Bill Text: IL HR0971 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Bids goodbye to Rhoda Jacobs and to her husband, Representative Paul Jacobs.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced) 2026-05-31 - Placed on Calendar Agreed Resolutions [HR0971 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HR0971-Introduced.html

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HOUSE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of
Representatives were deeply puzzled to hear that one of our
favorite colleagues, Representative Paul Jacobs' wife, Rhoda
Jacobs, will soon depart this chamber as they begin their
prospective journey to the upper chamber; and
WHEREAS, We cannot understand why a firmly grounded son of
Southern Illinois would seek to leave the Illinois House of
Representatives and steal Rhoda away from us, considering this
is the historic chamber of Abraham Lincoln, to pursue what are
said to be legislative opportunities in the other chamber of
the Illinois General Assembly; and
WHEREAS, Although Rep. Jacobs has been a practicing
optometrist for well more than 40 years, something must have
gone out of focus if he thinks this is a step up in the State
Capitol; and
WHEREAS, We will especially miss our departing colleague's
beloved wife, Rhoda Jacobs, who has been a pillar of support to
all of us on the floor of the Illinois House; and
WHEREAS, We strongly suspect that Rhoda Jacobs fought to
the last against this questionable move, but now that it is

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being made anyway, we wish her and Rep. Jacobs well;
therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
we bid goodbye to Rhoda Jacobs as well as her husband,
Representative Paul Jacobs; and be it further
RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
presented to Rhoda Jacobs as a symbol of our respect and
esteem.