Bill Text: IL SR0370 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Commits to passing a budget for the State of Illinois.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2019-01-09 - Session Sine Die [SR0370 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-SR0370-Introduced.html
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1 | SENATE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have failed | ||||||
3 | to enact a State budget for the last 20 months; and
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4 | WHEREAS, The State adds approximately 11 million dollars in | ||||||
5 | debt every day that a budget is not signed into law; and
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6 | WHEREAS, The State has not met its contractual obligations | ||||||
7 | to the numerous vendors that render services; and
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8 | WHEREAS, The Illinois Comptroller cites that the bill | ||||||
9 | backlog continues to increase and is a crippling 12.6 billion | ||||||
10 | dollars; and
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11 | WHEREAS, The State, its local municipalities, and their | ||||||
12 | institutions continue to suffer from continual downgrades from | ||||||
13 | all
of the major credit rating agencies, which is nearing junk | ||||||
14 | status; and
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15 | WHEREAS, The lack of a State budget has caused homeless | ||||||
16 | shelters to close on Christmas Eve, youth violence prevention
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17 | centers to go out of business, domestic abuse programs to be | ||||||
18 | defunded, and a myriad of other essential human services
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19 | have gone unfunded; and
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1 | WHEREAS, The General Assembly and the Governor have not met | ||||||
2 | their duty to fully fund the future of our State - the
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3 | education of the children; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Teacher strikes, school closings, instructional | ||||||
5 | time decreases, and faculty layoffs loom over school districts
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6 | and institutions of higher learning across the State; and
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7 | WHEREAS, Like generations of Illinois students before | ||||||
8 | them, thousands of current students continue to count on the | ||||||
9 | funding of
the Monetary Assistance Program to create promising | ||||||
10 | futures for themselves and equal access to education; and
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11 | WHEREAS, Without the guarantee of those funds in-state | ||||||
12 | students are seeking educational advancement outside of | ||||||
13 | Illinois
and over 16,000 thousand students migrated to | ||||||
14 | out-of-state universities; and
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15 | WHEREAS, As economic development and opportunity in the | ||||||
16 | State have become less available particularly to ethnic and
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17 | racial minorities, Illinois has seen a historic spike in the | ||||||
18 | murder rate; and
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19 | WHEREAS, For the 17th consecutive month, Illinois has had | ||||||
20 | the highest unemployment rate among African Americans
in the | ||||||
21 | nation, nearing 15%; and
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1 | WHEREAS, Forty-four percent of African American young men | ||||||
2 | in Illinois between the ages of 20 and 24 are unemployed and
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3 | out of school; and
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4 | WHEREAS, Conditions are not improving for the middle class | ||||||
5 | and poor citizens of our State during this historic budget
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6 | impasse; people are hurting; therefore, be it
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7 | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL | ||||||
8 | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we wholeheartedly | ||||||
9 | commit to enacting a State budget; and be it further
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10 | RESOLVED, That the Senate will desist from working on any | ||||||
11 | non-essential State business until a budget is enacted; and be | ||||||
12 | it further
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13 | RESOLVED, That we will dedicate all of the resources of the | ||||||
14 | Senate to work toward a solution to the budget impasse; and be | ||||||
15 | it
further
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16 | RESOLVED, That any bill, initiative, or committee hearing | ||||||
17 | not pertaining to the budget of the State of Illinois should | ||||||
18 | not
be advanced in a Chamber of the General Assembly until a | ||||||
19 | budget is enacted.
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