{"id":12612,"date":"2025-06-19T07:08:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T12:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2025-06-19T08:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T13:09:54","slug":"gop-lawsuit-seeks-to-end-gut-and-replace-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/12612-gop-lawsuit-seeks-to-end-gut-and-replace-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawsuit Seeks to End &#8220;Gut and Replace&#8221; Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>SENATE PRESIDENT DON HARMON AND HOUSE SPEAKER CHRIS WELCH ARE DEFENDANTS IN THE LAWSUIT <em>(Capitol News Illinois file photo by Peter Hancock)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By PETER HANCOCK<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">phancock@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 A group of Republican lawmakers filed a lawsuit this week that seeks to nullify legislation they say would indelibly alter both the business and legal landscape of Illinois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/billstatus.asp?DocNum=328&amp;GAID=18&amp;GA=104&amp;DocTypeID=SB&amp;LegID=157813&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senate Bill 328<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would amend a key provision of Illinois civil law by allowing, in certain kinds of cases, any company authorized to do business in the state to be sued in Illinois courts, even if the underlying claims and the parties have no connection to the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As written, the bill would apply only in cases filed under the Uniform Hazardous Substances Act in which the plaintiff claims an injury or illness resulting from exposure to a toxic substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is unique about the GOP lawsuit, however, is that it doesn\u2019t just seek to nullify the legislation before Gov. JB Pritzker signs it. It also asks the court to bar the legislature from using a procedure that has become common in the General Assembly known as \u201cgut-and-replace.\u201d This effectively allows lawmakers to sidestep the Illinois Constitution\u2019s requirement that every bill be read, by title, three times on three different days in each chamber before it is passed because amendments are not required to be read on three different days in each chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That procedure is used frequently for major legislation passed in the final days of a legislative session, including budget bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIllinois\u2019 reputation as one of the most corrupt states in the nation and one of the worst states in the nation for business go hand in hand,\u201d Senate Republican Leader John Curran, R-Downers Grove, said during a virtual news conference Wednesday. \u201cAllowing legislators to disregard the Constitution and good government transparency processes to make laws that are bad for our state is the root cause of both narratives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal stems from a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court case, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/22pdf\/21-1168_kifl.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mallory v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in which the court upheld a Pennsylvania law that requires out-of-state corporations to agree to allow Pennsylvania courts to exercise \u201cgeneral personal jurisdiction\u201d over them, just as those courts exercise over domestic corporations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is legalized litigation tourism,\u201d said Sen. Jason Plummer, R-Edwardsville. \u201cAnd it further damages Illinois\u2019 reputation as a state that&#8217;s hostile to businesses and job creators.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB 328 began as what\u2019s known in the General Assembly as a \u201cshell bill\u201d \u2014 one that has a title and a bill number but no substantive content. In this case, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/legislation\/fulltext.asp?DocName=10400SB0328&amp;GA=104&amp;SessionId=114&amp;DocTypeId=SB&amp;LegID=157813&amp;DocNum=328&amp;GAID=18&amp;SpecSess=&amp;Session=\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">original language<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called for making a technical change in one sentence in the Code of Civil Procedure, deleting the word \u201cand\u201d and replacing it with the word \u201cand.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each session, lawmakers in both chambers introduce hundreds of such bills, most of which are never acted upon. But they are often amended into substantive legislation later in the session, especially after deadlines for introducing new bills or passing bills out of committees have passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is what happened with SB 328, which began as a shell bill but was amended in the Senate to make a technical change to the way court clerks handle electronically filed documents. It passed out of the Senate on April 10 by a vote of 56-0 and was sent to the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the House, it was read for the first time on April 11 and was assigned to a committee, which voted April 30 to recommend it be passed. It was read a second time on May 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 30, the next-to-last day of the session, Rep. Jay Hoffman, D-Swansea, introduced a \u201cgut-and-replace\u201d amendment that removed the language about electronic court filings and replaced it with the new language allowing out-of-state corporations to be sued in Illinois courts over acts that may have occurred elsewhere.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That amendment was never sent to a substantive committee but instead was debated on the floor of the House where it passed the night of May 31 by a partisan vote of 77-40. That vote also counted as the third reading of the bill in the House, meaning the bill number had now been read on three different days in each chamber. It was then sent back to the Senate, which voted 37-19 shortly after midnight on June 1 to concur in the House amendment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have long discussed with our partners, members and constituents filing suit on this issue, even prior to me being in leadership this year,\u201d House Republican Leader Tony McCombie, of Savanna, said during the news conference. \u201cThe caucus members brought forward this egregious example of SB 328, and said let&#8217;s move forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lawsuit was filed in circuit court in Sangamon County. It lists 47 Republican lawmakers as plaintiffs. House Speaker Emanuel \u201cChris\u201d Welch and Senate President Don Harmon are named as defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harmon, D-Oak Park, who sponsored the amended bill in the Senate, did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Separately, the Illinois Freedom Caucus has also filed a lawsuit in Sangamon County alleging the state\u2019s budget bill did not satisfy the three readings requirement for similar reasons. A hearing in the case is scheduled for July 3.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. 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