Bill Text: IL HR0713 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the Auditor General to conduct a performance audit of the State moneys, including federal funds appropriated and distributed by the State of Illinois, provided by or through State agencies to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region & Southwest Missouri, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., and Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Inc. under contracts or grant agreements for Fiscal Year 2010 through year-to-date Fiscal Year 2016.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-08-25 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0713 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0713-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Women's health and the health of families are of | ||||||
3 | paramount importance to the
citizens of Illinois; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Illinois provides millions of taxpayer dollars in | ||||||
5 | support of numerous efforts to
protect the health of women and | ||||||
6 | children, including funding educational campaigns, prenatal | ||||||
7 | and
postnatal care, and funding for community care clinics; and
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8 | WHEREAS, Illinois taxpayers have provided State funding | ||||||
9 | and Illinois has acted as a conduit for
federal funding of | ||||||
10 | Planned Parenthood organizations in Illinois, including over | ||||||
11 | $5.3 million in
Fiscal Year 2015 from the Illinois Department | ||||||
12 | of Healthcare and Family Services and the Illinois
Department | ||||||
13 | of Public Health; and
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14 | WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has | ||||||
15 | recently come under scrutiny for
practices related to Planned | ||||||
16 | Parenthood's alleged sale of fetal tissue and fetal organs | ||||||
17 | harvested
from aborted fetuses; and
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18 | WHEREAS, The United States Congress has undertaken an | ||||||
19 | investigation of federal funding of
Planned Parenthood and the | ||||||
20 | United States House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce
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21 | Committee has begun an investigation into Planned Parenthood |
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1 | Federation of America; and
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2 | WHEREAS, The sale of any human body parts, except to be | ||||||
3 | reimbursed for reasonable expenses
therefrom, is illegal in the | ||||||
4 | State of Illinois (720 ILCS 5/12-20); therefore, be it
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5 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
6 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | ||||||
7 | the Auditor General is directed to
conduct a performance audit | ||||||
8 | of the State moneys, including federal funds appropriated and
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9 | distributed by the State of Illinois, provided by or through | ||||||
10 | State agencies to Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, | ||||||
11 | Inc., Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Planned Parenthood | ||||||
12 | Illinois Action,
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, | ||||||
13 | Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region &
Southwest | ||||||
14 | Missouri, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., and | ||||||
15 | Planned Parenthood Action
Fund, Inc. under contracts or grant | ||||||
16 | agreements for Fiscal Year 2010 through year-to-date Fiscal
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17 | Year 2016; and be it further
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18 | RESOLVED, That this performance audit include, but not be | ||||||
19 | limited to, the following
determinations:
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20 | (1) the purposes for which State moneys were provided | ||||||
21 | to the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood organizations; | ||||||
22 | (2) the actual use of State moneys by the |
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1 | aforementioned Planned Parenthood organizations; | ||||||
2 | (3) whether, through a review of available | ||||||
3 | documentation, the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood | ||||||
4 | organizations have met or are meeting the purposes for | ||||||
5 | which the State
moneys were provided; | ||||||
6 | (4) the nature and extent of monitoring by the Illinois | ||||||
7 | Department of Healthcare and Family
Services and the | ||||||
8 | Illinois Department of Public Aid of the aforementioned | ||||||
9 | Planned Parenthood organizations to ensure that State tax | ||||||
10 | dollars have been expended
appropriately; | ||||||
11 | (5) whether the aforementioned Planned Parenthood | ||||||
12 | organizations are in compliance with the
applicable laws, | ||||||
13 | regulations, contracts, and grant agreements pertaining to | ||||||
14 | the receipt of
funds, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
15 | federal law contained in the Church Amendment, the
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16 | Coats-Snow Amendment, or the Hyde-Weldon Amendment; and | ||||||
17 | (6) whether, through a review of available | ||||||
18 | documentation, the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood | ||||||
19 | organizations, administrators, and employees appropriately | ||||||
20 | applied necessary
protocols pursuant to Section 6 of the | ||||||
21 | Illinois Abortion Law of 1975; and be it further
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22 | RESOLVED, That the aforementioned Planned Parenthood | ||||||
23 | organizations, the Illinois
Department of Healthcare and | ||||||
24 | Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public Health, and
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25 | any other State agency or other entity or person that may have |
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1 | information relevant to this
performance audit cooperate fully | ||||||
2 | and promptly with the Auditor General's Office in its audit;
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3 | and be it further
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4 | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence this | ||||||
5 | performance audit as soon as practical
and report its findings | ||||||
6 | and recommendations upon completion in accordance with the | ||||||
7 | provisions
of Section 3-14 of the Illinois State Auditing Act; | ||||||
8 | and be it further
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9 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
10 | presented to the Auditor General.
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