{"id":33961,"date":"2026-03-27T15:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=33961"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T20:23:48","slug":"rideshare-driver-unionization-human-composting-bills-among-264-to-advance-in-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/uncategorized\/33961-rideshare-driver-unionization-human-composting-bills-among-264-to-advance-in-general-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Rideshare Driver Unionization, Human Composting Bills Among 264 to Advance in General Assembly"},"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><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill on cost of prison mail advances as state cracks down on contraband\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By JENNA SCHWEIKERT, NIKOEL HYTREK &amp; BEN SZALINSKI<\/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:news@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Friday marked the House\u2019s deadline to pass bills out of committee, with lawmakers sending more than 260 bills to the floor this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initiatives such as allowing rideshare drivers to unionize and composting human remains were among the bills approved.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another bill prohibits the state from charging higher rates than the post office for mail to and from prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many bills advanced this week are expected to be amended and further debated in before receiving a full vote in the House.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 The Illinois House passed 264 bills out of committee this week ahead of Friday\u2019s deadline, kicking the legislative session into high gear with two months to go before adjournment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The legislation included a bill allowing rideshare unionization and human composting, regulating prison mail and setting standards for determining a juvenile\u2019s fitness for trial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the committee passage of bills marks early progress, most bill sponsors said they\u2019re still working on amendments before their measures head to the full chambers for a vote. All bills will need approval from the House, Senate and governor to become law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>View our other committee coverage for the week<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/lawmakers-punt-bears-property-tax-bill-to-april\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers punt Bears property tax bill to April<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/lawmakers-advance-pritzkers-cell-phone-ban-social-media-regulations\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lawmakers advance Pritzker\u2019s cell phone ban, social media regulations<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/illinois-house-committee-advances-bill-banning-immigration-detention-centers-near-homes-schools\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois House committee advances bill banning immigration detention centers near homes, schools<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/university-funding-overhaul-bill-advances-in-house-despite-u-of-i-opposition\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University funding overhaul bill advances in House despite U of I opposition<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/prescription-drug-price-control-bill-passes-first-committee-hurdle\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prescription drug price control bill passes first committee hurdle<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/junk-fees-child-torture-tipped-wage-proposals-among-bills-to-clear-committee\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Junk fees, child torture, tipped wage proposals among bills to clear committee<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Rideshare unionization<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rideshare drivers would be able right to unionize under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/Legislation\/BillStatus?DocNum=4743&amp;GAID=18&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegId=165861&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 4743<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, sponsored by Rep. Yolonda Morris, D-Chicago. It passed the House Executive Committee with a partisan vote of 8-4.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is really life-changing legislation for these workers. &#8230; It sets a standard for the entire industry,\u201d said Genie Kastrup, Service Employees International Union Local 1 president. &#8220;It creates a framework for workers to be able to join the union. It also gives drivers the power to select who that union is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Morris said she\u2019s working on a compromise amendment to the bill. The Illinois Labor Relations Board and Illinois Department of Labor had concerns about provisions involving a charge on rides that would go towards grants for union members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An identical version in the Senate had a subject matter hearing on March 10 but was not voted out of committee before the Senate deadline.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Composting as burial option<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The House Energy and Environment Committee on Tuesday passed a bill to allow composting of human remains as a burial option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ilga.gov\/Legislation\/BillStatus?GAID=18&amp;DocNum=5425&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegId=167251&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Natural Organic Reduction Regulation Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, introduced by Rep. Mary Beth Canty, D-Arlington Heights, would grant cemeteries, crematories and other funeral service providers permission to operate facilities and equipment to compost human remains. It also establishes rules around the practice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat we are trying to do is give the people of Illinois the freedom to have the burial they choose, the funeral that they choose,\u201d Canty said. \u201cWe find that deeply respectful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canty committed to hold the bill and return to the committee with a \u201csubstantive amendment\u201d to address concerns about regulation and liability. Some Democratic committee members hung their support for the bill on the promise it would be amended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill passed the House in the previous General Assembly with three Republicans joining 60 Democrats in support, but it was not taken up in the Senate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Goebel of the Illinois Cemetery &amp; Funeral Home Association spoke against the bill, highlighting philosophical concerns and impracticalities like how long it takes to compost a human body, whether that time would cause a backlog, and how to transport the resulting soil.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur association members uniformly feel this process lacks the dignity traditionally afforded to the dead,\u201d he said, though he acknowledged other people have different opinions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill passed the committee 18-9, on partisan basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Prison Mail<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/Legislation\/BillStatus?DocNum=4235&amp;GAID=18&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegId=164706&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 4235<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would prohibit the Department of Corrections from charging inmates and their correspondents more than the U.S. Postal Service rate for mail and mail scanning services. It passed a House judiciary committee unanimously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill\u2019s approval comes months after a separate legislative committee <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/oversight-panel-oks-rule-on-digitized-prison-mail-in-illinois-with-new-changes\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">allowed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> new rules permitting the department to scan and digitize mail as it seeks to crackdown on drugs and other substances finding their way into state prisons. The rule makes some exceptions for photographs, books and legal mail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But some lawmakers don\u2019t think that rule or the bill, sponsored by Rep. Rita Mayfield, D-Waukegan, will solve the contraband issue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe know that everywhere that they\u2019ve done this, contraband is still coming into these facilities,\u201d Rep. Kelly Cassidy, D-Chicago, said. \u201cThis is not the answer. This is some company making money on the backs of the people that we are incarcerating.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In many circumstances, the exact source of the contraband has been elusive, but physical mail has been largely blamed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe introduction of contraband into a facility can be multicausal,\u201d Rep. Patrick Windhorst, R-Metropolis, said. \u201cJust because you cut off one cause doesn\u2019t mean there aren\u2019t other causes. And just because the other causes occur doesn\u2019t mean that we start the one cause that we stopped.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>School foods<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/Legislation\/BillStatus?GAID=18&amp;DocNum=5507&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegId=167481&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 5507<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would ban \u201cultraprocessed\u201d foods in schools. The bill passed out of a public health committee on a partisan 6-2 vote.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bill sponsor, Rep. Sonya Harper, D-Chicago, said she plans to bring an amendment to more clearly define \u201cultraprocessed foods\u201d and move the implementation of the bill from the Department of Public Health to the Illinois State Board of Education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis bill does not make immediate changes, but it creates a multi-year timeline that includes rulemaking, reporting and training before any restrictions take effect,\u201d Harper said. \u201cWe all know that diet-related illness, obesity and other health issues are tied to food quality, and schools should be part of the solution, but we also want to make sure that implementation is practical.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill would require schools to begin removing ultraprocessed foods by July 1, 2029, and finish phasing out by July 1, 2032.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Juvenile trial fitness<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/Legislation\/BillStatus?DocNum=5270&amp;GAID=18&amp;DocTypeID=HB&amp;LegId=166984&amp;SessionID=114\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 5270<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would create a new evaluation to determine if juveniles are fit for trial. Bill sponsor Rep. Justin Slaughter, D-Orland Park, said current state law evaluates child and adults the same way on if they are fit to stand trial.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis one size fits all approach fails to recognize the natural limitations in functional, social, adaptive and intellectual abilities that are inherent to our youth,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juveniles would be evaluated on factors such as traumatic stress, substance abuse and relative immaturity. Slaughter said the bill is partially driven by concerns that President Donald <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/19\/politics\/dc-youth-crime-laws\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump wants<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Washington, D.C., residents as young as 14 to be charged as adults for crimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill passed out of committee on a partisan 10-5 vote.<\/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;\"> is 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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