Bill Text: IL HR0281 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges Governor Bruce Rauner, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the General Assembly, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs to work together to find a way to pay the balance due to the National Veterans Art Museum.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-11 - Resolution Adopted [HR0281 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0281-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, It is highly fitting that veterans are held in the | ||||||
| 3 | highest esteem, especially by the Illinois House of | ||||||
| 4 | Representatives and the State of Illinois; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives supports | ||||||
| 6 | and admires those artistic attempts to bridge
the gap between | ||||||
| 7 | civilian and veteran experiences; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, Illinois is host to the National Veterans Art | ||||||
| 9 | Museum in Chicago; the
Museum began as the Vietnam Veterans Art | ||||||
| 10 | Group in 1981 in order to create an artistic
collection of | ||||||
| 11 | works as testament to veterans' experiences and the human cost | ||||||
| 12 | of war; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, The National Veterans Art Museum owns the piece | ||||||
| 14 | known as "Above and Beyond", the only
memorial other than The | ||||||
| 15 | Wall in Washington, D.C. to list the names of every military | ||||||
| 16 | personnel
killed in action during the Vietnam War; the piece is | ||||||
| 17 | comprised of 58,307 dog tags, each
inscribed with the name of a | ||||||
| 18 | casualty of the war; the piece was created by veteran artists | ||||||
| 19 | Rick
Steinbock, Ned Broderick, Joe Fornelli, and Mike Helbing; | ||||||
| 20 | and
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| 21 | WHEREAS, "Above and Beyond" has struck awe into all those | ||||||
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| 1 | who have seen it and it solemnly
honors those who have given | ||||||
| 2 | the last full measure of devotion in service to our country; | ||||||
| 3 | and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, The State of Illinois has yet to pay the entirety | ||||||
| 5 | of a grant supporting the piece "Above
and Beyond"; therefore, | ||||||
| 6 | be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 8 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 9 | urge
Governor Bruce Rauner, the Department of Commerce and | ||||||
| 10 | Economic Opportunity, the General
Assembly, and the Department | ||||||
| 11 | of Veterans' Affairs to work together to find a way to pay the
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| 12 | balance due to the National Veterans Art Museum; and be it | ||||||
| 13 | further
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| 14 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 15 | presented to the Executive
Director of the National Veterans | ||||||
| 16 | Art Museum, the Director of the Department of Commerce and
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| 17 | Economic Opportunity, and the Director of the Department of | ||||||
| 18 | Veterans' Affairs.
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