This document has been formatted for printing from your browser from the Web site of the Illinois Association of School Boards. Alliance Legislative Report 90-38 provides details of the legislation. Your calls and letters to the Governor urging a veto of the bill made a difference. The House and Senate will re-convene on January 14th and 15th.
Pressure needs to be brought now on the legislature so the veto is sustained.
Please call your Representative and Senator and urge them to vote to sustain the Governor's veto of HB 999. The motion to override must first be filed in the House of Representatives. 71 votes will be needed for the override motion to succeed. We need to generate as many calls as possible to legislators on this bill. This effort could be enhanced by writing letters to the editors of your local newspapers urging the legislature to sustain the Governor's veto.