[Imc-newsroom] Re: [Prairiegreens] Local Gay Rights Activists Arrested in Springfield

[Jen Roth]

On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, John Wason wrote:

> At 03:56 PM 05/09/2001 -0500, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
>
> >Currently in the state of Illinois people who are or are suspected of
> >being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered (LGBT) can be denied
> >employment, a hotel room, and other serivces on the basis their actual
> >or suspected sexual orientation.
> >
> >The anti-discrimination bill (HB 101) passed the Illinois House earlier
> >this year and needs to be passed in the Senate by the end of May or it
> >will die.
>
> Maybe if I post this to enough groups I might get an answer.  :)  Without
> making me go look up a web site, can someone tell me, briefly, what the
> Illinois Senate ended up doing with this bill?  Thank you.

This is the latest action I can find from the Illinois Legislature's web
page:

MAY-12-01  Senate  RE-REFERRED TO RULES COMM/RULE 3-9(A)

They seem to keep the page very up-to-date, so that probably really is the
latest action.

-- 
Jen Roth
jen at talon.outreach.uiuc.edu