To subscribe to Capitol Fax, click here. Pritzker totals up his wins Sunday, Jun 2, 2019 * From the governor’s office… Working with both Democrats and Republicans, Governor JB Pritzker and the General Assembly enacted Illinois’ most sweeping and consequential legislative agenda in a generation, ushering in a new era of fiscal responsibility and standing up for working families. Fiscal Responsibility and Building a Sound Economy for All Illinoisans ✓ Passed a bipartisan balanced budget that begins to pay down debts from prior administration

✓ Advanced a fair income tax amendment for Illinois that will ensure wealthy pay more while 97 percent pay the same or less

✓ Launched the bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital plan – the largest infrastructure investment in Illinois history – to rebuild roads, bridges and communities and create hundreds of thousands of jobs

✓ Raised minimum wage for all Illinois workers to a living wage

✓ Committed highest annual per capita investment in the nation for 2020 census to bring federal dollars to Illinois

✓ Legalized adult-use cannabis with most equity-centric law in the nation for communities that bore the brunt of the war on drugs

✓ Met with bond rating agencies, the first time an Illinois governor has done so in nearly 20 years Education – Cradle to Career ✓ Expanded child care assistance eligibility to 10,000 more children

✓ Strengthened early childhood education and child care with biggest investment ever in Illinois into early childhood programs and facilities

✓ Provided historic funding levels for K-12 students across the state

✓ Raised minimum wage for teachers

✓ Expanded skills development with first increase for career and technical education in a decade

✓ Increased college affordability by expanding in-state college scholarships to 15,000 more students

✓ 40% increase in merit scholarships for high achieving college-bound students

✓ Expanded access to federal tuition assistance to every Illinois student

✓ Focused on restoring and stabilizing higher education after years of neglect by increasing public university and community college funding by 5%

✓ Extended financial aid to undocumented students Health Care – Quality and Affordability ✓ Expanded health care to 100,000 more Illinoisans with bipartisan reforms to eliminate the Medicaid backlog

✓ Implemented managed care organization assessment that will bring in $500 million federal dollars to Medicaid

✓ Improved quality of care for seniors through better funding for nursing home and in-home care

✓ Strengthened critical access hospitals in rural downstate communities

✓ Reformed medical cannabis program to cover chronic pain management

✓ Put in place Getting to Zero plan to end HIV in a decade

✓ Raised age to buy tobacco and nicotine products to 21 Business Investment and Job Creation ✓ Launched effort to bring high speed broadband internet to every corner of the state

✓ Elevated innovation economy with new business incubators and extension of the research and development tax credit for businesses

✓ Created a business apprenticeship tax credit, encouraging new job creation and workforce development

✓ Extended the film industry tax credit, creating and supporting thousands of entertainment industry jobs in Illinois

✓ Created a minority business loan fund

✓ Created new high paying tech jobs and construction jobs with a data center tax incentive program

✓ Brought relief for 300,000 small businesses through phase out of corporate franchise tax

✓ Created incentives for job creation on new construction and renovations in underserved communities

✓ Established annual reporting on corporate board diversity for public companies to encourage greater representation

✓ Refocused community college workforce development programs to concentrate on high growth industries Serving and Protecting Illinois Families ✓ Enshrined reproductive rights into law

✓ Implemented gun dealer licensing to eliminate straw purchases and reduce gun trafficking

✓ Joined the US Climate Alliance and committed to reducing state’s carbon footprint

✓ Advanced equal pay for women by banning salary history inquiries

✓ Launched comprehensive overhaul of DCFS to protect vulnerable children and added 300 new frontline caseworkers

✓ Improved public safety by expanding recruitment of new Illinois State Police troopers

✓ Elevated and strengthened safety for first responders on state highways

✓ Strengthened the Illinois State Police Division of Forensics Services to address the forensics backlog and introduced rape evidence tracking tool

✓ Established a moratorium on for-profit immigrant detention centers

✓ Protected immigrant families by limiting coordination by local law enforcement with Donald Trump’s Immigration roundups

✓ Fully funded reconstruction of Quincy Veterans’ Home and restarted long-delayed 200-bed Chicago Veterans’ Home by spring of 2020 Government Reforms ✓ Built the most diverse executive branch cabinet in state history

✓ Built the most diverse governor’s office in state history

✓ Launched public safety pension consolidation task force and asset transfer task force

✓ Expanded state employee pension buyout program to reduce pension liabilities As a commenter noted, he didn’t even mention gaming. * The governor will hold a press conference about this today. Links to watch or listen… Live video stream Live video stream w/captioning Live audio-only stream End of session press releases will be posted to our live coverage post. - Posted by Rich Miller

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