ACTION ALERT:
UPDATE:
Unfortunately, HB4729 passed out of Transportation Safety committee unanimously—representatives from the Cook County Public Defenders Office and ACLU-IL testified against the bill and the number of witness slips for and against the bill was noted for the record. Thank you to everyone who filed a witness slip opposing the bill—across the two hearings over 500 witness slips opposing the bill were submitted versus 21 supporting the bill!
The bill’s sponsor Rep Jaime Andrade is confident he’s got all the votes he needs to pass HB4729–including Rahm’s Republicans as sponsors like self-styled Trump-option in the GOP primary for Governor Jeanne Ives (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwKZf2jtHI).
It’s important to show these politicians that what they’re doing and who they’re siding with to incarcerate and harm more young people isn’t going unnoticed and that there’s active opposition to these horrible bills. The next witness slip opportunity will be for SB2825 (the companion bill to HB4729 but in the Senate—both need to pass to become signed into law).
Our friends at Liberation Library are starting a write-in campaign! For more information visit: www.LiberationLib.Org/BadBills
Soon we’ll be posting a list of all the sponsors of these two bad bills and their contact information, to stop it from passing through the Senate.
For more updates and action alerts please follow us on Twitter and Facebook or bookmark our website.
Unfortunately, HB4729 passed out of Transportation Safety committee unanimously—representatives from the Cook County Public Defenders Office and ACLU-IL testified against the bill and the number of witness slips for and against the bill was noted for the record. Thank you to everyone who filed a witness slip opposing the bill—across the two hearings over 500 witness slips opposing the bill were submitted versus 21 supporting the bill!
The bill’s sponsor Rep Jaime Andrade is confident he’s got all the votes he needs to pass HB4729–including Rahm’s Republicans as sponsors like self-styled Trump-option in the GOP primary for Governor Jeanne Ives (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwKZf2jtHI).
It’s important to show these politicians that what they’re doing and who they’re siding with to incarcerate and harm more young people isn’t going unnoticed and that there’s active opposition to these horrible bills. The next witness slip opportunity will be for SB2825 (the companion bill to HB4729 but in the Senate—both need to pass to become signed into law).
Our friends at Liberation Library are starting a write-in campaign! For more information visit: www.LiberationLib.Org/BadBills
Soon we’ll be posting a list of all the sponsors of these two bad bills and their contact information, to stop it from passing through the Senate.
For more updates and action alerts please follow us on Twitter and Facebook or bookmark our website.
