Bill lets schools create cyber-bullying policies
SPRINGFIELD—The Senate passed a bill today that would allow a school to enact a policy that bans students from using computers and cell phones to harass others through a practice...
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State Senate approves ERA years after 1982 deadline
SPRINGFIELD—The Illinois Senate approved the Equal Rights Amendment with Democratic support today, but Republican women lined up to condemn the effort as a symbolic gesture that's decades late and a...
Driving permit for chronic DUI offenders fails
SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois House voted down a bill today that would have given people a chance to drive with a highly restricted permit after getting convicted four times of...
Democrats try new approach on tax increase: major budget cuts
SPRINGFIELD — After a personal appeal by Gov. Pat Quinn to round up enough votes to make permanent a state income tax increase failed, Democratic leaders tried a new tactic...
Medical marijuana for children with epilepsy advances
SPRINGFIELD --- Children who suffer from epilepsy would be able to use medical marijuana to treat their condition under legislation the House overwhelmingly approved today. The measure would add epilepsy...
Medical marijuana for children with epilepsy advances
SPRINGFIELD --- Children who suffer from epilepsy would be able to use medical marijuana to treat their condition under legislation the House overwhelmingly approved today. The measure would add epilepsy...
Democrats try new approach on tax increase: major budget cuts
SPRINGFIELD — After a personal appeal by Gov. Pat Quinn to round up enough votes to make permanent a state income tax increase failed, Democratic leaders tried a new tactic...
Measure to protect pregnant women on the job advances
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois employers could not fire, segregate against, or refuse to hire women for being pregnant under legislation the Senate approved today. Sponsoring Sen. Toi Hutchinson, D-Olympia Fields, said...
Illinois high school students will have to learn how to use defibrillators
SPRINGFIELD — High school students would be required to learn how to operate mobile defibrillators and learn cardio pulmonary resuscitation under legislation the Senate passed today and Gov. Pat Quinn...
State Senate OKs bill to bar U. of I. lecturer
SPRINGFIELD --- Less than a week after a University of Illinois lecturer with ties to a 1970s radical group pleaded his case to keep teaching, the Illinois Senate passed a...