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Community Health Centers Commend Governor Pritzker for Prioritizing Behavioral Health and the Healthcare Workforce in Joint State of the State and FY2024 Budget Address

The laws passed the General Assembly in their recently concluded lame duck legislative session in January... #jbpritzker

Creola Kizart Hampton, the volunteer chair for Black Leadership Advocacy Coalition for Healthcare Equity, said despite a measure passing in 2006 to provide funding for Black-led HIV/AIDS programs, year after year it’s been diminished. #hiv #aids

Since each budget allocates money collected over a future 12-month period, lawmakers generally base their spending proposals on economic estimates provided by the state’s two main forecasting agencies. #illinois #budget

Some Republican lawmakers have been critical of the governor's use of disaster proclamations, calling it executive overreach. #illinois

From training initiatives and trade programs, Illinois has a sustainable pipeline of qualified workers for every field. #workforcedevelopment

The Illinois Farm Bureau opposed the bill, saying the setback distances in the legislation needed to be adjusted to better reflect a safer and adequate way for the facilities to be sited. #windfarm

"Here in Illinois, we hold certain ideals: abortion is health care. A medical decision should be made between a patient and their doctor — no one else," said Governor JB Pritzker. #healtthcare

Illinois would have to add 119,000 electric vehicles every year in order to meet their goal of one million by 2030. #EV

"You have an opportunity to bring our divided state together. We urge you to take that path instead of enacting policies you know will only create more divisions.” #illinois