From a boost in the minimum wage to making Juneteenth a state holiday to requiring larger law enforcement agencies to equip officers with body cameras, scores of new laws will go into effect in Illinois in 2022.Minimum Wage Increasea state law passed in 2019The state’s minimum wage law includes provisions allowing employers to pay a lower minimum wage to tipped workers and to minors who work less than 650 hours a year. The minimum wage for tipped workers will increase to $7.
Municipalities and counties with a population of 500,000 or more will be required to provide officers with body cameras by Jan. 1.requires smaller municipalities and counties to equip officers with body cameras in later years, as part of a phased-in approach to police officers in Illinois wearing body cameras by 2025.
The Lake County Sheriff’s office first began equipping officers with body cameras in 2015, and has since expanded the program to every officer.The Kane County Sheriff’s Office and Will County Sheriff’s Office began deploying body cameras last year. The DuPage County Board this year approved a $2.5 million contract to equip all sheriff’s officers with body cameras by the end of the year.
The law was sponsored by Illinois State Sen. Mike Simmons, who wears his hair in freeform dreadlocks, and has said he faced hair discrimination when he was in school, and would face inappropriate comments from teachers about his hair.streamline the process for renewing Firearm Owners Identification cards and concealed carry licensesAs Firearm Owners Identification cards are replaced in 2022, new cards will be printed without expiration dates.
And another paid state holiday?
Those legislators are tackling some big issues! Permits for lemonade stands WTF?
I’m fine adding Juneteeth but let’s get rid of another state holiday. The last thing IL taxpayers need is another paid holiday for state workers.
Nobody obeys them so who cares