Bill Text: IL HR0680 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: States that Illinois can meet the needs of Amazon's second headquarters in North America and looks forward to offering a warm welcome if they so choose Illinois as home for HQ2
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-08 - Session Sine Die [HR0680 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0680-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | ||||||
3 | Representatives welcome and encourage
Amazon to consider | ||||||
4 | locating their second headquarters (HQ2) in Illinois; and
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5 | WHEREAS, On September 17, 2017, Amazon announced plans to | ||||||
6 | open a second company
headquarters in North America known as | ||||||
7 | HQ2; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Amazon requested proposals from state and local | ||||||
9 | governments for HQ2 and has
received 238 proposals from state | ||||||
10 | and local governments from throughout the United States,
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11 | including multiple bids from Illinois and bi-state regions; and
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12 | WHEREAS, If Illinois is successful in bringing HQ2 to the | ||||||
13 | State, we have an opportunity to gain
up to 50,000 new fulltime | ||||||
14 | jobs with average salaries and benefit packages exceeding
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15 | $100,000 over the next 10 to 15 years; and
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16 | WHEREAS, Amazon HQ2 is anticipated to generate tens of | ||||||
17 | billions of dollars in additional
investment in the community | ||||||
18 | surrounding HQ2; and
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19 | WHEREAS, Amazon's ideal site and building requirements for | ||||||
20 | HQ2 include being 30 miles
from a population center, within 45 |
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1 | minutes of an international airport, 1-2 miles from major
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2 | highways and roads, access to on-site mass transit (i.e. direct | ||||||
3 | access to rail, train, subway/metro
bus routes), 500,000 square | ||||||
4 | feet of building space for Phase 1 in 2019, and up to 8,000,000
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5 | square feet beyond 2027; and
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6 | WHEREAS, We are confident Illinois can meet Amazon's ideal | ||||||
7 | site and building requirements
due to the fact that Illinois is | ||||||
8 | the fifth largest state in the country, is home to 107 public | ||||||
9 | and private
airports, maintains 18,154 total interstate and | ||||||
10 | state highway miles, operates 63 public transit
systems, has | ||||||
11 | 9,982 miles of railroad tracks with nearly 1,100 miles of | ||||||
12 | navigable waterways, and encompasses 55,519 square miles of | ||||||
13 | land; therefore, be it
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14 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
15 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
16 | believe Illinois can meet the
needs of Amazon's second | ||||||
17 | headquarters in North America and look forward to offering a | ||||||
18 | warm
welcome if they so choose Illinois as home for HQ2; and be | ||||||
19 | it further
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20 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
21 | presented to Amazon as a symbol of our
admiration and respect | ||||||
22 | for one of the most innovative companies in the world.
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