PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The regular Session of the 100th General Assembly will please come to order. Will the Members please be in their desk? Will the guests in the galleries please rise? The invocation today will be given by Pastor Jeremy Wood, First Congregational Church, Bunker Hill, Illinois.
(Prayer by Pastor Jeremy Wood)
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Please remain standing for the Pledge Allegiance. Senator Cunningham.
(Pledge of Allegiance, led by Senator Cunningham)
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Blueroomstream.com seeks permission to videotape. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Mr. Secretary, Reading of the Journal.
Senate Journal of Wednesday, April 25th, 2018.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter.
Mr. President, I move to postpone the reading and approval of the Journal just read by the Secretary, pending arrival of the printed transcript.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter moves to postpone the reading and approval of the Journal, pending the arrival of the printed transcript. There being no objection, so ordered. Mr. Secretary, Resolutions. 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Senate Resolutions 1648 through 1651, offered by Senator Anderson and all Members. They are all death resolutions, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Resolution Consent Calendar. Mr. Secretary, Committee Reports.
Senator Holmes, Chairperson of the Committee on Commerce and Economic Development, reports Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 2589, Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 2773, Senate Amendment 3 to Senate Bill 2899, and Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 3102 Recommend Do Adopt. Senator Harris, Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, reports Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 2493, Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 2752, and Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 2875 Recommend Do Adopt. Senator Cunningham, Chairperson of the Committee on Telecommunications and Information Technology, reports Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 2727 Recommend Do Adopt.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Mr. Secretary, House Bills 1st Reading.
House Bill 4724, offered by Senator Fowler. (Secretary reads title of bill) House Bill 5288, offered by Senator Bivins. (Secretary reads title of bill) House Bill 5597, offered by Senator Hutchinson. (Secretary reads title of bill) 2 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 House Bill 5682, offered by Senator Schimpf. (Secretary reads title of bill) House Bill 5683, offered by Senator Schimpf. (Secretary reads title of bill) 1st Reading of the bills.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Mr. Secretary, Committee Reports.
Senator Hastings, Chairperson of the Committee on Energy and Public Utilities, reports Senate Amendment 3 to Senate Bill -- excuse me, Senate Amendment 3 and 4 to Senate Bill 3131 Recommend Do Adopt. Senator Koehler, Chairperson of the Committee on Environment and Conservation, reports Senate Bill 3550 Do Pass; Senate Bill 1597 Do Pass, as Amended; Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 274, Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 3101, Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 3156, Senate Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 3214, Senate Amendments 2 and 3 to Senate Bill 3548, and Senate Amendment 2 to Senate Bill 3549 Recommend Do Adopt.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) With leave of the Body, we'll turn to page 2 of the printed Calendar, Senate Bills 2nd Reading. Senate Bill 2610. Senator Clayborne. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2610. (Secretary reads title of bill) 2nd Reading of the bill. No committee amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration? 3 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Clayborne.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne, on your amendment.
It just deletes the word "or liability" -- the two words "or liability". {sic}
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Clayborne.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne, on your amendment.
I'd like to explain it on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion?
Move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Seeing -- is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported. 4 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Senate Bill 3388. Senator Clayborne. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3388. (Secretary reads title of bill) 2nd Reading of the bill. No committee or Floor amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Will all Members at the sound of my voice come to the Senate Floor immediately? We will be going to 3rd Readings. All Members at the sound of my voice, come to the Senate Floor immediately. We're going to 3rd Readings. Senator Clayborne in the Chair.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) We will proceed to the Order of 3rd Reading. We will proceed to 3rd Reading on the middle of the page of 18. Senate Bill 2970. Senator Tom Cullerton. Senator Cullerton. Senator Cullerton. Out of the record. Moving on to Senate Bill 3001. Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Out of the record. Proceed to Senate Bill 3003. Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3010. Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3022. Senator Muñoz. Senator Muñoz. Senator Muñoz. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3033. Senator Weaver. Senator Weaver. Senator Weaver. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3046. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3047. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3049. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Senator Manar. Out of 5 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 the record. Senate Bill 3070. Senator Bennett. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3079. Senator Silverstein. Senator Silverstein. Senator Silverstein. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3083. Senator Rose. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3085. Mr. Secretary, read the bill.
Senate Bill 3085. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Rose, to explain.
Does that need the amendment adopted or is the amendment -- did we do that already? Okay. All right. Thank you. This bill's somewhat amazing. There's a company called Nasty Joe's LLC that bought a subdivision common areas and pond in my district and then threatened the homeowners around that pond to have to purchase their pond back from him. It's the most amazing thing. I don't even know how this is allowable, but the bottom line is, it should have never been sold at a tax auction because, in Illinois, this shouldn't have been subject to tax to begin with. So this would remove from the sale catalogue common areas and ponds in subdivisions. I don't believe there's any opposition whatsoever to this bill at this point and ask for its affirmative vote. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3085 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted 6 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. There are 53 voting Yea, none voting Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3085, having received the constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3093. Senator Anderson. Mr. Secretary -- oh, I'm sorry. Senator Anderson -- seeks leave of the Body to return to Senate Bill 3093 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. On the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3093. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Anderson.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Anderson.
Thank you, Mr. President. I would ask for the adoption. The amendment becomes the bill. I'll discuss it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Is there any discussion? All those in favor, say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) 3rd Reading. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3093. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) 7 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Anderson, to explain.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3093 provides that life care facilities should be added to the provisions of the general homestead exemption. This was a negotiated bill. There are no opponents and I would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3093 pass. All those in favor, say {sic} Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. There are 30 -- there are, sorry, 53 voting Yea, none voting Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3093, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3101. Senator Castro. Mr. -- Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Oh, I'm sorry. Senator Castro seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3101 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. On the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3101. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Castro.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) …Castro, to explain.
Thank you, Mr. President. The -- ask -- oh, since the -- forget that it was adopted. Senate Floor Amendment 1 deletes all and becomes the bill. The -- Amendment 1 -- it creates the Volkswagen Settlement Environmental Beneficiary Mitigation Plan Task Force, which is in charge of developing a mitigation plan in 8 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 compliance with the VW settlement. So we have -- we had two -- subject matter hearings in -- one in Chicago, one here in Springfield, and there was a lot of discussion from different constituencies, whether they're business, government, industries that -- oh, are we still adopting? Okay. Ask for the adoption. Explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, say Aye. Opposed -- opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) 3rd Reading. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3101. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator, to explain.
Again. Sorry about that. So Amendment 1 removes everything in it and becomes the bill. It creates the Volkswagen Settlement Environmental Beneficiary Mitigation Plan Task Force, which is in charge of developing a Beneficiary Mitigation Plan in compliance with the VW settlement. Obviously, we've had two subject matter hearings, one in Chicago, one in Springfield, and a lot of the discussion that's been talked about on -- no one is saying that 9 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 the plan that the IEPA has put forth is wrong, but when you're talking about a hundred and eight million dollars, there needs to be a robust discussion of is that plan appropriate, has everyone been included. And some of the conversations that were held during the subject matter hearings, while some benefitted from the plan, they felt like they were left out of the robust discussion. So this puts together a task force to review the plan, provide that robust discussion, and get feedback before the plan is mitigated.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Is there any discussion? Senator Schimpf.
Will the sponsor yield, Mr. President?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Sponsor indicates she will yield.
Thank you -- thank you, Mr. President. Senator Castro, I -- I had the opportunity to attend one of the subject-matter hearings and I -- I do agree with you, that I think the process would have been better if there had been -- if there had been open hearings that the -- that the public could have -- could have attended. The question that I -- that I have, though, is, you know, I -- I think, you know, we do -- we do agree that IEPA has gotten a lot of input. If -- if this -- if this task force does come to fruition, though, that task force would prevent IEPA from distributing funding under this settlement. Correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Castro.
As is if -- once it's created? Let me put it this way, 10 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator, one of the things that you're talking about other -- what are other states doing? Other states have task forces put in place to help discuss the mitigation plan. The one thing is, if you create a task force -- I mean, what's the point of creating a task force if you're going to go spend the money? The idea is to have a thoughtful discussion about how that money is spent. And in several appropriation hearings, Director Messina has said, "I don't need the General Assembly's authority to spend the money. I can spend the money." So it then becomes an issue of transparency, openness, and just making sure -- I mean, if the money is not spent wisely, we are going to be the ones who face the consequences. Correct? Because they're going to say, why did you allow the Director not to spend the money without a thoughtful discussion, a robust discussion, with all the different entities, whether it was business, government, industry, environmentalists? I think - - I think today in committee there was a -- like they talked about a philosophical difference, but, again, when you're talking about a hundred and eight million dollars, that's why you need a robust discussion and -- and which route is the best route. And I understand of it reducing the emissions, but we should look at -- just have that very robust discussion.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Schimpf.
As the -- as -- as the bill is written right now, how long would it take to constitute the task force and then have the task force hold its hearings and issue a -- a report? How much delay are we looking at?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) 11 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Castro.
Well, you have ten years to spend the money. If you talk about -- the task force has till January 1st, 2019, to submit a report to us, as the General Assembly. Director Messina would be the Chair of the task force. But, again, there's different entities that have come up to me from business, from industry, utilities, environmentalists, who asked to be a part of this task force, and I -- I think you heard a few of 'em in the -- during the subject-matter hearings that they do want to be a part of that.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Schimpf.
To -- to the bill, Mr. President. Yes, Senator Castro, I -- we are in -- we are in agreement probably on about eighty percent of this in that, you know, I think the task force would be good to supplement the information that the EP -- IEPA has already gathered. The problem that I have and the reason that I'm going to urge a No vote is, we have money that is ready to go out the door right now. This task force is going to delay our ability to do it. What I would have liked to have seen is for your legislation to say the task force is established and IEPA is not allowed to spend any more than twenty-five percent or ten percent of the settlement funds until the task force report is complete. So that's -- that's why I'm urging a No vote. I think we -- we have money -- we have good projects that we can spend money on and get that money out the door right now, so I -- I would urge a No vote, respectfully. 12 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator McCarter. SENATOR McCARTER: To the bill. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) To the bill, Senator McCarter. SENATOR McCARTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, let -- let me -- let me try to explain to you what's happening. The Governor's Director has put forth a plan to spend a hundred and eight million dollars, but because it's not to the liking of the sponsor and others, a whole new process is being put forth, a twenty-six-member task force. Now, we all know what task forces do. Some -- once in a while, we get people appointed to 'em. Once in a while, they show up. Once in a while, we have -- we have something that really comes -- something good comes out of it, and then, once in a while, that turns into legislation that helps the people of Illinois. So this is nothing but a delay tactic. Here's the thing. If I was on -- if this was your Director and my party was saying this, I would say it was wrong, just like I'm saying it's wrong right now. You asked for a robust discussion and the Director puts forth meetings with -- nine meetings with stakeholders, sixteen hundred comments from people, but you want to put clean air on hold because of politics. And, you know, this is what's wrong in this place. Politics gets in the way of what is good for the people of this State. And I'm -- I'm telling you, if the -- if the roles were reversed here, I'd argue the same thing. You want to delay this until you have your Director, so you get the money put where you want it to go. The clean air will wait because of politics. The 13 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 people of this State will wait because of your politics. And that goes for both sides. We may not have a budget because politics will get in the way of it, even though we've got more money than we've ever had. There will never be a complete consensus on where this hundred and eight million dollars should be spent - I guarantee you. And I guarantee you, it won't come with a twenty- six-member task force. Let's move on and, for once, just put the politics aside and do the right thing that delivers something for the people of this State - for once. Vote No on this delay tactic.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Oberweis, for what purpose do you seek recognition?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) To the bill, Senator Oberweis.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Illinois Senate, on numerous occasions I've asked you to vote Yes if you think it's a good bill, No if you think it's a bad bill. This is a bad bill. This just came out of our committee thirty minutes ago, at which the Director testified. We've had open meetings on this. We've had over sixteen hundred public comments on this, lots of input available on the website, and yet somebody decided they didn't like exactly where these funds are allocated. In response to the question, the Director indicated, if this bill passes, it will mean at least a year delay in being able to implement the improvement on clean air standards for Illinois. I would certainly think that people on both sides of the aisle would be concerned about improving the air quality in Illinois. The funds are available there to do it. 14 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Let's not delay this by another year. Please, go to your conscience, vote No. It's a bad bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you seek recognition?
Thank you, Mr. President. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) To the bill, Senator.
So, friends, when I'm not down here, I'm -- I'm frequently traveling downtown on Metra trains, and for anybody who's rode on Metra trains within the last several years, I think you understand how important it is that we get as many resources to our transit agencies to support infrastructure improvement. These trains need to be upgraded. These trains in some cases need to be replaced. We're starting to see severe delays. Look, when I see a bill come forward that has opposition from an agency like Metra or RTA, that's the kind of bill where I stand up and say, let's take a pause on this, because they rarely oppose bills. And I think it's important that if you represent a district that has mass transit commuter lines running through it, this is the kind of bill that I think you want to put a pause on, because if those agencies thought that this task force was in their best interest and that they'd get more funds or -- or funds on a quicker basis to improve transit in -- in -- in the system, they wouldn't be opposed to it. So I take my concern with this bill from a different perspective. If you want to support mass transit and if you think that we need to improve mass transit here in Illinois, this is not the kind of bill that I would support and I'd ask everybody to -- to cautiously 15 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 look at this one. And I encourage a No vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Hunter, for what purpose do you seek recognition?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) To the bill, Senator Hunter.
I'd like to commend the sponsor for bringing this measure forward. When I was chairing the Energy Committee, we had had joint conference calls with I -- Environmental Protection, and according to them at the time, they wanted to spend the money on engines and locomotives and barges, and myself and the House Chair of this same committee disagreed with them, because we feel that some of the folks in this State that own electric cars, that there are not enough charging stations, for example, throughout the State. And I believe that this is the right way to go. You have a task force, you address some of the issues, and you put some of the moneys in the community in the areas where other folks are interested in, instead of just -- just catering to corporations all the time. And I think this is a great bill and I encourage everybody on this side of the aisle -- aisle and your side as well to vote Yes on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Bush, for what purpose do you seek recognition?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) To the bill, Senator Bush. 16 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
I'd like to ask where the indignation is from the southern and central part of the State. Why isn't this a Chicago bailout? Sixty percent of the dollars are going for four Metra engines. I'm not saying that's not a great idea, but where is the indignation on your side of the aisle about all the dollars going to bail out Chicago? And, too, the remark that we are putting something off. We're not moving quickly. I believe the quote was, "This was a delay tactic". Maybe you have forgotten the time we went without a budget. I would also suggest to those of you that weren't at the hearings and have become very impassioned today, that you should know that there were no real public hearings, that there are people who don't agree with how the money is being spent, and that there needs to be a real public process. I learned this morning that the Department is now saying -- or the Director is saying that they can do this without appropriations. Where's your indignation? Truly, where is it? I think we should all be appalled by that. It's a bad process. We weren't involved. And lookit, if we also think -- and I -- hey, I'm really happy. My -- my suburban residents ride the Metra. I ride the Metra. And it's absolutely true - those engines need to be updated. They are failing. We are seeing delays. But this isn't how you get there. And, again, where's your indignation? Southern part of the State isn't even considered. So, I urge an Aye vote. I urge it to be a public process and I would ask my friends on the other side of the aisle -- as I think you know, I do my best to work in a bipartisan fashion. You should be voting Yes. It's a bad process. It's a political process. Stand up and do the right thing. Thank you. 17 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you seek recognition? SENATOR McCARTER: Yeah, I'd like to ask for a roll call verification after the vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) It's appropriate. Thank you, Mr. -- thank you, Senator McCarter. Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you seek recognition?
Will the sponsor yield?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Sponsor indicates she will yield. Senator Althoff.
Thank you very much. Senator Castro, not that it's going to change a single vote on the Floor at this particular time, but can I ask you to give us a synopsis of the conversation that you and I have been having with regard to this legislation and where it goes, assuming it leaves this Chamber, where it goes from this Chamber, as it moves over to the House, and any activities that you have planned in between to continue to address this issue. If you would do that for me, please?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Castro.
Thank you, Senator Althoff. Actually, we will be -- Senator Althoff, myself, Heather Steans, the House sponsor, plan to continue to have discussions with Director Messina to see if there is a way to address the issue that we've talked about, is 18 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 transparency and different things. Everything's still on the table. My interest, as I told the good Senator, was that I was going to move it out of this Chamber to give it to the House sponsor, but the conversation will continue and hopefully we would come to a resolution.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Senator Castro, to close.
Thank you, everyone. I'm glad we had a robust discussion about this issue, but, again, this is the idea of why this task force is needed - a robust discussion. You are talking about a hundred and eight million dollars. Where's -- we need fiscal responsibility of how that money is going to be utilized. We need transparency. And, again, I will continue to have the conversation with the Director, with others who want to be a part of the conversation, but in the end, this needs to be done. The fact that you had sixteen hundred comments on a website that wasn't heavily promoted - there is 12.8 million people in this State - to say that that is a good sample size for a public discourse is not true. You know, Director Messina had said in an Approp hearing in May of 2017 that he was going to have an -- an aggressive outreach program and we have heard from people from downstate that were not included until recently as this bill has been introduced. We need to have that public discourse. We need to have that robust discussion that we had here, because we have a responsibility to our constituents to do that. During the public hearing -- I heard Metra being brought up. Metra themselves came to the subject- matter hearing and said, "That's great. We benefit, but we were never at the table to discuss the details of the plan. We just 19 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 saw we benefitted." Metra themselves said that. I urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) The -- Senator McCarter has requested a verified vote, so -- roll call, so we need everybody to the Floor as we proceed. The question is, shall Senate Bill 3101 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. There are 31 voting Yea, 21 voting Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3101, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator McCarter has requested a verification. Will all Members please be in their seats? The -- the Secretary will read the affirmative votes.
Members voting in the affirmative: Biss, Bush, Castro, Clayborne, Collins, Tom Cullerton, Cunningham, Haine, Harmon, Harris, Hastings, Holmes, Hunter, Hutchinson, Jones, Koehler, Landek, Lightford…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Secretary, hold on a second. Senator McCarter is recognized. SENATOR McCARTER: I withdraw the request.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR CLAYBORNE) Thank you, Senator McCarter. Senator McCarter -- Senate Bill -- on a verified roll call, Senate Bill 3101 has received the required constitutional majority -- is declared passed. Senator Link in the Chair.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Tom Cullerton, for what purpose do you rise? 20 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Point of personal privilege.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Chamber, yesterday, many of you knew, was IML Day, but I wanted to take a moment real quick and, behind on the Republican side up in the gallery, recognize many of the fine mayors and trustees and village managers from DuPage County who were here with us yesterday and here with us today. I know many of us have come from local government. I was a village president. I was honored to be part of the DuPage Mayors and Managers caucus. So if everybody could welcome them and give them a round of applause for coming here today to visit with us.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to Springfield. Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCARTER: Introduction, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your introduction. SENATOR McCARTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to call attention to a group of young ladies from Breese, Illinois, from the All Saints Academy, and I would -- please stand. They won the Class M volleyball. They're the -- Class M Volleyball Champions. I -- give them a warm welcome today.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to Springfield and congratulations. Senator 21 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Hutchinson, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Point of personal privilege.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate, I'd like to introduce and welcome the Democratic Women of the South Suburbs for their fifth Annual Lobby Advocacy Day. Students from Bloom, Bloom Trail, Homewood-Flossmoor, ITT, Perspectives, Math and Science Academy, Rich East, Rich Central, and Thornton are all here to see how this wonderful process works. You guys just saw a bit of how the process works. But thank you, everybody. Let's please give them a warm Springfield welcome.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to Springfield. Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you rise?
