{"id":542195,"date":"2010-04-23T13:26:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01348015954a970c"},"modified":"2010-04-23T13:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T17:28:43","slug":"lawmakers-send-excessive-speeding-crackdown-to-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/542195","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers send excessive speeding crackdown to governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Michelle Manchir<\/em> at 12:25 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Drivers convicted of speeding at least 40 mph over the limit would no longer be able keep the violation off of their driving record under legislation the House sent Gov. Pat Quinn today.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The measure, inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/classified\/automotive\/ct-met-speeders-main-20100320,0,6887161.story\">Tribune report<\/a>, would prohibit a driver from getting court supervision if he is found guilty of such excessive speeding. Court supervision is a form of probation that allows a person to wipe a violation off of his driving record if he doesn\u2019t get another ticket for a specified time, usually a period of months.<\/p>\n<p><\/br>The Tribune reported a high number of motorists driving more than 100 mph ended up getting the court supervision, something viewed by critics as a slap on the wrist for driving way too fast.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The issue of eliminating the break for these types of violations was championed by Secretary of State Jesse White and pressed in the Senate by President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, and the House by Rep. John D\u2019Amico, D-Chicago.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The measure went to the governor 105-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Michelle Manchir at 12:25 p.m.SPRINGFIELD &#8212; Drivers convicted of speeding at least 40 mph over the limit would no longer be able keep the violation off of their driving record under legislation the House sent Gov. Pat Quinn today.The measure, inspired by a Tribune report, would prohibit a driver from getting court supervision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}