Bill Text: IL HR0849 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Declares that the General Assembly should take whatever steps necessary to deny any federal or State financial assistance to all municipalities, counties, or other local governments in the State that have deprived its citizens of their constitutional rights through the enforcement of the unconstitutional orders and actions of the Governor during the COVID-19 crisis.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-22 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR0849 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HR0849-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The Governor of Illinois declared all counties in
the State of Illinois as a disaster area on March 9, 2020
(Gubernatorial Disaster Proclamation) in response to the
outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19); and
WHEREAS, The Governor has further responded to the epidemic
with the issuance of a number of executive orders and has
extended and modified these orders to at least May 31 of 2020;
and
WHEREAS, Some municipalities, counties, and local
governments within the State have sought to endorse and even
enforce these measures and have adopted a number of their own
restrictions; and
WHEREAS, These orders explicitly restricted the public's
freedom of movement, limiting travel and regulating even the
social interaction of its people, limited the gatherings of its
citizens, and prohibited the assembly of its people for the
purposes of faith and fellowship; and
WHEREAS, These measures went so far as to measure the
essentialness of certain private enterprise throughout the
State and, in effect, eliminated the operations of certain

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businesses, created massive unemployment, and created
shortages of necessary food, medical services, and materials;
and
WHEREAS, The Governor's orders and the proclivity of some
local governments to further these measures are a clear
violation of the rights of individuals and the rights of free
enterprise as preserved under both the United States
Constitution and the Illinois Constitution; and
WHEREAS, These actions are an infringement on the
constitutional rights of its citizens as Illinoisans and as
Americans; and
WHEREAS, These actions by the Governor and some local
officials of this State have decimated the State's economy and
have either disrupted or destroyed the livelihoods of millions
of its inhabitants, bankrupted thousands of businesses across
the State, and may have irrevocably damaged the rights of its
people and the State's economic future for decades to come;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
the General Assembly should take whatever steps necessary to
deny any federal or State financial assistance to all

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municipalities, counties, or other local governments in the
State that have deprived its citizens of their constitutional
rights through the enforcement of the unconstitutional orders
and actions of the Governor during this crisis; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution should be
delivered to the Governor of the State of Illinois, the
Illinois Supreme Court, the Illinois Senate, the Attorney
General of the State of Illinois, and the each member of the
Illinois Congressional Delegation.