Bill Text: IL HR0900 | 2013-2014 | 98th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates November 13, 2014 as Random Acts of Kindness Day in Illinois.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-05-09 - Resolution Adopted 103-000-000 [HR0900 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2013-HR0900-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The World Kindness Movement is an organization
with no religious or political affiliation whose chief
objective is to foster goodwill among the local, national, and
international communities; by way of kindness, the movement
hopes to create greater understanding and co-operation between
all people and nations throughout the world; and
WHEREAS, The World Kindness Movement was conceived at a
Tokyo conference in 1996 when founders of the Small Kindness
Movement in Japan brought together like-minded individuals
from around the world who had started kindness movements in
their own countries; a second conference was held in 1997 in
which the World Kindness Movement was formed, with the founding
members being the countries of Japan, Singapore, Australia,
Canada, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States;
the movement was officially launched in Singapore in November
of 2000 at the Third WKM Conference with 33 delegates from 22
countries; and
WHEREAS, The date decreed for World Kindness Day is
November 13 of each year, which was the opening day of the
first World Kindness Movement conference held in Tokyo in 1998,
and the 35th anniversary of the Small Kindness Movement of
Japan, which brought the signatories of the 'declaration of

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kindness' of the World Kindness Movement together in 1997; and
WHEREAS, Individuals can help implement the goal of the
World Kindness Movement by themselves being kind and helping
others; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we designate November 13, 2014 as "Random Acts of Kindness Day"
and urge all citizens to be kind to others and do a random act
of kindness on this day.