Senators back Levitt for Illinois mental health director
The Illinois Senate Executive Committee urged confirmation of Dr. Leroy Levitt as mental health director despite a conflict of interest dispute over his part time teaching at Chicago Medical School. The 21 to 1 vote sends the nomination to the full Senate as Gov. Walker presses reforms amid budget concerns.
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Illinois Senate Executive Committee
Leroy Levitt
Daniel Walker
Levitt
Senate
Hudson Spurs
Peoria
Chicago Medical School
Mary Lee Leahy
Sielaff
John Graham
R-Barrington
Fogel
Robert C. Pautler
Evansville
Ind
Leland H. Woodburn
Rock Island County
Earl K. Dryden
Aurora
Pardon and Parole Board
Louis G. Alexander
Chicago
George Prieto
Evanston
Stanford L. Glass
Winnetka
Illinois Health Facilities Authority
Margaret Blackshere
Madison
Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees
Ivan A. Elliot
Carmi
SIU
Clarence Reynolds
Harrisburg
State Mining Board
Thomas McCracken
Geneva
Fair Employment Practices Commission
John Peele
Hillsboro
Berz nomination backed by Senate committee
The Illinois Senate Executive Committee recommended Gov. Walker’s nominee Michael Berz for head of the Liquor Control Commission. Berz said hearings on June 29 would target a Walker supporter Anthony Angelos for alleged licensee political contributions. He also plans July 12 hearings against 20 other licensees.
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Senate
Daniel Walker
Illinois Liquor Control Commission
Michael Berz
Walker
Anthony Angelos
Angelos
Liquor Commission
Lawrence Johnson
Commission
Johnson
Berz
Illinois Senate death penalty effort falters in committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted four to nine against sending a death penalty bill to the full Senate and left four other capital punishment bills stalled in committee. Rep. Henry Hyde's bill to mandate death for certain murders was rejected, with Sen. James Bell planning to push on the Senate floor if enough votes exist.
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Springfeld
Illinois
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Henry Hyde
Park Ridge
Sen
James Bell
Bills would reorganize elderly services in Illinois
Illinois Senate passed two bills to move senior citizen services out of the Department of Public Aid. One would create a Division of Services for the Aging in the Governor's Office of Human Resources. the other would form a separate Department of Aging. Both measures aim to consolidate aging services under new state agencies.
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Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Senate
Department of Public Aid
Don A. Moore
Midlothian
Governor’s Office of Human Resources
House
Esther Saperstein
Chicago
Department of Aging
Illinois Senate approves state HEW merger plan to House
The Illinois Senate passed a bill creating a unified Health Education and Welfare department to merge Health Public Health Mental Health Public Aid and Children and Family Services with a single secretary. A nine member coordinating council starts Oct 1 1973 with full merger by July 1 1974.
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Walter E. Wolff
Lindsay-Schaub
Springfield
Illinois Senate
House
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Children and Family Services
Jack T. Knuepfer
Belmhurst
Knuepfer
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