Point of personal privilege.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point.
Thank you very much. And I would like the Body to look over at my desk and welcome both Molly and Hannah Eichholz. Molly is eight, Hannah is eleven. One goes to Rochester Elementary, the other to Rochester Intermediate School, and you may recognize that last name, Eichholz. They are both the daughters of Dan Eichholz, who we've seen around the Capitol and under the Dome working very feverishly. So might we give them a warm Springfield welcome and 22 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 show them our continued civility and wonderful debate that they were very much engaged in?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Page 19 of the printed Calendar, Senate Bill 3102. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Castro seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3102 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3102. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Castro.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Castro, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move to adopt the amendment and explain on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3102. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3102. (Secretary reads title of bill) 23 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Castro, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3102 is an initiative of the State Treasurer's Office. Senate Bill 3102 provides that it is unlawful practice to offer consumers -- so there's some technical changes that were made in the amendment. So it changes that -- a reference from a "stored-value card" to a "rebate card" and it borrows language from the Federal Reserve Regulation, Reg E, to define "rebate card". Using rebate card will avoid confusion with the term "stored-value card" in the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act. So what is it -- what it's doing, it's actually treating a rebate card similar to how we're treating a gift card, where you cannot charge dormant fees. It does not prohibit anyone to charge a fee up front, charge a fee for replacement. But this one -- this is a consumer protection bill. You know, how many of us receive or get rebates cards and we forget, we put it in our pocket, forget about it, and then we go to use it and then it's zero. So this is an opportunity that -- to address that issue. We actually -- while, you know, we worked with the Credit Union, the Bankers to make some of these changes, while they are philosophically opposed to the bill, we worked with them in that. So I -- this is a great bill. I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Schimpf, for what purpose do you rise?
Will the -- will the sponsor yield? 24 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) She indicates she will.
Senator Castro, it -- it was about a year ago that -- that you and I ran our first bills on the exact same day on the Senate Floor and now we appear to have come full circle with you and I having these debates. My question is, I would like if -- if -- if you could talk to a little bit of what we discussed in the hearing today. My understanding was that some of the groups that are opposed to this would be willing to provide notice, you know, any type of notice up front to people so that they would know exactly what they're -- what they're getting, you know. And I agree with you - I think all of us agree with you - it is extremely frustrating to have a card in your wallet for a year and then it -- it no longer works. But, you know, I think that if -- if -- if we made the companies that were issuing these provide notice, that might solve some of the problems that we're having.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Castro.
Well, and when you -- there was a very robust discussion on the amendment and the bill. Actually, the -- the group that you were talking about came and actually, in a weird sense, justified the bill, because they explained how the fact that they collect - - when they collect those fees, that's what helps pay for the program manager. They weren't the ones who issued the -- the rebates; they were not the manufacturer or the retailer. The Retail Merchants are actually neutral on this bill. And so one of the things that you talk about is -- they're the middleman. 25 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Curran had some great line of questioning where he asked, where are you in this process? They're the middleman. So, of course, when you -- when you put it uniform to a -- gift card law, they get squeezed. So, in the end, they're more concerned about themselves than they are about the consumer. And they do say that -- on the back of the credit card, they have all these kind of, you know, statements about, hey, the card expires and so on and so forth. So we don't need to do any -- anything beyond them. And so that's already being done already. So, by even adding more to that, I -- I don't see how that would benefit at all, because they did admit that they do that already.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Schimpf.
To -- to the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
You know, fellow Senators, I think sometimes, especially after a week like we've had this week, where we've passed hundreds of bills, voted on -- voted on hundreds of bills up here, I think sometimes we get a little bit -- we get a little bit numb to the fact that we do wield a tremendous amount of power. We exercise a tremendous amount of power. And what this bill is doing is, this bill takes what has a -- what has been a very successful program - this is a successful business model - and it does outlaw that business model. It outlaws this -- it outlaws the selling of any -- any cards that -- that charge dormancy fees. Now as I -- as I mentioned, we all don't like those, but should we wield this 26 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 power that we exercise, should we wield it like a scalpel, or should we wield it like a sledgehammer? What I would -- what I would advocate is, we need to wield our power that we have to outlaw stuff like a scalpel. What the best course of action would be, would be to simply place a requirement for more notice, rather than outlawing an entire -- an entire business model that has proved successful and, in fact, beneficial to consumers. So I would -- I would ask that we -- that we pause for a minute, think about how we should wield our power, and I would urge a No vote on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Castro, to close.
Thank you, Mr. President. Let me be clear, this does not ban the practice of rebate cards. What it bans is the part that you can't charge dormant -- dormancy fees. And, again, we worked very closely with, you know, the Illinois Credit Union League and the -- and the different bankers to work on the technical language. They are, you know, philosophically opposed, but we -- we worked with them in order to provide more clarity and improve compliance by banks, credit unions, and credit card companies. Why would we punish consumers by charging dormancy fees? If you earned a rebate card for fifty dollars, it should be fifty dollars, just like a credit card -- just like a gift card. We may -- you know, the late Treasurer Topinka -- I mean, Judy Baar Topinka actually introduced that and you don't see them not using gift cards anymore. So I highly doubt that making it in line with the gift cards, that people will not benefit from it. This is a great consumer protection bill. I urge an Aye vote. 27 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3102 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 35 Ayes, 17 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3102, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3105. Senator Bivins. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3105. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bivins, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3105 authorizes a child protective investigator to request law enforcement assistance, to be provided at a mutually available time, in the instance of a high-risk report and the investigator has reason to believe there is a potential for violence. Requires law enforcement officers to make all reasonable efforts to assist the investigator's request. This is a bill that was worked on with the -- it's an initiative of DCFS, and the Chiefs, Sheriffs, and State Police worked on this bill together. And it's the result of -- it came out of the result of a very tragic incident in our district in which a DCFS investigator, Pamela Knight, was trying to remove a two-year-old child from a home and she was severely beaten into a coma and eventually succumbed to her injuries and has passed away since. I know of no opposition and I -- would request an Aye vote. 28 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3105 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3105, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3106. Senator Hutchinson. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3112. Senator Hunter. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3112. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3112 requires families that are the subject of indicated reports of suspected child abuse or neglect to cooperate when the Department of Children and Family Services offers them family preservation services. And I would ask for an Aye vote or take any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3112 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3112, having received the required constitutional majority, 29 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is declared passed. Senator Mulroe, for what purpose do you rise?
A point of personal privilege, Mr. President and…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point.
I have Senate -- I'm sorry, Mr. President, Members of the Senate, I have with me today a special guest. His name is Tejas Patel. He's a recent graduate of DePaul University. He's majored in political science. Has been sort of a political junkie since he's been ten years old. Is considering law school, but that's diminishing because of the cost, although, I told him, hey, if you have passion for it, you got to go for it; that you don't want to be an old guy like me and regret it. But what -- what brought him here today is a relationship that I have with his father. His father is actually my cardiologist and did a little tune-up on a couple of my arteries in December, and Tejas has assured me that as a result of that tune-up, I have a ten-thousand-mile warranty, in case of a failure of one of those stents. So, if you could please give him a warm welcome to the Senate, I'd appreciate it.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you rise?
Point of an announcement.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your announcement.
Thank you. I, again, would like the record to reflect that Senator Righter is out of the State, attending his son's Army 30 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Ranger graduation. And I'd also like to note that Senator McConnaughay is a member of an international task force through the National Conference of State Legislatures and is attending a delegation -- a forum, visiting Israel to learn, identify, and appreciate Israel's democratic values. Thank you very much, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings, for what purpose do you rise?
Mr. President, a purpose of one introduction today.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your introduction.
Mr. President, I'm honored to have with me Mr. Tim Muri, Jr. Tim works with developmentally disabled and mentally disabled children in our community at one of our special needs schools. Tim is a young man who could have chose anything he wanted to do in life, but he chose to help those in need. I was hoping we could give him a warm Springfield welcome. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to Springfield. Senate Bill 3106. Mr. Secretary -- Senate -- Senator Hutchinson seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3106 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3106. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 4, offered by Senator Hutchinson.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 31 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Hutchinson, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Amendment 4 becomes the bill and I'd like to discuss it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendment {sic} approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3106. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3106. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hutchinson, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Floor Amendment No. 4 makes technical changes and becomes the bill. Requires that the Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Auditor General establish aspirational goals for contract awards for all contracts, substantially in accordance with the Business Enterprise for Minorities, Women, and Persons with Disabilities Act. Constitutional officers shall post annually concerning their utilization of businesses owned by minorities, women, and persons 32 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 with disabilities during the preceding fiscal year on their respective websites. We also want to note that this does not include the Treasurer's Office, because the Treasurer's Office has their own legislation that they're pursuing, and -- theirs will be Senate Amendment No. -- Senate Amendment No. 1 to Senate Bill 2363. So they are not included in this bill. Happy to answer any questions. Urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3106 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3106, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3114. Senator Hunter. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3116. Senator Hunter. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Hunter seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3116 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3116. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Hunter.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter, on your amendment.
I wish to adopt the amendment and I'll explain on 3.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor 33 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3116. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3116. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. As amended, 3116 allows advanced practice registered nurses who had a written collaborative agreement with a podiatrist before January 1, 2018 {sic} (September 20, 2017), to continue in those collaborative agreements or enter into a new written agreement with another podiatrist if their current agreement ends. I know of no opposition and I would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3116 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3116, having received the required constitutional majority, 34 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is declared passed. WCIA seeks permission to video. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Senate Bill 3117. Senator Bivins. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3117. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bivins, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. SB 3117 requires DHS to develop and maintain an online registry that is available to the public for recovery residences that operate in Illinois to serve as a referral resource for individuals seeking continued recovery assistance. Encourages non-licensed recovery residences to register with DHS. It's a voluntary program. It's a DHS initiative. And I know of no opposition and I'd request an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3117 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3117, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3119. Senator Althoff. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3119. 35 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3119 is an initiative of IMRF. It prevents a former police chief that returns to service in the same municipality from participating in both the police pension fund and the IMRF fund. I know of no opponents and I would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3119 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3119, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3131. Senator Rezin. Senator Rezin seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3131 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Seeing no objection, leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3131. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Rezin.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rezin, on your amendment.
I would like to adopt the amendment. I think I have a second Floor amendment and I'll explain on 3rds. 36 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 4, offered by Senator Rezin.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rezin, on your amendment.
Again, I would like to explain on 3rds. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3131. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3131. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rezin, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3131 is the yearly 37 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 cleanup bill for the ICC. I -- there were -- I'd be happy to take any questions and I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3131 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3131, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator McCann, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCANN: Thank you, Mr. President. On a point of personal privilege, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point. SENATOR McCANN: Thank you again, sir. I would like to introduce my Page for the -- for today. I have with me Jack Knudson. He's a thirteen- year-old seventh grader from Glenwood Middle School, down in Chatham, just a few miles south of here. He plays football and baseball. He's in the Junior Beta Club and he loves math and science. And believe it or not, he's actually considering a career in law. I know that you would advise him against that, Mr. President. That being said, he's glad to be with us here today. I'm glad to have him. And he's joined by his father, Rob Knudson, right behind us here. So please join me in welcoming them to the Senate. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to the Senate. Senate Bill 3135. Senator Rose. Mr. 38 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3135. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Before we begin, I also would recommend that the young man not go into the field of law, but that's a different story altogether. Mr. President, this bill -- ignore the title up there. It has nothing to do with algicide permits. This actually has everything to do with pond dye permits. I didn't even know there was such a thing, but we're going to allow pond dye via this bill, as long as the application's compliant with the United States EPA's Waters of the U.S. rule, and that's what the amendment did. So I'd ask for its favorable adoption. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3135 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3135, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3138. Senator Bennett. Senator Bennett seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3138 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Seeing no objection, permission granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3138. Mr. Secretary, 39 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Bennett.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your amendment.
Mr. President, I'd ask for its adoption. I'll discuss on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion is carried. Is there any other further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is 3138. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3138. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3138 is an initiative of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. There were -- the -- the -- the intent of this bill is to do two things: one, make us compliant with the federal laws under FAFSA, which requires us 40 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 to protect certain information of the people who apply for financial aid; the other thing is simply to protect the privacy of Illinois citizens that apply for financial aid and puts some very personal information on there. We worked with the Attorney General on the amendment. Essentially, it would make it clear that personal names and addresses would not be available for disclosure when they are associated with non-discretionary financial aid programs. I'll be happy to answer any questions, but I don't know of any opponents.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Barickman, for what -- is there any other discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3138 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3138, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3148. Senator Harris. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3148. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harris, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 3148 is a initiative of the Secretary of State. It increases the length of restricted driving permit from one year to two years. 41 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 There is no opposition. I request a favorable vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3148 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3148, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3151. Senator Althoff. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3151. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3151 simply extends - - exempts a service contract for tax software at the Department of Revenue and the Department of Employment Security from having to go through the procurement process. Both of these agencies use the same tax software and they would like the service contract to go to the developer of the software, as the coding is -- proprietary and other companies would not have access to it. Passed committee unanimously. I'd ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3151 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted 42 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3151, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3152. Senator Althoff. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3152. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
Thank you again, Mr. President. This is the Illinois Department of Revenue omnibus cleanup every year bill. Makes changes in the Illinois Income Tax Act related to changes from the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act which provides that Illinois taxpayers must add to their taxable income the amounts of foreign intangible income allowed as a federal tax deduction. It also creates a State income tax deduction for the amounts of excess business loss disallowed under the federal Tax Code. Again, I know of no opposition. I'd ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3152 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 3152, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator Harmon in the Chair. 43 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senate Bill 3166. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3166. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senator Link.
Thank you -- thank you, Mr. President. This is a bill that allows the Illinois Gaming Board to issue video gaming licenses to licensed veterans establishments within cities or county which otherwise prohibit video gaming. This was brought to me by the - - a veterans organization and I think it's something that will help these veteran organizations stay alive. I -- be more than happy to answer any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Thank you, Senator. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3166 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 41 voting Aye, 5 voting No, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3166, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3174. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3174. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 44 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senator Koehler.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill, as amended, requires the Department to post well drilling reports and completion reports for horizontal or wells drilled using -- using -- utilizing directional drilling within a thirty-day period of receipt. The reports must contain a list of chemicals and -- used and the GPS location of each well. The bill also sets provisions and procedures regarding trade secrets. I want to thank, first of all, DNR for helping to create the language on this so that it reads correctly and is something that they can work with. But I also want to mention that discussions have been taking place around this -- this bill. They'll continue as it moves to the House. But I think this is a good transparency bill. As someone who supported Illinois getting into the fracking business a couple years ago, I want to make sure it's done right so that citizens have the confidence that the environment is being protected. So I'm happy to answer any questions and ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Thank you, Senator. Is there any discussion? Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you seek recognition? SENATOR McCARTER: To -- to the bill, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) To the bill, Senator. SENATOR McCARTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, we -- this came through the committee 45 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 and we had a - I don't want to use that -- the same, you know, discussion that we've been talking about - I think it was "robust" - but it was a -- it was a -- it was a kind discussion. Here's - - here's the situation: If -- if you're concerned that what we did with imposing rules on fracking may have been -- that may have been set too high to the point that investors don't come to the State, you should be concerned about this bill. Because in -- in -- it is my opinion that we are again setting standards that will prevent people from investing in -- as in my area, the Loudon Fields, going through southern Illinois, which is one of the most oil-rich areas in the Midwest. And I am concerned that these excessive regulations, in my opinion, will keep investors out. I -- I think we all want to be safe and -- and -- and -- and the sponsor and I agree on -- on these things almost all the time, but this is one where I just believe that this is going to have an affect on southern Illinois and the -- and the people that are working in this industry and it's going to affect their jobs. And so, for that reason, I would recommend a No vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Thank you, Senator. Is there any further discussion? Senator Koehler, to close.
Yes, and I appreciate those comments. I would, guess, offer my own opinion. I think that the price of -- of -- of gas and oil is probably the biggest factor in whether we see activity in terms of fracking. Oil is now up to seventy dollars a barrel. I think we're going to start seeing more activity in this regard. So I think this needs to just be a good transparency bill and I'd ask for an Aye vote. Thank you. 46 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3174 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 32 voting Aye, 17 voting No, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3174, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator Link in the Chair.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senate Bill 3185. Senator Althoff. Senator Althoff seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3185 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3185. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Althoff.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. The Floor amendment just adds language to the underlying bill to make it abundantly clear that the Grant Accountability and Transparency Unit at GOMB will continue to provide technical assistance and guidance to State grant-making agencies to ensure their proposed rule amendments comply with the Act.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for 47 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3185. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3185. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
Thank you. Senate Bill 3185 is a language cleanup and clarification bill for the Grant Accountability and Transparency Act. If the Body will recall, this was a bipartisan effort with Senator Kotowski, myself, Representative Bellock, and Representative Crespo. It's working extraordinarily well, but, as all Acts, needs a little bit of cleanup from time to time. This is the legislation. I know of no opposition and I would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3185 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3185, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise? 48 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Thank you, Mr. President. I just want the record to reflect it was my intention to vote No on Senate Bill 3174.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Record will reflect your intention. Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you rise?
I'd like the record to reflect that I intended to vote Aye on my own bill, please, 3185.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The record will reflect your intentions. Senate Bill 3179. Senator Murphy. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3179. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, on your bill.
…Mr. President. Senate Bill 3179, as amended, requires the Inspector General at the Department of Human Services to ensure that investigators have training on community agencies that they oversee. So it will be license requirements, administration of medication, community settings, minimum standards of certificate, and then also on how to conduct investigations for allegations of abuse and neglect. Know of no opposition. Can entertain any questions. I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall 49 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 3179 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3179, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3186. Senator Althoff. Senator Althoff seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3186 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill -- 3186. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Althoff.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your amendment.
