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HOUSE RESOLUTION

 
2     WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1903 of the 93rd General Assembly
3 became Public Act 93-0032; and
 
4     WHEREAS, This Act was intended to give the Governor of the
5 State of Illinois the authority to take surplus funds from
6 other dedicated funds and deposit those moneys into the State's
7 General Revenue Fund; and
 
8     WHEREAS, Governor Blagojevich expressed to the General
9 Assembly that this authority would only be used to take funds
10 that would otherwise go unused; and
 
11     WHEREAS, Members of the 93rd General Assembly have since
12 learned that the Governor has used this authority to take $2
13 million out of the Local Government Health Insurance Reserve
14 Fund; and
 
15     WHEREAS, The Local Government Health Insurance Reserve
16 Fund is used by units of local government to provide health
17 insurance to public servants; and
 
18     WHEREAS, Units of local government were unprepared for this
19 change and must now make up the difference in the middle of
20 their fiscal year; and
 
21     WHEREAS, This removal of funds will drastically affect the
22 budgets of units of local government throughout the State of
23 Illinois and have a detrimental affect on police and fire
24 protection and other important and necessary government
25 services; therefore, be it
 
26     RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
27 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we
28 urge the Governor to re-deposit the $2 million that he has

 

 

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1 extracted from units of local government back into the Local
2 Government Health Insurance Reserve Fund; and be it further
 
3     RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
4 presented to Rod Blagojevich, Governor of the State of
5 Illinois, and to John Filan, Director of the Office of
6 Management and Budget.