of this stuff? What's… what's the next incentive? You don't have to take away the options to provide the extra… the extra help that you are trying to provide. I… I agree the help that you're trying to provide is a good thing, but taking away the other options is not necessarily a good thing."
"But I think you're missing the point."
"I… I'm not."
"The current…"
"I agree with you on what you're trying to do."
"I just want to say to you what the current law says, okay, in regard to the parent? There's nothing other than the fine and the fee in regards to the parent, but…"
"Which is why I'm saying let's add this to that. We're not taking away anything. I'm saying let's add this to it." 09900118.docx 32 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Oh, I'm sorry. But… I'm sorry. You want to add back…"
"I'm saying add this to the current options. Say they can make the decision to send the family to counseling before they even talk about a fine or talk about jail. Those can be things that go down the line if they don't go to counseling, if they don't do the whatever… whatever the options are right now."
"But those… those options…"
"You… you use these as incentives, as training tools and then, if they don't use those training tools and they… it doesn't help the situation, they continue to not try to help their student to get there then these options that are in current law are still there."
"No, but they are."
"And… and I'm not trying to put a hardship on a family. I understand teenagers. I understand they don't always listen to their parents. What we're saying is, if the parents are not trying, if the parents are not doing their job, there has to be some type of extra incentive to say, here, you need to do your job. And if the training and the counseling works, then they don't have to use these options. So, if… if… I'd be happy to work with you on a Bill that would add this as a first option or… or would even say this is the first option. Let's do counseling first before you even look at a fine."
"But… but the counseling is in the Bill, Sir. It is already in the Bill. And I just need read…"
"But it takes away every other option." 09900118.docx 33 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Wait a minute, please. Please let me just answer the question. The original Bill did not require counseling. The original Bill says immediately up to $500. The original Bill says immediately up to 30 days."
"The law correct, yes."
"The… immediately the original Bill says that the child would get the counseling not the parent. My Bill introduced the parent in the picture in regards to the services…"
"And I think that's great."
"…in regards to the counseling, in regards to the treatment, in regards to whatever services there may be. So, I'm bringing in a person that was not in the conversation in the first place. And if you can show me where penalizing a parent and having them locked up is in the best interest of the state, convince me of that and convince the taxpayers of that, but…"
"I…"
"…picking on… picking on people…"
"We're not picking on anybody here."
"Yeah, you are."
"Let me… let me…"
"Because the first you want to lock them up. There's no counseling…"
"I don’t want to lock anybody up."
"There is no counseling in current law. There is no education in current law."
"And that's why I'm saying let's add it. Let's add it as a… as a first option."
"Here…" 09900118.docx 34 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"But don't take away the other… the other things that… that help…"
"But Sir…"
"…incentivize people to continue to actually do the job."
"But Sir, that option is still there and it's under the Department of Children and Family Services. There's nothing stopping the Department of Children and Family Services because the school district is a mandated reporter. They have to report these issues to DCFS, so what you're talking about is being redundant. It already exists. But let's…"
"DCFS is already overburdened. So, if we put this in as a first option…"
"Well, the…"
"…and parents are continue to not do their job or not try to do their job, then these other things should be left in as an option and…"
"And so, my question to you…"
"Yes."
"…is, if the parent has to do up to 30 days in jail, and you say DCFS… DCFS is already overburdened, who do you thinks going to take care of the child?"
"If they can…"
"Who is going to send their child to school? Who's going to take care of the child, please?"
"If they have to do…"
"Mr. Davidsmeyer, could you bring your remarks to a close, Sir?"
"I’m trying. I'm really trying." 09900118.docx 35 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"There's nothing wrong with what you're doing."
"Yeah."
"We just want to move this along."
"Okay. I… I want to work with you on this and I want to add this as an option. And even… even the first option. They can't even look at or fine or anything else, but there has to be something. If a parent is continuing to not even try to send their kid to school, not even try. I'm not saying the kid continues to not go. I'm saying the parent continues to not try to send their kid to school."
"You are so…"
"This should… this should be an option and I'm not saying that is every case. But the court should be able to make that decision."
"And the court…"
"I want to work with you on this. I think this is a great idea to introduce counseling into this as the first option. And I want to work with you on that. So, I… I don't normally do this, but if you pull this from the record, I will work with you. We can switch it around or we can add this back in as an option. And I will vote 'yes' on your Bill, if these later things are still an option because I think this is a good idea. But I think pulling away the… the later incentives to push parents to continue to try to do the job is… is hurting… hurting the system and ultimately will hurt the child as well. So, I…"
"No, no…" 09900118.docx 36 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"…I appreciate what you're trying to do and I would love to work with you on this, but if those things are taken out, I will have to be a 'no'. Thank you."
"Mr. Hays."
"I would like… I'd like to call the previous question, please."
"Gentleman moves to call the previous question. Those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the previous question is put. Representative Flowers to close."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I truly appreciate the spirited debate of this legislation. I just want to make it plain and clear what current law says. Current law says that a parent could do up to 30 days. Current law says a parent could pay a $500 fine. Current law also says that the student can get services. It never once talked about helping the parent. If we are really interested in helping our children, if we're really interested in moving forward in this state, we cannot continue to hold a hammer over the parents talking about we're going to send them to jail. Let's give them a helping hand. I would appreciate an 'aye' vote. 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. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 29 voting 'yes', 72 voting 'no'. And the Bill fails. House Bill 6057, Mr. Harris."
"House Bill 6057, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. Third Reading of this House Bill." 09900118.docx 37 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Chair recognizes Mr. Sims."
"Thank you… thank you, Mr. Speaker. On a point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed, Sir."
"Behind me on the Democratic side of the aisle in the gallery, I'd like to recognize and welcome some very special guests to Springfield. We got the sixth-grade class of Poe Classical Elementary School. Let's rise and give them a warm welcome… warm welcome to Springfield."
"Welcome to the Statehouse. Thank you. House Bill 4954, Mr. Ford. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4954, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Ford."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill is an initiative of the Clerk and it's an agreed Bill. And what it simply does is allows for a person's record to be legally sealed after the decision has been rendered that they are innocent of charges. And that's all the Bill does. I move for the passage."
"Those in… those who want to hear from Mr. Sandack say 'aye'. Mr. Sandack…"
"'Aye'."
"…is recognized."
"One question, La Shawn. Well, actually two. If you can explain the Bill a little bit better, I'd be appreciative. And second of all, is ISP in agreement or they're just neutral now?"
"I'm not sure, but they're not opposed." 09900118.docx 38 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Okay. Well, you said it's a agreed to Bill, usually means everyone agrees."
"Well… well, you… you made…"
"Not everyone doesn't disagree."
"I think they may be in agreement. I think that it's agreed."
"Okay. I… I just want to make it clear 'cause my analysis shows it as neutral. That's what a clear… why I want it clarified, but if you could elaborate a little bit…"
"So…"
"Because we heard it in committee…"
"Right."
"…and let… everyone hasn't it."
"So, everyone should know that this Bill simply allows for the immediate sealing of a person's record if they are found to be innocent at the point of… at court. So, once the case is over and heard and the person is determined to be innocent… In the past, an individual would have to file and go to court to ask for their record to be sealed. This will make it effective immediately."
"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. It's Friday. Please record yourselves. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 44 voting 'yes', 59 voting 'no'. And the Bill fails. Chair recognizes Mr. Demmer."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A point of personal privilege."