Thank you. Floor Amendment 3 removes language, as per a request from AFL-CIO, that relieves local governments of a mandate regarding the prevailing wage rate to address concerns raised by that entity. It also changes the repeal date for a fund used by the Illinois State Police to 2019, instead of sixty days after the effective date. Technical cleanups. Ran through committee unanimously. And I'd like it adopted.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate -- all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported. 50 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3186. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3186. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3186, as referenced, is the omnibus Budgeting for Results Commission's annual cleanup. We actually passed this bill, but when it went over to the House, there were some other additions that they wanted to include. This is the cleanup language. This is the agreed bill. I'd ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3186 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3186, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3190. Senator Bertino-Tarrant. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3195. Senator Koehler. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3195. (Secretary reads title of bill) 51 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This is an initiative of Illinois Department of Public Health. It abolishes the Farmers' Market Task Force. It's not needed anymore. This was set up initially to deal with some issues that have been dealt with. They work very closely with the Illinois Stewardship Alliance and so I'd ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3195 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3195, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3197. Senator Mulroe. Senator Mulroe seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3197 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3197. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Mulroe.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd ask that it move -- be moved to -- or adopted and I'd be happy to explain it on 3rd. 52 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3197. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3197. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your bill.
Thank you again, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill -- or the -- the reason for this bill was I was inspired by the -- the death of Commander Bauer and Jim Mullen, who appeared in committee, is a quadriplegic. He was shot in the face and -- and his injury, as a result of that, was he can't feel anything below his neck. What -- this bill would recognize first responders for their service and sacrifice and provide a modest exempt -- homestead exemption of five thousand for any police, fire, paramedics, who, while on duty, either pass away, die as a result of being on duty, or suffer -- or their injuries result in quadriplegia, paraplegia, or loss of limbs. I'd ask for your support. 53 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Oberweis, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
There is no question in my mind that this individual was a worthwhile individual, and certainly our heart goes out to him and we certainly would like to support him, but I just want to remind everybody that when we vote a special break for a certain class or a certain group of individuals, that means that we're going to raise the taxes on everybody else.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Anderson, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I would like to thank the sponsor for this. Being a firefighter myself and -- and having friends that have been hurt in the line of duty, these -- these guys give a lot to their communities and helping them in this way, as we do for military veterans, I think is -- is pretty awesome. So thank you, Senator.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Mulroe, to close. 54 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
I would just close by saying there's -- this is more about recognizing their service and sacrifice, that people have put their line -- their life on the line that go out every day. Senator -- or Commander Bauer died as a result of serving us, the citizens of Chicago, and this applies statewide. Senate -- or Officer Mullen can't feel below his neck. I don't think there's -- any amount that we could pay them would be enough. This is a modest amount and it's really to just recognize their service and sacrifice. I'd ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3197 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, 1 Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3197, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3205. Senator Harmon. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3205. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3205 is an initiative of the Office of the Treasurer. It is a refinement of the existing Technology Development Act. It has broad support among the venture capital community. I'm not 55 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 aware of any opposition and I ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3205 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3205, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3215. Senator Barickman. Senator Barickman seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3215 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3215. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Barickman.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Barickman, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd ask for adoption of the amendment. I'll explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 56 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3215. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3215. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Barickman, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This is an initiative of the Illinois County Treasurers' Association. With the amendment, it makes changes to the Property Tax Code to -- regarding the sales in error Section to clarify appropriate uses of the provisions and lessen the financial impact of sales in error to counties. I know of no opposition. Ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3215 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3215, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3214. Senator Barickman. Mr. - - Senator Barickman seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3214 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3214. Mr. Secretary, have there any -- been Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Barickman.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 57 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Barickman, on your amendment.
The amendment becomes the bill. I'll explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the -- amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3214. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3214. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Barickman, on your bill.
Thank you again, Mr. -- Mr. President. This is an initiative of the Environmental Law & Policy Center. It creates the Pollinator Friendly Solar Site Act, which allows certain solar sites to obtain a certification from DNR allowing the sites to designate themselves as pollinator-friendly. This means they maintain practices that promote the habitat and populations of native pollinators. We've worked with all the stakeholders to remove any opposition. Glad to answer any questions. Would -- and would ask for an Aye vote. 58 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3214 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3214, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3224. Senator Nybo. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3228. Senator Harmon. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3229. Senator Harmon. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3233. Senator Manar. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3234. Senator Manar. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3234. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is the Auditor General's annual transfer bill that we do every year so that his office can complete the scheduled audits for the coming fiscal year.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3234 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate 59 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Bill 3234, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3236. Senator Manar. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3236. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your bill.
Thank you again, Mr. President. This bill is a transparency bill that would seek to add additional information to the school report card, which is an online tool administered by the State Board of Education. It would simply require the State Board to report data on that tool related to a school district's administrative costs per pupil. I know of no opposition and I would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3236 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3236, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3237. Senator Harmon. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3237. (Secretary reads title of bill) 60 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3237 is an initiative of the Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities. It is a clarification of the way the Department of Human Services reconsiders decisions by the Inspector General. With the amendment we adopted yesterday, we eliminated any concerns that the Department had. I'm not aware of any other opposition and I ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3237 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3237, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3244. Senator Mulroe. Senate Bill 3249. Senator Steans. Senate Bill 3249 -- 3255. Senator Rose. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3255. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This bill would allow physicians' 61 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 assistants to become emergency service personnel. Nurse practitioners can always do -- can already do this with appropriate training to -- in terms of extrication efforts and things of that nature, but somehow PAs were left out of the opportunity. And downstate Illinois with rural fire protection districts needing personnel at all times, it'd be helpful to allow PAs that live in the community go ahead and serve on their local fire department and practice up to their skill set. I think it's a great initiative to improve access to quality health care. Ask for a favorable impression -- favorable vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3255 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3255, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3001. Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3001. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sandoval, on your bill. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3003. Senator Sandoval. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3003. (Secretary reads title of bill) 62 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sandoval, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 3001 {sic} is a technical -- it's a technical bill. It makes technical changes regarding criminal offenses that have been renumbered or repealed, but removes provisions allowing individuals from Mexico or individuals who have had certain drug- related misdemeanor convictions the ability to obtain a school bus permit. There is no opposition to this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3003 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 48 Ayes, 1 Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3003, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3010. Senator Sandoval. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3010. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sandoval, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. 3010 reduces the penalty for a tow truck operator to -- who fails to display a 63 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 tow truck plate on a towed vehicle to a Class C misdemeanor. There's no opposition.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3010 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3010, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3022. Senator Muñoz. Senator Muñoz seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3022 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3022. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Muñoz.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz, on your amendment. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Thank you, Mr. President. I ask for its adoption and I will explain it on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Now on the -- are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 64 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3022. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3022. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz, on your bill. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. As the bill was amended, it moves the Liquor Control Commission from its reorganization under the Department of Revenue and makes it a stand-alone agency. It also requires DOR to conduct quarterly audits of tax delinquent audits. Finally, the bill states that failure to include the field inspection report and any other supporting evidence from a violation with the offer in compromise will result in the OIC being dismissed. I know of no opposition and I will attempt to answer any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Will the sponsor yield for a question?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
Senator, you were just very persuasive with that explanation of the bill and -- and so you know you've got my support on this, 65 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 but you did just say that you -- you're not aware of any opposition to the bill, but it's my understanding that the Department of Revenue itself is not supportive of this proposal. Is that correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Senator, you are correct. I misspoke on that. They did speak in committee yesterday. They were asking -- that they were saying that they were -- had a bunch of tablets that they bought and they were hoping we can try to hold this bill, and I told them -- I explained that we wanted to move the bill into the House. There was another amendment coming, because AFSCME had some concerns. But because of the time frame, we're sending this to the House and that will be put in. And if I'm not mistaken, at the last minute, just before committee -- I haven't heard from them, but they did say that Petroleum Marketers -- I think that was -- you brought that up as well.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
Thank you, Senator. I -- I think there's -- are very good reasons to make this move. I'm happy to support it.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bush, for what purpose do you rise?
Question of the speaker.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) He indicates he will yield. 66 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Thank you very much. It's my understanding that corrections need to be made to the employee protection language in the bill and that you've committed to have that work done in the House. Is that correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz. SENATOR MUÑOZ: That is correct, Senator.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bush.
Thank you very much. I'll -- I'll be an Aye. Appreciate it so much.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz, to close. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Just ask for an Aye vote and thank everybody for their input and all the help from both sides of the aisle. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3022 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 43 Ayes, 2 Nays, 3 voting Present. Senate Bill 3022, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3256. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3256. 67 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. 3256 -- Senate Bill 3256 clarifies that a person subject to bail for a Category B offense will -- will have thirty dollars deducted from every day of his or her bail for -- not from his security. It's a cleanup bill from the law that we passed last year. I know of no opposition and I ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3256 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3256, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3261. Senator Sims seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3261 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave -- leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3261. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Sims.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your amendment.
Mr. President, I'd like to adopt the amendment and debate the 68 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 bill on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3261. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3261. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3261, as we just amended, authorizes municipalities, counties, and mobile home park owners and operators to remove and dispose of mobile homes -- abandoned mobile homes. But -- currently, only municipalities have that authority. With the amendment that we just adopted, it removes all opposition. I know of no -- no further opposition and ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3261 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted 69 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3261, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator McConchie, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCONCHIE: For a point of personal privilege.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your point. SENATOR McCONCHIE: Thank you. Member -- Senators, I would like to invite you to welcome on the Democrat side of the gallery, we have students who are here for -- to look at the Capitol and study what we're doing today from three different high schools in my district. If you guys wouldn't mind standing up. We have students from Barrington High School, Cary-Grove High School, and Adlai Stevenson High School. So I'd like everybody to give them a warm welcome.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Welcome to -- welcome to Springfield. Senate Bill 34. Senate President Cullerton. President Cullerton seeks the -- leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 34 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 34. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by President Cullerton.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) President Cullerton, on your amendment.
70 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Amendment No. 1 becomes the bill. I move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The -- Senator Nybo, are -- oh. All those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 34. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 34. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) President Cullerton, on your bill.
Yes, thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This is a bill that we've actually passed similar versions of this on a couple of other bills and never finished the process over in the House. So we came back and worked with a number of interest groups, including the Fraternal Order of Police, the State Police, the Chiefs of Police, the Attorney General's, and State's Attorneys to address their concerns as best we could. It has to do with the U visas and T visas, which are federal programs which are -- allow for people who are the victims of trafficking or -- or sex crimes to -- allowed to be -- to obtain a visa if they cooperate with law 71 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 enforcement during the course of the -- their -- the crimes committed against them. So this would -- this bill would require State and local law enforcement agencies to complete within ninety business days a visa certification request from human trafficking or crime victims who are seeking federal immigration relief based on their assistance with the law enforcement investigation of those crimes. Currently, a law enforcement agency certification that the visa applicant was a victim and helped with the investigation or prosecution of that crime is a prerequisite for obtaining certain visas, but there's no requirement that the agency respond to certifications. So this is the need for the bill, to ask them to -- just to fill out the form. If they don't agree -- if the law enforcement agency doesn't believe that the victim really did cooperate, they don't have to fill -- they don't have to say that. We just want them to at least actually fill the form out. So I'll be happy to answer any questions and ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 34 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 37 Ayes, 9 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 34, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3136. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3136. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 72 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) President Cullerton, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This actually was a -- a bill that I introduced in response to learning about a State Trooper who was injured and nearly killed while he was on duty in 2013. He had eight surgeries, seventeen months of therapy, and he was trying to regain -- rejoin the force in -- in -- back in May of 2016. There -- he -- he, however, did not pass a drug test. He had apparently used marijuana one time to deal with his pain, and under the current State Police rules, they have no flexibility and they must terminate the trooper. So this was designed to provide that person -- to provide some flexibility to the State Police in determining whether or not he should be rehired. Again, be happy to answer any questions and ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3136 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3136, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3263. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3263. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 73 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3263 prohibits the Director of State Police from appointing auxiliary State policemen, but it also allows for the Illinois State Police to serve as the administrative support agency for the Commission on Police Professionalism. It further extends the deadline for the Police Professionalism Commission from December 31, 2018, to -- through -- to July 1, 2019. I know of no opposition and ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3263 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3263, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3276. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate -- Senate Bill 3276. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3276 amends the Criminal Code to allow a defendant to 74 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 withdraw their guilty plea within two years of a conviction if the judge failed to advise him that a guilty plea could affect their immigration status. I know of no opposition and ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3276 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3276, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3285. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3285. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3285 creates the Illinois Home Grown Business Opportunity Act. The bill assists businesses and municipalities located along the borders of Illinois by identifying existing State services and resources that may help them compete with businesses in neighboring states. Again, I know of no opposition. Would answer any questions and ask for its favorable passage.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall 75 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 3285 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3285, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3288. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3288. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank -- thank you, Mr. President. I like to be busy. Senate Bill 3288 allows the board of trustees of public universities to sell surplus real -- real estate not being actively used and the proceeds being retained by the university. It's an attempt by -- to allow our public universities to resolve some of their most pressing deferred maintenance issues. Again, I know of no opposition. Ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3288 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3288, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3289. Senator Nybo. Mr. 76 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3289. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to present this bill. The purpose of 3289 was to reenact the prohibition on illegally carrying or possessing a firearm within one thousand feet of a public park. And it was brought to me at the suggestion of our staff, and I appreciate that, and I was happy to carry the bill. But if you analyze the law, it was in response to a recent Supreme Court decision. This is still an offense under current law and the Supreme Court decision makes that very clear. And so if we were to pass this bill, I really don't think it would have a meaningful impact on improving safety in our State and for our residents in our communities. And I know a couple weeks ago, if not months ago, you know, I stood up on this Floor when we were dealing with other measures concerning improving the safety of our communities and I said, "Hey, we should focus on passing laws and doing things that make a difference and not just passing bills." And I think this is an incident where we would just be passing a bill to pass a bill. So, Mr. President, I'm going to pull this bill from the record, because I think that there are more meaningful things that we can do, not only as a Body, but as a Legislature and as a -- as a government, to improve safety in our community. I look forward to that opportunity and I hope we 77 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 continue working in that -- in that regard. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Out of the record. Senate Bill 3290. Senator Koehler. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3290. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill amends the Public (Aid) Code and requires Medicaid managed care organizations to pay at least equal to what the Department of Healthcare and Family Services pays under fee-for-service for durable medical equipment providers. A little background on this: Last year, in the fall of 2017, one of the MCOs basically put out there a rate that was fifty percent less than what was being paid for durable medical equipment providers and it was kind of a "take it or leave it" situation. This bill is hopefully going to have a effect of -- of really forcing the parties to come to some kind of conclusion on their own, but it's -- and it's too bad that we have to deal with this as a legislative matter. But here's the reality, is this, especially for downstate communities where companies that have durable medical equipment -- this is a different bill? I am sorry. I'm on the wrong bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) It sounded good.
78 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 So, save that thought. And that's not the first mistake I've made today even. This bill {sic} deletes all and becomes the bill. It requires the Department of Healthcare and Family Services to provide nursing homes with a patient credit file when they provide those files to the managed care organizations. I know of no opposition. This is much easier than the last one. Appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Syverson, for what purpose do you rise?
Just in all the confusion, I want to clarify for my side of the aisle that this is a -- a good piece of legislation and has no opposition and I appreciate the Senator's leadership on this one. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Seeing no further discussion, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3290 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3290, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3291. Senator Clayborne. Senator Clayborne seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3291 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3291. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Yes. Floor Amendment 3, offered by Senator Clayborne. 79 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne, on your amendment.
So, 3291 basically states the regulation of unmanned aircraft systems is an exclusive power and function of…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) We're -- we're on the amendment, Senator Clayborne.
Please adopt -- adopt the amendment.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3291. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3291. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne, on your bill.
Basically what this does is it allows the State to -- to regulate unmanned aircraft systems, an exclusive power and function of the State to make sure that there's continuity 80 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 throughout the State. I would ask for your favorable vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise?
Question of the sponsor.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will yield.
Senator, I'm sorry if you had mentioned this already, but -- but did you address the issue with respect to the park districts?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne.
I don't know if we totally addressed their issue, but what we did do in the amendment is to allow IDOT to have a process by which entities like the park district can come and -- and present before their task force for a public hearing -- through a public hearing.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
My understanding -- I've just been informed by our staff that they're going to try to continue to work with the park districts over in the House on their concerns with the bill. Have you heard anything along that line?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne.
Not opposed to that, but my understanding, the park districts 81 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 want to be excluded.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
I think that's good enough. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any further discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3291 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3291, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3301. Senator Cullerton. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3307. Senator Schimpf. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3387. Senator Syverson. Mr. Secretary -- Senator Syverson, seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3387 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3387. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 2, offered by Senator Syverson.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Syverson, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Just a technical cleanup that I'll explain on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The amendment is 82 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3387. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3387. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Syverson, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This legislation does a number of things. It establishes language for veteran preference for owner and contracts on riverboat casinos. It moves the Gaming Board annual reporting period from March until July. Imposes application fees for video gaming locations to {sic} a hundred dollars. Increases fee for terminal handlers from fifty to one hundred, and also it puts limits on the amount of -- or limits -- or deals with the video gaming in -- in malls that have been discussed. Know of no opposition and appreciate everyone's help in putting this legislation together. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3387 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that 83 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 question, there are 45 Ayes, 1 Nay, 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 3387, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3398. Senator Althoff. Senate Bill 3404. Senator Raoul. Senator Raoul seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3404 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3404. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill -- read the amendment.
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Raoul.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Floor Amendment 3 is an initiative of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. It removes the right to have an attorney present during a medical examination of a victim for sexual assault.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? All those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3404. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3404. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 84 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3404, as amended, provides for the Survivors' Bill of Rights by providing victims of sexual assault or abuse the rights to shower at the hospital post- examination, obtain a copy of the police report, have a sexual assault advocate and a support person for {sic} their choosing present for the medical examination. Prohibits law enforcement from prosecuting the victim for crimes related to the use of alcohol, cannabis, or a controlled substance based on a sexual assault forensic evidence, and provides that consenting to the collection of evidence by means of a rape kit extends the statute of limitations for a criminal prosecution to the maximum currently provided by law, ten years. I urge your support.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3404 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3404, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCARTER: …be -- like to be recognized on Senate Bill 3387 as a Yes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Your -- your intentions will be reflected. Senate Bill 3398. Senator Althoff. Senator Althoff seeks leave of the Body to return 85 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 3398 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3398. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Yes. Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Althoff.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your amendment.
…you -- thank you very much for the courtesy, Mr. President. The Floor amendment states very clearly that a limited liability company which provides professional services and requires registration with the Illinois Department of Finance {sic} (Financial) and Professional Regulation may convert to a professional limited liability company by filing the appropriate forms, at no cost.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3398. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3398. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 86 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff, on your bill.
The bill actually changes registration requirements so that professional limited liability companies, professional service corporations, and medical corporations must renew their registrations with the Department every three years. Currently it's annually. And it also places the registration requirements for professional companies in the same Act as the registration requirements with the Secretary of State for transparency, clarification, et cetera. I know of no one who objects. Be happy to answer any questions, but I'd ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3398 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3398, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3415. Senator Raoul. Senate -- Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3415. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3415 eliminates the 87 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 sunset date for the traffic stop statistical study under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Bivins, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Sorry, Senator, I had a little bit of trouble hearing you there, but I -- I think you're trying to extend the sunset or make it permanent. And just to alert the Body that the Chiefs, the Sheriffs, and the FOP are opposed to this bill. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? All those -- the question is, shall Senate Bill 3415 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 28 Ayes, 21 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3415, have -- having not received the constitutional majority, is declared failed. Senator Raoul, for what purpose do you rise?
