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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, There is a tremendous increase in the  need  for
 3    transportation   services,   particularly   for   the   older
 4    populations;  persons  85  and  over  are the fastest growing
 5    segment of the American population;  twenty  percent  of  the
 6    Jewish  community  is  over age 85; to address this need, the
 7    United Jewish Communities and other  organizations  formed  a
 8    Senior Transportation Task Force; and

 9        WHEREAS, Within the reauthorization of the Transportation
10    Equity  Act  for the 21st Century, the United States Congress
11    should significantly increase funding levels for the  Federal
12    Transit  Administration's  Section  5310,  which is the major
13    transit program for seniors, based on the  dramatic  increase
14    in the number of seniors in our population; and

15        WHEREAS,  On  Wednesday,  February  26,  2003, the United
16    Jewish Communities and several Jewish Federations and  social
17    service  agencies  joined  together  to  sponsor  a  national
18    call-in  day  for  senior  transportation;  members  of these
19    communities called their  congressmen  and  congresswomen  in
20    order  to  express  the  importance  of senior transportation
21    issues and to ask that their representatives and senators  do
22    everything they can to work toward the reauthorization of the
23    Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century; therefore, be
24    it

25        RESOLVED,   BY   THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES  OF  THE
26    NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,  that
27    we   congratulate   the   coalition   of  the  United  Jewish
28    Communities, Jewish Federations, and  Jewish  social  service
29    agencies   on   the   National   Call-In   Day   for   Senior
30    Transportation  that  was  held  on February 26, 2003, and we
31    support their efforts on behalf of senior transportation; and
32    be it further
 
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 1        RESOLVED, That a suitable  copy  of  this  resolution  be
 2    presented  to  the  United  Jewish Communities and the Senior
 3    Transportation Task Force with our best wishes.