"Proceed, Sir." 09900118.docx 39 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"I'd like to give a warm Springfield welcome to students from Amboy Junior High School, who are down here touring the Capitol today. I hope they enjoy a nice day in Springfield. Welcome to the House."
"Welcome. Thank you for being with us today. Mr. Sosnowski is recognized."
"Point of personal privilege."
"Sure. Go ahead, Sir."
"Could I please have the record reflect that on House Bill 6299, I intended to vote 'no'. Thank you."
"The record will reflect your intention, Sir. House Bill 5619, Representative Gabel. Please… Take the Bill out of the record, Mr. Clerk. House Bill 5104, Mr. Harris. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5104, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Harris." Harris, G.: "Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen, Members of the House. This Bill deals with the Department of Corrections. It is an issue regarding health care staffing. And as you know, there have been numerous lawsuits and some class action cases regarding both physical and behavioral health for the Department of Corrections. This Bill would say that the Department of Corrections must maintain its health care workers and its behavioral health care workers at the same level as they were at the beginning of this year so that there is a floor on the number of workers who are employed by the state. It does not affect Wexford of being able to allow additional hiring to fill in for nurses who might be absent 09900118.docx 40 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 for maternity leave or family leave or what have you or other temporary replacements. I'd be happy to answer any questions."
"Mr. Sandack."
"A few questions of the Sponsor, please?"
"Sponsor yields."
"So, Greg, I was reading this and I know the opponents are the opponents, but one thing I want to ask you about is the procedural aspects of this in committee. I have been told anecdotally so you can confirm or deny that DOC was not permitted an opportunity to testify in committee against the Bill?" Harris, G.: "They didn't tes… I don't think anyone said they couldn't. They came and saw me and expressed some concerns."
"Sure." Harris, G.: "I… I don't know what happened, yeah, with them in committee. Jay Hoffman's always fair."
"You weren't in committee on your Bill." Harris, G.: "Jay Hoffman's always fair."
"Oh, okay. Because I was told and I can't see the Gentleman to your left, but I was told DOC was not permitted an opportunity to go on the record in committee and contest the propriety of the Bill or offer Amendments or whatever. That would be a troubling thing if true. Would you… you'd agree with that, right?" Harris, G.: "And if that was the way they felt, I regret that because they did come and…" 09900118.docx 41 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Not… not the way they felt. I'm asking if that occurred in reality you would… you'd probably hold the Bill and not move it so they'd get their day in court, so to speak, right?" Harris, G.: "I'm sorry. I do not control the committee. They came and they talked to me about some concerns they have. I think that the Bill does not affect those concerns. I… with what happened in committee is out of my control."
"Okay. Let me address some comments to the Bill and the propriety of the committee vetting process that the Sponsor does not and cannot control but the Gentleman to his left may and maybe we'll hear from him if this is true 'cause I'm sure he wouldn't want that to happen on one of his Bills that a proponent or a opponent would not be given an opportunity to weigh in because that's not good process. Any person on either side of the aisle would agree we want anyone and everyone who has an opinion on the matter before a committee to get their position made of record. So, I'll weigh in on some folks that may have been in committee on that. Maybe the Minority Spokesman will speak to this too. Thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"Mr. Franks."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Greg, I understand what you're trying to do here and I think we need to continue with the mental health employees there because frankly I think it's a cost benefit analysis. Because if we could spend some money on mental health, hopefully we can reduce the recidivism rate. My question dealing with this, is there… what happens 'cause I know we're trying here as a Body to reduce the amount of those 09900118.docx 42 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 individuals that are incarcerated. So, let's… let's hope that we're successful and we actually meet that goal of reducing those that are incarcerated by I think 20 to 25 percent is the goal that's been laid out. If we're able to do that, would we still need the same number of mental health professionals as we had on January 1, 2016 or could that number necessarily be reduced if we had a 25 percent reduction or 20 percent reduction in the number of those that are incarcerated?" Harris, G.: "I think, Representative, you're talking about, you know, hypothetical if over a period of many, many years… you know, people who are in the Department of Corrections are serving sentences. So, you know, we have a certain number of people there. They are costing us tens of millions of dollars a year in court claims and also consent decree claims. We cannot afford, I don't think, to reduce what is already viewed by many as inadequate health care and open the state to future liability. If at some point in the future the reforms that we have put in place bear fruit and we're able to divert more people into, you know, community-based treatment and those kind of things, then we should come back and revisit that but I think that will be several years from now."
"That's what I was thinking too and I… and I appreciate your thoughts. I'm thinking maybe we ought to consider perhaps an Amendment in the Senate with a sunset for maybe five years to review this to see. Because if we're able to reduce the amount, then we should reduce the headcount with our employees as well, but if not then… then it should stay there because I think it is a very good investment and a necessary investment and one that we should continue to do, but I don't 09900118.docx 43 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 want this to go in perpetuity that if there is a decrease, which we're trying to get to, that then we… oh… then we're mandatorily overstaffed." Harris, G.: "I'll be happy to talk to the Senate Sponsor and pass that on."
"Thank you very much."
"Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Greg, it seems to me, if I understand this correctly, that there's contract negotiations going on, on this very issue. Is that correct?" Harris, G.: "There may or may not be. I'm not party to those."
"Well… So, okay. If you're not aware, then I… my question would have been you're not trying to chill the negotiations between the administration and the nursing issue and staffing with respect to the mental illness?" Harris, G.: "I'm sorry. Could you quickly repeat your question?"
"You're not… you're not trying to interfere with some contract negotiation or to chill that. Is that correct?" Harris, G.: "My counsel here says that contract disputes have been resolved. That is information I was just advised by counsel. I cannot tell you more than that."
"Okay. And I want to address the issue because it was asked in committee about opposition. And here's what was said. I couldn't believe that I went up there and I was told by staff that we were opposed. We had a slip and our CFO was sitting at the table ready to testify. And I believe that's true based on my recommendation… or my recollection. I know they 09900118.docx 44 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 obviously had the votes, but they just… that was just awful that they didn't let Jared our CFO testify and yes, we are still opposed along with CMS and the Governor's Office. There's a little bit of miscarriage of process here when that seems to be a matter of fact, maybe not on the record in committee, but certainly a statement made during the committee assignment. And he was there and he was sitting and he was ready to testify. Why didn't that happen?" Harris, G.: "Mr. Kay, I fully… I remember the gentleman coming and sitting down next to me. I think the roll was open, voting was already occurring, if my memory serves. Yeah. If… if people felt like they did not get an appropriate answer, I would certainly urge them in the Senate to go over and make their opinions known, get their slips filed and get in there in a timely fashion."
"Yeah." Harris, G.: "But I, for the record, you know, the department did come in and express their feelings to me."
"And what were they, again?" Harris, G.: "They had concerns that we not inadvertently restrict… this was their biggest concern… that we not inadvertently restrict their ability to temporarily replace an employee who may be a permanent state employee who was gone for leave for vacation or family leave or some such thing, that they would not be barred from hiring a person temporarily to come in and replace them during their absence was the… I think the gist of their major concern."
"Okay. Thank you, Representative."