Mr. President, I'd like to respectfully request that that bill be put on Postponed Consideration.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul requests that Senate Bill 3415 be -- be put on Postponed Consideration. The bill will be placed on the Order of 88 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Postponed Consideration. Senate Bill -- 3418. Senator Rezin. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3443. Senator Harmon. Out of the record. Senator Harmon in the Chair.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senate Bill 3452. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3452. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senator Link.
Thank you, Mr. President. This -- Senate Bill 3452 extends the sunset for advance deposit wagering and its associated tax from December 31st, 2018 to December 31st, 2022. I know of no opposition to the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Thank you, Senator. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3452 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 voting Aye, none voting No, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3452, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator Link in the Chair.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senate Bill 3466. Senator Lightford. Senator Lightford seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3466 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is 89 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 3466. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 2, offered by Senator Lightford.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Lightford, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd be happy to have the amendment adopted and debate it on 3rd, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3466. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3466. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Lightford, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. A few years ago, we passed Senate Bill 100, which addressed our school discipline and expulsion issues. This bill, 90 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 3466, is a follow-up to that. The 2015 School Discipline Reform Law that we passed emphasized the importance of using available and appropriate interventions to support families before pushing children out of school for student misbehavior. So this is a follow-up to that effort to ensure the same support is given to families when children are truant. So we're trying here to erase the fines and fees for truancy. There's no impact on schools with funding and there is no known opposition. I'd be happy to answer questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3466 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 47 Ayes, no -- 3 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3466, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3467. Senator Fowler. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3488. President Cullerton. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3489. Senator Collins. Senator Collins -- Collins seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3489 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3489. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Collins.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Collins, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for the adoption of the 91 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 amendment and will discuss it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3489. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3489. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Collins, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 3489 allows a person on the Murderer and Violent Offender Against Youth Registry to submit a Request for Review to verify that the information that is the basis for the registration is accurate as well as to seek corrections for errors. I know of no opposition. I would ask for an affirmative vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3489 -- or… The question is, shall Senate Bill 3489 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Aye -- the -- the voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all 92 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3489, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3500. Senator Sims. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3500. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sims, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3500 expands the custodial sexual misconduct to include law enforcement officers who are engaged in sexual conduct or sexual penetration with persons detained or in custody. Under the -- under custodial sexual misconduct -- under custodial sexual misconduct, consent is not a defense to prosecution. Custodial sexual misconduct is a Class 3 felony, which carries a sentence of two to five years and requires registration as a sex offender. I know of no opposition and ask for its favorable adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3500 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3500, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Can we keep the noise down a little bit? This 93 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is 3rd Readings. Senate Bill 3507. Senator Murphy. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3507. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, on your bill.
…you, Mr. President. As amended, this bill allows for a student to be in possession and self-administer their pancreatic enzyme medication. It's used for cystic fibrosis. It meets all the HIPAA requirements. I know of no opposition and I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall -- Senate Bill 3507 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3507, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3508. Senator Steans. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3508. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Steans, on your bill. 94 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Currently, the DSPs, those who provide -- direct service personnel, who take care of folks with developmental disabilities, are paid about ten dollars and fifty-nine cents on average. There's twenty-five percent vacancy rates. We're not in compliance with the Ligas Consent Decree. This bill would raise the base wage to at least thirteen fifty per hour by July 1st of this year and up to fifteen dollars by 2020. I would urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Syverson, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Just a -- a -- a brief question of the sponsor. I think she probably knows what the question is.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) She indicates she will yield.
Would you like to share with us what the cost of this change would be of both, I guess, before the match or -- and after the match?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Steans.
For fiscal year '19, it'd be two hundred and thirty-three million, or a hundred and sixteen net, after the match.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Syverson.
95 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Well, you -- you -- you didn't meet -- you didn't beat Senator Hunter. But just make those on our side aware of the fact, this is a pretty hefty price tag. And while there may be a -- a need for this - and they certainly fill -- fulfill a very important task - in light of our current budget situation, adding another couple hundred million dollars is problematic. So I'll just make Members alert to that. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
So, Senator Steans knows, I mean, this is an issue that is - - is having a very significant impact on our service providers in this space. My good friend from Rockford raises a very valid point. I -- I -- you know, I'm hopeful that we can address this issue in some form. I'm not sure this is the exact way in which it can be addressed and I think Senator Steans knows that. But I -- I do think that this is becoming a problem to the extent where, among our budget priorities, this is something that we should be focusing on doing something to -- to address. For that reason, I'm going to vote Yes on this proposal, 'cause I think it is something we need to take care of this year.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Anderson, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President. 96 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
You know, I know there's a cost associated with this. Couple things: I voted against this bill last year because we didn't have a budget and I thought it was unfair to tell those people that we were going to give 'em something that we couldn't promise. But, we do have a budget this year. Being a fireman, I see what these people do every day responding to calls at these facilities and they are probably some of the most underpaid people in -- in health care. And in addition to that, yes, there is a cost associated with this, but one thing that we have to factor in when we're talking about cost is, there is absolutely zero retention right now with these employees because they can't live on the money they're making for the job that they're doing, so we have to factor in the cost, too, of overtime that's being paid out right now, because these people are leaving all the time. So I don't know what those numbers are, but it's a huge chunk of money. So I just want to make sure whenever anybody is -- is deciding on this with a fiscal note, make sure you're -- you're -- you know, you're counting everything in. Yes, this is going to cost some money, but it's not going to cost the amount that has been -- has been slipped when you figure in the cost that you're saving with overtime. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Steans, to close.
No. I -- I appreciate the previous comments and just ask for your Aye vote. Thank you. 97 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3508 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 40 Ayes, 9 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3508, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3509. Senator Cunningham. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3509. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cunningham, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 3509 amends the Municipal Code. The -- the -- the Body may remember, about four years ago, we passed a law that prohibited municipalities from requiring their police officers to reach ticket citation quotas, forcing them to write a large amount of moving violation tickets against citizens in their -- in their municipalities. At that time, we exempted the City of Chicago from the law. This bill would remove that exemption. The City of Chicago would have to abide by the same rules. It would not be able to force their police officers to meet traffic citation quotas. I'd be happy to answer any questions and would appreciate the Chamber's support.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill… Senator Raoul, for what purpose do you rise? 98 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
I rise in strong support of this bill, in support of the FOP, and I urge everybody to vote Yes on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3509 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3509, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3513. Senator Hunter. Senator Hunter. Will the Committee on Assignments please meet in the President's Anteroom immediately? Committee on Assignments, please meet in the President's Anteroom immediately. (at ease) We will turn to page 2 of the printed Calendar, Senate Bill 2593. Senator Rose, for what purpose do you rise?
For purposes of a motion, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your motion.
Pursuant to Senate Rule 7-10, I move to table Senate Bill 2593. Section 6 of the State on -- Statute on Statutes provides that to the extent that there is an irreconcilable conflict, the last action of the General Assembly controls. In the event of Public Act 100-107, which passed the General Assembly on May 31st, 2017, which allowed a township referendum to dissolve a road district if the roads -- district are less than fifteen miles in length, versus Public Act 100-106, which passed the General 99 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Assembly on May 29th, 2017, which allowed a township to have a referendum to dissolve a road district -- any road district. Under the Statute on Statutes it appears that Public Act 100-107 controls over Public Act 100-106, and therefore my bill is unnecessary and I'm moving to table it. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose moves to table Senate Bill 2593. All those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. And Senate Bill 2593 is tabled. Mr. Secretary, Committee Reports.
Senator Clayborne, Chairman of the Committee on Assignments, reports the following Legislative Measures have been assigned: Refer to the Licensed Activities and Pensions Committee - Senate Joint Resolution 67; and Be Approved for Consideration - Floor Amendment No. 2 to Senate Bill 1265, Floor Amendment No. 2 to Senate Bill 2213, Floor Amendment No. 5 to Senate Bill 3047, and Floor Amendment No. 2 to Senate Bill 3528.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) We'll be back to page 23 of the printed Calendar, Senate Bills 3rd Reading. Senate Bill 3527. Senator Stadelman. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3527. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Stadelman, on your bill.
100 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Thank you, Mr. President and Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 3527 is trailer legislation to a bill the General Assembly had passed last year that extends the River Edge (Redevelopment) Zones tax credit. Several State agencies, DOR, DNR, and DCEO, have been working to streamline, improve and make this tax credit more useful for developers. I'd like to thank Senator Weaver for his work on this project, as well as Senator Koehler, also Senators Hutchinson and Althoff have been helpful with the process as well. Again, this tax credit is very important for the communities of Rockford, Peoria, Aurora, and Elgin to develop their downtowns. Happy to answer any questions. I'd appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Just to the bill. As stated by the bill's sponsor, this was a large effort, bipartisan effort, to ensure that we were providing all the necessary tools to these areas that they needed. There's some work that still needs to be done on some cleanup, but that can be done in the House. So I would urge everyone on this side of the aisle to vote Yes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Oberweis, for what purpose do you rise?
Question of the sponsor, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) He indicates he will yield.
Senator, just kind of my usual question. Where is the money 101 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 coming from?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Stadelman.
Well, again, these -- this money would not be distributed until these projects are actually offered and -- and executed, and therefore, if these projects don't come, the money's not expended. But I would argue, this money is -- is money well invested. So, these projects come, the State gets much more in return than it does -- investment with these tax credits.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Oberweis.
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Once again, our State is in extreme financial stress. I think it is critical that we start to pay attention to paying down our bills, stop increasing spending. I -- it may be a wonderful project. We have lots of wonderful projects, but we have no money. It's critical that we stop spending any new money and start to pay down our obligations. Thank you. I urge a No vote for that reason.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Weaver, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Just would like to make a comment to the bill. 102 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Yeah, I just want to thank Senator Stadelman for picking this up, the great job he's doing with it, getting everybody working together. There was some problems with regard to how this has been applied in the past, frustration with the folks who are trying to use it. And what's in this bill allows it to be a much more streamlined effort. And, again, thank you all for working on it. I'd request…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Stadelman, to close.
Just two points. As Senator Althoff mentioned, if there needs to be additional tweaks, certain -- certainly willing to work on -- on that issue in the House. And just final point, this means more State money. This means more money for communities. This means more money for the State, bringing in revenue for investment projects in these -- in these communities. I'd appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 3527 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, 1 Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3527, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3513. Senator Hunter seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3513 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order 103 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3513. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Hunter.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter, on your amendment.
I wish to adopt the amendment and I'll explain it on 3, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3513. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3513. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hunter, on your bill.
Thank you very much, Mr. President. This is an -- an initiative of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County. And, in most situations, a parent losing their driving privileges for 104 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 not making their child support payments are justified, but in these instances, however, when a parent is trying to do the right thing, but needs a little help immediately, the court's hands are tied. So this bill gives the judge the discretion to issue a stay order when an obligor's driver's license has been suspended due to child support -- arrearages -- arrearages. Okay, I said it right. Thank you. And the bill allows a judge to hear the facts unique to that case and, where appropriate, establish strict guidelines for parents whose petition the court has been granted. Therefore, there is opposition to this bill, but where we could agree, we did by adding suggestive language, which is the amendment, and it states a clear and convincing standard of review for evidence submitted. And it basically allows the judge in the instances when the terms of the stay order are not allowed -- to -- to terminate the order and, where appropriate, incorporate additional penalties. This is a good bill that recognizes the immense difficulties in -- in supporting children and maintaining employment without a driver's license while balancing the needs to collect arrears. And I urge an Aye -- I -- I urge your support on this measure.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3513 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 33 Ayes, 18 Nays, 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 3513, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3528. Senator Stadelman. Senator Stadelman seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3528 to 105 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3528. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Stadelman.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Stadelman, on your amendment.
Mr. President, I move that the amendment be adopted. I'll explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3528. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3528. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator -- Senator Stadelman, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 3528 extends the sunset of the online lottery for another eight 106 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 years, until 2026. Additionally, expands the Internet lottery to offer tickets for Lucky Day Lotto, Pick 3, and Pick 4. Currently, three other draw games are offered. That offer is -- extends to three more draw games. I'm not aware of any opposition. I appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3528 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 47 Ayes, 3 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3528, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3543. Senator Harmon. Senate Bill 3547. Senator Tom Cullerton. Mr. Secretary -- Senator Tom Cullerton seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3547 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3547. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Tom Cullerton.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cullerton, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like the amendment adopted. I'll explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for 107 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3547. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3547. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cullerton, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the General Assembly. Senate Bill 3547 is an initiative of the Attorney General's Office. What we found, and the Attorney General's Office found, that laws pertaining to veterans taking leave and being put on active duty were covered under probably seven or eight different statutes. We worked incredibly hard to try put those all into one statute. We brought in, and took our comments and our conversation from, the Chamber of Commerce, Illinois Municipal League, FOP. We also received Military Affairs, Veterans Administration, and we took all their concerns on how each of those bills was working, put it all into one Act, and are having that be our streamlined measure going forward.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Schimpf, for what purpose do you rise?
108 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Yes, I'd just like to commend the sponsor for the work that he did on this. This is a very important piece of -- piece of legislation and I'd like to urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any further discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3547 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3547, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3548. Senator Rose. Senator Rose seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3548 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3548. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Rose.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your amendment.
If we could adopt the amendment and debate the bill on 3rd, I'd appreciate it, Mr.…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment 109 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Rose.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your amendment.
If we could adopt Floor Amendment No. 3, we can debate the full bill on 3rd, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3548. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3548. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This bill is incredibly important to the over half a million people who get their water in this State from the Mahomet Aquifer. Over a year and a half ago, we had a 110 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 leak from an underground natural gas storage field. That leak, while may have been technically compliant in their notice to various governmental agencies, they notified next to no one locally in any sort of timely fashion. There were numerous local water intake wells for at least three different water systems that were not notified that natural gas was present. Had it gotten into their wells at the concentrations in which it was occurring, it could have blown those plants sky high, but they weren't told about that. Neighbors, to the extent that they were home when they walked around and left a business card on the door, might have talked to them, but they left no notice to people who weren't home that said, "Hey, call us. There's a problem. Call us immediately". We found out about this literally seven months later. It was absolutely ridiculous. It was absolutely uncalled for, how they've treated my constituents and how they've put the water supply in danger. So this bill, Senate Bill 3548, would change the notice requirements in the event of an incident that occurs over a sole source aquifer, as designated by the U.S. EPA, to require much broader, much more robust notice, and, yes, they have to tell the local homeowners what's going on. And I would appreciate an Aye vote and be prepared to answer any questions the Body may have. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3548 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 54 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3548, having received the required constitutional majority, 111 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is declared passed. Senate Bill 3549. Senator Rose. Senator Rose seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3549 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 3549. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Rose.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your amendment.
If we could add the amendment, we can debate the full bill on 3rd, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3549. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3549. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rose, on your bill.
112 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Thank you. I won't belabor the Body with the explanation of how we got here, but the point of this bill is we don't want to ever be here again. What happened should never have happened. The casing that failed, failed in apparently three different places. There is significant maintenance concerns at this particular below ground storage field. And so Senate Bill 3549 would require annual inspections by the Department of Natural Resources and it'd be paid for by the regulated entity, in this case, Peoples Gas. And that's an important part. It's not the taxpayers' fault what happened here and so Peoples Gas should pay to annually inspect these things and it should be done by someone other than Peoples Gas. We have significant issues with their maintenance records, the logs, and, of course, had maintenance been done properly, we wouldn't be here. And so Senate Bill 3549 seeks to prevent this from ever happening again by requiring that annual maintenance. And I would be happy to answer any questions. I might also throw a shout-out to my good friend and colleague, Senator Scott Bennett, who is coach -- is on our Mahomet task force and has been a great -- has been a great supporter of our aquifer. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3549 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3549, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 3577. Senator Harmon. Out of the record. Senate Bill 3604. Senator Cullerton. Out of the 113 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 record. Senate Bill 65. Senator Hastings. Senator Hastings. Senate Bill 211. Senator Murphy. Can we please keep the noise down a little bit, please? Senator Murphy. Senator Murphy seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 211 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 211. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Murphy.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move to adopt the amendment and discuss on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Murphy.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. This amendment is adding FOIA information and I'd like to adopt and discuss.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment 114 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 211. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 211. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. So Senate Bill 211 allows a lottery winner of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or more to keep their identity private. So they would have to submit a request to the Department, a written request, within a year period of time. That, of course, would be FOIAable and they would be able to keep their identity private so that they're not subject to prey from all kinds of people. So I believe we have eliminated all of the opposition and I know of no additional questions, but if there are any, I'm happy to entertain and I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) There any discussion? Senator Rooney, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 115 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 To the bill.
Mr. President, I -- I'm not intending to minimize the pressures that somebody feels when they win a big prize like this, but there are certain principles that we're supposed to be down here defending. This is a public process. This is a public lottery. People in the public are buying tickets. There shouldn't be a reason why anybody feels that they should get to be anonymous if they win. You have to handle the pressures that come along with it. This whole idea that somehow or another if we subject it to FOIA, now that makes everything better, no, it makes people go through a process to have information that we're currently giving them, that we've always given them, and I -- I think people have a right to know that these winners actually have faces and real people are winning and not have the suspicion that, oh, oh, oh, well, now we heard another person that didn't really win. What do I know about this? This is a public process. If you want to participate in it, you have to pick up both ends of the stick and participate as a member of the public.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Haine, for what purpose do you rise?
A suggestion to the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) State your suggestion.
Why don't the officials at -- at the Lottery be given authority to enter into a contract with the winner and they buy 116 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 confidentiality? They give ten -- ten percent back if they're confidential, or if we want to adopt the Bar Association's rule, one third, and then they can buy their confidentiality and the State gets more money. Just a thought.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Murphy, to close after that.
