Holmes helps bring $682,000 in funding for job training programs across 42nd District
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AURORA – Assistant Senate Majority Leader Linda Holmes has helped secure $682,000 through the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in grant funding for job training programs.
“DCEO’s Illinois Works Program provides initial skills training to acquaint kids with the construction and building trades in our area,” said Holmes (D-Aurora). “Not all teens see themselves going to college, but they hope to see options for potentially high-earning careers. This field offers them a number of options.”
DCEO awarded $19 million in grant funding through the Illinois Works Pre-apprenticeship Program to 38 organizations across the state. The purpose of the funding is to create more pathways for kids to access pre-apprenticeship programs and continue through registered apprenticeships, which provide greater opportunities to secure lifelong careers in the construction trades.
Holmes outlines legislation to allow end-of-life options for terminally ill patients
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SPRINGFIELD –Assistant Senate Majority Leader Linda Holmes – alongside family members and advocates of terminally ill adults – outlined their support of legislation to provide terminally ill patients with end-of-life options during a subcommittee Wednesday.
“We are working to take a compassionate step forward to honor the fundamental human right to determine one’s own end-of-life journey with autonomy and peace,” said Holmes (D-Aurora). “People deserve the dignity to make their own deeply personal choices – and to do so surrounded by their loved ones while free from unnecessary suffering.”
Holmes continues work to educate public on medical aid in dying proposal
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Terminally ill woman, mom whose son died after using law in CA, community members testify about legislation
CHICAGO – Family members and advocates of terminally ill adults who support access to medical aid in dying gathered Friday alongside Assistant Senate Majority Leader Linda Holmes to present her End-of-Life Options for Terminally Ill Patients legislation to the Senate Executive Committee.
Holmes has been collaborating on the legislation since early 2024 with the Illinois End-of-Life Options Coalition, which includes Compassion & Choices Action Network Illinois, Illinois Now, ACLU Illinois, doctors, clergy and family members. They were joined by individuals with firsthand experience as patients or relatives of terminally ill adults to express their support.
“This can be an emotional issue, and many fallacies circle around medical aid in dying; I encourage those with misgivings to read the legislation in full to see its criteria and the safeguards that would protect patients, medical professionals and relatives,” Holmes (D-Aurora), chief sponsor of the bill, said.
Opponents include advocates for people with disabilities, who fear they could be exploited or scammed. In Oregon, the first state to enact medical aid in dying, there have been no substantiated cases of abuse or coercion since it took effect in 1997, according to the ACLU.
Holmes: I commit to work on a 2026 budget to build on fiscal stability, meet our communities’ needs
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SPRINGFIELD – Assistant Majority Leader Linda Holmes (D-Aurora) joined her colleagues Wednesday to hear Governor JB Pritzker introduce his Fiscal 2026 budget proposal to the General Assembly, and released the following statement in response:
“Over the past few years, we’ve built a secure fiscal position for Illinois: We paid down debts, earned nine credit rating upgrades, paid our full annual pension obligations, paid off the unemployment insurance trust fund debt, established a rainy day fund, and invested in substantial infrastructure improvements to make us safer in our travels.
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