Below is a list of email addresses and a list of people who to call.

Today, May 18, we need you to email and call.  We must stop Governor Pritzker's attempt to use an emergency procedure to make these changes into law for 150 days. 

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Yes, all of this could become law until October 19!

ILLINOIS REGISTERDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH

NOTICE OF EMERGENCY AMENDMENT

b) In order to restrict and suppress the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a dangerously contagious and infectious respiratory disease in the form of a pandemic or epidemic, which is spread person to person in respiratory droplets released by a person infected with the disease, the Department implements the following restrictions and requirements:

1. Businesses and establishments that serve food or beverages, including, but not limited to, restaurants, food buffets, self-serve areas, bars, taverns, pubs, wineries, breweries, or beer gardens, that operate under a permit or license issued by the State or local health authority, shall not allow indoor on-site consumption of food or beverages. Service shall be limited to drive-through, delivery, curb-side, or pick up only. Businesses and establishments located in airports and hospitals are exempt from the requirements of this Section.
2. Businesses and establishments that offer indoor fitness, exercise, physical workout or non-medical wellness services, such as health clubs or centers, fitness clubs or centers, gyms, tennis clubs, swimming pools, shall not allow on-site indoor fitness, exercise, workout or non-medical wellness options to customers, including but not limited to, classes, personal training, or individual customer use of exercise equipment or facilities. Service shall be limited to the sale of retail goods via drive-through, delivery, or pick up only, or the use of exercise equipment or the indoor use of facilities for the recording and streaming of online classes and instructional videos only.
3. Businesses or establishments that offer cosmetology, esthetics, nail technology, barber, tanning, body art, or similar non-medical personal care services, treatments, procedures or therapies shall not provide on-site Service shall be limited to the sale of retail goods via drive-through, delivery, curb-side, or pick up only.

c) Any person who violates the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the penalties set forth in Section 8.1 of the Act. (“Whoever violates or refuses to obey any rule or regulation of the Department of Public Health shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.”)

Do a group email and call to the members on JCAR:

“Time for some immediate action and there isn't much time. The new rules Pritzker filed become effective law once they are published in the state register. He filed the regulation Friday 5/15. The register is published on Fridays. If his minions got it to the Secretary of State in time it has already been published and will remain law for 150 days unless overridden by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR). JCAR meets Tuesday 5/19 but while many emergency rules are on the agenda, this one is not. We need it reviewed or any violation of Pritzker's orders in the next 150 days is a class A misdemeanor punishable by a fine or up to a year in jail. This rule also forces county state's attorneys to prosecute whether they like it or not.