HB 4039, HFA #1 - Lindsey LaPointe (D-Chicago): While HB 2929 authorizes the overdose-prevention-site pilot, HB4039 builds the state bureaucracy. It creates a permanent Harm Reduction Program Board, a Chief Harm Reduction Officer inside IDPH, recurring state grants for harm-reduction providers, local pilot programs, training requirements, and new rules touching prisons, jails, hospitals, and even housing policy. 

In plain English, this is a new bureaucracy the left is trying to build to expand drug usage “responsibly” in Illinois with staff, funding, boards, and annual expansion recommendations.

Urge your state rep to OPPOSE HB 4039, HFA #1.