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29th Illinois General Assembly ← 28th 30th → The Illinois State Capitol in 1879 Overview Meeting place Springfield, Illinois Term 1875 – 1876 Election 1874 Illinois Senate President Archibald A. Glenn, Democratic Illinois House of Representatives Speaker Elijah Haines, Opposition The 29th Illinois General Assembly was elected in November 1874. The session began on January 6, 1875 and ...
The governor called the General Assembly into special session 26 times, the most in Illinois history. [4] All 118 members of the House, and 38 of the 59 members of the Senate, [1] were elected in the 2006 election. The apportionment of seats was based on the 2000 census. Both chambers had a Democratic majority.
3rd Illinois General Assembly: December 2, 1822 February 18, 1823 4 4th Illinois General Assembly: November 15, 1824 January 15, 1825 5 5th Illinois General Assembly: December 4, 1826 February 19, 1827 6 6th Illinois General Assembly: December 1, 1828 January 23, 1829 [1] 7 7th Illinois General Assembly [Wikidata] December 6, 1830 February 14 ...
The Illinois pension crisis refers to the rising gap between the pension benefits owed to eligible state employees and the amount of funding set aside by the state to make these future pension payments. As of 2020, the size of Illinois' pension obligation is $237B, but the state's pension funds have only $96B available for payouts to retirees.
In December 2004, the 3,016-page $388 billion Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005 became known for its size, its earmarks inserted in the final stages that represented 4% of the $388 billion, its non-appropriations provisions, its controversial content, and for being rushed through at the last minute. It was drafted by the House in less than ...
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The governor can veto bills passed by the General Assembly in four different ways: a full veto, an amendatory veto, and, for appropriations only, an item veto and a reduction veto. [19] These veto powers are unusually broad among US state governors. [20] The line item veto was added to the Illinois Constitution in 1884. [21]
[32] [33] This allowed the governor to strike entire items from an appropriations bill, but not to amend or reduce them, as the Illinois Supreme Court ruled in 1915. [34] No governor actually used the item veto until 1899, 15 years after its adoption, and it was not used again until 1903.