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 ILLINOIS SENATE VOTE CHART – 2003

 

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delValle Cullerton DeLeo Martinez Silverstein Sullivan
1 O’Hare reforms: expand city property acquisition powers and pre-empt suburban home rule powers; create commission to monitor minority/women firms.              Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No 
2 Impose new state ethics act.   Yes   Present  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes 
3 Authorize $10 billion in new state bonds for state retirees and allocate balance to state budget deficit.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
4 Approve SBC rate hike for wholesale phone carriers to lease unbundled SBC network.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No   No 
5 Hike state executive spending by over $100 million.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No 
6 Hike state school aid formula funding.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No 
7 Hike state human services funding.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
8 Hike state higher education spending.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
9 Pass $4.33 billion in new state capital projects’ spending.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes  Absent
10 Include contraceptives under all insurers’ prescription drug coverages.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   No 
11 Create state prescription drug purchase discount program for seniors and disabled.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
12 Ban wage and salary pay discrimination based on gender.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
13 Allow videotaping of police custodial interrogations.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
14 Ban racial profiling as pretext for police stops.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
15 Ban felons from working at or owning day care facilities.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
16 Increase number of state charter schools from 45 to 60 and in Chicago from 15 to 30.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
17 Require school performance results twice per year.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
18 Require government bodies to maintain video/audio records of closed meetings.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
19 Invoke property forfeiture if person convicted of “animal fighting” charges.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
20 Establish Illinois Port Authority police force.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
21 Toughen residency restrictions for in-state tuition at state universities.  Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes   Yes    Yes 
 

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