"Mr. Harris to close." 09900118.docx 45 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Harris, G.: "Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen. I think this is good legislation. I think it will help protect the state from, you know, further costly liability. And I will pass the comments that I've heard here on the floor to the Senate Sponsor. I would appreciate 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. Please record yourselves, Members. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 65 voting 'yes', 37 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 6009, Mr. Hays. Mr. Hays. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6009, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Hays."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 6009 removes Sections to the Community College Act that are outdated and clarifies the coordination of specific responsibility between the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board. Specifically, eliminates requirements for the ICCB to approve community college funded construction projects, purchase or lease the sites building equipment, machinery or land and installment loans. ICCB will still approve all projects using state funds. During 2015 the ICCB approved 95 locally funded projects or leases, the smallest was a $1 land purchase. Most of the approvals were for projects such as parking lots, lighting, tuckpointing, roof repair, new sidewalks, et cetera. Things that can be easily 09900118.docx 46 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 handled by the locally elected board. It also eliminates outdated financial reporting system created in 1997. It revealed six sections concern an outdating information system, an annual community college study and report, a grant program that was never funded, adverse court decision grants that is outdated, name on a sick and vacation leave were abolished, state community college district, et cetera, et cetera. In short, it cleans up a lot of outdated dynamics. This was something that was worked out between the Illinois State Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board. I know of no opposition."
"Mr. Franks."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, why do we need this Bill?"
"Well, there are a number of th… of reporting mechanisms that are redundant. There are several that are outdated. I'll go through… specifically, there's an annual community college study that is… was never funded. There's a matching grant program that was never funded. There's an outdated payment in sick… vacation sick leave for an abolished state community college district #601 in East St. Louis. It simply doesn't exist anymore. There was a mobile response workforce training pilot program that expired and was never funded. So, it's those kinds of things that are either redundant or grossly outdated. And again, this is something that the Community College Board and the State Board of Higher Education sat down and worked out and agreed upon." 09900118.docx 47 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Well, one thing that jumped out at me… I don't understand why it's in the Bill… and hopefully you can enlighten me. Where this Bill would delete a mandate on the local colleges for approval of construction projects authorized by locally elected officials. Why would we not have the ICCB involved in…"
"Well…"
"…in that?"
"…they would be involved if state funds were involved. This is suggesting that items… like I said, last year they approved 95 locally funded projects, the smallest being a $1 land purchase. But most of these projects were things like parking lot lighting, tuck pointing, roof repair, new sidewalks, parking lot resurfacing, things that not… did not in… a) didn't include state dollars, and b)could be handled very comfortably by the local elected officials. And I think the ICCB is saying, listen, putting in a new sidewalk is a rubber stamp that doesn't really need to come here."
"When you say the local elected officials, are you talking about the local community college board?"
"Board of Trustees."
"Okay."
"Yes, Sir."
"That's what I was trying to figure out. Thank you for your explanation."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields." 09900118.docx 48 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Chad, a couple quick questions. Does your Bill allow a community college to annex a fire district?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"Okay. And when you say 'removes the uniform financial accounting', what's that mean? Are we… are we totally saying to these folks that someone else is going to come in and audit their books?"
"No. That specifically… Representative, the uniform financial reporting system or UFRS was developed in 1997 and is a dated system that requires significant reporting without great benefit to the ICCB. The ICCB staff primarily relies on audited financial data. So, what they're saying is, they look at the audited data, but this… this is a reporting system that's outdated and it's a yesteryear relic."
"Okay. Thank you, Representative."
"Mr. Hays 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. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 74 voting 'yes', 29 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Chair recognizes Mr. Brown."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On House Bill 5104, I intended to vote 'no'. My switch malfunctioned. Thank you."
"The refl… record will reflect your intention, Sir. Thank you very much. House Bill 1191, Representative McAsey. 09900118.docx 49 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Out of the record. House Bill 5910, Representative Moeller. Representative Moeller. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5910, a Bill for an Act concerning federal law enforcement agencies. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Moeller."
"Thank you, Speaker, Members of the House. This Bill is a clean-up Bill to have statutes reflect the current agencies and departments that are operating here in the State of Illinois. This was brought to me by the U. S. Marshals Service. And it's an agreed to Bill. There's no opposition. Local law… state law enforcement did help to draft an Amendment to ease some of the concerns that they had in terms of extending the peace officer designation to agencies that had not enjoyed that designation before. I'd be happy to answer any questions. And ask for an 'aye' vote."
"Mr. Sandack."
"Thank you. Will the Sponsor yield for a few questions?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Anna, I could barely hear you and I apologize."
"That's okay."
"Could you just… and… Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't want to make you do everything again. If you could just, again, kind of walk through what it does?"
"Sure."
"And I heard… I think I heard there's no opposition and it's agreed…"
"Yes."
"…so that's good." 09900118.docx 50 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Yes."
"Just let… help make a record for me, please."
"Sure. So, the… under state statute we provide immunity and allow federal law enforcement agencies to operate here in the State of Illinois. The statute outlines the departments that… that are operating here. Because of changes in federal organizational structure, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the renaming of other federal agencies, our current statute is outdated and doesn't reflect current practice."
"So, this just makes them equal definitions and puts the federal new categorizations into state statutes."
"Correct."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Anna, if we look at our analysis right now, it lists the Conversation Police as an opponent. Can you explain that?"
"Sure. The… the analysis should say this Amendment removes the Illinois Police Conversation Lodge as an opponent."
"Okay. Thank you."
"Yes."
"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 104 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the 09900118.docx 51 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 1380, Mr. Phelps. Out of the record. House Bill 5522, Representative Ives. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5522, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Ives."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill is the transparency Bill that passed out of this House last year. It got stalled in the Senate. It's actually a little bit more cleaned out. We take… we took only… we took one of the transparency points off. Basically, has… if you have an operating budget of a million dollars or more, you can post these things online and you can just simply provide links to this information online. And if you do so, you also receive FOIA relief at that point. So, it's just about transparency, letting people know what the government's up to. I'm open…"
"Mr. Fortner."
"…for questions."
"Sorry, Representative, didn't mean to interrupt you. Mr. Fortner."
"Thank you, Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"So, at one of the points in the transparency here has to do with the salaries of the public employees in the local units of government. As I understand your Bill, there is no requirement that those employees be specifically named, only that their salaries be posted. Is that correct?"
"That is… that's how I read my Bill as well unless you read it differently." 09900118.docx 52 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"That would be your intent as well."
"But I… the more we talk about employee, we don't say employee name. So, a position, a title would be fine for the purposes of this Bill."
"Thank you. And the reason I raise it… and this is something I'd like to make sure the Body understands… earlier this year I was the victim of tax fraud identity theft. I found out at the end of break when I went to file my tax returns. In doing some research, both with conversations with the IRS and more lengthy conversations with the Illinois Department of Revenue, I tried to figure out what factors might have contributed to the identity theft perpetrated against me. And one of the things that we do as a state and… is that we post on the transparency portal the specific names and salaries of many state employees. Last year I was an employee of Northern Illinois University and was listed accordingly. I would like to read into the record a very brief e-mail message that I received back earlier this week from the Department of Revenue. Representative, following up upon our discussion over the phone this morning, to answer your question, I have received official confirmation that, yes, as you suspected, the published wages of state employees, such as those listed on the Comptroller's transparency accountability site, can be used as fodder for tax fraud and identity theft; therefore, making state and university employees potential targets. I hope as this Bill goes forward I think the transparency's important that we are mindful of not making it easy for those seeking to perpetrate tax fraud identity theft to get requisite salary information to do that 09900118.docx 53 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 by us being… so easily putting specific names and exact salary amounts out there. Thank you very much."
