Sen. Dave Syverson shared the schedule for Senate committees during veto session on Nov. 29 and spoke out on the controversy surrounding the SAFE-T Act. With the beginning of the new year, the SAFE-T Act will stop the cash bail system in Illinois.
"Second Week of Veto Session Two Senate Committees have scheduled meetings in the Capitol on November 29," Syverson said in a Facebook post the previous day. "Visit the General Assembly website at ilga.gov for information about the meetings."
The veto session started in the Senate on Nov. 15-17 and resumed after the holiday on Nov. 29 through Dec. 2.
"The duration of veto session is much more condensed than the multi-month regular session, which will begin in January, but also differs in how legislation must be passed," The State Journal-Register said in describing the veto session. "For any piece of legislation to pass during a veto session, a three-fifths majority in both the House and the Senate must be met for the bill to go into effect immediately."
In recent weeks, Syverson has spoken out about issues with the SAFE-T Act, a measure his Republican colleagues have urged the entire Legislature to take up again.
"Fifty-eight lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the SAFE-T Act were officially combined into one comprehensive suit during the week, while yet another report ranks Illinois toward the bottom of the list of tax-friendly states,” he wrote on Facebook.
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