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SPRINGFIELD The Illinois House has passed a bill that would allow businesses to offer multi-occupancy restrooms inclusive to all genders, a measure that the bill’s sponsor said was designed to allow caregivers to help those who need assistance.
But a Republican legislator cast the bill sent to the state Senate late Thursday as the first step in requiring special bathrooms to benefit transgender patrons, which he argued would be unsafe for others.
The measure was backed by LGBTQ advocates, but state Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, said she was looking to the many businesses that want to have multi-stall gender neutral bathrooms “either because their patrons or their employees have asked for it. But our laws don’t allow it.”
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Willis said she wouldn’t compromise on mandating fingerprints or universal background checks before all gun sales except for those between immediate family members.
“We have to have a better way to do background checks and fingerprints are the best way to do that,” Willis said. “Same thing with universal background checks. If we don t do that, there s a loophole in the law, and people that have shady backgrounds will continue to do personal sales and not go through gun dealers.”
Competing legislation
The new proposal combines more progressive elements backed by gun control groups with ideas introduced by the Illinois State Police carried in a separate piece of proposed legislation. That bill is aimed at reducing Illinois’ massive backlog of FOID and concealed carry license applications, which grew so large during the COVID-19 pandemic, a gun rights group filed suit against Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration over it in federal court last month.
Bill deadline approaches in House, Senate
Expect a flurry of activity out of each chamber of the Illinois Legislature.
Today is the deadline for House bills to pass the House onto the Senate and for the Senate to pass Senate bills to the House. The House Thursday passed 180 bills. The Senate passed 75 bills.
Both chambers have a May 31 deadline to pass legislation to the governor with just simple majorities.
Bill requiring fingerprints for FOID card advances in Illinois House
The House could pass a bill today that requires Illinoisans to submit fingerprints when applying for a Firearm Owner Identification card.