GOP asks AG if Dem tactics render school funding bill unconstitutional

https://www.ilnews.org/news/state_politics/gop-asks-ag-if-dem-tactics-render-school-funding-bill/article_ee3f8626-7ba2-11e7-aa3e-735e16b1aa9d.html

SPRINGFIELD, IL – (Cole Lauterbach, Illinois News Network.  Please Click on the link above for the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)

Illinois Republicans say the Democrats’ education reform measure may have broken their own statehouse rules as well as the state Constitution.

The education reform bill, Senate Bill 1, was passed on May 31st. Senate Democrats put a procedural hold on it, saying they wanted cooler heads to prevail. But they kept it until July 31st, when the bill would have needed more votes to have passed than had originally voted for it.

But Senate Democrats put a procedural hold on it before sending it to Gov. Bruce Rauner, fearing a veto and saying they wanted cooler heads to prevail. They kept it until July 31, but a bill needs a supermajority – or 71 votes – in the state House after June 1.