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Chair Ortiz said she would send out weekly updates with assigned pages for committee members to review and acknowledged a suggestion by Member Bullock to split the review load and ask committees to submit legislative proposals. \"I will be sending out an email today, and we get weekly reports,\" Ortiz said, adding the reports would be sent to all members going forward.

Member Bullock urged that the document become a persistent record of the county's priorities rather than being rebuilt each year: \"I would like to see this document kinda become a living document so that we're not taking things off of it when we're redoing it because we have these beliefs, these things that we want to see happen in our county.\" Several members said they preferred a short, clickable list with links to bills and one-sentence descriptions like the prior lobbyist's reports; one member asked staff to restore that format.

Members also discussed lobby-day logistics. Several said past lobby days were crowded or scheduled during committee hearings when legislators were unavailable. Member Freeman and others asked that the county and its lobbyists coordinate timing and that written materials (paper and digital) be prepared in advance. Vice Chair Agala and Member Hickey suggested creating topical narratives or fact sheets for the agenda (for example, explaining local effects and unfunded mandate concerns for proposed gun-storage rules or detailing local acreage and permit activity for solar farm policy).

The committee agreed on two operational directions: Chair Ortiz will reach out to each committee chair to solicit legislative proposals for the state agenda, and the standard practice will be to send weekly legislative tracking reports to all board members. Members did not take formal votes on policy positions during this discussion.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Will County Legislative Committee Meeting May 6, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","Committee members discussed creating a \"living\" state legislative agenda, returning to a concise bill-tracking format from prior lobbyists, broadening distribution of weekly reports, and improving lobby-day preparation and scheduling.","taxTitle","Will County, Illinois","taxId",2549,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6063830,"Will County committee briefed on multiple Illinois bills; Will County land-transfer bill unlikely to advance this year",332,569000,901000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3262577-d092743b1a105e5f6c5a43b1c7431179&start=569&end=901","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3262577-d092743b1a105e5f6c5a43b1c7431179/thumbnail_569000.jpg","/articles/6063830/Will-County/Illinois/Will-County-committee-briefed-on-multiple-Illinois-bills-Will-County-land-transfer-bill-unlikely-to-advance-this-year","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6063830-64c701f90b4a456e3c17706edc85e539/orig.mp4?Expires=1773659352&Signature=h4eoEQxfyYvkfdxBe3OrdMvRGOvBSeN9ZRwzA74HrEvTtk5W5Nqzv6loR9XgPnvkjFplfIn3pJ21pbL4UWEwtjWQE7r8h-LfPg6ybjmSBptvE~ngxrbhtCCNEKODL0naP5N6Yvtob4ZaI7t1wUL6z0Vg-N8SvoadIZHflA7O3I06OeEpIgsVJaqV4gqL8hXi3ZPgBoTP27mzZ7KQ-9Jqy8WoALu7kRHT0cIH4BPrGJ~5UjSURCgm0WYvpp0gkzDf8b3OAM1dMro4LIhu6XAiCE5953yphlTZiVcVk6neA0VoDXn2lmbUYL5tPAlGkrWu5VrCxXBSHaC3c8MPlxDtEQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Will County Board Legislative Committee received a state legislative update from Max Strategies on the status of several bills the county tracks as the General Assembly moves toward finalizing the fiscal year budget.

A Max Strategies presenter identified as Matt said the legislature is in the last weeks of the spring session and that the next committee deadline week requires bills in the second chamber to clear committee. He said the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability's revenue estimate is roughly $471,000,000 lower than the governor's introduced budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, and that budget negotiations will be the central focus for the remainder of the session.

Matt outlined priority bills the county follows. House Bill 1364 (Juliet Arsenal Development Authority) was scheduled for the Senate Judiciary Committee with amendments; House Bill 663 (sanitary district technical cleanup language) was in the Senate Local Government Committee; House Bill 250 (quick-take revisions) remained in the House; House Bill 3517 (a DCEO grant for the Joliet Historical Museum) was posted for a hearing in the House Appropriations, Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee. He said Senate Bill 1698, described as a Will County land-transfer bill that has been in the Senate Assignments Committee since April 11, \"most likely\" will not advance this year because it did not receive additional deadline extensions.

