Bill Text: IL SR1011 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges President Obama to temporarily increase the amount of trucking weight allowed on the country's interstate highways from 80,000 to 100,000 in order to drive down the price of propane.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-05-23 - Resolution Adopted [SR1011 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2013-SR1011-Introduced.html
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| 1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois, and much of the United | ||||||
| 3 | States, has experienced historical cold and record levels of | ||||||
| 4 | snowfall over the 2013-2014 winter; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Propane gas is how thousands of rural central | ||||||
| 6 | Illinoisians heat their homes, normally a fairly | ||||||
| 7 | cost-effective way to do so; 55,000,000 people in the U.S., | ||||||
| 8 | most of them located in the Midwest or South, use propane to | ||||||
| 9 | heat their homes; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, The extreme winter has caused propane usage in | ||||||
| 11 | Illinois to rise between 20% and 30%; the combination of high | ||||||
| 12 | usage and historically low propane inventory levels has created | ||||||
| 13 | a shortage; this shortage has caused prices for propane to jump | ||||||
| 14 | considerably, putting an increased financial burden on those | ||||||
| 15 | who use the gas; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Governor Pat Quinn has declared a propane | ||||||
| 17 | emergency in Illinois, a first in State history, to try and | ||||||
| 18 | ease the financial strain; this declaration eases driving | ||||||
| 19 | regulations on trucks delivering propane from other states; and
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| 20 | WHEREAS, Various federal trucking regulations, most | ||||||
| 21 | notably, weight limits for trucks on roads, limits the amount | ||||||
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| 1 | of propane that can be transported, contributing to the current | ||||||
| 2 | shortage and increasing prices; therefore, be it
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| 3 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL | ||||||
| 4 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we urge President | ||||||
| 5 | Barack Obama to temporarily increase the amount of trucking | ||||||
| 6 | weight allowed on the country's interstate highways from 80,000 | ||||||
| 7 | to 100,000, in to order ease the propane shortage, and in doing | ||||||
| 8 | so, drive down the price of propane; and be it further
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| 9 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
| 10 | presented to President Barack Obama, United States Secretary of | ||||||
| 11 | Transportation Anthony Foxx, and Illinois Propane Gas | ||||||
| 12 | Association Board President Jim Jackson.
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