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Cannabis regulatory bill stalls in spring session
May 31, 2023 4:38 PM - A cannabis reform bill won't get further consideration until at least the General Assembly's fall veto session after stakeholders failed to come to an agreement during the spring session's final stretch. -
Pritzker touts new budget's higher education spending
May 31, 2023 4:33 PM - Gov. J.B. Pritzker began a tour of the state to tout the new state budget that lawmakers passed last week, stopping at two university campuses Wednesday to highlight the spending plan's increased funding for higher education. -
Lawmakers vote to give power companies control over new downstate lines
May 30, 2023 5:44 PM - In the final hours of their spring session last week, lawmakers approved a controversial measure that would give existing power companies in downstate Illinois, notably Ameren Illinois, the first crack at installing new transmission lines. But Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he would veto the bill -
State budget approved: What's in it and what opponents objected to
May 28, 2023 6:11 PM - The 2023 spring legislative session came to an end in the early hours of Saturday morning after the Illinois House gave its approval to a $50.6 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1. Here's what's in it and what opponents objected to. -
Legislature approves tighter restrictions on red-light camera industry
May 27, 2023 8:30 AM - Lawmakers in Springfield have unanimously approved a measure that would place new restrictions on the red-light and speed camera industry's involvement in state and local elections and government. -
Bill would limit constitutional lawsuits to Cook, Sangamon counties
May 25, 2023 6:26 PM - Democrats who control the General Assembly muscled through a last-minute measure that will require any constitutional challenge to state laws to be filed in either Cook or Sangamon counties. -
Optional all-gender bathrooms bill moves closer to passage
May 18, 2023 8:49 PM - The Illinois Senate on Thursday passed an amended version of a bill that would allow businesses and public institutions to provide multioccupant all-gender bathrooms if they so choose. -
Pritzker ends his delay on Blue Collar Jobs Act
May 17, 2023 9:51 PM - As budget negotiations for the coming fiscal year continued behind closed doors Wednesday, Gov. JB Pritzker's office announced it would launch a long-stalled tax incentive program that was part of his first-year budget. -
Supreme Court, responding to Naperville gun shop owner's request, lets state ban continue
May 17, 2023 7:44 PM - The Supreme Court said Wednesday that Illinois can, for now, keep in place a new law that bars the sale of certain semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines. -
State Supreme Court weighs whether rifle ban violates IL Constitution
May 16, 2023 4:45 PM - The Illinois Supreme Court is now deciding whether the state's recently enacted ban on high-powered rifles violates certain provisions of the Illinois Constitution.
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