Bill to lift nuclear construction ban among measures pending in the General Assembly twill
SPRINGFIELD -- Lawmakers went on a two-week spring break last week with more than 700 bills already passed in at least one chamber of the General Assembly.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker noted last week that he's generally supportive of the concept of lifting the nuclear construction ban, although he didn't commit to signing the proposal contained in Senate Bill 76, which passed on a 39-13 bipartisan roll call. by signing up you agree to our terms of service "These are smaller, less prone to an accident, more likely for us to be able to maintain them for a long period of time, that's something that's worthy of consideration," Pritzker said."Now the devil's in the details and we want to make sure that we're not just opening this up to nuclear everywhere or any type of nuclear.
"Basically, what this does is establishes a statewide building code as a minimum standard," Koehler said during floor debate."Now most communities are going to have well above the minimum standard. But the reason that this is important is because Illinois is one of only six states in the union that does not have a statewide building code."
Sen. Chapin Rose, a Mahomet Republican, used a small town in his district as an example to speak against the bill. "This bill is making sure that those folks ... have an ability to still purchase needed things," Aquino said."Getting fuel, getting their medicine at the pharmacy, getting food on the table that they're able to purchase from groceries and restaurants."
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