Governor Pritzker will deliver the State of the State and budget address to the Illinois General Assembly today at noon in Springfield. Legislators from the House of Representatives and the Senate will join together in the House Chambers to listen to the Governor’s speech and learn of his budget priorities.
In Illinois, the Governor drafts a budget they would like to see implemented but it is up to the members of the General Assembly to appropriate funds based on how they think the state’s money should be spent. Throughout the remainder of the legislative session, lawmakers serving on appropriation committees will be conducting public hearings where state agencies will lay out the Governor’s budget requests providing lawmakers with an accounting of how funds will be spent over the next fiscal year. After accessing the information from those hearings, budget analyses, and based on their priorities, legislators will ultimately vote on the budget and budget implementation bills sometime at the end of May.You can watch the Governor’s State of the State and Budget address live on the Illinois General Assembly website and hear from Republican House members on the Illinois House Republican Facebook page.
Keep up-to-date with the six Appropriations committees that will be meeting over the next few months:
- Elementary and Secondary Education Appropriations Committee
- Public Safety and Infrastructure Committee Appropriations Committee
- General Services Committee Appropriations Committee
- Health and Human Services Committee Appropriations Committee
- Higher Education Committee Appropriations Committee
- Pensions & Personnel Appropriations Committee
You can weigh in on issues presented in committees even if you can’t attend a hearing by submitting an electronic witness slip, here’s how.