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KEY ITEMS OF CONCERN
While the Illinois Chamber’s proactive agenda above advanced pro-growth policies in Springfield, we 
urge the General Assembly NOT to take action on proposals that may risk hurting the State’s business 
climate and, thereby, make Illinois less competitive in the near-daily national competition for new 
investment and job creation, including: 
n Professional service taxes or expansion of the State Sales Taxes to services.
n Overly broad and far-reaching data privacy laws.
n Passage of blanket product bans or severe restriction of essential products.
n Overreaching, burdensome limitations on technology tools, such as the so-called “junk fees” ban  
and more.
n Enaction of anti-competitive initiatives on healthcare, such as PDAB.
n Unfair property tax changes that will raise commercial property assessments.
n Elimination of the Tipped Credit that is harmful to workers and small employers alike.
n Anti-growth changes to the Income Tax Act or flawed revenue proposals that seek to unfairly tax 
job-creators.
n Further action to implement the Interchange Fee Prohibition Act.
n Anti-competitive regulations that may create liability issues and higher costs, such as imposing  
misguided right to repair laws
OTHER EFFORTS SUPPORTED BY THE CHAMBER
n SUPPORT efforts to create business-friendly employment law reforms across several statutes, 
such as the business coalition-led effort Third Party Litigation Financing Transparency Act, HB 5244 
(Ugaste), and provide additional solutions to creating employer protections in areas of workers 
compensation and unemployment insurance.
n SUPPORT and amplify the voices of industry is the property and casualty insurance space that raise 
awareness of the true drivers of costs and State-mandated impacts to rising costs that are being 
absorbed by industry and impacting customers.
n SUPPORT economic development tools that grow Illinois, including extending the R&D tax credit, 
modernizing the EDGE tax credit, and supporting new, growing industries—promoting economic 
opportunity and access.
n SUPPORT efforts shared by the business community to promote fiscal responsibility and 
sustainable solutions to long-term fiscal problems, such as prioritizing necessary Tier 2 fixes to the 
SS wage base without creating new liabilities that erodes Tier 2.
n SUPPORT the Innovation Economy and necessary digital infrastructure investments to maintain 
Illinois’ place as a national leader for tech development and deployment.
CONTACT
JORDAN RYAN | jryan@ilchamber.org
RAMIRO HERNANDEZ | rhernandez@ilchamber.org
ANDREW CUNNINGHAM | acunningham@ilchamber.org
AUBRIE  MOZINGO | amozingo@ilchamber.org

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