Full Text of HR0948 101st General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives are pleased to honor our esteemed colleague, | 4 | | State Senator Pat McGuire, on his eight years as a member of | 5 | | the Illinois General Assembly and to thank him for his | 6 | | dedicated service to our State and his community; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire attended Catholic schools in his | 8 | | hometown of Joliet; he is the husband of Lora and the father of | 9 | | Molly; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire taught job health and safety to | 11 | | local union members; he also taught English to high school and | 12 | | community college students; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire served his community in elective | 14 | | office as a school board member and a county treasurer before | 15 | | becoming a state senator; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire has represented Illinois Senate | 17 | | District 43 since 2012, serving the people of DuPage and Will | 18 | | Counties for eight years; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire has experience in both private and | 20 | | public schooling; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire was a strong advocate for women | 2 | | and children, acting to toughen penalties on domestic abusers | 3 | | and fund Court Appointed Special Advocate organizations in | 4 | | order to ensure that abused and neglected children are getting | 5 | | the court support that they need and deserve; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire served as the chair of the Senate | 7 | | Higher Education Committee, where he spoke against cuts to the | 8 | | university system during impasse; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire worked to preserve and redevelop | 10 | | Joliet's government facilities, including the Stateville | 11 | | Correctional Center and Collins Street Task Force to preserve | 12 | | the Collins Street prison facility; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire co-sponsored a measure to raise | 14 | | the minimum wage in Illinois to $15 per hour; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire spoke against harmful cuts to | 16 | | programs like child care assistance and fought to preserve | 17 | | payroll for state workers during the two-year budget crisis | 18 | | that occurred early in his career in the Senate; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire worked to form and lead the | 20 | | bipartisan, bicameral Higher Education Working Group; he |
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| 1 | | created the AIM HIGH state scholarship; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire created the Mental Health Early | 3 | | Action on Campus Act; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire dedicated himself to improving | 5 | | the State's Department of Children and Family Services; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire will be remembered as a supporter | 7 | | of workers' rights and an advocate for collective bargaining; | 8 | | he supported worker safety, pushing for worker access to and | 9 | | knowledge of the regulations and protections granted by OSHA | 10 | | and other state workplace safety organizations; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire was a frequent passenger on | 12 | | Amtrak's Lincoln Service; he was also an advocate for the | 13 | | improvement and further development of mass transit in | 14 | | Illinois; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire responded to the COVID-19 | 16 | | pandemic with the goal of providing employees with the means to | 17 | | report improper conditions and providing employers with clear | 18 | | guidance on how to reorganize their workplaces to maximize | 19 | | worker safety; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire was an Edgar Fellows Program |
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| 1 | | student of the Class of 2017; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Senator McGuire has been honored by a number of | 3 | | organizations, including the Romeoville Fraternal Order of | 4 | | Police, the Illinois Leadership Council for Agricultural | 5 | | Education, the Transportation for Illinois Coalition, the | 6 | | Illinois Optometric Association, Leading Age Illinois, Joliet | 7 | | Central, the senior living communities Heritage Woods of | 8 | | Bolingbrook and Woodridge Horizon, the Southwest Coalition on | 9 | | Substance Abuse Issues, and Volunteers of America of Illinois, | 10 | | among others; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 12 | | HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we congratulate and honor State Senator Pat McGuire for his | 14 | | dedicated service as a member of the Illinois Senate, and we | 15 | | wish him the best in his future endeavors; and be it further
| 16 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 17 | | presented to Senator McGuire as an expression of our esteem and | 18 | | respect.
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