Legislature approves large education funding packages
The House passed an 872 million special education measure and a 1.287 billion school aid bill as part of a larger effort to set next year’s education appropriations. The pair will influence the fiscal year starting July 1 and differ by about 34 million between House and Senate versions.
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Coal tax bill gets boost in Illinois House
The House Rules Committee placed an emergency tag on a 30 cent per ton coal severance tax. Rep. Clyde Choate says the Counties and Townships Committee will hear the bill. Sen. Gene Johns estimates about 18 million dollars yearly, split evenly between the state and producing counties for long term projects, with half of state funds going to mine land reclamation and possible funds for a black lung satellite center.
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House Rules Committee
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Gene Johns
D. Marion
Mine Land Reclamation Fund
Hemingway's Creek Protection Efforts In Idaho
An American Land Trust grant of 100000 funds protection of Silver Creek near Sun Valley Idaho. The initiative aims to preserve the trout stream cherished by Ernest Hemingway, under a new land conservation program in Boise.
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Idaho
Silver Creek
Ernest Hemingway
American Land Trust
Sun Valley
Governors Garden Publicity Stunt Sparks Pea Pod Photo
Illinois Governor Daniel Walker fresh from gall bladder and appendix surgery recovers strength by gardening at the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield. He shares garden scenes with photographers while a Senate committee and House actions shape a $134 million community college appropriation and an $8 million Department of Agriculture request for a new state fairgrounds building.
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Illinois
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Springfield
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Department of Agriculture
State Fairgrounds
Bill would provide homeowners with mine subsidence insurance
Rep Celeste Stiehl proposes a bill to create a Coal Mine Subsidence Insurance Division and a Subsidence Insurance Board to insure homes against damage from underground coal mine subsidence. Hearings in Belleville Springfield and central and southern Illinois areas are planned this summer to determine cost absorption and shape final legislation.
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Lindsay-Schaub News Service
Springfield
Celeste Stiehl
Belleville
House
Department of Mines and Minerals
Civic center funding bills move to House study
Two Senate bills authorizing 75 million dollars for civic centers in Downstate communities pass committee with unanimous approval. If enacted, centers would be built in Madison County Decatur Danville and four additional cities with state subsidies repaid from tax revenues. Springfield center work halted after foundation dug leaving a large hole downtown.
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