Lawmaker to IDPH at administrative committee: ‘The pandemic is over’ – Capitol News IL

IDPH has, in fact, issued numerous emergency rules since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. But state Rep. Steven Reick argued that the agency has used the emergency process even when there was ample time to go through the regular rulemaking procedure. “It is time for us to get back to normal way of doing business, and the normal rulemaking process should be the one that is used instead of emergency rulemaking when the time is available to do that.”