103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB1820

 

Introduced 2/9/2023, by Sen. Tom Bennett

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
5 ILCS 490/75  from Ch. 1, par. 3051-75

    Amends the State Commemorative Dates Act. Provides that the third full week of September of each year is designated as Illinois Prairie Week.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The State Commemorative Dates Act is amended by
5changing Section 75 as follows:
 
6    (5 ILCS 490/75)  (from Ch. 1, par. 3051-75)
7    Sec. 75.
Prairie Week. The third full week of September of
8each year is designated as Illinois Prairie Week to be
9observed throughout the State as a week for holding
10appropriate events and observances in the public schools and
11elsewhere to demonstrate the value of preserving and
12reestablishing native Illinois prairies.
13(Source: P.A. 87-272.)