SPRINGFIELD — As they break for the holiday weekend, lawmakers are still weighing ethics measures, including limits on campaign contributions, disclosure of public records and ways to reduce governmentcorruption.

Gov. Pat Quinn pressured lawmakers Friday when he said he would wait until lawmakers had passed a state budget, a statewide construction plan and meaningful ethics reform before he took official action on any of those issues.

"I think that there is a symmetry in having reforms enacted, a very strong job bill enacted and a budget that"s balanced enacted. I think that trinity of three important challenges, met head-on and accomplished, is something that the people want us to do."

Negotiations on the state budget and reform measures likely will continue up to the scheduled deadline of May 31 and perhaps beyond.

If lawmakers go past the deadline, they would need a three-fifths extraordinary majority to approve of new laws, a significant increase over the simple majority needed now.

The state Senate unanimously approved two ethics bills Friday:

• Senate Bill 51 revises the contracting process for state government. Under the bill, four chief procurement officers would oversee all state contracts and appoint purchasing officers to state agencies. The bill also mandates greater transparency, including evaluation files for all bids and proposals.

• Senate Bill 54 changes how inspectors general conduct investigations into state wrongdoing. The bill would allow inspectors to begin an official investigation based on anonymous tips. IG reports, in some circumstances, would also be made public. The bill also strengthens the "Revolving Door" policy — a person leaving state service would be prohibited from taking a job with a company if that company had a state contract or contracts worth a total of $25,000.

While the full Senate passed those two reforms, a Senate committee rejected eight reform measures drafted by the Quinn-backed Illinois Reform Commission.

The proposed measures within SB 1013 would have, in part, broadened state wiretapping provisions and increased punishment for public officials who engaged in theft, fraud or extortion.

Patrick Collins, head of the reform commission, took umbrage when the senate committee rejected the commission"s proposals but unanimously approved of a reform measure sponsored by state Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge.

"I asked my commissioners to change their lives to engage in this process for 100 days. I am not going to participate in a process like the one that happened in there. If any of you think that"s a fair process, that"s wrong," Collins said.

Senate President John Cullerton, who has discussed reform measures with the commission, defended the process.

"The subcommittee had hearings, people testified, people voted and his bill didn"t pass. That happens all the time in Springfield. That is the process," he said. "People are, of course disappointed that their bills don"t pass, but the process is the same."

State Sen. Mike Jacobs, D-East Moline, said the commission"s proposals were too broad.

"All I can say is ‘Waah waah waah, I want my Mommy," " Jacobs jokingly sobbed. "For him to think that we should drop whatever we"re doing to make sure he gets whatever he wants is amazing. Patrick Collins ought to learn that this is a give-and-take process. You just don"t get whatever you want."

Collins said the commission would continue discussing reform issues with lawmakers and introduce more legislation.

Senate Minority Leader Christine Radogno has thrown her support behind the commission"s efforts. She has endorsed two of the commission"s most contentious proposals – campaign contribution limits and revising how the state creates legislative districts.

For campaign contribution reform, Radogno said the key was limiting the amount that party committees could transfer to candidates.

"You limit everybody else and you don"t limit the leaders, it gives the leadership even more of an advantage," she said.

State Sen. Gary Dahl, R-Granville, also favored contribution limits.

"I don"t like the idea of representatives and senators who run and their total backing is from Political Action Committee groups with very little backing from individuals," he said.