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Legislative Update for the Week of May 12, 2025
With conflicting revenue forecasts and a potential $3 billion shortfall looming, the General Assembly’s final weeks will be pivotal in balancing priorities and shaping Illinois’ fiscal future before the July 1st start of the new fiscal year. In the meantime, we are watching a number of bills that should concern pro-family citizens. Don't give up the pressure!
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged abortifacient, abortion pill, Curtis Tarver, DUI, Fentanyl, HB 2827, HB 3489, Linda Holmes, Lindsey LaPointe, Medicaid, physician-assisted suicide, Rachel Ventura, SB 1560, SB 42, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard
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Legislative Update for the Week of May 5, 2025
Illinois state lawmakers are returning to Springfield on Tuesday and are scheduled to work through Friday. Even with the May 31st General Assembly adjournment date in sight, we dare not relax. Our adversaries are working diligently to pass dubious and dangerous bills.
Posted in Exclude from Homepage, Illinois Politics
Tagged Curtis Tarver, HB 1083, HB 2827, Linda Holmes, Lindsey LaPoint, Mental Health Screenings, physician-assisted suicide, Religious Freedom Protecting Act, Rights of Married Persons Act, Sara Feigenholtz, SB 1560, SB 42, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard, the Civil Unions Act
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Legislative Update for the Week of April 21, 2025
We just finished a week of relief as both chambers of the Illinois General Assembly adjourned and went home last week for Easter. The Illinois House is scheduled to return to the Capitol tomorrow. The Illinois Senate is scheduled to return next week, on April 29th.
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged HB 2827, Linda Holmes, SB 9, Terra Costa Howard
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Diatribe: State Rep. Costa Howard Attempts to Justify HB 2827
Frustrated with persistent opposition to HB 2827, "The Homeschool (Registration) Act," State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) took approximately three minutes on Friday morning to gripe about why she isn't going to relent on pushing her bill.
Posted in Education
Tagged HB 2827, homeschooling, sexual assault, Terra Costa Howard, truancy
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Illinois Home Educators Face “Guilty Until Proven Innocent” Label
Wednesday morning, State Representative Terra Costa-Howard (D-Lombard) brought before the Illinois House’s Education Policy Committee an amendment to her “Anti-Homeschool Act’ that would - for the first time - require Illinois homeschooling families to register their students with the state.
Posted in Education
Tagged Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Anti-Homeschool Act, Carmen Longoria-Green, Coalition for Responsible Home Education, HB 2827, Home Education, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Illinois General Assembly, Patrick Henry College, Terra Costa Howard, The Homeschool Act
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AGAIN: Speak Out TODAY Against HB 2827
State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) has filed another amendment to HB 2827, "The Homeschool Act," in hopes of picking up more votes among her colleagues in the Illinois House. They are working overtime to try to pass this bill out of the House and move it over to the Illinois Senate this week.
Posted in Education, Exclude from Homepage
Tagged HB 2827, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Terra Costa Howard, Will Estrada
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Illinois Bureaucrats Are Disqualified to Oversee Homeschoolers
In various media interviews, State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) has repeatedly claimed that there are no regulations in Illinois for homeschoolers. This is not true. Moreover, she has repeatedly suggested that state lawmakers “have to do something to make sure that kids are receiving an education,” yet year after year public school systems miss the academic mark for a majority of their students.
Posted in Education
Tagged Charol Shakeshaft, Chicago Public School, Chicago Tribune, Christina Formella, Downers Grove South, Fox News Channel, House Bill 2827, Illinois Report Card, Illinois State Board of Education, Neuqua Valley High School, Sexual Allegations Unit, Terra Costa Howard, William Schaub
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Legislative Update for the Week of March 31, 2025
The Illinois Senate will be back in Springfield on Tuesday, April 1st. But the Illinois House will not be back until April 7th. All this week state representatives will be in their district offices so it is a good time to gather a few like-minded friends and schedule a visit with them. They need to hear from us!
