Full Text of HR0859 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Illinois is currently facing a global outbreak of | 3 | | the new coronavirus, a pandemic called COVID-19, which has led | 4 | | to widespread illness and death around the world, including in | 5 | | Illinois; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, The Governor of Illinois has issued a series of | 7 | | emergency executive orders in response to the pandemic, | 8 | | ordering the shutdown of a wide variety of businesses, places | 9 | | of religious worship, places of education, and places of | 10 | | nonprofit enterprise throughout the State; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, These shutdown orders have caused devastating | 12 | | harm to many Illinoisans who are already affected by the | 13 | | pandemic; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, To slowly reverse the effects of these devastating | 15 | | shutdowns and executive orders, the Governor of Illinois has | 16 | | issued what he and his senior staff call the Restore Illinois | 17 | | Plan, a plan to "reopen Illinois" on the basis of defined | 18 | | variables based on data gathered throughout four huge | 19 | | geographic regions of the State; and | 20 | | WHEREAS, Gathering data on the basis of these huge State | 21 | | geographic sub-regions will force this urgent work of |
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| 1 | | re-opening to be accomplished much more slowly than it would | 2 | | otherwise be accomplished, with devastating secondary | 3 | | consequences to Illinoisans of all groups and social | 4 | | backgrounds; furthermore, "Restoring Illinois" on the basis of | 5 | | this mega data is completely dismissive and disrespectful of | 6 | | the current work being done by Illinoisans of all economic and | 7 | | social categories who are fighting as members of their local | 8 | | communities to reduce the rate of COVID-19 viral transmission | 9 | | from person to person; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, As locally elected lawmakers and members of a | 11 | | co-equal branch of government, we in the Illinois House of | 12 | | Representatives can see and appreciate these efforts to fight | 13 | | COVID-19 up close; it implies no disrespect to the Governor of | 14 | | Illinois in the midst of the immense burdens he now bears to | 15 | | suggest that we can see these local efforts as well as he can | 16 | | or better than he can; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, The Restore Illinois policy constitutes legal | 18 | | action of immense significance to the people of Illinois; this | 19 | | being so, this policy should be drafted as a law, debated as a | 20 | | law, considered as a law by members from all parts of Illinois, | 21 | | and enacted by legislative majority vote as a law; and | 22 | | WHEREAS, As possessors of local information on the fight | 23 | | against COVID-19, we, the members of the Illinois House of |
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| 1 | | Representatives, together with our colleagues in the Illinois | 2 | | Senate, should play a role in the reshaping of Restore | 3 | | Illinois, so that it truly restores Illinois in fact and not | 4 | | just in hope; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Due to the state of the calendar of the Illinois | 6 | | General Assembly at the time of the preparation of this | 7 | | resolution, there is ample time prior to the May 31, 2020 | 8 | | adjournment deadline for healthy discussion and debate on this | 9 | | issue of immense importance to our neighbors and constituents; | 10 | | therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | the Restore Illinois plan promulgated by the Governor of | 14 | | Illinois that is in effect as of May 23, 2020 should be | 15 | | re-drafted as legislative language and submitted to the | 16 | | Illinois General Assembly for discussion, debate, and legal | 17 | | enactment as statutory law; and be it further | 18 | | RESOLVED, That we pledge to discuss and debate the Restore | 19 | | Illinois plan in good faith, and we pledge that the suggested | 20 | | corrections we will make to it will be based not on political | 21 | | grandstanding but on informed public-health information about | 22 | | the situations in our own communities; and be it further |
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, That we pledge that we will stand with the people | 2 | | of Illinois to reopen our State safely and with the welfare of | 3 | | all of us in mind, including those among us who are most at | 4 | | risk from the dangerous virus that is causing this pandemic; | 5 | | and be it further
| 6 | | RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be delivered to | 7 | | Governor JB Pritzker, Speaker of the House of Representatives | 8 | | Michael J. Madigan, and President of the Illinois Senate Don | 9 | | Harmon.
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