Bill Text: IL SR0224 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Supports Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, John Marshall Law School, Northern Illinois University College of Law, University of Chicago Law School, Southern Illinois University School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University College of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and University of Illinois College of Law and their presidents' efforts to recognize and better address mental health issues among lawyers, starting with law students.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2021-01-13 - Session Sine Die [SR0224 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-SR0224-Introduced.html

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SENATE RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate support
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, John Marshall Law School,
Northern Illinois University College of Law, University of
Chicago Law School, Southern Illinois University School of Law,
Chicago-Kent College of Law, DePaul University College of Law,
Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and University of
Illinois College of Law and their pledge to improve the
well-being and mental health of their campuses and to better
address mental health issues among lawyers, starting with law
students; and
WHEREAS, Improving wellness and advancing legal education
are synchronized interests; addressing these issues within the
State's communities will result in happier and healthier
individuals and better students and contributing members of the
legal profession; and
WHEREAS, The legal profession has a lengthy history of
substance abuse and often penalizes individuals seeking help;
poor student or practitioner health is not a necessary
byproduct of a rigorous legal education and needs to be treated
as the scourge of the profession that it is; students left
behind are not due to a failure of personal strength but are
testaments to the collective failure to uplift one another and

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raise the standards of the legal trade; and
WHEREAS, Law school administrations are joining efforts to
facilitate well-being and recognize mental health issues, to
listen to the concerns of the students and be responsive to
their well-being and mental health struggles, and to build a
school atmosphere where well-being and mental health is
recognized as an immediate issue which deserves attention and
resolution; therefore, be it
RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we recognize the need
to end the stigma surrounding mental health, stand in support
of the efforts by the law schools of our State to provide
better access to care, and urge them to continue in their
efforts to address this issue; and be it further
RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be
presented to Richard C. Minott, President of Northwestern
Pritzker School of Law, Hannah G. Johnson, President of John
Marshall Law School, Victor Zamora, President of Northern
Illinois University College of Law, Mihai F. Chitulescu,
President of University of Chicago Law School, Jacob Welch,
President of Southern Illinois University School of Law, Dawn
Peacock, President of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Ashlee
Germany, President of DePaul University College of Law, Brian

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P. Gibbons, President of Loyola University Chicago School of
Law, and Ashley G. Kennedy, President of University of Illinois
College of Law as an expression of our esteem and respect.