…thought. So, again, all opposition has been removed and I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 211 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 41 Ayes, 5 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 211, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 274. Senator Bennett. Senator Bennett seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 274 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 274. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Bennett.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd ask it be adopted. I'll discuss on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor 117 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 274. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 274. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 274 addresses an issue that we don't spend enough time talking about here in the State Senate, the Mahomet Aquifer (Protection) Task Force - I'm just kidding. I know we've talked a lot about Mahomet Aquifer. This is about the task force that Senator Rose previously mentioned in his litany of bills. And what this bill would do is simply extend the deadline for the report from July 1st to December 31st. I know of no opposition and would ask for your Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 274 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 53 Ayes, 2 -- no Nays, none voting Present. 118 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 274, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 336. Senator Harmon. Senator Harmon seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 336 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 336. Mr. Secretary, are there any amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Harmon.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. The amendment is actually a Harmon-Nybo amendment. It comes out of the conversation in committee and meetings with the Department. I move for its adoption and would discuss the full bill on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 336. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 336. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 119 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 336 as introduced is the Alternatives to Opioids Act. It would provide access to the medical cannabis program for patients who have been or would otherwise be prescribed an opioid. Following the first committee hearing, Leader Brady asked me to meet with the -- the Departments that administer the program and so I did so along with Senator Nybo. This amendment is the product of that conversation. The -- the Departments - again, this is a multiple Department program - they do still have some concerns and we're working through those collectively and I think we can continue to address some of their issues. I also want to point out that the State Medical Society has a concern that we need to rectify the way the prescriptions are referred to so that we don't put doctors in an odd spot. But I want to emphasize the importance of this program. This would provide almost immediate access to medical cannabis for patients who would otherwise be depend upon -- dependent upon opioids. It allows an alternative that keeps people from getting strung out and spiraling down. I'm aware of broad and deep support for the bill, not only from folks in the medical cannabis industry, but from an awful lot of -- of people and groups who are committed to looking out for the welfare of folks at the end of their ropes. I would be happy to entertain any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise? 120 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Will the sponsor yield for some questions, Mr. President?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
Well, first off, Senator, do you know why Senator Althoff is trying to steal my credit on this bill?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon.
I believe she earned the credit earlier than you did.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
So, a more serious question. It is my understanding - I think you just said - that you had significant conversations with DPH and, up to this point, a substantial amount of their -- their suggestions have now been incorporated via the amendment. Correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon.
That is correct, Senator.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
And -- and you have some degree of confidence that -- that we will be able to further address their concerns if the bill moves over to the House?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 121 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Harmon.
I do. And, Senator, also, as you well know and I think many of us in the Chamber know, on many bills, but in particular on bills with this topic, the House is going to have a loud voice. So it is inevitable that we negotiate with our House counterparts. I'm not concerned that we will not have an opportunity to engage meaningfully.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
…to support this. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) There any further discussion? Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCARTER: To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill. SENATOR McCARTER: Yeah, I just want to make note that -- and remind people that the -- the medical marijuana program was -- was lobbied by people who now own it. Just -- just remind you of that. And -- and the only way that this makes financial sense and this works for them is if they expand the number of users. So that's what you're doing and you're helping them succeed at this.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any further discussion? Senator Harmon, to close.
122 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Thank you, Mr. President. I'm -- I'm struggling to come up with a closing at the moment. I -- I do want to emphasize again how broad the support is for this program. I recognize that -- that -- some of the concerns about the scale of the program. I will emphasize that not only does the underlying program have a sunset date rapidly approaching, we added in a sunset date for this opioid alternatives provision as well, to remind people that we have a chance to revisit all of this. I know people have concerns about marijuana, but I have concerns about opioids. It is a crisis ravaging the State. When people ask me if I -- we're not simply creating a gateway, I tell people this: I don't know if cannabis is addictive, but I do know this, opioids and heroin kills people, cannabis does not. I ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 336 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 44 Ayes, 6 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 336, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 337. Senator Harmon. Senate Bill 405. Senator Hutchinson. Senator Hutchinson. Senate Bill 424. Senator Manar. Senator Manar seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 424 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 424. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Manar.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 123 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Manar, on your amendment.
I would move for the adoption of the amendment, Mr. President. Be happy to answer questions on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion -- and the amendment carries. Is there any other Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 424. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 424. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This bill came out of the Revenue Committee last night -- excuse me, the amendment did, but it becomes the bill. This is simply a TIF extension for the City of Litchfield. I know of no opposition. Would ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 424 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted 124 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, 1 Nay, none voting Present. Senate Bill 424, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 427. Senator Raoul. Senator Raoul seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 427 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 427. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Raoul.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your amendment.
Floor Amendment 1 deletes all. It becomes the bill. I'll explain on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 427. Mr. Secretary, are there any -- Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 427. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill. 125 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 427, as amended, is a term limits bill. It limits the term on the Metropolitan Pier (and) Exposition Authority to three terms.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Rooney, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Mr. President, this feels a little bit like déjà vu. Last year when this came up, the way this bill was phrased was this is a three-term limit on a position, making it sound like it was new, making it sound like it was in the spirit of term limits, and I pointed out last year that that is not true. This is not new. This is not in the spirit of term limits. There is a two-term limit on this position already, and just like happens often when people start to realize that term limits are real, they start to go, "Oh, but I want to stay, so can't we just extend it for me?" That's what's happening here. In the town where I was on the city council, we had a two-term limit for the mayor, and as he neared the end of his term, oh, he wanted to stay and they tried to extend his two-term limit to three. I was proud to stand against that back then, even though I was on the mayor's side of most of the battles, because this is how term limits get eaten away. We 126 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 shouldn't be eating them away. We should leave this as a two-term limit and not extend it to three terms.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Raoul, to close.
Thank you. I appreciate the sentiments of the previous speaker. This bill came out of committee with unanimous support in committee. It -- it previously passed out of this Chamber with wide bipartisan support and I would urge to have that same result today in the interest of the stability of the Metropolitan Pier (and) Exposition Authority.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 427 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 40 Ayes, 5 Nays, and 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 427, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 65. Senator Hastings seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 65 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 65. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 4, offered by Senator Hastings.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. The amendment becomes the bill. I'll address it on 3rd Reading. 127 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Now -- are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 65. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill -- Senate Bill 65. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. As amended - the Floor amendment - this bill provides that all title insurance policies be issued by the same entity when the owner buys the policy for the purchase or sale of the residence in counties with more than five hundred thousand residents, unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise, the buyer or seller is offered at -- a discount of fees as an inducement to split the title insurance policies, unless prior to the closing, the issuer of the owner's policy agrees to offer the same discount. This is a proponents {sic} of the Professional National Title Network and we've actually agreed with the Illinois Land Title Association on this bill. Thank you, Mr. President. 128 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise?
Will the sponsor yield?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
…information and I'm not sure I fully understand what's going on here. As a -- as a beginning, my analysis is showing that -- that there's opposition from the Realtors, the Land Title Association, and DPFR {sic} on this amendment.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings.
To my understanding, the only opposition is from the Department -- or IDFPR is the only opposition on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
Senator, would you be willing just to take this bill out of the record for a short time so I could confer with you about what your analysis says with respect to opposition?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings.
No, I'll just -- I'll tell you right now that the only one in opposition is IDFPR.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 129 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Nybo.
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I mean, it -- it's -- it's clear that this is a real estate bill. My analysis is showing - and -- and no one is telling me otherwise except you, Senator - that -- that two of the most important organizations that deal with real estate issues down here are opposed to this bill, that being the Realtors and the Land Title Association. So, I -- I'm not doubting your representation, but I do believe there is some misinformation here. And -- and knowing that I don't have the full story, I am concerned to support this until someone can explain to me what's going on here and why two organizations would -- would be opposed or concerned with this bill. So I'm going to vote the cautious vote, which is No, at this point.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings, do you have…
Sure. I'll just tell you that, in committee, the Land Title Association, nor anyone else, slipped in opposition outside of the fact of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. And I will -- I'll -- I'll yield my time to other members of the committee that were actually there and actually heard the testimony. I don't have a problem doing that.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Schimpf, for what purpose do you rise? 130 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Sponsor yield, Mr. President?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
Yes, thank -- thank you, Senator Hastings. You know, what - - what I recall from -- from the debate were -- was that there -- there was an issue about whether or not this bill, as it's drafted right now, would conflict with existing federal law. You -- is - - do you think there is a conflict?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings.
The -- the conflict with federal law you're referring to is in violation of Section 9 of the RESPA, which -- which deals with real estate transactions. No, I do not believe that there is a - - a conflict with Section 9. If there was a conflict with Section 9, the Illinois Title Association and other title associations that do business would -- would have slipped in opposition to the bill. That was actually a main tenet of the discussions that took place in private between the parties. You know, when -- when IDFPR did testify in the committee, the young gentleman had read from a script, which was provided to him from somebody. And I think the question that was asked was, to the -- to the young gentleman, do you actually practice real estate law, and do you actually know what you're talking about, and do you actually know what a closing is like? And his answer was, no. He was given a script to read from and he was wrong. And other practicing attorneys here will tell you that the seller has the primary control over the title 131 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 insurance policy and then the buyer then proceeds by paying a nominal fee to the seller for that title insurance protection. This bill maintains the current practice, unless two certain circumstances apply. The first is if the buyer and the seller agree, and the second is, obviously, if the buyer or seller is offered a discount of fees, an inducement to split the title insurance policies, unless, prior to the closing, the issuer of the owner's policy agrees to offer the same discount. Generally speaking, when you offer an inducement at the table, that's in violation of RESPA. The interpretation by the title association companies does not find that in violation of Section 9.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Schimpf.
Well, I'll just -- I'll just clarify things right now. I -- I do not practice real estate law either, so… What -- what I'm concerned about, though, is -- and I think you're indicating that, except -- you know, if we don't meet those two circumstances, this does, however, take away -- take away choice from a buyer. Does it not?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings.
Actually, it gives the buyer a choice if the buyer and seller agrees. Previously, under current practice in real estate law, the seller controls the title insurance policy. This bill would give the buyer the option to bifurcate the title insurance policy if the buyer and the seller agree to that.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 132 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Schimpf.
And what would the -- what would the -- you know, you talked about -- you talked about RESPA. What would the impact be for -- if you were looking in Title 12, Section 2608, when it talks about title -- title companies? Does that have -- does that have any applicability when we're talking about potential conflict of law?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings.
I don't -- that's a great question, Colonel -- Senator. You -- I don't have the entire Code, RESPA Code, in front of me to relate back, so I -- at this time, I would be -- be unable to answer his -- that question. But, more specifically, the attorneys that reviewed this with the title insurance companies and also the Land Title Association, they would not want to violate RESPA. I will just tell you right now, they do not want to be in jeopardy of losing their licenses. They don't want to be in jeopardy of having an issue at the federal level as well. And if there was a -- a conflict, this bill wouldn't be on 3rd Reading and we wouldn't be voting on it right now if there was a conflict.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Schimpf.
Well, I think that, you know, the -- the -- the -- the Section -- the Section of Title 12 that's problematic is it says - and I'll -- I'll read it right now. It says, "No seller of property that will be purchased with the assistance of a federally" mandate -- "federally related mortgage loan shall require directly or 133 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 indirectly, as a condition to selling the property, that title insurance covering the property be purchased by the buyer from any particular title company." I think a fair reading of that indicates that we're -- you know, that -- that we are, in your bill, making a requirement, unless certain -- certain limit -- certain limitations apply, that we're -- that we're going to be violating existing federal law. I think that's the reason that the Department is still opposed to this. And, you know, I -- I would request a -- request a No vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo, for the second time.
Mr. President, I do appreciate that. I was misinformed. I just want to clarify that; that it has been confirmed, neither the Realtors nor the Title Association is opposed to this bill. So, I appreciate my staff and my colleagues helping point me -- point that out to me, so…
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
…sure -- I'm not sure why anyone would be opposed to this bill, just so -- and I do practice real estate law. When you go to a real estate closing, the seller's attorney purchase -- or orders title -- a title commitment. A portion of the premium is paid by the seller to insure the buyer. The buyer pays the premium 134 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 that insures the lender. It's one policy, which makes things more -- smoother, more efficiently at the closing. If you had -- allowed two different policies, it would be duplicative work. You'd have two different title commitments that exceptions would have to be waived in both, there could be inconsistencies. It, in my opinion, would create chaos for the real estate closing community. Now on the other hand, what Senator Hastings in his bill is, if both parties agree to that, they can do it. So that provides a choice. But right now, to me, this just clarify -- confirms the existing practice, and everything is going nice and smoothly in real estate closings. To disrupt it or allow two policies, would create chaos in real estate closings. So I'd -- I'd urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hastings, to close.
So I know there's been just a -- a little brief debate on a -- a -- I guess, a quasi-complicated issue, but I -- I want to let you know that in terms of opposition, IDFPR obviously was opposed, and that's -- and that's fine. However, their explanation is in conflict with people who actually do the day-to-day business and that could potentially jeopardize their business of issuing title insurance policies. I truly believe, and they truly believe, that they do not want to lose their licenses. They do not want to be in violation of RESPA. RESPA was put into place to protect consumers at the closing table, so that we do not fall into the same situation that we fell into in 2006 and 2007. This bill is a good bill. Why is it a good bill? It gives buyers a choice and -- and buyers a choice if the buyer and the seller agree. It's 135 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 very rare that we're -- you know, we -- we do things in real estate that -- that help attorneys and the process, but this bill definitely will streamline the process, clarify a lot of different terms. And, again, it's -- it's agreed to by the industry. And I just ask for a favorable Aye vote, Mr. President, and thank you for the time.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 65 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 41 Ayes, 6 Nays, 3 voting Present. Senate Bill 65, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 457. Senator Koehler. Senator Koehler seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 457 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 457. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Koehler.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your amendment.
…President, I'd move for adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, No -- Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
136 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 457. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 457. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This is the right bill this time. This amends established requirements for a cottage food operation to canned tomato products and adds additional foods to the authorized list that a -- a cottage food operation may -- may and may not sell. Currently, any kind of tomatoes, canned tomatoes or sauces, are not allowed. This also sets the PH level to be 4.6 or lower, in case you were wondering. I'd appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 457 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 457, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 486. Senator Harmon. Out of the record. Senate Bill 544. Senator Mulroe. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Mulroe seeks leave of the Body to return 137 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senate Bill 544 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 544. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Mulroe.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. I'd ask that it be adopted. I'd be happy to explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 544. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 544. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your bill.
Thank you again, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill is an attempt to resolve a dispute between the City of Chicago 138 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 and the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Since 2010, the City, through their administrative -- process, is not able to register their judgments in those -- in that process, unless they pay a fee to the Clerk, which they historically had not been paid -- or not paid. This is a bill that's supposed to -- is designed to benefit both the City, so that they can register their judgments and enforce their judgments, and, at the same time, provide a fee to the Clerk of the Circuit Court. Happy to answer any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 544 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 544, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 559. Senator Morrison. Senate Bill 560. Senator Bennett. Senator Bennett seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 560 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 560. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 1, offered by Senator Bennett.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator -- Bennett, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I ask for its adoption. I'll discuss on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 139 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay -- Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 560. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 560. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This bill came out of a conversation I had with an FTC official at a legislative conference, talking about the national problem that's coming with counterfeit airbags being installed in cars at auto repair stores. Due to the significant cost of modern airbags and all the technology involved, many scammers in -- in Asia and other areas have taken to producing counterfeit or nonfunctional airbags to replace in cars after an accident. They're defective and they often go unnoticed, because they're never opened or inspected, unless there's a collision. They have a one hundred percent failure rate, however, which puts, of -- and -- and then there's also the risk of exploding without warning. So, obviously, this puts a lot of passengers and drivers at risk. This would elevate 140 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 that charge, the installation of an object in lieu of an airbag, from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony. I know of no opposition.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 560 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 560, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 563. Senator Cunningham. Senator Cunningham seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 563 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 563. Mr. Secretary are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Cunningham.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cunningham, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. The amendment becomes the bill. I move for its adoption. Will discuss it on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will vote Aye -- will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported. 141 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 563. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 563. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cunningham, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. This bill could probably be best explained by dividing it into two parts. The first amends the Criminal Code -- Criminal Code, specifically the -- the disorderly conduct statute, which is what police and prosecutors rely on when they charge individuals for making false threats of violence against schools. Sadly, we need to update that law, particularly one of the sanctions applied through that law. That's something that requires the person making a false threat of violence against a school to reimburse police and fire departments for the expense of having to respond to that call. Right now in the statute, that can only be applied if the individual calls in the threat to 9-1-1 or makes a threat involving a bomb. If you talk to police agencies in my district, and I assume everyone else's, particularly the Palos Hills Police Department that brought this to me, they'll point out that the cases they investigate now involve social media threats of violence that often don't mention explosions, so that part of the statute can't apply. So we update it to ensure that any threat made against a school of violence, that sanction can be applied by the 142 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 judge. The second part of the bill would allow police officers to bring someone who's made a threat against this -- a -- a -- a school to a -- a hospital or health center for a -- a psychological evaluation. There was some late opposition that came in when we had the bill up in committee involving the admission of any statements made by a juvenile offender in that type of situation. It's a legitimate concern. We're going to take care of that concern in the House. I know of no other opposition of the bill. I would appreciate your support.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 563 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 563, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 564. Senator Harmon. Senate Bill 888. Senator Manar. Senate Bill 1246. Senator Bennett. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 1246. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bennett, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. 1246 involves the ABLE accounts, which were created a few years ago and are managed by the Treasurer's Office, which attempt to give some tax advantage 143 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 savings for families with children with disabilities. ABLE accounts are already protected from debt collection. But what 1246 does is make a technical change to ensure that ABLE accounts are also exempted on a list of personal property exempt from debt collection. So it's a technical change. I know of no opposition.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 1246 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 1246, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 564. Senator Harmon. Senator Harmon seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 564 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 564. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Harmon.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I -- the amendment becomes the bill. I move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration? 144 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 564. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 564. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 564 is an agreed trailer bill to our major overhaul of the Civil Asset Forfeiture Law last year. I am not aware of any opposition. I ask you for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 564 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 52 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 564, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 1265. Senator Van Pelt. Senator Van Pelt seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 1265 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 1265. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
145 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Van Pelt.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Van Pelt, on your amendment.
I would like it be adopted and I will discuss it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the -- the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 1265. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 1265. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Van Pelt, on your bill.