Posted in Illinois Politics
Tagged Amy Grant, Anna Moeller, Chapin Rose, Dagmara Avelar, Kelly Cassidy, Kimberly Lightford, LaShawn Ford, Laura Faver Dias, Linda Holmes, Rachel Ventura, Terra Costa Howard, Will Guzzardi
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HB 2827: Next Steps
It is vitally important that we pray fervently for God’s help in defeating this bill, make phone calls, send emails, schedule visits, and then pray some more.
Posted in Education, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Aziza Butler, Blain Wilhour, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Tribune, Chris Miller, Chris Welch, David Blatt, Department of Children and Family Services, Fox News Channel, Fred Crespo, HB 2827, Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Illinois Freedom Caucus, Illinois State Board of Election, Jed Davis, Neil Anderson, Office of Student Protections, Planned Parenthood, Regan Deering, sexual abuse, Sexual Allegations Unit, sexual assault, Terra Costa Howard, Will Estrada
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Illinois Homeschoolers Under Attack
Even as suicide, drug abuse, sexual depravity, gender confusion, illiteracy, and violence reach record levels among children in Illinois government schools, leftist lawmakers and far-left media propagandists are painting a target on the backs of homeschool families in the state.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Illinois Politics, Media Watch
Tagged Association of Christian Schools International, Dr. Brian Ray, Homeschoolers, Illinois, Illinois Christian Home Educators, Illinois General Assembly, Matt Davidson, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, P. George Tryfiates, Pro Publica, Sam Bankman-Fried, Terra Costa Howard
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Protecting Abortion Mills, But Not Churches or Pregnancy Care Centers?
An Illinois lawmaker has filed a bill to protect abortion facilities, that she considers "vital public facilities," from "terrorist acts."
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged HB 2679, Katie Stuart, Margaret Croke, Martin Moylan, Terra Costa Howard
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Step Up, Illinois Homeschoolers
As of this week, 15 Illinois House members are willing to sign onto the 45-page legislation and support an unprecedented attack on parental rights. HB 2827 would diminish homeschool freedoms in the state.
Posted in Education
Tagged Cherry Pie Day, COVID, education choice, HB 2827, homeschooling, Kelly M. Cassidy, Michelle Mussman, National Household Education Survey, Ricca Slone, Terra Costa Howard, The Homeschool Act
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Illinois Homeschool Freedoms at Risk!
Over the years, we have loved being able to tell people that Illinois was among the best states with homeschooling freedoms. That is thanks, in part to a 1950 case (People v. Levisen) in which the Illinois Supreme Court determined that the term "private school" included instruction given to a child at home, as long as the instruction was adequate.
Posted in Education
Tagged Home Education, homeschooling, Kelly Cassidy, Michelle Mussman, People v. Levisen, Terra Costa Howard
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Anti-Pregnancy Care Center Bill Signed Into Law by Gov. Pritzker
If you keep wondering how bad laws get made in Illinois, SB 1909 is a very good example. Yes, pundits have always compared law-making to sausage-making – a messy and unsavory process. But lawmaking in Illinois has reached a whole new level of butchery as a way to disguise or mask the quality of their work – it is so different from your “normal” backroom deals (which still happen, by the way).
Posted in Faith, Sanctity of Life
Tagged Celina Villanueva, pregnancy care center, SB 1909, Terra Costa Howard, Thomas More Society
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Illinois State Lawmakers Move to Shut Down Pregnancy Care Centers
On February 9, the Illinois General Assembly introduced two bills—one in the House, one in the Senate—both entitled the “Deceptive Practices of Limited Services Pregnancy Centers Act.” The contents of HB 2463, introduced by State Representative Terra Costa Howard (D-Lombard) and SB 1909, introduced by State Senator Celina Villanueva (D-Chicago) are identical, and both bills seek to radically curtail the operations of “limited services pregnancy centers.”
Posted in Sanctity of Life
Tagged Celina Villanueva, crisis pregnancy centers, HB 2463, Planned Parenthood, Pregnancy Care Centers, Pregnancy Resource Centers, SB 1909, Terra Costa Howard
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