New Year, New Laws
By Bensen32
@Bensen32 (27763)
United States
December 9, 2024 6:58pm CST
I was just reading some of the new laws going into effect on January 1st, 2025, in Illinois and I’m a little confused and shocked by a few.
They are replacing “offender” with “Justice impacted Individuals”. An amendment to the Illinois Crime Reduction Act of 2009 will change references to “offenders” to “justice-impacted individuals.” I’m sorry, what? I do not understand this at all. Who or what is changing, I can’t call someone an offender or in court they must change what they say?
Drivers must yield the right of way to emergency vehicles. HB5370 requires drivers approaching an emergency scene, stopped emergency vehicle, or construction zone to make a lane change when possible or to slow down. Ahh, I thought that was already the law.
A new Illinois law prohibits Illinois employers from voluntarily enrolling in the E-Verify program or similar Electronic Employment Verification System unless they are required to by federal or state law. So, in Illinois you can be a criminal, illegally, in this country and they are not going to be able to check that? That’s screwed up.
Minimum wage is going up to $15 an hour. Be prepared for more price hikes in a state that over charges for everything already.
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@kaylachan (72598)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Dec
I've noticed in a lot of cases, if it's not written down, it doesn't exist. And I guess rewording a law somehow makes it better?
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@kaylachan (72598)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Dec
@Bensen32 Well sound better anyway. Laws in this country are a joke.
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@AmbiePam (94567)
• United States
10 Dec
Not being able to call a person an offender is an unwelcome woke byproduct that seems overwhelmingly ridiculous. As for yielding to emergency vehicles- I, too thought that was a law everywhere.
In my state, as of January 1, 2025, non citizens in Oklahoma will not be allowed to vote. What? They weren’t allowed to vote before from what I understood. They did not pass the minimum wage hike to $15 (although it was on the ballot) here, thank goodness. Oklahomans cannot afford the increase in prices. Even if it “seems” unfair.
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