Bill Text: IL HR0180 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Designates February 15-21, 2015 as Illinois Court Reporting & Captioning Week.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-03 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0180 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0180-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, For millennia, the spoken word has been translated | ||||||
| 3 | into text to record history; to accomplish this task, society | ||||||
| 4 | turned to the scribe; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The profession of scribe was born with the rise of | ||||||
| 6 | civilization; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, In Ancient Egypt, scribes were considered to be | ||||||
| 8 | the literate elite, recording laws and other important | ||||||
| 9 | documents; since that time, scribes have served as impartial | ||||||
| 10 | witnesses to history; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Scribes were present with our nation's Founding | ||||||
| 12 | Fathers as the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights | ||||||
| 13 | were drafted; and
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| 14 | WHEREAS, President Lincoln entrusted scribes to record the | ||||||
| 15 | Emancipation Proclamation; and
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| 16 | WHEREAS, Since the advent of shorthand machines, scribes | ||||||
| 17 | have been known as court reporters and have played a permanent | ||||||
| 18 | and invaluable role in courtrooms across our country; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, Captioners are responsible for the closed | ||||||
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| 1 | captioning seen scrolling across television screens at | ||||||
| 2 | sporting stadiums and in other community and educational | ||||||
| 3 | settings, bringing information to millions of deaf and | ||||||
| 4 | hard-of-hearing Americans every day; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Court reporters and captioners translate the | ||||||
| 6 | spoken word into text and preserve our history; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, Whether called the scribes of yesterday or the | ||||||
| 8 | court reporters and captioners of today, the individuals who | ||||||
| 9 | preserve our nation's history are truly the guardians of the | ||||||
| 10 | record; therefore, be it
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| 11 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 12 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 13 | designate February 15-21, 2015 as "Illinois Court Reporting & | ||||||
| 14 | Captioning Week"; and be it further
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| 15 | RESOLVED, That we urge the Governor to issue a proclamation | ||||||
| 16 | calling on the people of the great State of Illinois to observe | ||||||
| 17 | the week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and | ||||||
| 18 | educational activities.
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