(WSIL) -- Illinois State Rep. Paul Jacobs (R-Pomona) is fresh off the first Spring session of his legislative career.
The first-year representative of the 115th District says he was proud to support a bill that lowered trailer fees from $118 to $36. That bill sits on Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker's desk.
Also on Pritzker's desk, a bill that would require teachers to start sex education as soon as kindergarten. Jacobs did not support the bill, adding some of the material taught may not be 'age appropriate'.
I don't think that we really need to have kindergarten kids also just being pushed into things," Jacobs said. "It's nice to let them be kids for a longer period of time than just four or five years of age."
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Jacob is hoping to attain bipartisan support for an education bill. The veto session begins in October.
'RETURN TO WORK' INCENTIVES
At a press conference in Chicago Monday, Gov. Pritzker told a reporter that the state would be considering incentives for people to return to work.
The state's unemployment rate from 15.3% in May 2020 to 6.7% in May 2021, according to data from the Illinois Department of Employment Security and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Jacobs says that rate can get lower if Illinois uses federal funds to dole out incentives, but added, there's a trade-off.
"An incentive is possible if we cancel out the unemployment insurance, the federal money and let that money go back," Jacobs said, adding that incentives would be a 'one-time thing'.
Gov. Pritzker recently extended extra unemployment benefits worth $300 a week through September 6.