Yes, thank you very much, Mr. President. Senate Bill 1265 is -- creates the Justice for Juveniles Program. And this is a good bill because it addresses the tremendous injustice that has proliferated over the last few decades in certain areas in Illinois, and that is the process of extracting false confessions from children and then imprisoning them, sometimes for decades. So Senate Bill 1265 requires that minors under eighteen years of 146 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 age who are charged with murder or sex offenses be represented by counsel throughout the entire custodial interrogation. This bill is -- is really -- I think it's timely, because we have learned more -- more and more we're learning that children do not have the capacity that adults have as far as their -- their mental capacity, and so we know -- we know they also don't have the level of maturity as adults, so we don't allow our children to enter a binding contract and, by law, children are not allowed to buy cigarettes. They're not even allowed to participate in a field trip to the local zoo without parental approval. So children should not have the power to waive their Miranda rights when their life is lying in the balances. While in most areas I believe the adults in the room are working to protect children during interrogation to ensure that false confession is not the final result of the interview, that has not been the case in Cook County and in some of the other areas in the State. Cook County is now the false confession capital of the nation, and there are more children that have been in prison and still are in prison based on false confessions in Cook County than anywhere in the nation. So this bill will provide justice for juveniles by requiring that an attorney be present if and when they ever find themselves under interrogation for a heinous crime, such as murder or sex offenses. The bill also requires that even though it's a statewide program, it can only be instituted by the Chief Judge of the -- of the circuit court. So the Chief Judge of each circuit -- judicial circuit may establish the program and require that juveniles arrested or detained for murder or sex offenses be represented by counsel throughout the entire custodial interrogation. If the program is established, statements made by juveniles during such custodial interrogations 147 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 without counsel are inadmissible in a court proceeding. So I think this is a very timely bill and I believe it's fair, because we can -- it allows us to address where the problem is and not have to - - make this -- make this law a statewide law that everybody has to -- has to be under. So this law allows us to address the challenges that we have in a few areas in this State where children are being misrepresented and are experiencing injustice.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Haine, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I understand fully where the -- my distinguished colleague, Senator Van Pelt, is -- her frustrations with Cook County, some of the goings on there over the past few years. We did not have them in Madison County, I must say, during my tenure as State's Attorney. But this bill does a number of unfortunate things, unintended consequences to be sure. Number one, it violates an agreement made with the State's Attorneys in 2017, when they went along with the counsel for minors fifteen and under, and they thought the issue was going to be put aside for a number of years to study some of these alleged problems. I'm not sure how many juveniles have faced lifetime in prison because of forced confessions or tricked confessions. The stats that I see have been adults. That's -- those are two problems with the bill. The third problem with the bill that I see is that the unintended 148 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 consequence will be that these minors will not talk to the authorities about the crimes that are committed. They will not talk to the police if they're brought in as a co-defendant in a case. You're -- the -- the -- the issue will be, how to solve crimes. Crimes will not be solved and that's -- that's happened in England. When this same approach was tried, the -- the solution rate for major crimes in England dropped an extraordinary percent and Parliament had to reverse this. People -- young people will not talk to cops. These are juveniles and they're -- we -- we've expanded the -- the remedies for juveniles. We've raised the age for juveniles to protect them. One other intended {sic} consequence will be that State's Attorneys will be -- if they're faced with the frustrations with this, are going to go into court and move to certify. And these children will be faced with adult charges, where they're going to have a lawyer, but they're going to face with adult charges. The State's Attorneys will simply not tolerate over time a situation where crimes are not solved. I don't think we're at a threshold where we have rampant confessions extorted from juveniles in the State. And this does apply to me. I also question the constitutionality of a system of counsel being applied in one county and not in an adjoining county, which this bill allows. I would respectfully urge -- and I do have a great deal of respect for the sponsor, but I would respectfully urge that this Body keep this bill in the Senate, this idea in the Senate, and vote No or Present or just take a walk and go out and -- and -- and maybe have a smoke, you know. And then we can revisit this with the State's Attorneys and the public defenders. Keep in mind, this is going to be another demand upon public defenders' offices, and those are tax moneys. I don't know how Cook County -- what 149 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 the estimate is on how many public defenders they're going to have to hire. I know we're going to have to hire some in Madison County and then that's a property tax increase too. So I would urge that we all pull back and keep this in the Senate and see if we can bring all these stakeholders together to feel our way through it. And this is not intended in any way in criticism of Senator Van Pelt's issues with some of the -- the deficiencies in the Cook County administration of justice. That's a matter for her to take up with State's Attorney Foxx and I think she has standing to -- to do that and I'm sure the good State's Attorney will listen to her and implement some bureaucratic changes that should work. But I would, again, ask for a No vote, a Present vote, or simply a disappearance. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Senator -- Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I -- I am always cautious about rising on a -- a -- a bill like this with a view contrary to Senator Haine and to the other Members of this Body who have served as State's Attorneys or as Assistant State's Attorneys. But I have -- I have watched Senator Van Pelt work on this issue with a degree of passion and devotion that I -- is -- is rare on a bill. She has tried everything to protect a population that is especially vulnerable. And I don't know if this is the right answer. I don't know if this is the final answer, but I do believe that the work she has done warrants 150 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 an Aye vote to make sure we have that conversation in a meaningful way with all of the -- the folks who might otherwise be reluctant to come to the table and negotiate. So I will vote Aye and I urge you to vote Aye as well and I appreciate you listening.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Members of the Senate, Mr. President, I, too, rise to -- in opposition of the bill. I understand Senator Van Pelt's intentions to protect juveniles up to eighteen charged with crimes. I do want to address one of the things she said about Cook County. I was a Cook County Assistant State's Attorney and there are many, many, many good -- in fact, I'd say ninety-nine percent of the Assistant State's Attorneys in that office are good people. You don't get confessions out of beating people or coercing them. You get it by treating them nicely. You get more from sugar than you do with vinegar, or honey and vinegar, whatever that saying is. But I am telling you and -- there are some evil people out there in our -- in Cook County and in our State that without the confession, they go free, and what that means is those people that are evil are still within our communities and are left to ravage the communities and commit the heinous crimes of murder and rape on the people within their communities. So -- and I -- I actually gave some specific examples to Senator Van Pelt. I did vote Yes to get it out of committee, but made my intentions known that I 151 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 was going -- most likely to vote No on the -- on the Floor. I -- I will be voting No, but I -- I just had to stand up because -- the reputation of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office. There's many, many, many great people there doing the people's work. The name of their cases are People versus so-and-so defendant. They are acting on behalf of the people and I -- I'm -- I'm -- I'm proud to have served there. I'd ask that everyone vote No.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator McCann, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCANN: To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill. SENATOR McCANN: I rise in strong support of the lady's measure. I, too, as Senator Harmon alluded, I applaud her tenacity in standing up for a population who is forgotten in large part because they can't vote. It seems that -- we spent a lot of time talking about raising the age of majority for buying cigarettes yesterday and a lot of us -- I voted No on that for two main reasons. One, I -- I told -- I told the proponents that if there was an exemption for military personnel, we probably -- I could -- I might be able to vote for it, but even more importantly, if we're going to have an age of majority, let's settle on what it is. If we want to raise the age of majority or lower the age of majority, let's have that conversation. This conversation is about the co-equalness of citizenship. As many of you know, I'm a very prolife individual. I'm a prolife legislator and a prolife individual, and the -- one 152 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 of the reasons I'm so prolife is because I believe that life that exists within the womb is that of a citizen's life, a co-equal citizen of the United States of America, and they are owed certain basic human rights that citizens of this nation are owed. And so I don't know how you can stand and say -- many of us here agree on that issue. I don't know how you can say that someone is owed these inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, unless of course you happen to be an underprivileged teenager, primarily in Cook County, and on the wrong end of -- of a situation. I think if all of us were to dig deep and consider where would we be if this was our child or grandchild or a friend's child or grandchild, I know that we would want them to have representation. The only problem I have with the bill is that it can be carved out for certain counties and not statewide, but I hope to -- continue that conversation. And it's just basic common sense and, again, comes down to the co-equalness of citizenship that these citizens of the United States shall not be deprived of their basic right to be represented. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Hunter, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I'd like to commend the sponsor for working on this bill. We've had many conversations since she's been here regarding this particular matter. And it's unfortunate that our young people are 153 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 committing more crimes, but it doesn't mean that we have to throw them out the window. We still have to support them and that's what this Body is here for, is to support and protect our -- our -- our youth. You know, I'm not saying that we agree with everything that they do, but we must protect them by at least having -- making sure that they have legal representation during that -- that process. And that's what we're here for, you-all. That's something that we -- we must do. And we will continue -- if this measure doesn't pass, which I hope it does, we will continue to push for this measure to pass until it does pass, because we are the ones that are supposed to be protecting our young people and making sure they have appropriate levels of -- of -- of -- legal representation. Nobody else is going to do it, but us. Thank you very much.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rooney, for what purpose do you rise?
Mr. President, will the sponsor yield to a question, please?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates she will.
Senator Van Pelt, I have never asked a question on this Floor before, because I don't believe in setting up arguments with questions or asking argumentative questions. This is genuinely a question. You mentioned earlier, I believe, that this only applies to Cook County. Is that correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Van Pelt.
154 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 No, it -- it applies wherever the Chief Judge in any county -- you know, if he -- he institutes the program, then it would apply there.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Rooney.
Then I apologize. I misunderstood what you said. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Van Pelt, to close.
I -- I just want to say that our children matter. And one of my peers on this side of the aisle talked about how good the Cook County State's Attorney's Office is, and I agree that we have a lot of great people in the State's Attorney's Office and in the police department, and the vast majority of them, you know, I -- he said ninety-nine percent; you know, ninety-nine percent could be excellent, but it's the one percent that's destroying lives. We have -- we don't have just one or two cases like this. We've -- we've had a number of cases that have been overturned because of the fact that they're extracting false confessions out of children. That's not hard to do. All they have to do is tell the child -- now get this, they just need to tell a child, "You sign here and you're going home." They're going to sign that paper because they want to go home. They don't know that that's illegal. I mean, that that's -- that it's going to cost them to be put in prison and it is not illegal. You can -- they can lie to the kids in the police station and then use that confession, based on that lie, and it won't -- and it's -- it's held up in court. That's held up in court. In other words, they are tricking the children 155 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 into confessing and they end up in prison. If it was just one child that that had happened to, I'd be standing here arguing for that one child, but it's happened to dozens. And I don't know what happens around the State, but I know what happens in Cook County, and that's why I'm standing up today and I will fight and continue to fight for this issue. And I believe it should be statewide, but -- but the Body has to accept that. The Body has to want it. The whole Body has to want that. So I just urge your Aye vote and I hope everyone understands that we're the only ones that is going to stand up and protect these children when the local governments have failed. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 1265 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 23 Ayes, 18 Nays, 4 voting Present. Senate Bill 1265, having not received the required constitutional majority, is declared failed. Senate Bill 1335. Senator Bush. Out of the record. Senate Bill 1628. Senator Martinez. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 1628. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Martinez, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 1628 with -- the Amendment 3 deletes all and becomes the bill. It retains the 156 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 language from Amendment No. 1 and 2. It removes language requiring the Department of {sic} (on) Aging to provide funding pool for care coordination units to make -- to make improvements. Two, it changes the new CCP Medicaid Enrollment (Oversight) Task Force to a subcommittee within the already established Older Adult Service {sic} (Services) Advisory Committee. Third, it adds a member to the subcommittee representing a labor organization. And, four, it lowers the enhancement rate to CCUs from three hundred dollars per completed Medicaid application to two hundred and forty. These are the requests that were made. We've been still negotiating this with AFSCME, Department of {sic} Aging, the Department of Human Services, and the Department of -- Family and Children Services. This bill is still -- we're still working on it. We have Representative Ann Moeller and a -- a few other Members of the House working on this. In a task force that I belong to, Medicaid task force, we saw that we -- there is about an estimated ten thousand seniors that have not been enrolled in Medicaid. We are losing federal dollars by not doing something about this. So we're going to continue to work on this bill over at the House, but I'll be happy to answer any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Syverson, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Madam -- Mr. President. To the -- to the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I understand there's -- they're trying to make some changes, 157 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 which some of those make sense and I appreciate some progress is being made. The concern, obviously, with this is the -- the fee changes, which result in a -- a cost of another seventeen million dollars at a time when we can't currently pay bills to -- current senior programs and the fact that we're falling further behind. Adding additional spending at this time, just doesn't make sense and so I would urge a No vote until we get a better handle on the -- on the budget. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Martinez.
It might be putting an extra cost, but let me tell you, if we are able to go ahead and enroll those seniors in Medicaid, we will be saving the State over fifty million dollars. So I just think that right now we need to continue to do a better job in enrolling our seniors into these Medicaid programs as it keeps changing. But in the meantime, I think that the departments have to work together, DHS, DFS, and Department of {sic} Aging, because of the fact that if we can streamline some of these applications, that makes it easier for these seniors to sign up. I took care of a ninety-seven-year-old uncle and I remember all the paperwork that he would get in the mail. And if it wasn't for me trying to even understand sometimes some of those applications -- they're very hard for these seniors. So I really believe that we need to do a better job in trying to maybe get more people to help the departments, you know, go out there and employ more people to help with this process. But I really believe that if we're able to bring in, you know, over ten thousand seniors into the Medicaid program, we're going to see our State being able to save much more 158 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 money and, again, get more dollars from the federal government. And I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 1628 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. There's 38 Ayes, 12 Nays, 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 1628, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2017. Senator McConchie. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2017. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator McConchie, on your bill. SENATOR McCONCHIE: Thank you, Mr. President. This bill will allow for us -- for people who are investing and putting money into ABLE accounts to be able to take care of someone who is disabled under the federal definition, it will allow them to be able to take a tax deduction for that. This will really -- greatly help parents who have disabled children, because this only applies for people who can - - only create an account if you became disabled before age twenty- six. It's similar to 529 accounts. Senator Bennett has run a couple of bills on this, in fact, one even earlier today. So this would cap the deduction at ten thousand dollars per individual, twenty thousand dollars for married couples. It's an initiative of the Treasurer's Office. Be happy to answer any questions. 159 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall the -- Senate Bill 2017 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2017, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2210. Senator Koehler. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2210. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your bill.
…you -- thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill requires a -- mass transportation carriers must provide a ten-minute bathroom break for every four hours that their drivers work. I think it's a pretty straightforward bill and I'd appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2210 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2210, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2213. Senator Biss. Mr. 160 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Secretary, please read the -- Senator Biss seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 22 {sic} to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2213. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Biss.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Biss, on your amendment.
Senator, Amendment 1 becomes the bill. I move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Biss.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Biss, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Amendment 2 is purely technical. I move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration? 161 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2213. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2213. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Can we keep the noise down a little bit? Please keep the noise down so we can hear what's going on. Senator Biss, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 2213 seeks to deal with a really crisis situation that exists in our country right now under the Trump administration with Scott Pruitt as the head of the EPA. There is now the threat that a series of environmental regulations that have had strong bipartisan support for a number of years might be rolled back. Senate Bill 2213 simply says that should those protections be rolled back on the federal level, that the State would swiftly act to put them in place here on the State level. It does nothing to expand any regulation. It does nothing beyond the current status quo, but it protects that status quo in a moment when I think there's significant threats coming from Washington. I'd certainly appreciate your support.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator McCarter, for what purpose 162 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 do you rise? SENATOR McCARTER: To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill. SENATOR McCARTER: Ladies and Gentlemen, we had discussion about this in the committee and -- and one of the questions I raised was, where is labor? Well, now the -- we do have the answer now. IBE -- IBEW Local 51 is against the bill. Local -- the pipefitters against the bill. For this reason - you're going to jeopardize their jobs. You're going to jeopardize the living for their family. Now I understand that you want to make a statement that you don't like this administration and you don't like what -- what they -- their reforms that they've put in place, the EPA, may -- may not like the Director, but you're going to hurt the people that you represent by putting this in place. Here, again, you -- you -- you try to get -- get around a decision that you didn't like nationally. This is bad policy. Live under the rules that we've all created here. This is going to hurt families in this State. Now, you want to be on record for doing it, go right ahead. Not me. I'm not going to jeopardize the -- the -- the living of the families in my district, nor yours. I urge you to vote No on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Senator Tracy, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. Questions of the sponsor. 163 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will yield.
Senator Biss, yesterday, we had discussion about, we'll say if -- if we had neighboring states that had the lower regulations and they operated an energy plant and the possibility that that energy plant could, in Illinois, could choose to go idle and then that would maybe affect the workers and then maybe affect the rate of electricity and, you know, we debated that a little bit and talked about Illinois being a -- a larger energy -- energy supplier - I think Senator Koehler brought that up - however, that's an instance where we're able to generate revenue by exporting in Illinois. That's a good thing. But if we shuttered those facilities, because of the higher cost here in Illinois, then that definitely would have a staggering economic effect. But another thing that occurred to me after hearing was, what about the Waters of the U.S. rule? It's -- it certainly was not favored much in Illinois among the agricultural community and so we're rolling back that requirement, but if we went to a more stringent requirement, where would that put us competitively among neighboring states?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Biss.
Well, nothing in this bill sets up a more stringent requirement. In fact, nothing in this bill changes anything unless there's an effort to roll back existing regulations and begin polluting waters in ways that we have not been doing. I -- I do want to answer the first part of your question as well, though. 164 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 You're -- you're right. Senator Koehler talked in committee yesterday in explaining why he supported the bill - and feel free, Senator, to get up if I'm misrepresenting you - about the role that Illinois plays as an energy exporter under the current regulatory regime, a regime that enables us with our deregulated system to be a massive energy exporter. This is not something that would threaten that at all, on the contrary.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Tracy.
My point is, yes, we are able to export, but if someone else - to export the energy - but if somebody else is - neighboring states - more competitive because we are under an old rule, they are under the new rules, if you will, or the release of those rules, then, again, we're not competitive. Illinois will never get out of its financial crisis unless we're competitive with our neighboring states. This is one more instance that puts us at a competitive disadvantage and I just don't think it's worth it to risk employment of our Illinois citizens at this financially troubling times. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any further discussion? Senator Rezin, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. As -- if you go through my district 165 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 -- the first thing that we did when I came into office is I went through my district and looked at the assets that are in the district, because I know, if you talk to companies, it's a challenge to be in this State for a multitude of reasons that we've talked about here. What we found is that because of the grid system that we have going through, that we have numerous amounts of energy producers in my district. I also represent a chemical corridor that, I would say in the last three of four years, has invested a half a billion dollars in the chemical corridor to increase their -- or to improve their infrastructure and put thousands of union workers in my district to work. The energy industry, that I also represent, when they have turnarounds, you have thousands of union workers coming in for these turnarounds to work in these plants. We're kidding ourself if you think that companies do not look like {sic} bills like -- such as this one, as uncertainty in this State. They have choices when they produce their product, their power, whatever it is that they produce. Some of these companies, many of these companies, have sister plants across the country. So when they look to produce the product, they're looking at the best state to produce that product in. Simply by flipping a switch on or off, they can take that product and produce it in another state. So when they look at legislation such as this, creating this unpredictability in our State, they're making choices where to invest. And I'll close with this: Currently I have a plant that's looking to permit -- that's going through the permit process in my district as we speak. They haven't broken ground yet. As they go out to borrow money for this plant that will put five hundred union workers to work to build the plant, that will invest a billion dollars in my district, 166 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 they still have choices. Should they go forty-five minutes right across the line, where they don't have to deal with regulation and this uncertainty, or can we keep them right here in the State of Illinois and in Grundy County? I ask for a No vote. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any other comments? Senator -- Senator Biss, to close.
Thank you, Mr. President and Members of the Senate. Just a -- a few comments. First of all, the previous speaker mentioned uncertainty. There is no uncertainty associated with this bill. This bill says keep what we have. It doesn't talk about adding anything. It doesn't talk about uncertainty going forward. It says keep in place what we currently have. That has, in fact, as the previous speaker mentioned, resulted in a tremendous amount of investment in the energy industry here in the State of Illinois. I also want to quickly refer to a comment made by, I believe, the initial speaker. There is a fact sheet circulating that -- with the headline "Business and Labor Oppose Senate Bill 2213". That's simply not the case. There is not one labor group that has slipped in opposition to this bill. I have a text message from one of the labor groups that that speaker mentioned, saying specifically they have not taken a position on this bill. And on the contrary, the BlueGreen Alliance, an alliance of environmentalists and labor groups, has taken a position in support of this bill. So the question is simple. It's not about uncertainty. It's not about the -- it's not about creation of jobs. It's about whether we want to allow the Trump administration to roll back environmental regulations and increase pollution or not. If you don't want that, please vote Aye. 167 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2213 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 30 Ayes, 18 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2213, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator McCarter, for what purpose do you rise? SENATOR McCARTER: Call a verification, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator McCarter has requested a verification. Will all Members please be at their seat? Will the Secretary read the affirmative votes?
