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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, Women's health and the health of families are of |
| 3 | | paramount importance to the
citizens of Illinois; and
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| 4 | | WHEREAS, Illinois provides millions of taxpayer dollars in |
| 5 | | support of numerous efforts to
protect the health of women and |
| 6 | | children, including funding educational campaigns, prenatal |
| 7 | | and
postnatal care, and funding for community care clinics; and
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, Illinois taxpayers have provided State funding |
| 9 | | and Illinois has acted as a conduit for
federal funding of |
| 10 | | Planned Parenthood organizations in Illinois, including over |
| 11 | | $5.3 million in
Fiscal Year 2015 from the Illinois Department |
| 12 | | of Healthcare and Family Services and the Illinois
Department |
| 13 | | of Public Health; and
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| 14 | | WHEREAS, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has |
| 15 | | recently come under scrutiny for
practices related to Planned |
| 16 | | Parenthood's alleged sale of fetal tissue and fetal organs |
| 17 | | harvested
from aborted fetuses; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, The United States Congress has undertaken an |
| 19 | | investigation of federal funding of
Planned Parenthood and the |
| 20 | | United States House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce
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| 21 | | Committee has begun an investigation into Planned Parenthood |
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| 1 | | Federation of America; and
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, The sale of any human body parts, except to be |
| 3 | | reimbursed for reasonable expenses
therefrom, is illegal in the |
| 4 | | State of Illinois (720 ILCS 5/12-20); therefore, be it
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| 5 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
| 6 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
| 7 | | the Auditor General is directed to
conduct a performance audit |
| 8 | | of the State moneys, including federal funds appropriated and
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| 9 | | distributed by the State of Illinois, provided by or through |
| 10 | | State agencies to Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, |
| 11 | | Inc., Planned Parenthood of Illinois, Planned Parenthood |
| 12 | | Illinois Action,
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region, |
| 13 | | Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region &
Southwest |
| 14 | | Missouri, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, Inc., and |
| 15 | | Planned Parenthood Action
Fund, Inc. under contracts or grant |
| 16 | | agreements for Fiscal Year 2010 through year-to-date Fiscal
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| 17 | | Year 2016; and be it further
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| 18 | | RESOLVED, That this performance audit include, but not be |
| 19 | | limited to, the following
determinations:
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| 20 | | (1) the purposes for which State moneys were provided |
| 21 | | to the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood organizations; |
| 22 | | (2) the actual use of State moneys by the |
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| 1 | | aforementioned Planned Parenthood organizations; |
| 2 | | (3) whether, through a review of available |
| 3 | | documentation, the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood |
| 4 | | organizations have met or are meeting the purposes for |
| 5 | | which the State
moneys were provided; |
| 6 | | (4) the nature and extent of monitoring by the Illinois |
| 7 | | Department of Healthcare and Family
Services and the |
| 8 | | Illinois Department of Public Aid of the aforementioned |
| 9 | | Planned Parenthood organizations to ensure that State tax |
| 10 | | dollars have been expended
appropriately; |
| 11 | | (5) whether the aforementioned Planned Parenthood |
| 12 | | organizations are in compliance with the
applicable laws, |
| 13 | | regulations, contracts, and grant agreements pertaining to |
| 14 | | the receipt of
funds, including, but not limited to, |
| 15 | | federal law contained in the Church Amendment, the
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| 16 | | Coats-Snow Amendment, or the Hyde-Weldon Amendment; and |
| 17 | | (6) whether, through a review of available |
| 18 | | documentation, the aforementioned Planned
Parenthood |
| 19 | | organizations, administrators, and employees appropriately |
| 20 | | applied necessary
protocols pursuant to Section 6 of the |
| 21 | | Illinois Abortion Law of 1975; and be it further
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| 22 | | RESOLVED, That the aforementioned Planned Parenthood |
| 23 | | organizations, the Illinois
Department of Healthcare and |
| 24 | | Family Services, the Illinois Department of Public Health, and
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| 25 | | any other State agency or other entity or person that may have |
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| 1 | | information relevant to this
performance audit cooperate fully |
| 2 | | and promptly with the Auditor General's Office in its audit;
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| 3 | | and be it further
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| 4 | | RESOLVED, That the Auditor General commence this |
| 5 | | performance audit as soon as practical
and report its findings |
| 6 | | and recommendations upon completion in accordance with the |
| 7 | | provisions
of Section 3-14 of the Illinois State Auditing Act; |
| 8 | | and be it further
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| 9 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be |
| 10 | | presented to the Auditor General.
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