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State legislative update: mass-transit funding debate and stalled bills on county control of wind and solar
Summary
Will County’s legislative consultants warned the county that mass-transit funding and local control over wind and solar remain unresolved in Springfield; committees are watching potential sales-tax measures and several jurisdictional bills have not advanced out of holding committees.
Will County’s state legislative consultants told the county’s Legislative Committee that two long-running policy fights in Springfield remain unsettled: how to raise roughly $750 million in year-one funding for mass transit, and whether to restore counties’ authority over wind and solar siting.
At the committee meeting, Matt and Anne of Mac Strategies said the governor’s budget assumed improved revenues but offered only limited spending increases and no general tax increases. That leaves mass-transit funding in flux: consultants said legislators are discussing options that include expanding sales taxes to services or other revenue proposals, but “we don't anticipate that [a mass-transit funding package] will come together this…
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