Those Members voting in the affirmative: Bertino-Tarrant, Biss, Bush, Castro, Clayborne, Collins, Cullerton - Thomas Cullerton, Cunningham, Harmon, Harris, Hastings, Hunter, Hutchinson, Jones, Koehler, Landek, Lightford, Link, Martinez, Morrison, Mulroe, Muñoz, Murphy, Raoul, Sandoval, Sims, Stadelman, Steans, Van Pelt, President Cullerton.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Does Senator McCarter question the presence of any Member voting in the affirmative? SENATOR McCARTER: Senator Cunningham.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Cunningham. Senator Cunningham. Mr. Secretary, strike the name. Senator McCarter, is there any other one that 168 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 you question? SENATOR McCARTER: No more.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senate Bill 2213, having failed to receive the required constitutional majority, is declared failed. Senator Biss, for what purpose do you rise?
I would request that we put this on the Order of Postponed Consideration, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Biss requests that Senate Bill 2213 be postponed. The bill will be placed on the Order of Postponed Consideration. I'd just like to remind everybody, it is now twenty-five minutes to 4. We're continuing on, so I would ask that we move it along. Be -- be ready when your bill comes up. Senate Bill 2232. Senator Koehler. Senator Koehler seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2232 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2232. Mr. Secretary, please read -- are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Koehler.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Move for adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor 169 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2232. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2232. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This amends the Illinois Emergency Management (Agency) Act to grant the Governor authority to evacuate long term care facilities and supporting {sic} (supportive) living facilities. This comes to me from the Health Care Council of Illinois and really rose out of a -- a situation in Texas when they -- Houston and -- and surrounding areas were experiencing a severe hurricane and they found out that the governor actually did not have the authority to do that, so this corrects that. There's some issues that need to be further resolved. We've had some good discussions with IEMA on this. I thought we were close to having language as an amendment, so those discussions will continue. I trust that the -- we'll -- we'll get this together. But I'm happy to answer any questions and I appreciate an Aye vote. 170 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Althoff, for what purpose do you rise?
Will the sponsor yield?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
Senator Koehler, you and I have had discussions with regard to this specific piece of legislation and I thank you for recognizing that it still needs work. I think I want to draw attention, was it your intent to just have this legislation apply to nursing homes? I would ask, what about CILAs, hospitals, developmental disability homes, group homes that we have? Would this apply eventually to those types of institutions as well?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler.
Not specifically as it -- as it states right now, but I think those are all issues that can be put into the discussion as we can -- go forward on this.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff.
I would agree and I thank you for making that statement here on the Floor that that would be something that you would consider. I also would ask that you consider the part that local entities would play in this type of a plan. Currently, many of the local entities, local units of government, make directions and -- and 171 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 are an integral part of an overall plan. Is it in -- your intent to continue to look at that piece as well?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler.
Yes, and those -- those parts have been talked about. That's very much a concern of IEMA. And -- and this legislation is no way intending to disrupt any of that. It's -- it's merely to outline the responsibilities of each party and to really give the Governor some authority in making a final decision. So -- but all that will be continued in the discussion, yes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Althoff.
Thank you, sir. I just wanted to say thank you to Senator Koehler for allowing me to question him on the Floor on issues that we've already basically discussed. But thank you for adding it into the record.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2232 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 49 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2232, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2236. Senator Bertino-Tarrant. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2236. 172 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bertino-Tarrant, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President and Members of this Chamber. Senate Bill 2236 amends the Invest in Kids Act, prohibiting tax credits from being awarded to private school scholarships in any year in which the minimum funding level for evidence-based funding is not met. What this bill does not do, it does not remove the scholarship program - thank you, Mr. President - it does not remove the scholarship program; however, it requires us as a Body to fulfill our constitutional responsibility of funding public education. And if you'll indulge me for a minute, I will share some of my additional concerns that we have -- that I have with the -- the scholarship program. As we are well aware, this program was, for lack of a better word, thrusted upon us in the -- the eleventh hour, in order to pass an education funding bill, without properly being vetted. The education funding bill took us five years and -- however, this came out in just a few shorts weeks. We definitely have a concern with transparency with this whole entire process of not knowing who is getting the -- the scholarships. We have allowed for directed donations to specific schools and now have become a marketing tool for some schools. We have a focus list of high schools and school districts from an ISAT list from 2013 that addresses performance gaps amongst minorities, but is not addressed in this scholarship administration. I have questions about how the money can be allotted to one school and how that affects scholarships throughout the State, admission requirements, 173 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 and what happens at the end of five years. In addition, there's many other questions that we have never had the opportunity to properly vet. In addition, while we do have geographical requirements in this, the nine percent that is allotted to my county, Will County, one of the larger counties in the State, that has to share with twenty-two other counties, does not really specifically identify how fair this scholarship is -- program is going to be throughout the State. However, I did have the opportunity to speak, finally, to some of the negotiators and I will pull this from the record for now, as we move forward with the budget process; however, I look forward to a discussion on this with people involved to make sure that this program is properly vetted and we are serving the students that we say we are going to serve. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Out of the record. Senate Bill 2252. Senator Muñoz. Senator Muñoz seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2252 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2252. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment 2, offered by Senator Muñoz.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz, on your amendment. Can we please keep the conversations down a little bit? Senator Muñoz. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Thank you, Mr. President. I ask for its adoption. I'll explain it, because it becomes the bill, on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 174 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2252. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2252. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Muñoz, on your bill. SENATOR MUÑOZ: Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. The bill, as amended, grants immediate family members, children, stepchildren, grandchildren, and siblings of a law enforcement officer who was killed in the line of duty hiring preference when applying to become a State Police officer. It's an initiative of the State Police and I know of no opponents.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Anderson, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill. 175 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
I just want to voice my support for this bill and I want to thank the sponsor for letting me be a -- a -- a cosponsor of this legislation. I think it's fantastic that we are taking care of the family members of our -- our police officers.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2252 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2252, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2262. Senator Koehler. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2262. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. I feel like this is déjà vu all over again. This is the bill that I started to talk about before. This amends the Public Aid Code and requires Medicaid managed care organizations to pay at least equal to what the Department of Healthcare and Family Services pays under fee- for-service to durable medical equipment providers. I think where I was in my argument was that this is a discussion. It's too bad it has to get to the Legislature to try to resolve this. But if 176 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 -- if we can pass this and -- over to the House and continue discussions there, I think we can come to some resolve. I want - - I appreciate Senator Syverson, as well, getting involved in this discussion. But what's at risk is that we are going to be putting a lot of small companies out of business in our local communities. I'm -- I'm talking mostly about downstate communities where durable medical equipment providers really cannot compete at the level that one of the MCOs has -- has offered as -- it's kind of a final offer. So it's -- it's a -- it's a tough issue. It's -- it's not resolved yet by any means. I would be happy to answer any questions and I'd like to ask for an Aye vote to continue this discussion.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Oberweis, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Yesterday, even though we had strong Republican support for Senate Bill 2858, which was the bill, if you'll remember, that allowed the Treasurer to save taxpayers money. I felt it was a good bill and I spoke in favor of it, trying to encourage some of my Republican colleagues to support it as well. Let me tell you, folks, this bill is a bad bill. This is a horrible bill. What this is doing is coming to the Legislature, a company who decided they can't compete on price with some other providers of this equipment and saying, legislator -- Legislature, protect me. Keep me from the free markets. Don't make me compete with others who can supply this at a lower price, which ultimately would save 177 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 taxpayer dollars. How can we possibly pass this type of special interest crap? I implore those of you on the Democrat side to look carefully at this bill and do what is right. This bill is wrong in every possible way. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Syverson, for what purpose do you rise?
I think what Senator Oberweis was trying to say -- let me rephrase that just a little bit. Senator Koehler, I appreciate the work you're doing in looking at building some safeguards to make sure that abuses don't occur in the process. We have had a number of meetings and the concerns are -- that Senator Oberweis raises, are -- are true, that we're trying to keep Medicaid costs down and the -- and we can't step in and say to a managed care company, if you can get -- if you can get these services and these products cheaper, you can't do that; you have to use these vendors. We can't get to a point where we do that. But on the reverse side, we have to make sure that when you are using a -- a -- a lower vendor -- or a lower-cost vendor, if you're getting a -- a better price, that there is the same quality, that the service is there, that the -- that -- that there's local service so those patients can get that care. And there are safeguards currently in place for those outcomes and, like I say, we've had ongoing meetings. This bill, I think, goes -- goes too far in taking away the ability to help lower the cost of Medicaid and so I would -- I would urge that we vote No on the principle of what this will do, but we have ongoing discussions. And there's not a big hurry on this, because these changes are not taking place until January. So there is time to look at concerns and if they can't get addressed, there's 178 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 plenty of time to come back and address it in another -- another bill. So I would reluctantly ask for a -- a No vote, but understanding it's something we'll continue to monitor. Thank you, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler, to close.
Yes, thank you for the discussion on this. This really almost becomes an area of what's called predatory pricing. Yes, there are -- are suppliers that could, I'm sure nationally, supply durable medical equipment. The -- the question is, is it timely? Is it when somebody's leaving the hospital that they get that walker or that wheelchair? Is the service -- what happens if that equipment fails? Is the service readily available? This mostly affects - and it's not just one business - this affects durable medical equipment businesses in all of our small communities downstate, and if they're put out of business, then the only option that's available then is some national chain, and maybe they fly it in with a drone or whatever, I don't know how they deliver the service, but right now we know that the service is good. I'm hoping that we can pass this bill out of here, send it to the House, continue those discussions and make sure that we come to some agreement that is reasonable and rational. So I ask for an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2262 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 30 Ayes, 19 Nays, 179 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 none voting Present. Senate Bill 2262, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senator Oberweis, for what purpose do you rise?
Asking for verification, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Oberweis has requested a verification. Will all Members please be in their seats? The Secretary will now read the affirmative votes.
Those voting in the affirmative: Bennett, Bertino-Tarrant, Biss, Bush, Castro, Clayborne, Collins, Tom Cullerton, Cunningham, Haine, Harmon, Harris, Holmes, Hunter, Hutchinson, Jones, Koehler, Lightford, Link, Manar, Martinez, Morrison, Mulroe, Muñoz, Murphy, Raoul, Sandoval, Sims, Stadelman, Van Pelt.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Oberweis, do you question the presence of any Member voting in the affirmative? Could you -- could you repeat that? We didn't hear you. Your mike wasn't on.
Senator Sandoval.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Sandoval. Senator Sandoval. Mr. Secretary, strike his name. Do you question anybody else? On a verified roll call, there are 29 Ayes, 19 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2262, having failed to get the required constitutional amount, is declared failed. Senator Koehler, for what purpose do you rise?
Mr. President, I'd request 2262 be put on Postponed 180 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Consideration.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Koehler requests that Senate Bill 2262 be postponed. The bill will be placed on the Order of Postponed Consideration. Senate Bill 2267. Senator McCann. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2267. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator McCann, on your bill. SENATOR McCANN: Thank you, Mr. President and Members of the Body. This bill is the result -- the -- of an accident that happened in my district, in Greene County, a few months ago on a very dangerous road, a road that has seen several deadly accidents over the years. A young man was taking his son to school one foggy morning and crossed the yellow line, hitting the oncoming car. The problem is, he didn't cross the yellow line; he crossed the center of the road, but not the yellow line, because there was no striping. And there's no striping because the county runs a very lean budget. And, in the State of Illinois, we do not allow municipalities, townships, and counties to use federal pass-through funds or other State funds for striping, no matter how much they may have in excess. They have to be paid for out of motor fuel tax. So this bill says that if the -- if IDOT, the district engineer, and the county highway engineer all agree that a highway is a dangerous highway and that they are -- it's in need of striping, that this 181 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 bill will allow those funds to be used to stripe those dangerous roads. Again, only with the permission and advice of IDOT and the county highway engineer. So I would respectfully request an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2267 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 51 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2267, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2269. Senator Manar. Out of the record. Senate Bill 2328. Senator Holmes. Senator Holmes seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2328 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2328. Mr. Secretary, have there been any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Holmes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Holmes, on your amendment.
I can explain the amendment on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the motion carries. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
182 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2328. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2328. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Holmes, on your bill.
Thank you so much, Mr. President. This allows a political subdivision to forgo the qualification-based selection process for an emergency situation if the cost is expected to be less than forty thousand. This differs from current statute, which allows a political subdivision to forgo the QBS process if the cost is expected to be less than twenty-five thousand. Additionally, it stipulates that the amount will be increased annually by a percentage equal to the annual unadjusted percentage increase as determined by the consumer price index.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator McConchie, for what purpose you rise? SENATOR McCONCHIE: A question of the sponsor.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates she will yield. SENATOR McCONCHIE: Thank you. Senator Holmes, for purposes of legislative -- 183 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 thank you for bringing this, by the way. I think it's a great bill, another good step in the right direction. For purposes of legislative intent, can you answer whether the waived Sections -- even with the waived Sections for these projects, it still means that the firm being chosen is primarily for their qualifications. Is that correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Holmes.
That is correct, Senator. Basically, what this does is it expedites the process for local governments to use on small or emergency projects.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator McConchie. SENATOR McCONCHIE: Thank you, Mr. President. I encourage an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2328 pass. All those in favor, vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 49 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2328, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2345. Senator Lightford. Mr. -- Senator Lightford seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2345 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2345. Are there -- Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
184 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Lightford.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Lightford, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Floor Amendment No. 1 deletes all and becomes the bill. I'd be happy to debate it on 3rd Reading, sir.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2345. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2345. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Lightford, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. This is an initiative of the Illinois Youth Survey. It is administered by the Center for Prevention Research and Development at the University of Illinois under the contract with the Illinois Department of Human Services. It requires the Illinois school report card to report to each 185 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 public school whether or not the school has participated in the survey, and it defines the definition of the survey. It's administered every two years to eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders. There is no fiscal impact. I'd be happy to answer questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2345 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2345, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2343. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2343. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 2343, as -- as amended, provides that an individual commits the crime of unlawful use of a weapon when he or she sells, manufactures, purchases, or possesses, or -- or carries a bump stock or trigger crank. Given that we've had a couple of different bills regarding bump stocks and trigger cranks, I want to be clear as to the definition we're using. For a bump stock, it's any device for a weapon that increases the rate of fire achievable with the weapon by using energy from the recoil of the weapon to generate a reciprocating 186 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 action that facilitates repeated activation of the trigger of the weapon. And for the trigger crank, it means any device that can be externally fitted to the trigger guard or stock of a firearm that actuates the firearm using a crank.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Anderson, for what purpose do you rise?
Question to the sponsor, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will yield.
Senator, can you explain the penalties for some of these things in the bill?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
It's a Class 2 felony. It's punishable by three to seven years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Anderson.
That penalty is -- is the same for a fully automatic weapon. Is that correct?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
Yes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 187 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Anderson.
Don't -- don't you think that's a little excessive? I mean, it -- the -- the penalty is more for just having it in your possession than most people would have if they go out and fire a gun into a crowd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
No, you asked me about whether it's the same for possessing a fully automatic weapon. It's not -- it's not a -- a question of firing it, it's a -- a -- a question of the possessing. So the penalty's the same for possessing a fully automatic weapon or something that makes a gun fire rapidly, where you can take people out in a school or a -- a -- a movie theater or stadium, the type of mass shootings that we've been seeing around the country the - - I think the penalty is appropriate for people who possess those things.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Anderson.
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
So, here's where I take an issue with this, is the -- the whole bump stock thing, again, bump stocks are outlawed. The -- the Trump administration already outlawed it. Okay. Can I -- can I talk? Okay. The Trump administration put a ban on bump stocks. 188 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 You can no longer purchase bump -- bump stocks. The issue here is that simply possessing something that's not even a gun is going to have a worse penalty than if somebody were to take a pistol and fire it into the crowd -- into a crowd. That's -- that's a problem. So you're -- you're -- criminal-wise, you're -- you're better off having a gun and -- and going and firing it into a crowd than somebody that, say, is in Indiana and has a bump stock in their possession and is driving across State lines and has it in their vehicle with no ill intent, is maybe taking it to a state where they still allow those people that have legally purchased one and not taking it to fire it legally in that state. So the -- these penalties are a little outlandish. I would again -- I would urge that we be very careful with this legislation, especially when it comes to law-abiding citizens that -- that already possess these and are traveling across state lines.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo, for what purpose do you rise?
Will the sponsor yield?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Indicates he will.
Senator, we -- we've -- we've -- had a -- a bill that has addressed bump stocks that's passed out of this Chamber already, but I think it would be helpful for the Body to understand how this proposal differs from the one that we've already passed. Can you -- can you provide us a more detailed explanation of what you've already done?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 189 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Raoul.
Absolutely. The bill that we passed that said that the bump stock would have -- would be defined as something that would convert a gun to a fully automatic gun -- it doesn't account for guns that are -- are converted by bump stocks that can still rapidly shoot, but wouldn't be defined as fully automatic. So you can still do some pretty good damage to some students in a school, some people in a stadium, some patrons at a theater with something that falls short of what we previously passed out.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
So -- so one difference is, it's a more expansive definition of what constitutes bump stock?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
Yeah, it expands to a definition that includes weapons that could do some pretty good damage to some students in a school, some patrons in a theater, some patrons at a -- a stadium.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
It also, as -- as -- as my -- my good friend here in front of me was just questioning you about, it's a different penalty provision as well, and if so, can you explain what the different penalty provisions are?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 190 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Senator Raoul.
Again, it was -- it's a Class 2 felony.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
Well, is -- under the prior bill, was that different? Has this been changed in any way?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
I'm not sure, but it's -- under this bill, it's a Class 2 felony, which I think is appropriate. And to the prior speaker's characterization of somebody firing into a crowd, as a former Assistant State's Attorney, I would charge that person with attempted murder, which would -- would -- would have a -- a more severe penalty than a Class 2 felony. And so there's a total mischaracterization of the possession of this not rising to the same level -- of being more excessive than a penalty of somebody that would fire into a crowd. That's untrue.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
Appreciate that, Senator. Thank you. My recollection also is that the -- that the previous version of the bill like this that we passed also had a component of it that dealt with whether municipalities could enact their own local ordinances governing gun control. And so if there are people in this Body that are concerned about that and might have concerns with that type of 191 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 provision or law, am I correct in -- in recalling that that was in the previous version that we passed but it's not in this bill that's in front of us here?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
Yes, that's correct. That -- that provision is on another stand-alone bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
Does that capture all the -- all the material differences between what we passed before and what we're considering right now?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul.
