Charlie Meier

Voted no on the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, a major law that set deadlines to close fossil fuel power plants. It passed 83-33.

September 9, 2021Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored a law requiring the state to post information about opioid addiction risks and other pain treatments, aimed at minors and parents.

August 27, 2021Supports Environment and Public Health

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Sponsored in the House a law requiring solar farm builders to sign a farmland damage agreement with the state before construction.

June 29, 2018Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted no on raising the state minimum wage in steps to $15 an hour. The House passed it 69-47.

February 14, 2019Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted no on raising the state minimum wage in steps to $15 an hour. The House passed it 69-47.

February 14, 2019Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted no on the 2013 state pension overhaul, which cut retirement benefit increases for state workers and teachers. It passed 62-53.

December 3, 2013Supports Labor Rights

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Sponsored a law requiring the state transportation department to share its traffic and road studies with local governments that ask.

July 19, 2024Supports Government Efficiency

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Sponsored a law letting people with a medical need for tinted car windows renew their doctor's certificate every 4 years, not yearly.

July 16, 2014Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted no on the Illinois TRUST Act, which limits local police from holding people only for federal immigration agents. It passed 62-49.

May 29, 2017Opposes Immigration

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Voted no on the state budget for the 2027 fiscal year, about $55.9 billion. It passed 76-39.

May 31, 2026Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted no on the state budget for the 2026 fiscal year. It passed 75-41.

May 31, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Introduced a bill barring new or higher state taxes until lawmakers passed a budget that spent less than the year before. It did not pass.

January 12, 2023Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Sponsored a law requiring the state to fund county Cooperative Extension programs every year instead of leaving it optional.

August 16, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes on the 2019 Rebuild Illinois construction spending plan for roads, schools and state buildings. It passed 95-18.

June 1, 2019Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted no on overriding Gov. Rauner's veto of the 2017 state budget. The override passed 74-37.

July 6, 2017Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes on the 2017 state budget, passed during the two-year budget standoff. It passed 81-34.

July 2, 2017Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted yes on a bill funding state government for parts of 2016 and 2017 during the long budget standoff. It passed 105-4.

June 30, 2016Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted no on the 2013 state pension overhaul, which cut retirement benefit increases for state workers and teachers. It passed 62-53.

December 3, 2013Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted no on the SAFE-T Act, the criminal justice law that ended cash bail and changed police rules. It passed 60-50.

January 13, 2021Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored in the House a law requiring the Gaming Board to check whether bars let people under 21 play video gambling machines.

August 9, 2019Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Sponsored a law requiring nursing homes and similar care facilities to share information about the state's free resident advocate program.

June 30, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored in the House the Essential Support Person Act, which lets nursing home residents name visitors allowed in during visiting limits.

June 30, 2023Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored a law requiring group homes for people with disabilities to tell the state when they make emergency calls.

July 12, 2019Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Sponsored a law requiring yearly reports to list which disability group homes and state centers the state watchdog agency visited.

August 3, 2018Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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Voted yes on the 2017 law that created a new school funding formula based on each district's needs. It passed 73-34.

August 28, 2017Supports Public Education Quality

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Introduced a bill lowering the age to get a gun owner's card without parent consent from 21 to 18. It did not pass.

January 3, 2025Opposes Gun Control

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Voted no on the Protect Illinois Communities Act, which banned the sale of many semiautomatic rifles and large magazines. It passed 68-41.

January 10, 2023Opposes Gun Control

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Voted yes to override the governor's changes to the concealed carry law, which added more limits. The override passed 77-31.

July 9, 2013Opposes Gun Control

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Voted yes to pass the law that first allowed Illinois residents to carry concealed handguns. The House agreed 89-28.

May 31, 2013Opposes Gun Control

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Introduced a bill requiring doctors to offer an ultrasound to women seeking an abortion after 8 weeks. It did not pass.

January 3, 2025Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted no on repealing the law that required parents to be told before a minor's abortion. The repeal passed 62-51.

October 27, 2021Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted no on the Reproductive Health Act, which made abortion a fundamental right under state law. It passed 64-50.

May 28, 2019Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted no on a bill letting state Medicaid and state worker health plans pay for abortions. It passed 62-55.

April 25, 2017Opposes Women's Reproductive Rights

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Voted no on overriding Gov. Rauner's veto of the 2017 income tax increase. The override passed 71-42.

