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Update: Illinois FOCA Assigned to Human Services Committee

Posted by Eric Scheidler (February 24, 2010 at 6:23 pm)

Illinois State Capitol BuildingOn Monday, February 22, HB6205 was assigned to the Human Services Committee, the same body that approved the 2009 version of the Illinois FOCA bill. The Committee will consider the bill and then may vote to send it to the full House of Representatives.

Whether or not that committee vote ever takes place depends in large part on whether the Democratic leadership in the House believes they have the votes necessary to pass the measure and send it to the state Senate. In 2008, pro-life opposition to the bill kept it from ever getting out of committee. In 2009, it was approved by the committee under heavy pressure from pro-abortion groups like Personal PAC and the ACLU.

So it’s critical that we keep calling our state reps and tell them to oppose HB6205. If we can make it clear that this bill will never pass in the House, it could die at the committee level.

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