The Illinois House on Wednesday ultimately gave Gov. Bruce Rauner the “clean” spending bill he asked for, but only after a bruising debate.
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Comport with the governor’s calls for sentencing reform and decreased prison crowding. “It will have a lasting and positive impact on the people of Illinois”. Rauner, however, lowered the threshold to 10 grams and raised fines to between $100 and $200.
HB 218 also establishes a per se limit at which drivers are automatically deemed to be impaired by marijuana based on the level of active THC in the blood.
The effect on residents and businesses is clear: There’ll be a “dramatic” increase in what the state eventually will have to raise in taxes, cut in spending – or both, said Laurence Msall, president of The Civic Federation, a nonpartisan research organization. Rauner signed the piece of the budget that funds schools, but vetoed the rest, saying he was trying to put Illinois on the road to “fiscal sanity”. A move that disappointed Cassidy and other sponsors and supporters.
The bill now returns to lawmakers, who can vote to go along with Rauner’s changes or reject them.
“Any sexual orientation change efforts attempted on a person under the age of 18 by a mental health provider may be considered unprofessional conduct”.
“It now becomes even more important to let these folks know that there are services out there and that we don’t want to deny them those services”, said Rep. Fred Crespo, D-Hoffman Estates.
“I support the fundamental purposes” of the decriminalization bill, the Republican governor said, calling the criminal prosecution of marijuana “a drain on public resources”.
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The House is next scheduled to return to Springfield on August 25.
