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Illinois House Committee OKs Fracking Regulation Proposal
A proposal that aims to create thousands of jobs in southern Illinois by kick-starting high-volume oil and gas drilling cleared a top committee Tuesday, sending it on to the House floor.
Religious Opponents Continue Campaign Against Same-Sex Marriage
About 200 ministers and others gathered in the south suburbs on Tuesday, day calling on the Illinois House to say “no” to legislation to legalize same-sex marriages.
IDOT Secretary Urges Lawmakers To Reject 70 MPH Highway Speed Limit
The state’s top transportation official would like to slow momentum for a move to increase the top speed limit in Illinois.
Illinois Senate Passes Union-Backed Pension Plan
The Illinois Senate voted Thursday to send a union-supported pension reform bill to the House, leaving lawmakers with two competing proposals for dealing with the nation’s worst state pension crisis just weeks before the Legislature is scheduled to adjourn.
House Passes Speaker Madigan’s Pension Reform Plan
The Illinois House has approved a comprehensive pension-reform plan for the first time after years of talks.
Cullerton Touts Pension Deal With Unions As House Committee OKs Madigan Plan
Labor leaders threatened a lawsuit Wednesday over House Speaker Michael Madigan’s pension-reform proposal to lower the retirement benefits of public employees in Illinois, but a committee advanced the plan anyway.
Tempers Flare In Illinois House During Concealed Carry Debate
The difficulty over how lawmakers will craft a law allowing public possession of guns in Illinois has been clearly demonstrated on the House floor.
Illinois House OKs Medical Marijuana Legislation
The Illinois House Wednesday approved a measure to allow physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients with specific terminal illnesses or debilitating medical conditions.
Group Of Illinois Doctors Backs Medical Marijuana Legislation
Illinois lawmakers could vote on legislation to legalize medical marijuana this week, and a group of 250 doctors has urged them to support the measure.
State Lawmaker Ready To Seek House Vote On Medical Marijuana Legislation
The sponsor of legislation that would allow medical marijuana use in Illinois said Tuesday he’ll push for a vote on the measure when lawmakers return to Springfield early next month.
House Passes Pared-Down Pension Reform Plan
Illinois lawmakers from both parties celebrated a possible breakthrough Thursday in their struggle to solve the multibillion-dollar pension crisis after voting to reduce and delay cost-of-living increases in state employees’ retirement pay — a step the House Republican leader heralded as “the meat and potatoes of pension reform.”
Illinois Pension Cap Survives House Test Vote
A day after Gov. Pat Quinn upbraided lawmakers for inaction on the state’s multibillion-dollar pension mess, House members found a proposal they could get behind, backing a measure to limit the salary on which a public employee’s retirement benefits could be based.
House Debates Multiple Restrictions For Concealed Carry Measure
The firestorm over concealed weapons moved to the Illinois House floor Tuesday, sparking Republican complaints that an extraordinary legislative process set up by majority Democrats would restrict the right to carry guns in public rather than allow it, as a federal court has ordered.
Same-Sex Marriage Legislation Moves Forward In Illinois House
An Illinois House committee narrowly endorsed legislation to legalize gay marriage Tuesday, setting up a showdown on the House floor that could come in a matter of weeks.
Lawmakers Discuss Gun Control At Hearing In Chicago
The meeting comes on the heels of a legal victory for gun rights supporters who want the state to lift its ban on concealed carry of handguns.
NRA Pushing Concealed Carry Measure In Springfield
In Springfield Tuesday afternoon, the first step was taken toward allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons on the streets of Illinois.
Same-Sex Marriage Sponsor Predicts ‘Fast Track’ For Approval
The House sponsor of legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Illinois said the measure could get a vote “very soon,” after the new General Assembly was sworn in this week.
Illinois House Ends Current Session With No Vote On Pension Reform
Illinois lawmakers abruptly adjourned a lame-duck legislative session Tuesday without agreement on how to fix the nation’s most dire pension crisis, declining even to vote on the governor’s last-ditch effort to let an independent commission sort out the $96 billion mess.
House Committee Backs Pension Reform Plan, But No Floor Vote Yet
A breakthrough measure to address Illinois’ $96 billion pension crisis progressed Monday in the Illinois House, but odds of a final deal before this week’s deadline grew slimmer as lawmakers left the Capitol without taking a floor vote.
Immigrant Licenses Advance Despite Fraud Concerns
A proposal to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants received House committee approval Monday, despite concerns by both Democrats and Republicans whether it goes far enough to prevent fraud.
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