"In… init… oh. Just a little bit of more information on that note. I believe, Mr. Fortner, then you are in favor of the… the Bill because your… your problem actually happened with somebody first getting your Social Security number, which this Bill does not obviously allow for anyway. And then were… they were able to capture your own individual salary, not after… off of anything that I'm requiring in this Bill, but actually off of… off of what the state or other people have required for employee information and salary. Is that correct? Yeah, this Bill doesn't do what yours…"
"Mr. Speaker, my used… my name used in debate, if I may respond? Yes, what you said is correct."
"Okay."
"My Social Security number was breached probably through some federal breach, but I don't know that for certain. But also contributing to it was the fact that they were able to get my exact salary information in order to do that. Again, as the Representative stated, that is not part of this Bill and in fact, as she made clear in intent, it would not be required to have that name and salary linkage, which I greatly appreciate. And I think as we go forward, we may even want to revisit the question for how we treat our state employees and whether or not we're making it too easy for identity thieves to operate. And… and I do support the legislation."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Kay."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Would the Sponsor yield?" 09900118.docx 54 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"The Sponsor yields."
"One short question, Jeanne. Does this apply to township water districts?"
"This applies to any local government with an operating budget of a million dollars or more. So, for example, I don't know how much… if they were doing a large infrastructure project and they were receiving maybe some federal state grants to do that and it was a one-year specific thing and maybe their… their budget for that year was 5 million, it wouldn't apply to them if their operating budget, operating only, is a million or less. So, I don't know. It depends on the size of their operating budget and not just a one-time use to improve a road or… or a water system."
"Well, your answer though would be yes, if it met the criteria financially."
"If it's financially a million dollars or more in an operating budget."
"It's a good Bill, Representative. Thank you very much."
"Mr. Franks."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Jeanne, I appreciate your bringing this Bill up and I supported you before and I'm supporting you again. And I appreciate you putting me on as a cosponsor on this Bill."
"Thank you."
"One of the issues though I'm concerned with is the Governor on his second day in office signed an Executive Order with a transparency Bill that I have been working on for quite some time, but that's never been implemented even since he's 09900118.docx 55 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 been in office because there's been no money allocated for some computer issues. I'm concerned here because currently the ITAP most employ a full-time webmaster under CMS. Do you have any idea whether they've done anything towards this?"
"No, I don't. I do know from conversations with the Comptroller, however, that they… she has taken the initiative and spent millions of dollars in contracting for a computer system that aligns all these agencies. I think there's like 260 different…"
"Oh, yeah. We… we desperately need that."
"So, we desperately need that. And so, I think that that is in the works. There's a contract out there to do this now. And I think that at some point this is… this is going to be really feasible. The good thing about this Bill though is that we're not asking local governments really to produce anything that's really not necessarily required or in a format that they certainly don't have right now. And if they are all hosting this information on other websites, all they need to do is provide the link on their base website."
"Right."
"Because as a… as a… you know, if I'm interested in my park district, I'm not going to know to go to the state portal to look for that information, but if you have that information there, you can link to it."
"Yeah. It's nothing new that you're requiring. We're not asking…"
"No."
"…to come through any… any further steps. I think it makes great sense and your Bill is well founded. My concern though 09900118.docx 56 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 is I want to make sure that once we pass these laws that they're actually being implemented because what I've seen here in the state even with our best intention and even with the full force of the Governor's Office behind it, things aren't happening because of the budget impasse, quite frankly."
"Well… and I… this actually, the genesis for this… this Bill came to provide FOIA relief 'cause… city of Naperville came to me and said, look, we get FOIA requests all the time. We have an A rating from the Sunshine Institute. This information is online and we still have to reply to these people with paper copies and whatever else. So, what this Bill also says is that if you have this information online, you can just simply provide in a FOIA response the link to that information and… and save yourself a lot of money doing that."
"Makes great sense. But look, we ought to… but we still have to stay on our state to make sure that they're providing the resources necessary to make this a reality."
"I agree. Thank you."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Breen."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Just to the Bill. This is an excellent measure. It is one that, frankly, my… my… one of my reasons for being here in the State Legislature was having done this in the Village of Lombard and having overcome a lot of opposition. It was initial opposition. It was folks saying it would take too long. It'll be too expensive. It's going to be difficult. And really in the cou… in the span of a few 09900118.docx 57 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 short months, we were able to do… to put all of this information online easily. And really to improve the functioning of our government, the confidence of the folks in our… in our way of doing the Village's business and really to Representative Fortner's point, we did the same thing there. We took the names off so it's just a position and a salary level, which is certainly something folks… folks are entitled to see. And so, I would very much urge an 'aye' vote and that… look, I understand the opposition, but at the same time it really… this is not a major imposition on any unit of government at least not in the 21st century. Thank you, Mr. Speaker."
"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. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 90 voting 'yes', 13 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 5613, Mr. Sims. Mr. Sims. Please read the Bill. Mr. Sims, I understand you have a Floor Amendment. Is that correct?"
"Yes, Mr. Speaker."
"Please put the Bill on the Order of Second Reading, Mr. Clerk and read the Bill."
"House Bill 5613, a Bill for an Act concerning the Law Enforcement Information Task Force Act. The Bill was read for a second time on a previous day. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. Floor Amendment #2 is offered by Representative Sims." 09900118.docx 58 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Mr. Sims on the Amendment."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Floor Amendment #2 adds the Secretary of the Department of Innovation and Technology to… or his des… his or her designee to the Law Enforcement Information Task Force. This was an accommodation requested by the administration. I wanted to accommodate that request, so we did make that addition to the Task Force."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 6162, Mr. Skoog. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6162, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Skoog, are you… do you want to go ahead on your Bill or take it out of the record? Mr. Skoog."
"I need to… I need to put it back on Second 'til we get an Amendment."
"At the request of the Sponsor, Mr. Clerk, please put this Bill on the Order of Second Reading. Thank you, Sir. House Bill 6328, Leader Turner. Out of the record. House Bill 4425, Mr. Pritchard. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4425, a Bill for an Act concerning children. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, this Bill was brought to me by the Department of Defense because they would like all states to have a policy in statute that requires the reporting… DCFS 09900118.docx 59 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 to report any child abuse to any facilities they have within that state. This is in compliance with a Federal Law that indicates that the Department of Defense is concerned about the children. They want to intervene as soon as possible if there is a charge or a report on the hotline of a child advocacy issue. So, I would ask for your support."
"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, Mr. Clerk. There are 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Chair recognizes Representative Jesiel."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On House Bill 5522, let the record reflect that I intended to vote 'yes'."
"Record will reflect your intention. Thank you very much. House Bill 4536, Mr. Walsh. Out of the record. House Bill 4445, Mr. Welch. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4445, a Bill for an Act concerning the Secretary of State. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Welch."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 4445 is a initiative of the Secretary of State's Office. They've been working with the Illinois Farm Bureau on this. The Secretary of State proposed this Bill in order to implement the remaining requirements promulgated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration pertaining to the transportation of agricultural commodities. There are no opponents to this Bill. And I ask for its support." 09900118.docx 60 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"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. There are 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 4365, Mr. Welch. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4365, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Welch."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 4365 is an initiative that I brought based on something that happened to one of my constituents. One of my constituents in Western Springs lost a child because of head injuries suffered in high school sports. What this Bill would do as it requires, beginning with the 2016-'17 school year, an association may provide an interscholastic athletic competition among high schools shall require all members… member schools that have certified athletic trainers already on staff to complete a monthly report on student athletes at the member school who have sustained a concussion. These reports will be anonymous. This information is going to help us collect data that should help us develop a policy… effective policy regarding concussions. And I ask for support of this initiative because it has no opposition."
