Illinois General Assembly: SB1621 actions on May 10

The following actions were taken on May 10 in the House on Senate bill SB1621 (“complete count commission”): “House Committee Amendment No. 2 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee”, “House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee” and “Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee”.

The Rules Committees is a powerful standing committee in the House controlled by the majority. All legislation is assigned to the Rules Committee as a kind of legislative filter that sorts the more-than-6,000 bills introduced each year. The committee considers the legislation and often assigns it to other committees in order to be heard by other lawmakers. Sometimes, legislation dies in the Rules Committee if the committee decides it does not merit further consideration.

In the event that a committee fails to report to the House on a bill by applicable deadlines, it is automatically re-referred to the Rules Committee according to House rule 19(a). This is what happened with this bill.

The bill, as it was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Emil Jones, III (D-14) on Feb. 15, “amends the Illinois Complete Count Commission Act,” according to the General Assembly website.

The following senators also co-sponsored the bill: Jacqueline Y. Collins (D-16), Laura Ellman (D-21), Napoleon Harris, III (D-15), Linda Holmes (D-42), Mattie Hunter (D-3), Toi W. Hutchinson (D-40), Julie A. Morrison (D-29), Laura M. Murphy (D-28), Martin A. Sandoval (D-11) and Elgie R. Sims, Jr. (D-17).

The following house representatives co-sponsored the bill: Carol Ammons (D-103), Darren Bailey (R-109), Avery Bourne (R-95), Dan Brady (R-105), Kambium Buckner (D-26), Tim Butler (R-87), John M. Cabello (R-68), Dan Caulkins (R-101), Andrew S. Chesney (R-89), C.D. Davidsmeyer (R-100), William Davis (D-30), Tom Demmer (R-90), Jim Durkin (R-82), Marcus C. Evans, Jr. (D-33), Mary E. Flowers (D-31), La Shawn K. Ford (D-8), Randy E. Frese (R-94), Jehan Gordon-Booth (D-92), Amy Grant (R-42), LaToya Greenwood (D-114), Norine K. Hammond (R-93), Sonya M. Harper (D-6), Thaddeus Jones (D-29), Jeff Keicher (R-70), Camille Y. Lilly (D-78), Michael T. Marron (R-104), Rita Mayfield (D-60), Michael P. McAuliffe (R-20), Tony McCombie (R-71), Margo McDermed (R-37), Debbie Meyers-Martin (D-38), Chris Miller (R-110), Thomas Morrison (R-54), Mike Murphy (R-99), Lindsay Parkhurst (R-79), Steven Reick (R-63), Lamont J. Robinson, Jr. (D-5), Dave Severin (R-117), Allen Skillicorn (R-66), Justin Slaughter (D-27), Nicholas K. Smith (D-34), Keith P. Sommer (R-88), Joe Sosnowski (R-69), Ryan Spain (R-73), Curtis J. Tarver, II (D-25), André Thapedi (D-32), Arthur Turner (D-9), Dan Ugaste (R-65), Michael D. Unes (R-91), Tom Weber (R-64), Grant Wehrli (R-41), Emanuel Chris Welch (D-7), David A. Welter (R-75), Maurice A. West, II (D-67) and Patrick Windhorst (R-118).

The table below shows a history of actions for this bill through May 10.