Committee OKs bill expanding use of campaign funds for child, elder care – Capitol News IL

Sen. Melinda Bush, who sponsored SB 536, said the measure “helps us level the playing field for people that want to run for office, and maybe don't have the financial wherewithal to cover those childcare, and eldercare expenses...How this started really is as the byproduct of traveling around the state,” noting she talked to many women who “felt as if it was prohibited to run for office” because they were caring for children or elderly relatives and “there was no way to cover the cost of that.”