Illinois State Rep. Mark Luft (R-Pekin) had his first legislative bill approved by the House. | Facebook
Illinois State Rep. Mark Luft (R-Pekin) had his first legislative bill approved by the House. | Facebook
Illinois Rep. Mark Luft (R-Pekin) recently had his first bill passed as a legislator, which abolishes an obsolete law to streamline government.
House Bill 1926 would repeal the outdated City and Village Tuberculosis Sanitariums Division of the Illinois Municipal Code. It requires local governments to operate tuberculosis sanitariums and contagious disease hospitals.
"Passing my first bill as a State Representative [April 14] was a proud moment for many reasons, but one of the biggest is that I was following in the footsteps of a man I have admired my whole life — my father," the Pekin Republican lawmaker wrote in an April 15 Facebook post. "It makes me very proud, while he is still with us, for him to be able to see me stand on the same floor he did as an Illinois State Representative."
The last tuberculosis sanitarium in Illinois closed in the 1970s, but the law remains on the books as an unnecessary obstacle for local municipalities.
The bill passed the House unanimously and now heads to the Senate for further consideration.
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