Full Text of SR2150 100th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Senator Daniel Biss has represented the people of | 3 | | the 9th Senate District of Illinois since his election in 2012; | 4 | | and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss began his legislative career in the | 6 | | Illinois House of Representatives in 2011, representing the | 7 | | 17th District; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss received an undergraduate degree in | 9 | | mathematics from Harvard University, graduating summa cum | 10 | | laude in 1998, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the | 11 | | Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2002; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss was a professor of mathematics at the | 13 | | University of Chicago from 2002 to 2008; and | 14 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss dedicated his tenure in the General | 15 | | Assembly to bettering the lives of working Illinois families | 16 | | and furthering progressive causes; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, As a stalwart advocate of Illinoisans in the face | 18 | | of the complications posed by advances in technology, Senator | 19 | | Biss successfully fought for protections from new | 20 | | technologies, such as drones and GPS devices, and chaired the |
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| 1 | | State's Digital Divide Elimination Advisory Committee; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, To ensure fairness for Illinois college students | 3 | | in a time of growing student loan debt, Senator Biss passed the | 4 | | Student Loan Bill of Rights; and | 5 | | WHEREAS, To protect Illinois youths from provably | 6 | | psychologically harmful practices, Senator Biss worked to ban | 7 | | gay conversion therapy; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, To protect gay individuals from violence, Senator | 9 | | Biss helped make Illinois one of the first in the country to | 10 | | ban "gay panic" as a defense in cases of murder and | 11 | | manslaughter; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, To create new opportunities for retiring citizens | 13 | | to safely plan for their future and become one of the first | 14 | | states to actively combat a looming retirement savings crisis, | 15 | | Senator Biss created the Secure Choice Savings Program; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss was the Chair of the Senate Labor | 17 | | Committee during the 100th General Assembly, the Chair of the | 18 | | Senate Labor Committee during the 99th General Assembly, and | 19 | | has served on the Senate Committees of Education, Human | 20 | | Services, Environment and Conservation, Revenue, Executive | 21 | | Appointments, Financial Institutions, Appropriations I, Higher |
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| 1 | | Education, Licensed Activity and Pensions, and Local | 2 | | Government at various times throughout his Senate career; and | 3 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss received the 2015 Alzheimer's | 4 | | Association Illinois Legislator of the Year Award, the 2016 | 5 | | Richard J. Phelan Profile in Courage Award from Planned | 6 | | Parenthood Illinois Action, the 2014 Community Investment | 7 | | Award from the Woodstock Institute, and the 2012 John W. | 8 | | Maitland Award from the Illinois Biotechnology Industry | 9 | | Organization; and | 10 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss currently lives in Evanston with his | 11 | | wife, Karin, and their two children; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss' future endeavors will most | 13 | | certainly bring about the changes our modern society needs; and
| 14 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss remains the only member of the | 15 | | Illinois legislature confirmed to be capable of juggling | 16 | | multiple flaming objects at once; and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Senator Biss' retirement from the Senate of the | 18 | | State of Illinois will leave the Senate lacking his unique | 19 | | insight into current affairs; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH GENERAL |
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| 1 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we thank Senator Daniel | 2 | | Biss for his years of service to the people of Illinois and | 3 | | honor him with this resolution; and be it further
| 4 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 5 | | presented to Senator Biss as a symbol of our gratitude and with | 6 | | our best wishes for his future endeavors.
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