“My expectation is on June 11 as projected, we will move to Phase 5,” he said today. More of his comments here. 

The Senate also passed a bill that would allow for the expansion of telehealth services and to be covered by a patient’s insurance.

See more of his speech and the GOP reaction to state’s $42.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 approved by lawmakers. 

With only hours to go before a midnight deadline to adjourn, Illinois lawmakers on Monday were still working to put together a state budget and packages on ethics, sports gambling and elections that include moving next year’s primary to June 28.

Illinois is expected to launch a new task force aimed at identifying gaps in domestic violence laws in memory of a Joliet boy whose mother’s pleas for protection against the toddler’s abusive father were ignored.

A gambling omnibus bill that would allow Illinois bettors to wager on in-state college sports teams on a two-year trial basis has been filed in the General Assembly on the final scheduled day of the legislative session.

Illinois lawmakers have ensured a hectic windup to the end of their spring session Monday, facing an agenda of high-profile issues that includes putting together a new state budget, toughened ethics rules and the future for the state’s energy policy.

Democrats can tally up a lot of wins this legislative cycle. But it was not entirely a smooth process. 

See more of his speech and the GOP reaction to state’s $42.3 billion budget for fiscal year 2022 approved by lawmakers. 

The budget offers a far rosier picture than the “pain” — deep budget cuts — Gov. J.B. Pritzker predicted were inevitable after voters rejected his proposed constitutional amendment to allow a graduated income tax system.