"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 105 voting 'yes', 0 voting 09900118.docx 61 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 6225, Mr. Sullivan. But before Mr. Sullivan goes ahead, Chair recognizes Leader Currie. Leader Currie."
"Please excuse Representative Mayfield for the rest of the afternoon."
"Thank you. Mr. Clerk, please read Mr. Sullivan's Bill."
"House Bill 6225, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Sullivan."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 6225 is a simple Insurance Code clarification where a company contracts out their human resources benefits such as payroll, 401(k), health insurance, that they can continue to use their existing workers' compensation insurance. I'll be happy to answer any questions."
"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. Please take the record. On this question, there are 104 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 4675, Mr. Unes. Out of the record. House Bill 4388, Mr. Wehrli. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4388, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Third Reading of this House Bill."
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"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Bill amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. Under the medical director… emergency medical director supervision and an agreed plan with IDPH, it would allow certain ambulance runs to go to freestanding emergency centers. There is no opposition. I welcome any questions and urge 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? Representative Gordon-Booth. Please take the record. There are 104 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 5882, Representative Conroy. Please read the Bill. This Bill needs to be moved back to the Order of Second Reading. Mr. Clerk, please read the Bill on the Order of Second Reading."
"House Bill 5882, a Bill for an Act concerning revenue. This Bill was read a second time on a previous day. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Conroy, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Conroy on the Amendment."
"Thank you, Speaker. The Amendment just clarifies the start date for the effectiveness of the increase in credit and that is January 1, 2017."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed." 09900118.docx 63 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Third Reading. House Bill 4013, Representative Feigenholtz. Please read the Bill. Out of the record. House Bill 167, Representative Flowers. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 167, a Bill for an Act concerning State Government. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Flowers."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. I bring you House Bill 167. And this Bill would simply say that if a young person commit a crime in a municipality as well as the county that their records would be sealed. Right now, if you commit a crime just in the county your records can be sealed. So, this would just make it uniform in both places. And I would appreciate an 'aye' vote."
"Those in favor of the Bill will say 'yes'; opposed 'no'… Excuse me. Tho… 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 record yourselves. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 37 voting 'yes', 63 voting 'no'. And the Bill fails. House Bill 6226 on the Order of Second Reading, Mr. Hoffman. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6226, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 1191, Representative McAsey. Out of the record. House Bill 6328, Mr. Turner. Out of the record. Mr. Clerk, House Bill 5882 on the Order of 09900118.docx 64 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Second Reading, Leader Currie. Please read the Bill. 5882. House Bill 4668, Mr. Clerk on Leader Currie."
"House Bill 4668, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5603, Mr. Harris. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5603, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #2, offered by Representative Greg Harris, has been approved for consideration."
"Mr. Harris on the Amendment." Harris, G.: "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House. I wo… This is a trailer Bill to the nursing home camera legislation that we passed. There were a number of issues brought forward by the Department of Public Health and the industry regarding who may turn off the camera, when and where, how agencies must make installation in accordance with the National Fire Safety Code, and the ability of the Department of Public Health to promulgate rules to enact portions of this legislation. So, I would ask to adopt the Amendment."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5902, Mr. Guzzardi. Please read the Bill." 09900118.docx 65 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"House Bill 5902, a Bill for an Act concerning regu… concerning education. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #1, offered by Representative Guzzardi, has been approved for consideration."
"Mr. Guzzardi on the Amendment."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. This Amendment addresses the concerns that were brought up in committee. I know of… I ask for the floors approval."
"Those in favor of the Amendment say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. The Amendment is adopted. Mr. Clerk."
"No further Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. New set of priority Bills, Members. We'll start with those on Second Reading. House Bill 5764, Mr. Andrade. Out of the record. House Bill 1190, Representative Kelly Burke. Out of the record. House Bill 6013, Representative Cassidy. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 6013, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. No Motions are filed."
"Third Reading. House Bill 5010, Representative Feigenholtz. Representative Feigenholtz. Out of the record. House Bill 5931, Representative Gabel. Representative Gabel. Out of the record. House Bill 5703, Mr. Phelps. Out of the record. House Bill 6129 on the Order of Third Reading. Representative Chapa La… Chapa LaVia, 6129. Please read the Bill." 09900118.docx 66 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"House Bill 6129, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Chapa LaVia."
"Thank you, Speaker and Members. This piece of legislation urges the universities to give preference to those applicants of employment positions in which a political… is… applicant is qualified another other appli… as other applicant's general effective date. Has to do with veteran's preference. I'll take any questions."
"Representative Harper."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would just like the record to reflect that I should have been a 'yes' vote on House Bill 167."
Speaker Lang: "The record will reflect your intention. On Representative Chapa LaVia's Bill, there being no debate, those in favor of the Bill will vote 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The voting's 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 104 voting 'yes', 0 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 4606, Mr. Davis. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 4606, a Bill for an Act concerning education. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Mr. Davis." Davis, W.: "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. House Bill 4606 is regarding a process by which a school district can determined the residency of a child. This Bill actually passed out of this chamber last year. At the request of one of the 09900118.docx 67 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 advocates, we made a slight change to it. Instead of trying to do it on Concurrence or something of that nature, we decided to file and draft a completely new Bill. The one thing that we added is with regard to whether or not the parent who can appeal the decision of a school district whether or not that appeal can be done from the very beginning of the school year. The Bill is primarily to address students that have been allowed to enroll and attend school and then the district determines that they… that their residency is no longer valid. This Bill is for that purpose. We did not include in there if a… if when a student originally enrolls in school if they're denied because of residency at the very beginning. This does not allow for that student to… to participate in this process. Again, we passed this Bill out. It got to the Senate. We made a change, brought back a brand new Bill and this is the reflection of the change that we made on behalf of one of the advocacy groups. I'd be more than happy to answer any questions."
"Mr. Pritchard."
"So, Representative, you can explain it. This does apply to the Chicago Public Schools. Is that correct?" Davis, W.: "It does."
"Pardon?" Davis, W.: "I believe it does."
"I mean, it starts out… in our analysis it starts out talking about excluding the Chicago Public Schools…" Davis, W.: "Oh, I under… I'm sorry, Mr. Pritchard."
"…but then it also says that something applies. I just wondered if you would explain that." 09900118.docx 68 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Davis, W.: "I was just advised that CPS has their own process and that this Bill does not apply to CPS."
"So, is it important that an individual be a resident of a school district?" Davis, W.: "Is it important that they be a resident of the school district?"
"Yes." Davis, W.: "I'm going to say yes…"
"Is that codified in State Law?" Davis, W.: "That they have to be a resident of the school district?"
"Or pay some kind of tuition." Davis, W.: "Yes."
"So, do you have any idea how many school districts are charging tuition for out of district residents?" Davis, W.: "I don't believe… I don't know that… that number, Sir."
"'Cause I know in Education Committee we had a number of waivers by school districts who were waiving any tuition for out of district students. In fact, 30-some waived an entirely… two of them charged half of the tuition that State Law requires." Davis, W.: "Okay."
