Bill Text: IL HR0317 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Declares April 25, 2019 as "DNA Day" in the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-30 - Resolution Adopted [HR0317 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2019-HR0317-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, The Illinois House of Representatives recognizes | ||||||
| 3 | that the sequencing of the human genome is one of the most | ||||||
| 4 | significant scientific accomplishments of the past hundred | ||||||
| 5 | years and expresses support for the goals and ideals of Human | ||||||
| 6 | Genome Month and DNA Day; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, April 25, 2019 will be the 66th anniversary of the | ||||||
| 8 | publication of the description of the double-helix structure of | ||||||
| 9 | deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Nature magazine by James D. | ||||||
| 10 | Watson and Francis H.C. Crick, which is considered by many | ||||||
| 11 | scientists to be one of the most significant scientific | ||||||
| 12 | discoveries of the 20th century; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, Their discovery launched a field of inquiry that | ||||||
| 14 | explained how DNA carries biological information in the genetic | ||||||
| 15 | code and how this information is duplicated and passed from | ||||||
| 16 | generation to generation, forming the stream of life that | ||||||
| 17 | connects us all to our ancestors and to our descendants; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, In turn, this field of inquiry was crucial to the | ||||||
| 19 | founding and continued growth of the field of biotechnology, | ||||||
| 20 | which has led to historic scientific and economic advances for | ||||||
| 21 | the world, advances in which the people of the United States | ||||||
| 22 | have played a leading role and from which they have realized | ||||||
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| 1 | significant benefits; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, April of 2019 marks the 16th anniversary of the | ||||||
| 3 | completion of the international Human Genome Project, a | ||||||
| 4 | research effort led in the United States by the National Human | ||||||
| 5 | Genome Research Institute to sequence the DNA base pairs of the | ||||||
| 6 | human genome for the first time and make this information | ||||||
| 7 | freely available to the public; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, The Human Genome Project has provided an exemplary | ||||||
| 9 | model for social responsibility in scientific research by | ||||||
| 10 | devoting significant resources to studying the ethical, legal, | ||||||
| 11 | and social implications of the project; therefore, be it
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| 12 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 13 | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
| 14 | we declare April 25, 2019 as DNA Day in the State of Illinois; | ||||||
| 15 | and be it further
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| 16 | RESOLVED, That schools, museums, cultural organizations, | ||||||
| 17 | and other educational institutions are encouraged to recognize | ||||||
| 18 | Human Genome Month and DNA Day with appropriate programs and | ||||||
| 19 | activities centered on human genomics.
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