Bill Text: IL HR0967 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Urges Congress to pass legislation supporting banks that were affected by the government-sponsored enterprise fallout and the subsequent downturn in the economy to allow those banks for the 2010 tax year to go back 5 years for deductions of losses allowed for the 2008 and 2009 tax years.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-27 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HR0967 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-HR0967-Introduced.html


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HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, Certain banks have received Troubled Asset Relief
3 Program (TARP) funds to save them in these difficult times; and
4 WHEREAS, Many other banks did not have access to TARP
5 funds; and
6 WHEREAS, Many banks invested in government-sponsored
7 enterprises, which were highly rated by the government and
8 thought to be secure by these community banks, but then created
9 significant losses to the banks through the downturn in the
10 economy through no fault of the banks themselves; and
11 WHEREAS, Banks make loans to persons and businesses in the
12 community, but they have been unable to do all they can because
13 of a lack of capital; and
14 WHEREAS, Banks will be important to the recovery and
15 restabilization of community housing, especially housing
16 affected by the current foreclosure crisis; and
17 WHEREAS, Banks also invest in the community through their
18 philanthropic works; and
19 WHEREAS, Banks throughout the United States would be

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1 affected, recapitalized, and saved through appropriate
2 legislation; therefore, be it
3 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
4 NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
5 urge Congress to pass legislation supporting banks that were
6 affected by the government-sponsored enterprise fallout and
7 the subsequent downturn in the economy to allow those banks for
8 the 2010 tax year to go back 5 years for deductions of losses
9 allowed for the 2008 and 2009 tax years; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of the legislation be
11 presented to each member of the Illinois congressional
12 delegation.
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