Bill Text: IL HR0504 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: States that Illinois is poised to play a leading role in the Research and Development programs created through the CHIPS and Science Act and is the state best suited to serve as the location for the headquarters of the newly-created National Semiconductor Technology Center of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-04-30 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Harry Benton [HR0504 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-HR0504-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Illinois' microelectronics and quantum ecosystem
can pave the way for solving innovation and national security
challenges for the nation; and
WHEREAS, Illinois is home to Fermi National Accelerator
Laboratory, which received $115M from the U.S. Department of
Energy to establish the Superconducting Quantum Materials and
Systems Center; and
WHEREAS, Illinois is home to Argonne National Laboratory,
which received $115M from the U.S. Department of Energy to
support Q-NEXT, an effort that will translate quantum
discoveries into technologies that benefit society; and
WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
received $25M from the National Science Foundation for a
Quantum Leap grant to advance scientific, technological, and
workforce development goals; and
WHEREAS, The University of Chicago received $25M from the
National Science Foundation for a Quantum Leap Grant to
pioneer new ways to use quantum technology in biology and to
develop the quantum workforce through STEM education and
outreach; and

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WHEREAS, Illinois is a national leader with $280M in
federal funding for quantum initiatives supported by the 2018
National Quantum Initiative Act; and
WHEREAS, The Chicago Quantum Exchange, one of the largest
quantum collaboratives in the country, leads efforts to
advance the science and engineering of quantum information,
train the quantum workforce of tomorrow, and drive the local
and national quantum economy; and
WHEREAS, The University of Chicago's Polsky Center, the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the Chicago
Quantum Exchange launched the nation's first quantum startup
accelerator, Duality, which supports quantum startups,
providing the critical resources they need to develop and
scale their businesses; and
WHEREAS, Governor Pritzker's administration invested $200M
in quantum-related research efforts at the University of
Chicago and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which
will help support a joint research building within Chicago;
and
WHEREAS, Illinois has the third-highest number of
universities engaged in quantum research and has the

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third-most quantum degrees in the nation; and
WHEREAS, Illinois' Community College System is the
third-largest system in the nation and the largest workforce
development provider in the State, offering programs that are
directly aligned with the needs of their local and state
industries serving the needs of nearly 10,000 employers across
the State; and
WHEREAS, An Illinois-based proposal was selected as a 2023
U.S. Tech Hubs Designee for Quantum by the U.S. Economic
Development Agency, a program that aims to strengthen U.S.
economic and national security with investments in regions
across the country with assets and resources with the
potential to become globally competitive in the technologies
and industries of the future and, for those industries,
companies, and the good jobs they create, to start, grow, and
remain in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The State invested $500 million to establish the
Discovery Partners Institute and the Illinois Innovation
Network led by the University of Illinois System to establish
a network of research and innovation hubs that will serve as a
magnet for technology and talent; and
WHEREAS, A University of Illinois Chicago-led, U.S.

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Department of Energy-funded national consortium will educate
the next generation of quantum engineers and provide pathways
into the quantum computing workforce for groups traditionally
underrepresented in STEM fields; and
WHEREAS, The National Science Foundation-funded National
Q-12 Education Partnership, led by University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, will expand access to K-12 quantum learning
tools and inspire the next generation of quantum leaders; and
WHEREAS, Since 2017, Illinois quantum startups have raised
$33.2 million through 27 agreements, the second-highest number
of deals by quantum startups in the country; and
WHEREAS, Chicagoland's 124-mile quantum loop is the
country's longest quantum network; and
WHEREAS, Illinois has the world's first publicly
accessible quantum network node, the first quantum technology
deployed on public infrastructure that the public can directly
access at the Urbana Free Library, led by faculty from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; and
WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's
Grainger College of Engineering has more combined computer
science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering

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bachelor's graduates than any other college of engineering in
the nation and is starting a new semiconductor minor program;
and
WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and
the University of Chicago are each co-leading new U.S.
Department of Defense Microelectronics Commons Hubs to carry
out microelectronics research in support of national security
and next generation technology for the benefit of the nation;
and
WHEREAS, The Grainger College of Engineering at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has 40 top ten ranked
degree programs and specialties, including micro-electronics
disciplines; and
WHEREAS, John Bardeen, the inventor of the transistor,
perhaps the most important invention of the 20th century,
brought semiconductor research to University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign and the State of Illinois; and
WHEREAS, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's
Grainger College of Engineering is the place where the
inventors of the LED, transistor, and the integrated circuit
called home; and

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WHEREAS, In April 2022, Governor Pritzker and the General
Assembly passed Public Act 102-0700, the Manufacturing
Illinois Chips for Real Opportunity Act (MICRO), which creates
a new suite of statewide tax incentive programs for makers of
semiconductors, microchips, or component parts, making
Illinois a welcoming and strategic location for manufacturers
of microchips and semiconductors looking for their next U.S.
manufacturing site; and
WHEREAS, Illinois universities received a National Science
Foundation Future of Semiconductors Workforce Grant to boost
new semiconductor technologies, manufacturing, and workforce
training and development in the State and across the nation;
and
WHEREAS, The U.S. Department of Energy invested over $22M
in Fermilab and Argonne for microelectronics research; and
WHEREAS, Companies have invested $90M in University of
Illinois Urbana-Champaign's IBM-Illinois' Discovery
Accelerator Institute to support research and education in AI,
cloud, and quantum technologies and $5M in educational
programs at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to bolster
the U.S. semiconductor workforce; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE

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HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
Illinois is poised to play a leading role in the Research and
Development programs created through the CHIPS and Science Act
and is the state best suited to serve as the location for the
headquarters of the newly-created National Semiconductor
Technology Center of the U.S. Department of Commerce; and be
it further