July 6, 2017Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Voted yes on a bill raising the state income tax rate to 4.95% for people and 7% for corporations. It passed 72-45.

July 2, 2017Opposes Personal Income Tax Reduction

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Sponsored a law letting disabled veterans hide details of their health condition when applying for a veteran license plate.

August 6, 2021Supports Data Privacy

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Sponsored a law telling the state to put parks that are fully accessible to people with disabilities first for grant money.

August 25, 2017Supports Civil Rights

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Sponsored a law telling the state to favor park grants that include playground equipment usable by children with disabilities.

August 18, 2015Supports Civil Rights

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Voted no on the law that legalized same-sex marriage in Illinois. The House passed it 61-54.

November 5, 2013Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted yes on the 2019 bill that allowed new casinos, legalized sports betting and added taxes to help pay for construction projects. It passed 87-27.

June 1, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted yes on the 2019 Rebuild Illinois construction spending plan for roads, schools and state buildings. It passed 95-18.

June 1, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted yes on the 2019 bill that doubled the state gas tax to pay for roads and bridges. It passed 83-29.

June 1, 2019Supports Public Infrastructure

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Voted no on the 2026 tax package, which added taxes on social media companies, cryptocurrency and fantasy sports. It passed 73-41.

May 31, 2026

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Voted no on a proposed state constitutional amendment about how legislative district maps are drawn. It passed the House 74-38.

April 22, 2026

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Voted no on the 2025 transit law that replaced the Regional Transportation Authority with a new Northern Illinois Transit Authority. It passed 72-32.

October 30, 2025

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Sponsored a law letting ambulance-only emergency services districts form inside fire districts that stop taxing for ambulances.

August 15, 2025

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Sponsored a law letting small poultry farmers process up to 7,500 birds a year, up from 5,000, without state inspection.

August 15, 2025

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Voted no on the 2025 tax package that changed business deductions, tobacco taxes and grocery taxes, among other things. It passed 71-43.

May 31, 2025

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Voted no on medical aid in dying, which lets terminally ill adults ask a doctor for life-ending medicine. It passed 63-42.

May 29, 2025

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Settled a lawsuit by four people over blocked comments on his official Facebook page by restoring their access. No court ruled on it.

February 28, 2025

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Introduced a bill sending fracking tax money to state pensions and to a fund for regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. It did not pass.

December 11, 2024

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Sponsored a law raising the tax limit for new emergency services districts and letting older ones raise theirs with voter approval.

August 9, 2024

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Voted no on creating a new state Department of Early Childhood to run child care and preschool programs. It passed 93-18.

May 9, 2024

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Sponsored a law renaming rescue squad districts as emergency services districts and letting them hire ambulance crews.

June 30, 2023

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Voted no on the 2021 map that redrew Illinois House and Senate districts. It passed 71-45.

May 28, 2021

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Voted no on the law that made recreational marijuana legal for adults 21 and older. The House agreed 66-47.

May 31, 2019

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Sponsored in the House a law updating state meat and poultry inspection rules, including exemptions for custom processing.

April 5, 2019

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Sponsored in the House a law defining the word agribusiness in the state agriculture department's law.

August 14, 2018

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Sponsored a law setting the same youth archery deer permit fee for residents and nonresidents and opening youth licenses to nonresidents.

August 3, 2018

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Sponsored a law requiring inspectors to give dairy farms a paper copy of their inspection report at the time of inspection.

July 20, 2018

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Sponsored a law counting work in the state Department of Corrections as experience for a private security contractor license.

August 18, 2017

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Sponsored a law letting the state bar businesses that do not pay weights-and-measures fees from using commercial scales.

August 18, 2017

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Sponsored a law moving state pesticide registration fees to a two-year period and changing the late fee.

August 15, 2017

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Sponsored a law adding catfish to the fish that may be taken by spear, bow or gig, and limiting sales of certain fish.

August 22, 2016

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Sponsored a law letting the state Department of Agriculture give qualifying farms the title of Bicentennial Farm.

August 16, 2016

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Sponsored a law exempting people fishing in waters fully on their own land from daily catch and size limits.

July 8, 2016

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Sponsored a law setting rules for home kitchen food businesses and letting health departments inspect them.

June 10, 2014

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Voted no on the bill that created Illinois' medical marijuana program. It passed the House 61-57.

April 17, 2013

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