Illinois veto session set for week after election
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[November 01, 2024]
By Greg Bishop | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – With all eyes on Tuesday’s election, some are
already thinking about upcoming Illinois legislation sessions.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he has a legislative agenda, but doesn’t expect
much until the new General Assembly is seated in January.
“Lots of agenda. Not necessarily for the veto session,” Pritzker said at
the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield Monday.
Typically, veto session is where legislators consider acting on vetoes
from the governor, to which there haven’t been any this year of the 469
bills legislators approved.
Legislation to address Illinois’ Tier II pension benefits to conform
with Social Security limits has been discussed for months. State Sen.
Robert Martwick, D-Chicago, told the Better Government Association
that’s a tall order to tackle.
“Well it’s like, ‘oh, we can get it done.’ There’s an election in
November. ‘OK, so after the election,’ well no, then we’ll be at veto
and you can’t really do it while you’re there so we’ll get past veto and
then we’ll start working on it,” Martwick said Oct. 15. “‘Oh wait, that
next week is Thanksgiving and then it’s Thanksgiving to Christmas and we
can work on it after Christmas before New Year’s.’ We’re supposed to be
in lame duck in early January. So, there’s not a lot of time.”
One thing that could come up are changes to oversight of the film tax
credit, Illinois Film Office Deputy Director Peter Hawley told the Joint
Committee on Administrative Rules.
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“We saw some potential bad actors taking advantage of the program so
we put this rule in place,” Hawley told JCAR Oct. 1. “Our rule
included caps on above the line salary and caps to related party
transactions.”
For other issues, gun control groups are pushing for legislation
increasing standards around safe firearm storage and lost and stolen
provisions.
Senate Minority Leader John Curran, R-Downers Grove, wants the
Legislative Audit Commission to approve an audit of a
taxpayer-funded child welfare operation in Chicago when it meets
next month.
“I think it’s very important that we get a full, robust
investigation of all the facts and allegations,” Curran said.
The election is Nov. 5. Veto session begins Nov. 12.
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