1,179 bills became law last session – just 5% had a price tag

02/19/2019

Fiscal notes serve as price tags on bills in the General Assembly. Lawmakers’ habit of omitting them limits their ability to make well-informed decisions.

TAGS: balanced budget requirement, budget, COGFA: Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, Dale Righter, Fiscal Notes, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, progressive income tax, taxes

Illinois lawmakers pass legislation requiring financial impact statements on executive orders, ignore cost of bills they pass

06/08/2017

House Bill 2379 would require fiscal impact statements on every executive order. However, less than 3 percent of bills enacted into law in the 99th General Assembly had fiscal notes.

TAGS: budget, Fiscal Notes

Illinois lawmakers passed 938 bills that became law from 2015 to 2017 – just 3% had a price tag

By Brendan Bakala

04/24/2017

Despite Illinois’ severe financial problems, less than 3 percent of bills passed by the 99th General Assembly and enacted into law have fiscal notes.

TAGS: budget, Fiscal Notes, ILGA: Illinois General Assembly, National Conference of State Legislatures

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

Occupational licensing requirements present one of the steepest barriers to low-income Illinoisans starting careers in beauty services. Illinois requires anyone seeking to become a barber, cosmetologist, nail technician or hair braider to obtain a state license, essentially a permission slip to work. Unlike 45 other states, Illinois offers only one pathway to licensure for each...

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Fiscal Notes

1,179 bills became law last session – just 5% had a price tag

Illinois lawmakers pass legislation requiring financial impact statements on executive orders, ignore cost of bills they pass

Illinois lawmakers passed 938 bills that became law from 2015 to 2017 – just 3% had a price tag

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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