Jerry Nowicki

For the night owls. Or morning owls. Or whatever is going on here: https://t.co/qCBMXxLBlX

Final tally: Budget bills all pass, transit bill, including delivery tax, does not.

RT @BenSzalinski: It is midnight on June 1 in Illinois. Any transit bill now requires a three-fifths vote to pass. It did not receive that…

Da bimp passes 74-41. Guess the only thing left to decide is if transit makes it over to the House.

With 32 votes, the transit bill clears the Senate, pending a verification of the roll. House status unclear.

Revenue passes in the House. Still gotta do the bimp... and transit???

Well, the Senate approved the budget and is now calling Transit. We will see how this goes. Assuming it doesn't have 36 in the Senate ... but maybe? Villivalam is speed-talking his bill intro.

As we inch toward midnight, I expect GOP will prolong this process as long as possible to require Dems to need 3/5ths to pass BIMP and Revenue. Notable that Dems had 75 votes for approps. Healthily over 3/5.

Jerry Nowicki @NowickiPress

BIMP and Revenue both move with simple majorities in the Senate. They'll head to House, where they will very likely need three-fifths due to it happening after midnight. Approp up in Senate now. No idea what's going to happen to transit.

BIMP and Revenue both move with simple majorities in the Senate. They'll head to House, where they will very likely need three-fifths due to it happening after midnight. Approp up in Senate now. No idea what's going to happen to transit.

Welp. The Senate has gutted and replaced HB2755 -- commemorating Emmett Till Day -- to be the revenue bill. IDK if it'll be the revenue bill to pass. But it's a revenue bill now. https://t.co/mE19dmQBjK

RT @mitchtrout: Here's Illinois Democrats' proposal to slap $0.25 or $0.50 taxes on every sports wager, which would hit betting giants like…

The transit plan includes a $1.50 fee per delivery -- and it is indexed to increase with inflation https://t.co/WqpsYRayZt

In this hearing, we’re talking about how we’re going to spend the money but not how we’re going to raise the revenue. That’s for a different committee at a different time. And the bill’s not filed. And we ‘adjourn’ in 11ish hours https://t.co/2wR8WczcQW

Jerry Nowicki @NowickiPress

As 1000s of pages of legislation move thru the GA w/ hastily called hearings, here’s a reminder that the Supreme Court kinda just lets them do whatever they want. Previous reporting on the enrolled bill doctrine that paves the way for gut and replace: https://t.co/mjpnhbeo3L https://t.co/1xw8tVaifH

As 1000s of pages of legislation move thru the GA w/ hastily called hearings, here’s a reminder that the Supreme Court kinda just lets them do whatever they want. Previous reporting on the enrolled bill doctrine that paves the way for gut and replace: https://t.co/mjpnhbeo3L https://t.co/1xw8tVaifH

Da BIMP, an amendment to HB1075, AKA Diwali Day bill. https://t.co/Srjtx0gGGB https://t.co/ooaEFZIzXE