Full Text of HR0697 98th General Assembly
HR0697 98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government Foundation, Inc. was started | 3 | | in 1988 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nationwide organization to | 4 | | serve women state legislators and to provide leadership | 5 | | opportunities, networking, expert forums, and educational | 6 | | resources to address and resolve complex policy issues; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government began and continues to work in | 8 | | a non-partisan manner to serve all women legislators; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, In 1998, there were 1,176 women serving in their | 10 | | state legislatures, making up only 15.8% of state legislators; | 11 | | today, there are 1,788 women legislators, making up 24.2% of | 12 | | state legislators; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government has served thousands of bold | 14 | | and passionate legislative leaders in all 50 states; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government leads the nation with a bold, | 16 | | courageous, and passionate vision that empowers and mobilizes | 17 | | all women legislators to effect sound policy; and
| 18 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government has worked extensively to | 19 | | advance policy for improvements at the local, state, and | 20 | | national levels; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government provides a neutral platform | 2 | | for bringing women policymakers together to share information | 3 | | and seek solutions to timely issues; and | 4 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government holds over 20 educational | 5 | | conferences a year on a myriad of public policy issues for | 6 | | women state legislators; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government's website hosts several | 8 | | Policy Resource Centers that address childhood obesity, care | 9 | | coordination, public health, pulmonary hypertension, | 10 | | biomedical policy, oncology, diabetes, economic security and | 11 | | opportunities, and autoimmune diseases; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government has been recognized and | 13 | | received numerous accolades for policy work in health care, | 14 | | energy, family and child welfare, public health, and education; | 15 | | and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Women In Government will continue to assist and | 17 | | educate women leaders on current policy issues through | 18 | | nationwide conferences, workshops, summits, public service | 19 | | announcements, toolkits, policy resource centers, and other | 20 | | resources; therefore, be it
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| 1 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 2 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 3 | | we recognize Women In Government Foundation, Inc. and their | 4 | | current 1,788 women state legislative members on their | 5 | | outstanding work to promote policy education across the nation; | 6 | | and be it further
| 7 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 8 | | presented to the Women In Government Foundation, Inc.
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