Monitoring who supports and opposes bills is about to get even easier, thanks to an upgrade to the General Assembly's website.
Several years ago, in the course of outlining improvements to the Illinois Lobbyist Registration Act, ICPR urged that witness slips be posted to the internet. When legislative committees take public testimony on legislation, they collect witness slips indicating who supports and who opposes aspects of the proposals. For years, these have been kept on paper, in file cabinets, in the state house.
