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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, S.201, the State and Local Aid and Economic
3 Stimulus Act of 2003, was introduced on January 22, 2003 in
4 the United States Senate and is intended to provide Federal
5 aid and economic stimulus through a one-time revenue grant to
6 states and their local governments; and
7 WHEREAS, S.201 provides for $20 billion for states and
8 $20 billion for local governments and further provides that
9 it is the sense of Congress that priority for using the
10 allotted funds should be given to homeland security,
11 medicaid, public health, highway construction, childcare,
12 elementary, secondary, and higher education, and the
13 prevention of additional property tax increases; and
14 WHEREAS, The State of Illinois and its units of local
15 governments are prepared to use their allotted funds for
16 those purposes; and
17 WHEREAS, It is estimated that S.201 would make available
18 to the State of Illinois and its units of local governments
19 $1,734,000,000; and
20 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
21 NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
22 we urge the United States Senate and the United States House
23 of Representatives to pass S.201 as soon as possible; and be
24 it further
25 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to each
26 member of the Illinois congressional delegation and to
27 President George W. Bush.