EDWARDSVILLE, Ill – State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, will be at the Madison County Historical Society Reception, where they will unveil the newly imagined Madison County History Museum and its exhibit designs. The reception will take place from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at 715 N. Main St. in Edwardsville.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – State Rep. Katie Stuart will welcome House Speaker Emanuel ‘Chris’ Welch to the Metro East, for a tour of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) on Wednesday, October 1. Stuart and Welch will hold a media availability at the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center (NCERC) on the SIUE campus, 400 University Park Drive in Edwardsville, at 3:00 p.m.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — Following the announcement by Nippon Steel that the Granite City works will no longer receive steel slabs to work with by October, state Rep. Katie Stuart, D- Edwardsville, issued the following statement:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Warehouse workers in Illinois will be safer during weather emergencies after the Warehouse Tornado Preparedness Act, passed this year by state Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, was signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, is making higher education more accessible for high school and community college students after the Stuart-sponsored Illinois public university direct admissions bill was signed into law today by Governor JB Pritzker.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, backed a new state budget Saturday that reduces the size of government bureaucracy and further invests in classrooms across the state.

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, is advocating for Granite City and its U.S. Steel production plant to be included in a potential $14 billion investment in U.S. Steel by Japan-based Nippon Steel.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, is improving protections for workers in their workplace in the event of a tornado or other inclement weather emergency by requiring employers to have a tornado safety plan in place and warehouses designate or construct a tornado shelter for workers and other warehouse personnel.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, is working to protect nursing mothers in the workplace by advancing a bill that would require employers to provide paid break time to an employee who needs to express breast milk and prohibits employers from forcing nursing mothers to use their paid leave to express breast milk.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — State Rep. Katie Stuart, D-Edwardsville, advanced a bill out of the House Judiciary-Criminal Committee that would expand fentanyl classification and classify emerging synthetic drugs, specifically those closely related to current scheduled drugs, as harmful substances.