Wins don’t happen often in Illinois, but we got one last week when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision that race-based maps are unconstitutional.

HJRCA 28 was the Democrats’ effort to lock their race-based approach to redistricting into the Illinois Constitution. It would have turned our current gerrymandered map into quite the monster.

But attorneys looked at it in light of the Court’s decision and concluded their race-based approach to redistricting would indeed be unconstitutional. It is shelved.

While most of the media is following HB 910, the mega-projects bill, to see if Illinois will save the Bears, the woke faction of the supermajority is barreling ahead with mental health bills to re-define reality in our schools as well as abortion access that furthers the culture of death for Illinois.

Most of the action this week will be in Senate committees and in the Senate chamber. May 31st ends the session for the summer, so May is a critical month. Deadline to get House bills out of Senate committees is Friday, May 8th. And there are House bills on the Senate floor, too. If they pass, they go to the Governor’s desk for signing into law. God help us.

Please File Witness Slips for These Bills

Witness Slip Instructions

Click on the witness slip link for each bill.

• • Fill out your personal information.
  • Under Firm/Business/Agency, Title, Representation, type “self” or “NA” if you are not representing an organization and do not have a title.
  • Under Position – Add Legislation, select Original Bill, unless otherwise noted.
  • Under Add Position, select Oppose. Then click Add Position. (Your position will then appear in the box to the right with a red circle and an x inside of it.)
  • Select Record of Appearance Only.
  • Check that you agree to the ILGA Terms of Agreement.
  • Check that you aren’t a robot.
  • Click Submit Witness Slip.

HB 4714 – Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago): This expands the Children’s Mental Health Partnership (already a law) so it focuses more on needs reviews, policy monitoring, and use of statewide BEACON data to guide future system changes. It requires that the Partnership’s membership shall include public members who reflect a diversity of sexual orientation and gender identity. These are the ones that will make sure your children’s mental health aligns with theirs. It has already passed the House. The bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Behavioral and Mental Health Committee at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, May 6th in Room 400 Capitol.

Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION of HB 4714.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 4714.

HB 5095 – Laura Ellman (D-Naperville): This bill changes State ID and driver’s license law to allow individuals to select “male,” “female,” or “X” as their sex designation and establishes a simple process to change that designation through a form they fill out for what sex they themselves say they are. It has already passed the House. The bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Executive Committee at 1:30 PM on Wednesday, May 6th in Room 212 Capitol.

Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION  to HB 5095.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 5095.

HB 5295 – Celina Villanueva (D-Chicago): this bill is all about locking down abortion-related medical information and keeping it inside Illinois. It requires health data systems to hide that information and also restrict when and how it can be shared—especially with out-of-state entities.

From a criminal perspective, this bill would cover the crimes of sexual predators and human traffickers, allowing them to bring under-age girls to Illinois for abortions and no one would be the wiser. Not the parents or law enforcement.

From a medical perspective, Dr. William Hauter (R-Morton) said during debate on the House floor that this bill puts lives in danger and is putting politics above people’s lives. The super majority didn’t care because it protects abortions. The bill is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Executive Committee at 1:30 PM on Wednesday, May 6th in Room 212 Capitol.

Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to HB 5295.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 5295.

HB 5238 – Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago): Creates the Illinois Newborn Equity Support Transfer (NEST) Program, a guaranteed-income-style benefit providing direct cash payments to Medicaid-eligible pregnant women — including a lump sum before birth and monthly payments after delivery. The program is administered by DHS and designed to expand over time based on outcomes and recommendations.

It’s another entitlement program and taxpayers should voice their opposition.

This is a subject matter only hearing, so both sides will present their case and no vote will be taken. Witness slips can still be filed.  The bill is scheduled for this subject matter hearing at 8:00 AM on Thursday, May 7th in Room 114 Capitol.

Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to HB 5238. You will have to specifically select HB 5238 under Legislation.

Click HERE to email your state representative to be on the lookout to OPPOSE HB 5238.

SB 3138 – Kimberly Du Buclet (D-Chicago): Makes mental health screening of students in public schools a permanent system-management role rather than temporary advisory function. Requires LGBTQ inclusion. Our children will be screened for mental health based on what the state’s definition of mental health is.

Reflecting on what students are already being taught – Critical Race Theory, social-emotional learning, boys can be girls, students can marry any sex of their preference, graphic sex-ed beginning in kindergarten, offensive books banned from removal in school libraries, tampons in boys bathrooms, LGBTQ history taught – it’s an important piece to the indoctrination puzzle.  The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 10:00 AM on Thursday, May 7th in the House Mental Health and Addiction Committee, Room 413 Stratton.

Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to SB 3138.

Click HERE to email your state representative to OPPOSE SB 3138.

Possible Senate Floor Votes This Week – Then to the Governor to Become Law

HB 4536 – Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago): another piece of the school-based mental-health puzzle where teachers and administrators are trained to view students, families, discipline, identity, and social conditions through a state-approved therapeutic/equity lens.

HB 4536 re-classifies school “trauma-informed practices” to make it anything the left wants. It broadens the definition of trauma to include early relational trauma, caregiver separation, disrupted attachment, prolonged instability, racism, discrimination, lack of supports, identity development, and “systemic and historical oppression.”

Click HERE to find the phone number to call your state senator. Click Continue under View Your Officials.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 4536.

HB 4606 – Cristina Castro (D-Elgin): the universal newborn home-visiting bill. In plain English: the State is building the framework for government-supported home visits after birth, tied to mental health, lactation, substance use, social determinants of health, community referrals, and future data systems.

It also creates a permanent DHS administrative home and statewide infrastructure for newborn home visits, screening, referrals, data collection, future funding priorities, and coordination with public-health/social-service stakeholders. Big Brother wants to make sure you raise your child the way they see fit.

Click HERE to find the phone number to call your state senator. Click Continue under View Your Officials.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 4606.

HB 4834 – Adriane Johnson (D-Waukegan): removes testosterone, mifepristone, misoprostol, GnRH analogues, and estrogen from the Prescription Monitoring Program, a state-run system that lets doctors and pharmacists see what drugs a patient has already been prescribed, mainly to prevent abuse and dangerous interactions. But in this case, the bill removes all records of transgender hormone therapy and medical abortions. These prescriptions will no longer be tracked or visible to other providers plus it requires deleting some existing testosterone prescription records.

This is a dangerous bill, according to State Representative Bill Hauter, MD, who said doctors won’t have this critical information, which can be a matter of life or death in some instances.

Click HERE to find the phone number to call your state senator. Click Continue under View Your Officials.

Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE HB 4834.

THANK YOU!