Full Text of SR0370 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have failed | 3 | | to enact a State budget for the last 20 months; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The State adds approximately 11 million dollars in | 5 | | debt every day that a budget is not signed into law; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The State has not met its contractual obligations | 7 | | to the numerous vendors that render services; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, The Illinois Comptroller cites that the bill | 9 | | backlog continues to increase and is a crippling 12.6 billion | 10 | | dollars; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, The State, its local municipalities, and their | 12 | | institutions continue to suffer from continual downgrades from | 13 | | all
of the major credit rating agencies, which is nearing junk | 14 | | status; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, The lack of a State budget has caused homeless | 16 | | shelters to close on Christmas Eve, youth violence prevention
| 17 | | centers to go out of business, domestic abuse programs to be | 18 | | defunded, and a myriad of other essential human services
needs | 19 | | have gone unfunded; and |
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have not met | 2 | | their duty to fully fund the future of our State - the
| 3 | | education of the children; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Teacher strikes, school closings, instructional | 5 | | time decreases, and faculty layoffs loom over school districts
| 6 | | and institutions of higher learning across the State; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, Like generations of Illinois students before | 8 | | them, thousands of current students continue to count on the | 9 | | funding of
the Monetary Assistance Program to create promising | 10 | | futures for themselves and equal access to education; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Without the guarantee of those funds in-state | 12 | | students are seeking educational advancement outside of | 13 | | Illinois
and over 16,000 thousand students migrated to | 14 | | out-of-state universities; and | 15 | | WHEREAS, As economic development and opportunity in the | 16 | | State have become less available particularly to ethnic and
| 17 | | racial minorities, Illinois has seen a historic spike in the | 18 | | murder rate; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, For the 17th consecutive month, Illinois has had | 20 | | the highest unemployment rate among African Americans
in the | 21 | | nation, nearing 15%; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Forty-four percent of African American young men | 2 | | in Illinois between the ages of 20 and 24 are unemployed and
| 3 | | out of school; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Conditions are not improving for the middle class | 5 | | and poor citizens of our State during this historic budget
| 6 | | impasse; people are hurting; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we wholeheartedly | 9 | | commit to enacting a State budget; and be it further | 10 | | RESOLVED, That the Senate will desist from working on any | 11 | | non-essential State business until a budget is enacted; and be | 12 | | it further | 13 | | RESOLVED, That we will dedicate all of the resources of the | 14 | | Senate to work toward a solution to the budget impasse; and be | 15 | | it
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| 16 | | RESOLVED, That any bill, initiative, or committee hearing | 17 | | not pertaining to the budget of the State of Illinois should | 18 | | not
be advanced in a Chamber of the General Assembly until a | 19 | | budget is enacted.
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