This session, there is a full-court press going on in the Illinois House to control our kids with extremist far-left ideologies. They’ve been doing that for a generation or two. What makes this different is that the far-left has devised a mental health infrastructure for state government and the public schools to formally institute their agenda. No more piecemeal efforts.
This is a more organized and deliberate system.
All of the mental health initiatives below that the far-left is trying to cram through the House this year are for the purpose of establishing a coordinated system to change kids’ worldview and behavior to the state’s liking. It’s being sold as “helping kids” who are struggling emotionally, physically or mentally. That’s a well-worn playbook. But really it’s just the latest version of the far-left’s attempts to brainwash kids – this time in a more organized way.
They need money. They need a state bureaucracy. And they need to allow the LGBTQ’s and other radicals the power to run it. And lastly, they need special mental health curriculum in schools that WILL be taught to students in health class.
Mental health screenings in public schools begins next year. That was the first law. The bills below would be building the infrastructure in the state and the public schools to carry out the rest.
Good News?
The only “good news” is that the House Democrats were in turmoil this past week. They have hundreds of bills they want to push, but the calendar is working against them now.
The deadline to pass bills out of the House and Senate chambers is Friday, April 17, but some have had their deadline extended. The Senate doesn’t have many bills, but they do have some killers. These bills and amendments should receive witness slips in the committees noted below. For the House, Speaker Chris Welch is going to put a limit on bills allowed per legislator, creating more angst.
This is the week when families really need to be heard in Springfield. The bills marked ** are also on third reading and could be voted on at any time once the amendment passes out of committee. To look up the phone numbers for your state representative and state senator, click HERE. Then under View Your Officials, click Continue. Then click State and view the last two.
The Bottom Line
If a lot of witness slips are filed on the below bills in committee and also emails and calls in to Springfield on the bills on 3rd Reading,** it will really help our efforts to block these bills. There’s a rumor that if they don’t pass the mental health bills by Friday, they could lump all of the mental health language into one comprehensive omnibus “Mental Health” bill and ram it through at the end of May. The more opposition we can have this week makes that possibility less likely. Of course, the more opposition this week, the better chance we also have to kill these bills individually.
Witness Slip Instructions
Click on the witness slip link for each bill.
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- 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, or in one case, Support. 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.
SB 3669 – Adrianne Johnson (D-Waukegan): (part of the mental health package) would require every school district to create a formal intervention plan for students who are struggling academically, behaviorally, or emotionally. In practice, that means schools would have a structured process for identifying students, putting them into escalating levels of support, collecting data on them, and moving them into more intensive interventions if they do not respond. The bill says parents get written notice, but may only join the collaborative team at the school district’s discretion. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 3:00 PM on Tuesday, April 14th in the Senate Education Committee, Room 212 Capitol.
Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to SB 3669.
Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE SB 3669.
** HB 2960 HFA #2 – Laura Faver Dias (D-Grayslake): (part of the mental health package) would require mental-health instruction in middle and high school health classes, and HFA 2 allows third-party vendors and woke advocacy groups to write the curriculum, what outside materials get used, and decide how much room parents have to object. Keep in mind that these are the same people whose idea of mental health condone boys in girls’ locker rooms and that willingly use the wrong pronoun or preferred name of students who think they can become the opposite sex. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15th in the House Education Policy Committee, Room 122 Capitol.
Click HERE to file witness slip in OPPOSITION of HB 2960, HFA #2.
Click HERE to email your state representative to OPPOSE HB 2960, HFA #2.
** SB 3138 SFA #1 – Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) & HB 4714 – Will Davis (D-East Hazel Crest) (part of the mental health package): the bill rewrites parts of the state’s current bureaucracy called the Children’s Mental Health Partnership (CMHP). But the amendment adds LGBTQ membership requirements built around diversity of sexual orientation while also reshaping the board structure. It’s takes a group that monitors and makes suggestions occasionally to state agencies (particularly IL State Board of Education) and adds teeth to it so CMHP is larger, carries more weight, and is much more woke. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, April 15th in the Senate Behavioral and Mental Health Committee, Room 400 Capitol.
Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION of SB 3138.
Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE SB 3138.
Click HERE to email your state representative to OPPOSE HB 4714.
SB 3341 – Graciela Guzman (D-Chicago): allows any minor to receive contraceptive services or supplies without requiring parental consent. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, April 15th in the Senate Executive Committee, Room 212 Capitol.
Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to SB 3341.
Click HERE to email your state senator to OPPOSE SB 3341.
** HB 2929 HFA #3 – La Shawn Ford (D-Chicago): directs the Department of Human Services to start up at least one “overdose prevention site” where people can use drugs under State supervision. If you’re living in La-La Land, this makes sense. If you’re living in the real world, this legitimizes and encourages more drug use. HFA 3 widens the immunity protections around the site, the staff, and even the property owner. Why would they need immunity? The amendment’s liability shield is especially important because once operators and landlords are insulated and can’t be held responsible and sued, expansion becomes politically and practically easier. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 16th in the House Mental Health Committee, Room 413 Stratton.
Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to HB 2929, HFA #3.
Click HERE to email your state representative to OPPOSE HB 2929, HFA #3.
** HB 4039 HFA #1 Lindsey LaPointe (D-Chicago): While HB 2929 authorizes the overdose-prevention-site pilot, HB4039 builds the state bureaucracy. It creates a permanent Harm Reduction Program Board, a Chief Harm Reduction Officer inside IDPH, recurring state grants for harm-reduction providers, local pilot programs, training requirements, and new rules touching prisons, jails, hospitals, and even housing policy. In plain English, this is a new bureaucracy the left is trying to build to expand drug usage “responsibly” in Illinois with staff, funding, boards, and annual expansion recommendations. The bill is scheduled for a hearing at 10:00 AM on Thursday, April 16th in the House Mental Health Committee, Room 413 Stratton.
Click HERE to file a witness slip in OPPOSITION to HB 4039, HFA #1.
Click HERE to email your state representative to OPPOSE HB 40, HFA #1.
** HB 5425 – Mary Beth Canty (D-Arlington Heights): As if life could have less value than it already does in the minds of some Illinois state lawmakers, HB 5425 would allow human remains to be composted. Human beings bear the image of God. They belong to the One who made them and who will raise them on the last day. How a community treats its dead is a statement about what it believes the living are worth.
Click HERE to urge your state representative to OPPOSE HB 5425.
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