Illinois House OKs end to tax-on-tax utility bills
Illinois lawmakers approved a bill to end a tax on a tax for utility bills, sending the measure to the Senate on a 125-30 vote. It would prevent basing state charges on municipal utility taxes and limit local taxes on gas, electric, and telephone service, offset by concerns over a potential $20 million revenue loss. Sponsors include Rep. Steve Miller and Rep. Fred Schroeder, backed by the Taxpayers Federation of Illinois.
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Illinois House
Senate
Taxpayers’ Federation of Illinois
Steve Miller
R-Catlin
Fred Schroeder
D-Peoria
Illinois
Fahner backs bill to allow loan record releases
Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fahner shifts to backing legislation to let the Labor Department release confidential records to aid collection of defaulted student loans. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Ted Leverenz, would support the Illinois State Scholarship Commission in pursuing roughly 130,000 delinquent borrowers owing about $67.2 million, with wage garnishment as a possible outcome.
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Illinois
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Department of Labor
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Illinois Department of Labor
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James R. Thompson
Ted Leverenz
Chicago
Illinois State Scholarship Commission
Commission
Josephine Palmer
ISSC
William Ghesquiere
Ace
Palmer
Prison site decision delayed amid election year concerns
State officials target June 30 for a prison site decision as 22 towns compete for a 750 bed facility. Senator Jerome Joyce predicts no concrete choice in June due to political calculations. Corrections Director Lane and Gov Thompson have not discussed the matter, while judging factors include roads, hospitals, education links, public support, unemployment, and water systems.
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Sta Sen
Jerome Joyce
Essex
Illinois Department of Corres Tions
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Aankakee
Michael Lane
James R. Thompson
Lane
Thompson
Corrections
Nic Howell
Nuclear safety levies may increase
Springfield AP Illinois House approves higher fees on nuclear power firms to fund safety programs including a central reporting computer system. The plan, backed by Gov Thompson and House leaders, would start with a 590000 startup fee for new plants plus annual reactor charges and spent fuel storage fee changes. Commonwealth Edison calls it a hidden consumer tax.
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Illinois House
James R. Thompson
House
George Ryan
J.T. Meyer
Chicago
Thompson
Senate
Commonwealth Edison
Edgar named to panel against drunk drivers
Springfield Illinois Secretary of State Jim Edgar was named to the Presidents Commission on Drunken Driving. He noted that in 1981 about 1 000 deaths occurred in Illinois and about 25 000 nationwide from alcohol related accidents while traffic fatalities drop 19 percent from the previous year and state police report monthly records for drunk driving arrests.
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Springfield
Illinois
Jim Edgar
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