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TexasTowelie's JournalMcHenry County towns enact tax on video gambling hours before deadline
Four McHenry County municipalities enacted a one-cent tax on each game played at video gambling terminals ahead of a possible state deadline prohibiting municipalities from creating such a tax.
Officials in Algonquin, McHenry, Lake in the Hills, and Woodstock approved the new tax in emergency meetings Sunday afternoon. A new bill passed by state lawmakers on Thursday included a provision that would prohibit home-rule municipalities from creating the tax beginning Nov. 1. While the bill has not been signed by Gov. JB Pritzker, local governments were working Sunday to get ahead of the deadline in case Pritzker were to sign the bill on Monday and the law took effect.
Under the new ordinances enacted Sunday, a one-cent tax will be charged for every game a person plays on a video gambling terminal in what is known as a “push tax.”
The Algonquin Village Board, McHenry City Council, Lake in the Hills Village Board, and Woodstock City Council all voted unanimously to enact a one-cent push tax beginning Oct. 31 during their emergency meetings Sunday.
Read more: https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/news/local/2021/10/31/mchenry-county-towns-enact-tax-on-video-gambling-hours-before-deadline/
(Crystal Lake Northwest Herald)
Congressional redistricting plan clears General Assembly
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois lawmakers gave final approval in the early hours of Friday morning to a new congressional redistricting plan that divides the state into 17 districts, one fewer than it currently has due to its loss of population since the 2010 U.S. Census.
It was the fourth draft plan that legislative Democrats had proposed over the previous two weeks, and it was introduced to the public after 7 p.m.
Like earlier versions, it collapses two southern Illinois districts into a single district while carving up much of downstate Illinois into a number of oddly-shaped districts that put cities as far apart as East St. Louis and Champaign into one district, with Bloomington and Rockford linked in another.
“This will be the most gerrymandered map in the country,” Sen. Don DeWitte, R-St. Charles, said during floor debate. “And this process will be used as the poster child for why politicians should never be allowed to draw their own maps.”
Read more: https://capitolnewsillinois.com/NEWS/congressional-redistricting-plan-clears-general-assembly
Democrats introduced the final congressional map that passed the General Assembly after 7 p.m. Thursday, giving it final approval in the early hours of Friday morning.
Illinois bills to expand electric vehicle production
House Bill 1769, a major priority of the governor's that was dubbed the Reimagining Electric Vehicles in Illinois Act, passed the Senate unanimously and by a vote of 110-2 in the House.
“With the passage of the REV Act, Illinois is making clear that it intends to be a leading state in the burgeoning electric vehicle manufacturing industry,” the Democratic governor said in a statement. “As a leader in clean energy and as a global transportation hub, Illinois is an ideal home for this important, climate-friendly industry.”
Added Pritzker, who plans to travel to Scotland in early November to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, “With our climate action plan in one hand and the electric vehicle REV Act in the other, I will aggressively work to recruit and support businesses that will create thousands of good jobs in communities across our state.”
Read more: https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/government/2021/10/30/illinois-electric-vehicles-health-worker-bills-go-gov-jb-pritzker/6201188001/
(Springfield State Journal Register)
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