Illinois won’t be held in contempt for failing to pay for services for the developmentally disabled on time.

U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman dismissed the contempt motion, ruling the state is making an effort to catch up on payments, though she found it “disturbing” that it took an emergency motion to get the state to comply with her original order to pay providers on a similar schedule to the last fiscal year.

What wasn’t settled is whether the state could have made those payments on time. Comptroller’s office attorney John Stevens says the state is dealing with cash shortage problems during the budget impasse, even if on paper, there appears to be money left in the state’s accounts.

And in other State news, a national survey conducted by the University of Illinois-Springfield shows positive attitudes towards the rights of transgendered people. But, it’s somewhat of a mixed bag.

The survey conducted online of 774 people shows 81 percent supportive of those who are transgendered having the same rights as the rest of us; but — among other areas — only 41 percent support using public funds to help provide medical treatment for them.

And many involved believe a person’s mind is likely to be swayed if you know someone personally who is transgendered.