Bill Text: IL HR1061 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Recognizes the humanitarian efforts of the men and women of ComEd who volunteered to help restore electricity to the Island of Puerto Rico.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2018-05-10 - Chief Co-Sponsor Changed to Rep. Fred Crespo [HR1061 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR1061-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, On September 13, 2017, the National Hurricane
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| 3 | Center began tracking a tropical wave that ultimately became
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| 4 | Hurricane Maria; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, Hurricane Maria became the tenth most intense
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| 6 | Atlantic hurricane on record and the most intense tropical
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| 7 | storm of the 2017 season; and
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| 8 | WHEREAS, On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made
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| 9 | landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm with sustained
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| 10 | wind speeds of 155 miles per hour; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the U.S.
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| 12 | Virgin Islands just 14 days after Hurricane Irma did; and
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| 13 | WHEREAS, All of the 3.5 million residents of Puerto Rico | ||||||
| 14 | lost
power following Hurricanes Irma and Maria; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, In the nearly seven months since Hurricane Maria
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| 16 | made landfall in Puerto Rico, more than 40,000 people are
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| 17 | without electricity; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, Puerto Rico is experiencing the longest blackout
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| 19 | in U.S. history and second-longest in world history, measured
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| 1 | in customer hours of lost electricity service; and
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| 2 | WHEREAS, 146 ComEd employees went voluntarily to Puerto
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| 3 | Rico to assist the local utility in restoring power; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, The employees who went to Puerto Rico faced
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| 5 | unfamiliar and treacherous terrain on the island's mountains
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| 6 | and in its rainforests; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, These employees, along with utility workers from
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| 8 | the five other Exelon utilities, installed 376 poles, 267
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| 9 | transformers, and more than 108 miles of cable; and
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| 10 | WHEREAS, Through these employees' hard work over 50 days
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| 11 | the island, more than 11,000 customers in affected areas
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| 12 | their power restored; therefore, be it
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| 13 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
| 14 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 15 | recognize the humanitarian efforts of the men and women of | ||||||
| 16 | ComEd who volunteered to help restore electricity to the Island | ||||||
| 17 | of Puerto Rico, known affectionately as La Isla del Encanto; | ||||||
| 18 | and be it further
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| 19 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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| 20 | presented to the ComEd Operations Team leads for their
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| 1 | to the people of Puerto Rico.
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