Full Text of HR0474 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Monique D. Davis on the | 4 | | occasion of her retirement as State Representative for the 27th | 5 | | District; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Rep. Davis was born and raised on the south side | 7 | | of Chicago; she earned her bachelor's degree in elementary | 8 | | education and her master's degree in guidance and supervision | 9 | | from Chicago State University; she earned graduate hours in | 10 | | administration supervision and special education and credits | 11 | | toward her doctoral degree in administration supervision from | 12 | | Roosevelt University; she taught for 18 years in the Chicago | 13 | | Public School system and then served as an administrator for | 14 | | the Chicago Board of Education and as a training specialist for | 15 | | the City Colleges of Chicago; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Rep. Davis entered politics as a volunteer, | 17 | | working on campaigns for Monica Faith Stewart, Congressman Gus | 18 | | Savage, and Harold Washington; in 1983, she coordinated the | 19 | | 21st Ward for Harold Washington and the Second Congressional | 20 | | District for him in 1987; she was elected to the Illinois | 21 | | General Assembly in 1987 and has served 15 terms; she has | 22 | | received many awards and acknowledgements; in 1990, she | 23 | | received the Dollars and Sense award for legislative excellence |
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| 1 | | as one of the 100 best and brightest professionals in the | 2 | | country; she was listed in Who's Who in African American | 3 | | Biography from 1988 to 1993; she is currently among The History | 4 | | Makers archive in the Library of Congress; she is a champion of | 5 | | educational programs throughout the State of Illinois; her | 6 | | district began on the south side of Chicago and she has | 7 | | maintained her constituent services office there for nearly 30 | 8 | | years; and | 9 | | WHEREAS, In 2003, Rep. Davis sponsored legislation, which | 10 | | forced insurance companies that do business in Illinois to | 11 | | publish all records on the historical insuring of slaves as | 12 | | property; she co-sponsored two bills in 2003 with Illinois | 13 | | Senator Barack Obama; the first mandated that all police | 14 | | interrogations on homicide investigations be recorded; the | 15 | | second, required police in Illinois to record the race of all | 16 | | people subjected to traffic stops to prevent racial profiling; | 17 | | in 2004, she sponsored a bill to limit low-income household | 18 | | electricity or natural gas bills to no more than 6% of the | 19 | | household income; she later passed legislation that allowed | 20 | | individual public schools in Illinois to decide if their | 21 | | students should wear uniforms; in 2014, she co-sponsored | 22 | | legislation requiring training for law enforcement officers | 23 | | use of Tasers; and | 24 | | WHEREAS, Rep. Davis has served on numerous committees |
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| 1 | | including, Insurance (Chairperson); Financial Institutions; | 2 | | Elementary & Secondary Education (Vice-Chairperson); State | 3 | | Government Administration; Appropriations - General Service | 4 | | (Chairperson); Gaming; Juvenile Justice Reform; Appropriations - | 5 | | Higher Education; Disparities in Educational Achievement; | 6 | | Special Investigative Committee; Community College Access & | 7 | | Affordability; Museum, Arts & Cultural Enhancements; and | 8 | | Restorative Justice; she also co-chaired the Commission to End | 9 | | Disparities Facing the African American Community (2011 to | 10 | | 2013); and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Rep. Davis is a member of Trinity United Church of | 12 | | Christ, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., the NAACP, and | 13 | | Operation PUSH; she is a mother of two, Robert Davis and | 14 | | Monique "Twinkle" (Julius) Conway; grandmother of four, Jules | 15 | | (Alonya) Conway, Yaasiel (Sunserai) Davis, Akinjobi (Toni) | 16 | | Davis, and D'Javan Conway; and great-grandmother of seven, | 17 | | Samara Davis, Symone Conway, Asar Davis, Layla Conway, Dior | 18 | | Davis, Mila Conway, and Quari Davis; therefore, be it
| 19 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 20 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 21 | | congratulate Monique D. Davis on her retirement as State | 22 | | Representative for the 27th District, and we wish her the best | 23 | | in all her future endeavors; and be it further
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 2 | | presented to Rep. Davis as a symbol of our respect and esteem.
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