By Illinois News Network
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has scheduled a busy week for lawmakers.
The leading Democrat has scheduled votes on workers’ compensation and civil justice reforms. These are things that working groups of leading lawmakers and staff from the governor’s office have been hashing out, but Madigan has already jumped the gun on those closed-door working group discussions with a vote on several different budget bill amendments restoring proposed reductions or eliminations in human services programs for the coming fiscal year and a contentious vote last Thursday on right-to-work zones.
Madigan issued a news release last week stating the closed-door meetings need to be brought out in the open.
