((Capitol News Illinois) – The legislators of Illinois started their spring lawting session about three weeks ago, but legislators in the house have already submitted more than 1,800 accounts that can be acted before the general meeting is postponed in May.
The Vast Majority of the Ideas won Make It To The Desk of Gov. JB Pritzker Or Become Law – Bast General Assembly, House Lawmakers Filed 5.929 Bills and Only Passed 564 – But the list of Proposals Supe Insights Into The Issues Members or the Lower Room is worried if they kick off their new conditions in function.
A new alternative to imprisonment
Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Gurnee, introduced a measure with which people would be convicted of crimes to submit their penalties in “community-based institutions” rather than in prison. Mayfield said that her proposal “would create a transforming post-judgment model that reduces the dependence on traditional imprisonment for emerging adults.”
Under House account 44Community-based non-profit organizations that set up alternatives to prison would be needed to offer housing, staff training, counseling for mental health care and restorative justice programs. People who exclude their penalties in those community institutions would be needed to participate in the programs for repairing court.
The bill would enable judges to decide which defendants would be placed in the community institutions instead of prisons.
Defining ‘domestic attack’
A bill was introduced by Rep. Amy Grant, R-Wheaton, to create the violation of “domestic attack” and to turn it into a class A crime.
Currently, the Law of Illinois Domestic Violence does not differ abuseThis is defined as “physical abuse, intimidation, intimidation of a dependent, interference in personal freedom or intentional deprivation.”
House Bill 1455 is an attempt to define language regarding domestic violence. The measure defines domestic attack as when a person “conscious behavior concerns a family member or household member in a reasonable arrest of large physical damage or permanent disability or malformation.”
According to the bill, if a person who is arrested for domestic attack is released from detention pending his trial, the courts can forbid them to make contact with or communicate with the victim, and enter the victim’s home for at least 72 hours Or stay.
Legalization of Psilocybin
A Democrat in Chicago wants to make it easier for people in Illinois to obtain and use Psilocybin, the chemical that gives so -called magic mushrooms their hallucinogenic properties.
Introduced by Rep. La Shawn Ford, House Bill 1143 Psilocybin and Psilocybin products would decriminalize and tax for the use of Illinoisans that are at least 21 years old. People under the influence of psilocybin could not control a vehicle.
The legislation states that Illinoisans deserve access to tools that can improve their mental health, including chemicals such as psilocybin. The proposal of Ford notes that various US states and cities have already decriminalized psychedelic plants and fungi or have made these psychedelics the lowest level of law enforcement priority.
But the bill would not change the status of Peyote – another intoxicating regulated substance. Ford chose not to add the medicine, according to the language of the bill, “because of the almost endangered status of the Peyote factory and the special meaning that Peyote has in Indian spirituality.” Nevertheless, Illinois continues to “respect and support” the possession and use of Peyote by Indians, according to the bill.
Other proposals
Among other things, the State’s criminal justice system:
- Float and street races would be a crime under another proposal sponsored by Ford. House Bill 38 Categorizes “knowing or reckless” floating and street races such as a crime such as the activities “result in the use of violence or violence that disrupts public peace”.
- People who buy or possess a flame thrower should have a valid identification card from a valid firearm owner under a proposal from Rep. Daniel Didech, D-Buffalo Grove. The legislation, House Bill 19, Certainly military and law enforcement staff would exclude from the requirement.
- Residents of Illinois could not bring firearms to polling stations-even if they have introduced a valid hidden carrier permit under legislation by Rep. Bob Morgan, D-Deerfield. The proposal, however, House account 34Ensures law enforcement officials in the service to wear firearms there.
Prohibition for plastic and paper bag for one -time use
Rep. Suzanne Ness, D-Crystal Lake, wants to forbid companies and supermarkets to offer plastic bags for one-time use to customers, and forbids supermarkets to offer customers a careful use.