Anne, another Max Strategies presenter, reviewed several other items committee members had raised previously: House Bill 2341 and Senate Bill 1416 (appropriations for local health protection grants) are individual line-item bills that would be folded into the larger budget package if advanced; Senate Bill 93 (food additive restrictions) was narrowed in the Senate and posted for a House hearing; Senate Bill 1954 (recall of county officials) was significantly amended in the Senate and sits in a House elections and ethics assignment pending reposting; a consumer-electronics recycling bill had passed both chambers' committees and the House and awaited further Senate action; Senate Bill 1608 (Cargo Transport Act, imposing a fee on carriers) had not advanced despite an extension; and a transit proposal informally called \"United We Move Illinois\" (a road-usage charge pilot) was not posted for a hearing and appeared unlikely to move this session.

Max Strategies advised the committee it will continue monitoring hearings and deadlines and provide written updates. Committee members asked procedural questions and there were no formal votes on the bills during the meeting.","Max Strategies updated the committee on Illinois session deadlines and multiple bills of county interest, including a likely stall of Senate Bill 1698 (Will County land transfer) and hearings on local grants and municipal-development measures.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":79,"_47":92,"_49":93,"_51":94,"_53":95,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":96,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":97,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6063835,"Will County committee hears federal reconciliation, budget and transportation updates from Smith Garson",350,219000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3262577-d092743b1a105e5f6c5a43b1c7431179&start=219&end=569","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3262577-d092743b1a105e5f6c5a43b1c7431179/thumbnail_219000.jpg","/articles/6063835/Will-County/Illinois/Will-County-committee-hears-federal-reconciliation-budget-and-transportation-updates-from-Smith-Garson","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6063835-6ec38045654f32b72e0e9000827d1744/orig.mp4?Expires=1773659352&Signature=H3l7Jpld2BwSJs3nmJw4WUenv3rVPRHWDf~s~sHdI0y4pBWDXMyfuhSqaMSNU-22Nr8jjXxVD3vNTWY5E0lX413bP7ZXoL0OxQ1cD1CD5sViq8SI3h69NtBBRybHcYEYXSZFOLvSuCV0CIKWZnjGKyAm7TFJGA3bg1nvKFodj5iT2PhecMTA3tVEh0H7w2K5Cq6XZF1o2YqRGBLK-cxFglxOQ4Q-CaYyuIX0GeQM5TmKoE92TrT5N-OlnWPw5i2VECukwvMyaLgR9hxWh2fH9ZPtOJyl0P1hmIMc90Q607RKd4P6elXh8kd5ZHahax~Eyzgg2EYRvJf38jFYVUwKag__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Members of the Will County Board Legislative Committee on the federal update heard an overview of ongoing reconciliation work in Congress, the president's recently released fiscal year 2026 \"skinny\" budget and early hearings on the next surface transportation bill.

The presentation was delivered by Brett Garson, CEO of Smith Garson, who said the House has begun hearings and markups on reconciliation and that the Senate is expected to use its reconciliation process on budget, taxing and revenue measures. \"It's very busy in Washington. I think, you know, a lot of us have been watching what's going on with, the reconciliation process,\" Garson said.

Garson told the committee the president released a FY26 \"skinny\" budget that proposed substantial cuts to domestic discretionary programs and a large increase in defense spending. He said the document showed \"roughly a $163,000,000,000 cut in domestic discretionary programs from fiscal year 2025,\" which he described as about a 22% reduction, and about \"$1,010,000,000,000 in defense spending,\" which he characterized as roughly a 10% increase from FY25 levels. He also said the House Ways and Means Committee and agriculture committee will be closely involved, and that the budget process will prompt agency budget justification hearings and bill markups.

Garson and colleagues also told the committee that work is beginning on the next surface transportation authorization, typically a five-year bill, and that hearings are underway in both chambers. He warned the current federal transportation law lapses in September 2026 and said House and Senate committees — including House Transportation and Infrastructure and Senate Environment and Public Works — have begun to review program needs.

Committee members did not take formal action on the presentation. Garson said lobbyists would send a written update and links to the committee later the same day; the committee acknowledged receipt and closed questions without further formal direction.

The briefing provided context for local officials tracking federal funding for transportation, defense-related grants and domestic discretionary programs that could affect county programs and grants.","Federal lobbyists from Smith Garson briefed the Will County Board Legislative Committee on the reconciliation process, the president's FY26 \"skinny\" budget and the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization, noting large proposed shifts in domestic and defense spending.","actionData","errors"]

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