Dozens of measures that have advanced in the General Assembly this week ahead of today’s deadline for moving bills from one chamber to the other.
The Illinois House passed legislation this week that takes another step in transferring authority over early childhood education and services to the new Department of Early Childhood.
Governor JB Pritzker called for the creation of the new agency in 2024 to consolidate a vast array of programs and services currently spread across several agencies.
The new agency is scheduled to become fully operational in the upcoming fiscal year, which begins on July 1.
Hours after a federal judge ruled that Ticketmaster’s parent company operated a monopoly on event ticket selling, the House passed House Bill 4984 to ban speculative ticket selling.
Speculative tickets are event tickets that sellers offer without being certain that they’ll obtain the tickets.
A bill passed the House that would create a legal pathway for separated couples or roommates to go to court to fight for custody of an animal.
The House passed a bill that would ban traveling animal acts from using cougars, jaguars, leopards, lions, tigers, bears and primates.
State law already bans acts with elephants. The bill passed 75-33 and awaits Senate consideration.
