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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.”
The Illinois House of Representatives advanced several bills Friday dealing with concerns around public health and safety while debating other measures to combat gun violence.
Lawmakers passed a bill expanding insurance coverage for telehealth in a unanimous vote in favor of House bill 3498. The bill requires insurance providers to cover telehealth treatment. Over the last year, we ve seen firsthand evidence telehealth preserves quality and safety, meets individual patient needs, decreases health care disparities, and protects public health, said state Rep. Deb Conroy, D-Villa Park, referencing the increased dependence on telehealth because of the pandemic.
Lawmakers also engaged in a spirited debate over addressing lead water pipes throughout the state. State Rep. Lamont Robinson, Jr., D-Chicago, argued lawmakers cannot wait any longer to address the problem of lead in water and it should have been addressed in the 2019 capital bill.
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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.