The Illinois legislature could have something to show for the 2023 fall veto session: allowing new nuclear power facilities again after a 36-year moratorium. State Sen. Sue Rezin (pictured) (R-Morris) says there is progress.
“I would say in the last several hours,” Rezin said at an unrelated news conference Tuesday morning, “that there is legislation that’s being reviewed as a result of negotiations between Senate President Don Harmon (D-Oak Park) and his team and us, and I think we will see a bill in the Senate to be voted on this week.”
And Rezin says she is trying to address the concerns in the governor’s veto message.
‘There was a request by the governor for oversight at the state level, despite having federal oversight – the most stringent federal oversight of any department,” said Rezin. “There would be state oversight as well, and it would be through IEMA.”
The veto session ends Thursday.