Yes, I believe so.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Nybo.
To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I -- I appreciate my colleague's concerns with the penalty provisions of this bill, but on balance, if this was something that -- that you supported previously, it sounds like this is something that you could be comfortable supporting as well in this 192 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 version. So I'm happy to support this and I thank you for bringing it.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, to close.
Thank you, Mr. President. And just to inform the previous speaker, it's the same penalty provisions as the prior bill that we passed out. Listen, a -- a previous speaker said the Trump administration has banned bump stocks. The last I checked, the Trump administration is not the federal Legislature. The Trump administration does not have the power to -- to -- to just ban bump stocks. You just can't do it by executive order. They've called for it, but that's not the way we -- we pass laws. It has to go through the Legislature, then the Trump administration -- the -- the President can sign a bill, then it becomes a law. That has not happened. So, as the state of law exists right now, there is no ban on bump stocks. And so I think it's high time that we do it. This notion of the -- the possession being -- being penalized more than somebody firing into a crowd, that is totally untrue. That is not true. That would be the result of an incompetent prosecutor if -- if they charged a crime for somebody firing into a crowd not to a Class level above the penalty level on -- on -- on -- on this bill. I simply urge an Aye vote on this bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2343 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 38 Ayes, 10 Nays, 1 193 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 voting Present. Senate Bill 2343, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2344. Senator Mulroe. Senator Mulroe seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2344 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2344. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Mulroe.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. I'd ask that it be adopted and I'd be happy to explain on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) There any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2344. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2344. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, on your bill. 194 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Thank you again, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Senate Bill 2344 was -- I had to bring this legislation as a result of a -- a district withdrawing from a special ed co-op. We had an -- an extensive robust conversation in the Education Committee yesterday. It was voted out of committee 13 to 0. What the problem was, the withdrawing district didn't adequately provide for five special needs or severely disabled children. We are in the process of narrowly tailoring an amendment that's in LRB, but what I'd like to do is get it over -- this bill over to the House. I hope it dies in the House, because I hope the district and the co-op are able to come together and provide a solution, which they did not do, and that was -- I was forced to bring the legislation on behalf of these special needs, severely disabled children. So I'd urge an Aye vote at this point.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Weaver, for what purpose do you rise?
Couple of questions for the sponsor, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) He indicates he will yield.
Yeah. Thank you, and I know what you're trying to accomplish with this and I maybe should just be speaking to the bill, but I guess I'd like to ask you -- I have a tendency to want to ask our people to vote No on this. We also want to support you in trying to accomplish what you want to support. But my frustration with the superintendent on this, I felt that that should have been 195 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 worked out earlier. How do we make it clear to people that this action should not be done this way? They should be cleaning things up in their own accord, as opposed to making it a legislative issue. And I guess I'd like you to explain to me why we shouldn't be No votes, even though it may pass out of here, to make it clear to the House that we're not pleased with this action. And could you kind of speak a little further on that?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe.
Thanks for the question, Senator Weaver. I believe the message was sent loud and clear in Education. Both District 80, the withdrawing district, and the representative from LASEC, the special ed co-op, heard from the committee. I've heard from the superintendent. They've tried to provide some language. We're trying to resolve this solution without legislation. I do have some other legislation that's narrowly crafting the -- the bill to this situation. But they heard it loud -- loud and clear. So I'm still -- I -- I believe by pushing this forward, it'll provide pressure on them to come up with a solution so we can let the bill die in the House, but it's not going as is. It will be back and hopefully keep -- keeping move this -- moving the bill will push them to solve the problem without legislation. But going forward, that may be a broader issue. I think the process failed in this case, but I'll rely on the expertise of the Education Committee to maybe address that overall issue.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Weaver.
196 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 I -- I'm going to show my ignorance here, because of how process works, but I've got a bill that's going to the House and I have a fear over my ability to control it once it gets there. So what is your confidence level that what you want to have happen will actually happen there? And what's the likelihood that we'll get another chance to look at this? What's your opinion on that?
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe.
I'm extremely confident, because right now everyone's -- I'd say the general opposition is this is statewide, and after learning from the -- the experts in education, I realize that wasn't the proper approach, so I'm not really happy with the -- the way it sits right now. I secured -- or I had my Representative Rob Martwick prefile for the bill and we're going to work through it. So I'm extremely confident, after it leaves here, it's going to come back here and we'll get to see it again, or hopefully it dies there, because we came up with a solution that's non-legislative.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Weaver.
…please -- to the bill, please.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I just want to give people a heads up on this. I'm going to vote Yes, because I've just watched how you work on this and I -- I trust your judgment on it. I would challenge people to really make sure they're thinking about this, because you'll have some 197 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 pushback at home - I know I've had a lot of pushback, and just be certain that you understand what you're voting for and be prepared for calls from different cooperatives back home on how you handle that. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Any further discussion? Senator Rezin, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. To the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. I do applaud the sponsor of this bill. I mean, we sat through about an hour worth of testimony, where I commend Senator Mulroe for trying to solve a problem for constituents in his district. It was a very emotional testimony and we all agreed with you for trying to solve this problem, thus that's why you see all of us supporting the bill. Again, you know, I just would like to tell you to proceed cautiously, because this bill is changing how we look at special ed joint agreements for the entire State. So, as you go over -- move this bill over to the House, which, again, I'm going to support the bill, and it comes back here, I'm hoping by then you'll be able to come to some agreement that deals with your issue without changing the ability of a school district simply to pull out of a special ed joint agreement, which creates a whole nother issue for many of these, you know, districts throughout the State. So, I do appreciate your work and I know that you're committed to your constituents, so I'll be an Aye vote. Thank you. 198 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Barickman, for what purpose do you rise?
To the -- to the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Ladies and Gentlemen, first of all, I -- I, too, I want to commend the sponsor on the bill. You know, he -- he has certainly worked hard on an issue that is, I think, rises from his district. However, I think that there are some very significant concerns raised by the bill. That's why you see a lot of the opposition that exists. So I'm going to encourage a No vote on the bill. In the -- in the event that the bill moves forward to the House, I'd simply ask that the sponsor work with those groups and try to address their very, I think, substantive concerns. So, while I appreciate the sponsor's efforts on this issue, I simply am uncomfortable with casting an Aye vote at this time and so I'm going to encourage -- I'm going to cast a No and encourage my colleagues to consider a No vote because of that -- that opposition. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bertino-Tarrant, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I am a -- I would have to agree with my colleagues, I do not 199 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 like special legislation, and when Senator Mulroe brought this up to me, I was very, very concerned, but unfortunately the dynamics of this particular situation is -- it's frustrating, as -- as we have said. We spent almost an hour talking about this and I refuse to allow these five students to be hurt by a stubborn superintendent who has a solution he can do himself and is just not doing it. This has helped us understand the process of co- ops. It will hopefully help us better -- make better processes in removing our -- for when a school district decides to remove itself from a -- a co-op. But I have my utter confidence in the -- in the sponsor that he will work with his House colleague to make sure it is narrowed, and if it doesn't, to make sure that his -- his House sponsor does the right thing. So please, for these five students who need our help, I urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I rise in support of the bill. I -- I, too, take pause at legislation that is narrowed -- or -- or directed toward a very narrow situation, but I just want to say to my colleagues that there's a -- there's a laundry list of failures here that compelled the parents of five children in Senator Mulroe's district to make a trip to Springfield. The school district failed. The co-op failed. The only person in this conversation so far that I've seen that hasn't failed is Senator Mulroe. So I would say let's 200 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 not put the Senate on that list of failure. I trust the sponsor. He gave us his word in committee that this bill is intended to motivate parties that have -- disagreed substantially to come to an agreement for the sake of five children that he represents. So, I would just reiterate, this is probably not the best way to move forward. I think the -- the sponsor has indicated that he would hope that the bill would motivate parties that disagree to come together, and I think this will do the trick. So, the district failed; the co-op failed. Five children are put in a horrible situation and I think this bill is necessary in order to compel an agreement and that's why I'm going to support it.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Bush, for what purpose do you rise?
Thank you, Mr. President. I'd like to rise in support of the bill also, because of the -- the work of the sponsor. Look, this is not a good situation. We have a -- a -- a superintendent who, frankly, handled something horribly. It -- it concerns me that we're -- we're going to be putting ourselves in a position where we don't have co-ops in the State of Illinois if we have superintendents that continue to behave this way. But for the students and -- and because I believe the sponsor felt he had nothing else that he could do -- but I just want to be on record that I don't support what the school district did. This should never have made it to Springfield, but because the sponsor has agreed to continue to work and do everything that he can to make sure that we get something -- he gets something done on this and this doesn't become law as it is, I'm going to vote Yes. So, I actually, ask my colleagues across the aisle to consider doing the 201 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 same.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Haine, for what purpose do you rise?
A brief comment to the bill, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
I rise in strong support of the bill. I'm a -- a lawyer so I hesitate to tread in the hallowed, sacred precincts of the educators, who are much more willing to compromise, in their mind, than we who are trudging in the dirt and the muck and the mire of a courthouse. So -- but I do want to say that this is a legitimate subject for legislation. The French Premier Georges Clemenceau once said, "War is too important to be left to the generals." Sometimes education is much too important to be left to the educators. I vote Aye.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Mulroe, to close.
Just briefly. I thank everybody for their comments. I've been working with superintendents. I didn't know much about co- ops prior to this. I know more than I ever wanted to know, but it's all for -- to -- designed to try to help these children that are in limbo right now. We have drafted legislation that narrowly tailors it to this district, but, again, I -- I hope this movement will motivate the district and the co-op to get their -- to get a solution without us having to act. Thank you very much. I urge an Aye vote. 202 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) The question is, shall Senate Bill 2344 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 39 Ayes, 8 Nays, 2 voting Present. Senate Bill 2344, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2362. Senator Harmon. Senator Harmon seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2362 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2362. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Harmon.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I move for its adoption.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is -- seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2362. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2362. 203 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 2362 is an amendment to the Procurement Code that would allow the University of Illinois at Chicago to enter into a lease of longer than ten years, but no longer than thirty years, for a ambulatory surgical center. I'm not aware of any opposition and I ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2362 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 47 Ayes, no Nays, 1 voting Present. Senate Bill 2362, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2424. Senator Steans. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2424. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Steans, on your bill.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Senate. This bill creates a pilot program to serve individuals with intellectual 204 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 developmental delays and also a severe behavioral component - at least six homes in various locations in Illinois, each serving up to four people, to try to keep them out of institutions. We've worked on it cooperatively with the Department of Human Services, Arc of Illinois, and Trinity Services, so it's an agreed-to bill and it is subject to appropriation. I appreciate the cooperation in getting this to an agreement. Thanks. Urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2424 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2424, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2589. Senator Clayborne. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Clayborne seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2589 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2589. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Clayborne.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Clayborne, on your amendment.
Yes, I would like to move for its adoption and -- and explain it on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor 205 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2589. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2589. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator -- Senator Clayborne, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. -- Mr. President, Members of the Senate. Basically, this bill is amended and it allows -- it deletes GF -- GRF compensation from the Executive Director of Eastern Illinois Economic Development Authority and adds other counties to various economic development authorities throughout the State. I would ask for your favorable vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2589 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 50 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2589, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2868. Senator Harmon. Senator 206 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Harmon seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2868 -- oh… Mr. -- Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2868. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 2668 {sic} creates the Hunger Relief Fund income tax checkoff. I ask of your Aye votes and look forward to the verification request.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2868 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 48 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2868, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2378. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Raoul seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 2378 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 2378. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 1, offered by Senator Raoul.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your amendment.
207 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Thank you -- thank you. I'll explain it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 2378. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2378. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Raoul, on your bill.
Thank you -- thank you, Mr. President. Senate Bill 2378, as amended, codifies the current practice in the vast majority of police departments. The amendment requires each law enforcement agency to adopt a written policy for the internal review of officer-involved shootings. The amendment provides that the written policy must be available for copying and inspection under the Freedom of Information Act. This is in response to a BGA investigation that revealed that south -- certain south suburban police departments had no policy whatsoever for officer-involved shootings.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 208 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2378 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 49 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2378, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 2444. Senator Haine. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 2444. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Haine, on your bill.
Thank you very much, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. This bill is a insurance bill which comes into compliance with the Affordable Care Act, the -- the supplemental policies. It exempts coverage for preexisting conditions. These are policies that pay cash grants if an injury occurs or an illness. It's supplemental to major medical. We filed an amendment, which took care of the concerns of the Dental Society, the Illinois Trial Lawyers, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. There is no opposition to this bill. And since it's my -- it's -- it's my last insurance bill, I would really appreciate an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 2444 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted 209 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 48 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 2444, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Senate Bill 405. Senator Hutchinson. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Hutchinson seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 405 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is Senate Bill 405. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 2, offered by Senator Hutchinson.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hutchinson, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. It becomes the bill. I can discuss it on 3rd.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 405. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 405. (Secretary reads title of bill) 210 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Hutchinson, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. Senate Bill 405, as amended, requires a sexual harassment policy for all companies that make a bid or offer under the State's Procurement Code and requires companies that claim EDGE credits to include their sexual harassment policy in their annual report to the State. Happy to answer any questions. I urge an Aye vote.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 405 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 49 Ayes, no Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 405, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. House Joint Resolution 66. Senator Harmon. Mr. Secretary, please read the resolution.
House Joint Resolution 66, offered by Senator Harmon.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Harmon, on your resolution.
Thank you, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen of the Senate. The resolution designates all publicly open Frank Lloyd Wright properties as a part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Trail, part of our Bicentennial Celebration. I ask for your Aye votes.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 211 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the resolution is adopted. Senate Bill 3047. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill. Senator Manar seeks leave of the Body to return Senate Bill 3047 to the Order of 2nd Reading. Leave is granted. Now on the Order of 2nd Reading is 3047. Mr. Secretary, are there any Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 3, offered by Senator Manar.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your amendment.
Thank you, Mr. President. I would move to adopt the amendment. I'd be happy to answer questions on 3rd Reading.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 4, offered by Senator Manar.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your amendment.
Thank you. I would move for the adoption of the amendment, Mr. President. Thank you.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment 212 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
Floor Amendment No. 5, offered by Senator Manar.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your amendment.
This is the last one. I would move for this amendment adoption as well.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the amendment is adopted. Are there any further Floor amendments approved for consideration?
No further amendments reported.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) 3rd Reading. Now on the Order of 3rd Reading is Senate Bill 3047. Mr. Secretary, please read the bill.
Senate Bill 3047. (Secretary reads title of bill) 3rd Reading of the bill.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Senator Manar, on your bill.
Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate the patience of the Body. We were waiting for the final amendment to come out of the Assignments Committee. This bill is intended to address -- another 213 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 measure to address the teacher shortage in the State. Comes from various, different groups, but it creates the Grow Your Own STEM and Vocational Education Teachers Act, which would require a public university to waive tuition and fees for students who agree to pursue a minimum of a bachelor's degree in a hard-to-staff school somewhere in Illinois with a commitment of teaching for at least five years. There was significant discussion about this in the Higher Education Committee. The amendments that were just adopted reflects the feedback that we got from members of the committee and beyond. So this, again, is intended to get more teachers into the pipeline, subject to appropriation, in hard-to-staff content areas in hard-to-staff schools. Be happy to take any questions.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any discussion? Senator Rooney, for what purpose do you rise?
To the bill, please, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) To the bill.
Mr. President, I -- I laud the idea behind trying to get more people into the field, but as -- as the sponsor knows from our going back and forth in committee, this bill goes significantly farther than it needs to, to bring people into the field. For example, to hit the high school level, you just need a bachelor's, that's it. This bill allows somebody to produce -- to -- to try to go after any advanced degree. Could be master's, PhD level. So in committee we asked and said, well, would you be interested in limiting advanced degrees to just the community college 214 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 participants, because we could understand how a community college professor would need to have a master's degree to get hired. Well, that change wasn't made. So now you can go on and have all your tuition and fees waived for a credential that is way higher than you need if the idea is just to get people into the field. Another concern I asked about in committee was when they added the dual credit program. It says you can have the tuition and fees waived for up to eighteen hours of master's degree credit above and beyond your bachelor's degree. Well, there are a whole lot of salary schedules in the State of Illinois that once you get fifteen hours on, that gives you a whole nother lane on the salary schedule, which means it's a permanent pay increase for every other year that you teach that gets compounded by whatever your salary gets compounded by. So that's usually the incentive to go out and pursue the advanced degree. Of course we want people to go out and get advanced degrees, so we give them an incentive that will provide them a permanent raise, and now their entry to that permanent raise is going to be given at no cost, no financial charge, all fees waived by the university. I'm in favor of the spirit of this bill, but it goes way too far.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR LINK) Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the question is, shall Senate Bill 3047 pass. All those in favor will vote Aye. Opposed, Nay. The voting is open. Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Have all voted who wish? Take the record. On that question, there are 38 Ayes, 5 Nays, none voting Present. Senate Bill 3047, having received the required constitutional majority, is declared passed. Mr. Secretary, Resolutions. 215 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018
Senate Joint Resolution 68. (Secretary reads SJR No. 68)
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) On the Order of Resolutions is Senate Joint Resolution 68. Mr. Secretary, please read the resolution.
Senate Joint Resolution 68, offered by Senator Link.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Senator Link moves to suspend the rules for the purpose of the immediate consideration and adoption of Senate Joint Resolution 68. All those in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the rules are suspended. Senator Link now moves for the adoption of Senate Joint Resolution 68. All in favor will say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it, and the resolution is adopted. Mr. Secretary, Resolutions.
Senate Joint Resolution 69, offered by Senator Brady. And Senate Joint Resolution 70, offered by Senator Bush. They are both substantive.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Mr. Secretary, House Bills 1st Reading.
House Bill 5166, offered by Senator Althoff. (Secretary reads title of bill) House Bill 5627, offered by Senator Weaver. (Secretary reads title of bill) 1st Reading of the bills.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) 216 STATE OF ILLINOIS 100th GENERAL ASSEMBLY REGULAR SESSION SENATE TRANSCRIPT 116th Legislative Day 4/26/2018 We will now proceed to the Order of Resolutions Consent Calendar. With leave of the Body, all those resolutions read in today will be added to the Consent Calendar. Mr. Secretary, have there been any objections filed to any resolution on the Consent Calendar?
No objections filed, Mr. President.
PRESIDING OFFICER: (SENATOR HARMON) Is there any discussion? If not, the question is, shall the resolutions on the Consent Calendar be adopted. All those in favor, say Aye. Opposed, Nay. The Ayes have it. The motion carries, and the resolutions are adopted. There being no further business to come before the Senate, pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 68, the Senate stands adjourned until the hour of 12 noon on the 1st day of May 2018, or until the call of the Senate President. The Senate stands adjourned. 217