"So, if it's important that a district collect out of district tuition, your Bill is appropriate. But if it's not important to collect that tuition, then what difference does it make?" Davis, W.: "Well, again, I'm not suggesting that if they determine if a student no longer lives in a district and has been attending school, if that is ultimately determined, should 09900118.docx 69 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 they charge that student out of district tuition, absolutely. I'm not trying to mitigate their ability to do it. My concern is about the process to get there. Right now, the school board or the… or the district makes a decision, the family goes before the school board. And the challenge that I have with that is that it doesn't create what I'm… what I'm calling a due process type process, for lack of a better way of putting it, relative to once the school district makes a decision. So, they can make a decision. If they stick to their decision, then that family then has to go to Circuit Court. So, again, one of the things that we've added is an appeal process to the ROEs or in Cook County, the ISEs to review that case just to make sure that all the information, that there's an opportunity to rebut the assertions of the school district, all of that is in place. And that's what I'm calling the due process side of this so that a very fair and valid decision can be made based on substantial factors not just whims, not just a phone call of a… of someone who says this child doesn't live in the district and then that district investigates and based on their investigation, they may come up with the same decision. But when you look at the investigation itself, you can see where there are holes in the investigation where they really still haven't determined where the child actually lives. So, based on whatever evidence the district comes up with, the level of appeal is an opportunity the fam… for those families, a) to have access to that information, first of all, but then also there to rebut it as appropriate so that a fair and… a fair decision can be made as to whether or not the child lives in the district. Then, of course, there is 09900118.docx 70 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Circuit Court which, I guess, either can appeal to if they choose but certainly, if I understood your statement and your question, if it is determined that the child does not live in the district and they have been attending school in that district, yes, they should be charged out of state tuition to repay for those services if they don't continue or if they continue, the family should continue to pay out of… out of… out of district tuition costs associated with that."
"But in the school board making their decision, isn't there a hearing that parents can question the evidence, the investigation?" Davis, W.: "Well, at that hearing."
"Yes." Davis, W.: "But if we're going to be fair about it, there's no reason why the parents shouldn’t be able to look at that information before the hearing. And the example I'd like to use is that this stemmed out of a constituent issue that I had. So, you've got a single parent who is a hairdresser, has hairdressing appointments sometime that takes place before the child actually attends school. So, the parent would take the child to the grandmother's house and have the grandmother to make sure the child got to school. She did not want to leave her child at home alone, so she asked her mother or the child's grandparent to participate in that process. So, what we found out was that the school district was indeed investigating that student and they would start their investigation at 7:00 in the morning and they would witness the child leaving the grandparent's house driving the parent to school. So, I asked him the question, well, where did the 09900118.docx 71 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 child spend the night? And he said we don't know. All we saw was that the child left the grandparent's house that morning and went to school. So, again, had the parent knew that before the hearing, she could have provided affidavits from her clients. There are things that she could have done to at least say, well, this is why I dropped my child off at my… at my mother's house that morning and asked her to make sure she got to school, but the current process didn't allow for that. So, at the hearing is when you can evaluate the proof, but there's no time to prepare an adequate rebuttal which means that if the district decided that the child didn't live in the district then that parent then had to go to court to make that case. And I just thought that that was overburdensome to be quite honest with you…"
"Yeah." Davis, W.: "…on the family."
"So, it's your hope that by interjecting some kind of appeal process beyond the school board that will reduce the court action and the cost associated with that, correct?" Davis, W.: "Absolutely. And in addition to that, Representative, there is a discovery process before the first hearing where the parent can look at the evidence. And for that matter, the district will want to know what the parent is going to bring to the table…"
"Exactly." Davis, W.: "…so they can be prepared as well. So, there's the discovery process and then, depending on how it goes, there is then the appeal process through the ROEs or the ISEs."
"Thank you." 09900118.docx 72 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Mr. Davis to close." Davis, W.: "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I appreciate the Gentleman's questions. Again, we've kind of hashed this out over the last year or so. Again, this is just a way to ensure that the right decision is being made on behalf of the school district. I ask for your support."
"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? Please record yourselves. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 95 voting 'yes', 8 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. House Bill 119, Representative Flowers. Out of the record. House Bill 696, Mr. Franks. Out of the record. House Bill 5576, Representative Nekritz. Representative Nekritz. Out of the record. House Bill 1052, Mr. Yingling. Out of the record. House Bill 4976, Mr. Zalewski. Out of the record. House Bill 5931, Representative Gabel. Out of the record. Mr. Clerk, on the Order of Second Reading, House Bill 3408, Representative Kifowit. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 3408, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. This… Second Reading of this House Bill. Amendment #1 was adopted in committee. Floor Amendment #3, offered by Representative Kifowit, has been approved for consideration."
"Out of the record. House Bill 4554, on the Order of Second Reading, Representative Flowers. Representative Flowers. Out of the record. Mr. Clerk, House Bill 4554, Representative Flowers. Please read the Bill." 09900118.docx 73 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"House Bill 4554, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Second Reading of this House Bill. No Committee Amendments. Floor Amendment #3, offered by Representative Flowers, has been approved for consideration."
"Representative Flowers on the Amendment."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Amendment #2 to House Bill 4554 removes the requirement that individual and group health insurance plans cover HIV preexposure. And the Bill will now require Medicaid to provide the medication for preventative services. And I would appreciate the adoption of Amendment #3."
"Mr. Reis on the Amendment. Mr. Reis. Thank you, Sir."
"Talking and no one was hearing. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, was your agreement to bring an Amendment back to committee on this?"
"That was my agreement, but the Amendment was just… Oh, I'm sorry. That was my agreement. Please forgive me. But the Amendment was just filed yesterday or…"
"Well, can we do the Amendment next week 'cause that was the agreement. Many of us voted to release this to the… to Second Reading with the understanding you would bring the Amendment back."
"Well, Sir, if you would rather that this agreed to Amendment to the language that we agreed to, if you want me to take it out of the record just to bring it back to the committee because I promised I would, it's perfectly fine with me. I was just trying to save all of us time, but that's 09900118.docx 74 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 okay. Would you like for me to take this Amendment out of the record?"
"You… we made an agreement in committee, Representative…"
"I understand."
"…so I'll thank you."
"Out of the record. Mr. Davidsmeyer is recognized."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. A point of personal privilege."
"Please proceed, Sir."
"I would like everyone here to look up here in the gallery right behind me. We have a group from… of middle- schoolers from Pikeland Community School in Pittsfield, Illinois. It's the student council that's in town for the statewide conference. Their sponsor is Dr. H. Todd Evans. And I'd like to give them a warm Springfield welcome."
"Welcome aboard. Happy to have you here with us. Thank you for being in the House chamber. Representative Gabel has two Bills we have to deal with. First, it's 5931, Mr. Clerk, on the Order of Second Reading. Please read the Bill."
"House Bill 5931, a Bill for an Act concerning care for persons with a developmental disabilities, which may be referred to as the Community Disability Living Wage Act. This Bill was read a second time on a previous day. No Committee Amendments. No Floor Amendments. A fiscal note and a state mandates note has been requested but not filed at this time."
"Please hold this Bill on the Order of Second Reading. Mr. Clerk, House Bill 5933. Please read the Bill on the Order of Third Reading." 09900118.docx 75 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"House Bill 5933, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. Third Reading of this House Bill."