When the legislators of Illinois pass House Bill 1146Illinois would prohibit nine other states that prohibit pockets with paper and plastic one -time use. The states with existing forbidden are California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New York, Oregon and Vermont.
Ban
Restaurants would be forbidden to offer customers for a one -time use for plastic disposable foodware when they dine under an invoice submitted by Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, D-GlenView.
House Bill 1600 If restaurants would enable customers to offer plastic items for one -time use when requested, but the items may not be packed in plastic.
In addition, restaurants should post a sign stating that plastic items could be made available on request on request.
Options for the end of life
A group of legislators again tries to make a suicide supported by doctors, sometimes called ‘death with dignity’, an option for adult patients with terminal diseases.
Rep. Robyn Gabel, D-Evanston, introduced House Bill 1328As a result of which qualified, adult patients who can request a recipe from aid for assistance “so that the patient can end the patient’s lives in a peaceful way.”
The patient should make both an oral and written request to a doctor, wait for at least five days and then submit an oral request to be administered the medicine. The patient should also sign the written request and date with two witnesses present.
Patients submitting the request should possess mental assets to make and communicate this request themselves, and it should be a well-considered decision- which means that their doctor has informed them about the potential risks and benefits of the medication, others Feasible end-offs for care and treatment options, their right to withdraw their request at any time or to obtain the medication, but not to take it.
According to the bill, patients with the diagnosis would not be considered an important depressive disorder as a terminally ill and could not obtain the medication.
Free Community College tuition fees for disadvantaged areas
Students in areas with a high percentages of violence and economic disvestination would receive free tuition fees to local community lectures sponsored by Mayfield sponsored under a different proposal.
The Gurne -Democrat introduced House Bill 1170 That would offer free tuition fees with the help of money collected from marijuana taxes. It would apply to one community college in each recovery, reinvest, extended area (R3 areas) designated by the State as eligible for subsidies paid with marijuana tax income
R3 areas ((card) are communities that have been damaged by violence, excessive imprisonment and economic disinvestment and higher percentages of arms injury, child poverty, unemployment and imprisonment.
DCFS and the provision of luggage
Foster Children who leave a house must be provided with luggage instead of waste bags, sponsored by Rep. Margaret Croke, D-Chicago.
House account 10 Would require that the Ministry of Children and Family Services delivers baggage for every child who is removed from home or changes from Huizen.
The bill would also require DCFs to make a system to store and distribute a supply of luggage that will be used to transport the possessions of children in the foster care system. The children would have the luggage, nor their foster parents nor DCFs could take it from them.
The account of Croke would also require DCFS to submit an annual report to both the Governor and the General Meeting. The report would include how often a garbage bag was used to transport the assets of a child and why DCFS could not provide them with luggage.
No marriage for someone under the age of 18 years
When submitting a marriage, both partners should be 18 years old under a measure introduced by Rep. Joe Sosnowski, R-Rockford.
The current Illinois Act allows marriage between two partners if they are both 18 years old when the wedding permit is effective or if they are at least 16 years old with the permission of both their parents and guardians, or judicial approval. House Bill 1744 Would prohibit the approval of minor marriages.
Extra accounts
Other proposals considered in the legislative power include:
- A Republican Van Millstadt wants employers to give their experienced employees a paid day off on Veterans Day. Introduced by Rep. Kevin Schmidt, House Bill 1421 Veteran employees would require they give documentation of their status as a veteran and earlier notification to their employer if they intend to take the day free.
- If the employer refuses the paid day off, the bill requires that they find another day to enable the experienced employee to take a paid day off.
- Health insurers are not only allowed to rely on artificial intelligence to refuse, reduce or terminate coverage for patients, under a separate proposal from Morgan. If companies use AI to make those decisions, the actions should be ‘meaningfully revised’ by a person with the power to ignore the computer system, below House account 35.
- Legislation would also give the Ministry of Insurance the authority to regulate the use of artificial intelligence by the health insurers to determine the benefits of the patient.