"Representative Gabel."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. This Bill is… addresses an issue that occurred during the Local Food, Farms and Jobs Council. That was a… it's a very effective council that was created in 2009, but more recently they've had trouble reaching quorum. That's 35 members. So, this Bill simply reduces the number of members of the council from 35 to 20 and just gives them some more flexibility with the categories as well. It's a great organization that helps really farmers do more farm to table work and is really a connecting organization between the Department of Agriculture and local… local food. Appreciate an 'aye' vote. Thank you."
"Mr. Franks."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, can you tell me why the Illinois Farm Bureau is listed as an opponent?"
"There… there were no slips filed in committee against this Bill."
"Our analysis indicates that they're an opponent."
"Maybe that was on… I don't know. There's an Amend… there was an Amendment. I think it made everyone fine with the Bill. The Farm Bureau is still invol… is involved. I can't imagine why they would be against it."
"That's what I was trying to figure."
"Yeah." 09900118.docx 76 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Do you know under the… the… there was a council… I guess it's the Local Food, Farms and Jobs Council and you're trying to reduce the size."
"Correct."
"Can you tell me how many times they've met in the last year?"
"They have not had a quorum, so they've not been able to meet."
"How long has this been around, this council?"
"It's been… it was founded in 2009."
"And it's never met?"
"No, no. It met until around 2012."
"All right. So, for the last three and a half years it hasn't had a quorum."
"And… and there is… Oh. So, the Illinois Farm Bureau they oppose the Bill but not the Amen… when the Amendment was put on they were oaky with it."
"Okay. All right. So, I just want to make sure I'm correct. But since 2012 this group has not met."
"It has met, but it hasn't had a quorum so they haven't been able to make plans to do…"
"They haven't been able to do anything. Okay."
"There are… there are many vacancies on the… 35 is a lot of people…"
"I know."
"…to have on a council."
"All right. Thank… I appreciate it… To the Bill. …and I appreciate what the Lady's trying to do. I'm going to reluctantly oppose the Bill for this reason only. If a… if a 09900118.docx 77 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 group hasn't met for three and a half years, I don't if… or because they can't get enough to show up, I don't think this is something that we need to perpetuate. Perhaps we should zero it out, start over with something different that may be useful. But the problem is in this state we have so many units of government and we have so many subunits and we have so many… so many appointed committees. And are they really doing anything? And this… and they may be well-intentioned, but if they have to ask us to reduce their size so they can get to a quorum because they haven't been able to make a decision in three and a half years, it begs the question of why do we need them at all. So, I would suggest that we vote 'no', get rid of this commission completely and then maybe start over and ask the folks who are involved what they really do need and what people might be interested in going to, which may be nothing. Maybe there are other commissions that already cover some of these things. But I think we have so many commissions and so many things that, really, enough is enough. So, what I would ask for is a 'no' vote and maybe we should send a message that it's time to reduce the size of these commissions in government and go forward."
"Mr. Moffitt."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Will the Sponsor yield?"
"Sponsor yields."
"Representative, did you confirm… it's my understanding with Amendment 2 the Farm Bureau is neutral. I just called staff and waiting on an answer. Is that your understanding too?" 09900118.docx 78 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"Yes. I was just texted that the Farm Bureau is neutral on the Bill."
"Right. They are neutral. I think the Department of Agriculture is… is neutral."
"Yes."
"Yeah."
"Okay."
"And so, with your Amendment, I mean, it changes to…"
"Yes. With the Amendment, everybody changed to neutral. I mean, this is a… this… this Bill was written by people who are active in the council, who would like to be able to move forward again. They meet quarterly. They just have not been able…"
"Yeah. So…"
"…to make the final decisions."
"…reduce it in size, more efficient, more… easier to get a quorum and then actually make use of the council. Is that right?"
"Correct."
"Yeah. I think it's a good idea and the opposition's been removed. So, hopefully, it can become a functioning, good committee. Thank you."
"Thank you."
"Mr. Costello."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. To the Bill. I've just spoke to the Farm Bureau, Don. The Amendment did remove their opposition and also, the Department of Ag as well. So, I think there's no opposition to the Bill now." 09900118.docx 79 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016
"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. Mr. Clerk, please take the record. On this question, there are 101 voting 'yes', 2 voting 'no'. And this Bill, having received the Constitutional Majority, is hereby declared passed. Chair recognizes Representative Ammons."
"Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I intended to vote 'yes' on 5933."
"The record will reflect your intentions. Thank you. Members, an announcement. Substantive Amendments for your Bills must be filed by the close of business today. I may have said this sometime this week. Substantive Amendments for your Bills must be filed by the close of business today. And with that, Leader Currie, leaving perfunctory time for the Clerk, moves that the House stand adjourned 'til Monday, April 18 at the hour of 3 p.m. Those in favor say 'yes'; opposed 'no'. The 'ayes' have it. And the House stands adjourned 'til Monday, April 18 at the hour of 3 p.m. Drive safely."
"House Perfunctory Session will come to door… come to order. Introduction and First Reading of Senate Bills. Senate Bill 2434, offered by Representative Rita, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Senate Bill 2783, offered by Representative Jackson, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. Senate Bill 2984, offered by Representative Burke, Daniel, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. Senate Bill 2985, offered by Representative Burke, Daniel, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. First Reading of these Senate 09900118.docx 80 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Bill. Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #5, offered by Representative McSweeney. RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to amend Article V of the Illinois Constitution by changing Sections 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7 and by repealing Sections 4 and 14 as follows: ARTICLE V THE EXECUTIVE SECTION 1. OFFICERS The Executive Branch shall include a Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller and Treasurer elected by the electors of the State. They shall keep the public records and maintain a residence at the seat of government during their terms of office. SECTION 2. TERMS These elected officers of the Executive Branch shall hold office for four years beginning on the second Monday of January after their election and until their successors are qualified. They shall be elected at the general election in 1978 and every four years thereafter. SECTION 3. ELIGIBILITY To be eligible to hold the office of Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller or Treasurer, a person must be a United States citizen, at least 25 years 09900118.docx 81 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 old, and a resident of this State for the three years preceding his or her election. SECTION 4. JOINT ELECTION (REPEALED) SECTION 6. GUBERNATORIAL SUCCESSION (a) In the event of a vacancy, the order of succession to the office of Governor or to the position of Acting Governor shall be the elected Attorney General, the elected Secretary of State, and then as provided by law. (b) If the Governor is unable to serve because of death, conviction on impeachment, failure to qualify, resignation or other disability, the office of Governor shall be filled by the officer next in line of succession for the remainder of the term or until the disability is removed. (c) Whenever the Governor determines that he may be seriously impeded in the exercise of his or her powers, he or she shall so notify the Secretary of State and the officer next in line of succession. The latter shall thereafter become Acting Governor with the duties and powers of Governor. When the Governor is prepared to resume office, he or she shall do so by notifying the Secretary of State and the Acting Governor. (d) The General Assembly by law shall specify by whom and by what procedures the ability of the Governor to serve or to resume office may be questioned and determined. The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction to review such a law and any such determination and, in the absence of such a law, shall make the determination under such rules as it may adopt. SECTION 7. VACANCIES IN OTHER ELECTIVE OFFICES 09900118.docx 82 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 If the Attorney General, Secretary of State, Comptroller or Treasurer fails to qualify or if his or her office becomes vacant, the Governor shall fill the office by appointment. The appointee shall hold office until the elected officer qualifies or until a successor is elected and qualified as may be provided by law and shall not be subject to removal by the Governor. SECTION 14. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR - DUTIES (REPEALED) SCHEDULE This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act and applies beginning with the term of office otherwise commencing in 2019. This was Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #5."
"Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #33, offered by Representative Sandack. RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to amend Section 6 of Article IV of the Illinois Constitution as follows: ARTICLE IV THE LEGISLATURE SECTION 6. ORGANIZATION 09900118.docx 83 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 (a) A majority of the members elected to each house constitutes a quorum. (b) On the first day of the January session of the General Assembly in odd-numbered years, the Secretary of State shall convene the House of Representatives to elect from its membership a Speaker of the House of Representatives as presiding officer, and the Governor shall convene the Senate to elect from its membership a President of the Senate as presiding officer. (c) For purposes of powers of appointment conferred by this Constitution, the Minority Leader of either house is a member of the numerically strongest political party other than the party to which the Speaker or the President belongs, as the case may be. (d) Each house shall determine the rules of its proceedings, judge the elections, returns and qualifications of its members and choose its officers. No member shall be expelled by either house, except by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to that house. Each house may punish by imprisonment any person, not a member, guilty of disrespect to the house by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence. Imprisonment shall not extend beyond twenty-four hours at one time unless the person persists in disorderly or contemptuous behavior. SCHEDULE This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act. This has been the Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 09900118.docx 84 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 #33. Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #36, offered by Representative Phelps. RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that there shall be submitted to the electors of the State for adoption or rejection at the general election next occurring at least 6 months after the adoption of this resolution a proposition to add Section 11 to Article IX of the Illinois Constitution as follows: ARTICLE IX REVENUE SECTION 11. HIGHWAY FUNDS (a) No moneys derived from taxes, fees, excises, or license taxes relating to registration, titles, operation, or use of vehicles or public highways, roads, streets, bridges, mass transit, intercity passenger rail, ports, or airports, or to fuels used for propelling vehicles, including bond proceeds, and from taxes, fees, excises, or license taxes relating to any other transportation infrastructure or transportation operation shall be expended for other than costs of administering laws related to vehicles and transportation, statutory refunds and adjustments provided in those laws, payment of highway obligations, costs for construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and betterment of public highways, roads, streets, bridges, mass transit, intercity passenger rail, ports, airports, or other forms of transportation, and other statutory highway purposes, the State or local share to match federal aid highway funds, 09900118.docx 85 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 expenses of grade separation of public highways and railroad crossings, protection of at-grade public highways and railroad crossings, and, with respect to local governments, other transportation purposes as authorized by law. Costs of administering laws related to vehicles and transportation shall be limited to direct program expenses of the Secretary of State, the Department of State Police, and the Department of Transportation, or their successor agencies, related to the enforcement of traffic laws or the safety of public highways, roads, streets, bridges, mass transit, intercity passenger rail, ports, or airports. (b) None of the revenues described in subsection (a) of this Section shall, by transfer, offset, or otherwise, be diverted to any purpose other than those described in subsection (a) of this Section. (c) If a mode of transportation not described in subsection (a) is first proposed for State funding after this Section is added to the Constitution, the mode of transportation must have a dedicated source of funding. (d) Federal funds may be spent for any purposes authorized by federal law. SCHEDULE This Constitutional Amendment takes effect upon being declared adopted in accordance with Section 7 of the Illinois Constitutional Amendment Act. This has been the Third Reading in full of House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment #36."
"Second Reading of Senate Bills. Senate Bill 2059, a Bill for an Act concerning appropriations. Second Reading 09900118.docx 86 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 of this Senate Bill. Second Reading of House Bills. House Bill 3239, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 3297, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. House Bill 4227, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 4249, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 4255, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 4257, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 4325, a Bill for an Act concerning gaming. House Bill 4357, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 4370, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 4377, a Bill for an Act concerning business. House Bill 4393, a Bill for an Act concerning appropriations. House Bill 4472, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 4486, a Bill for an Act concerning liquor. House Bill 4492, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 4513 (sic-4515), a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 4532, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 4537, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 4558, a Bill for an Act concerning wildlife. House Bill 4607, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 4608, a Bill for an Act concerning government. House Bill 4615, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 4627, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 4639, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. House Bill 4648, a Bill for an Act concerning digital assets. House Bill 4670, a Bill for an Act concerning business. House Bill 4671, a Bill for an Act concerning animals. House Bill 4682, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 4715, a Bill for an Act concerning government. House Bill 4996, a Bill for an 09900118.docx 87 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Act concerning education. House Bill 4999, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. House Bill 5000, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 5006, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5010, a Bill for an Act concerning animals. House Bill 5017, a Bill for an Act concerning courts. House Bill 5024, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5033, a Bill for an Act concerning business. House Bill 5293, a Bill for an Act concerning insurance. House Bill 5530, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. House Bill 5531, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. House Bill 5540, a Bill for an Act to revise the law by combining multiple enactments and making technical corrections. House Bill 5566, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5567, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5570, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5572, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 5580, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. House Bill 5602, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5604, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5621, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5666, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 5671, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. House Bill 5681, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 5684, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 5703, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 5714, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 5729, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5738, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. House Bill 09900118.docx 88 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 5746, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 5763, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. House Bill 5764, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 5781, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 5807, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 5880, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5906, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 5907, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5911, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 5912, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. House Bill 5924, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. House Bill 5936, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 5952, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 5958, a Bill for an Act concerning land. House Bill 5974, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 5995, a Bill for an Act concerning animals. House Bill 6015, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 6020, a Bill for an Act concerning government. House Bill 6029, a Bill for an Act concerning safety. House Bill 6032, a Bill for an Act concerning safety. House Bill 6034, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 6044, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 6067, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 6093, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. House Bill 6098, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 6109, a Bill for an Act concerning domestic violence. House Bill 6123, a Bill for an Act concerning State government. House Bill 6125, a Bill for an Act concerning liquor. House Bill 6128, a Bill for an 09900118.docx 89 STATE OF ILLINOIS 99th GENERAL ASSEMBLY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TRANSCRIPTION DEBATE 118th Legislative Day 4/15/2016 Act concerning education. House Bill 6130, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 6135, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 6142, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 6167, a Bill for an Act concerning elections. House Bill 6169, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. House Bill 6181, a Bill for an Act concerning education. House Bill 6200, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 6213, a Bill for an Act concerning public aid. House Bill 6261, a Bill for an Act concerning local government. House Bill 6262, a Bill for an Act concerning finance. House Bill 6266, a Bill for an Act concerning government. House Bill 6273, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. House Bill 6285, a Bill for an Act concerning civil law. House Bill 6290, a Bill for an Act concerning courts. House Bill 6291, a Bill for an Act concerning courts. House Bill 6292, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 6298, a Bill for an Act concerning public employee benefits. House Bill 6301, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 6307, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. House Bill 6308, a Bill for an Act in relation to minors. House Bill 6313, a Bill for an Act concerning regulation. House Bill 6315, a Bill for an Act concerning employment. House Bill 6332, a Bill for an Act concerning criminal law. Second Reading of these House Bills. Second Reading of House Bills. House Bill 2262, a Bill for an Act concerning transportation. Second Reading of this House Bill. There being no further business, the House Perfunctory Session will stand adjourned." 09900118.docx 90