Full Text of SR1054 97th General Assembly
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| 1 | | SENATE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Illinois State Senator Annazette Collins was born | 3 | | and raised in Chicago, where she earned her bachelor's degree | 4 | | in sociology from Chicago State University; she later earned | 5 | | her master's degree in criminal justice and furthered her | 6 | | graduate work in psychology counseling; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins began her professional career in | 8 | | social work; she has held positions as a corrections officer | 9 | | with the Cook County Probation Department and as an | 10 | | Administrator for both the Chicago Public Schools and the | 11 | | Illinois Department of Children and Family Services; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins was first elected to the Illinois | 13 | | House of Representatives in 2001, representing the | 14 | | neighborhoods of the 10th Representative District; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins served on and led numerous | 16 | | committees during her career in the General Assembly, including | 17 | | the House Committees on Human Services, Judiciary II - Criminal | 18 | | Law (Vice-Chairperson), Public Utilities, State Government | 19 | | Administration, Juvenile Justice Reform (Chairperson), | 20 | | Elementary and Secondary Education, Commerce and Business | 21 | | Development, and Appropriations, as well as the Senate | 22 | | Committees on Education, Environment, Human Services, Licensed |
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| 1 | | Activities, and State Government & Veterans Affairs; and | 2 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins' desire to become more involved in | 3 | | helping working families led her to seek office in the State | 4 | | Senate, where she was appointed to represent Chicago's West | 5 | | Side from the 5th Legislative District in March of 2011; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins brought to the Senate years of | 7 | | valuable experience on issues regarding juvenile justice, | 8 | | enhancing education, youth concerns, social work, quality | 9 | | health care, and striving to improve the public sector in her | 10 | | community; and
| 11 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins has been a believer that quality | 12 | | and equal education should be a right for every child in every | 13 | | school by supporting measures that increased funding for city | 14 | | schools and serving as a strong proponent for student access to | 15 | | safe and disciplined learning environments; and | 16 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins recognized the importance of | 17 | | children staying in school and worked to increase both the | 18 | | school day and school year to maximize learning time for school | 19 | | children; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins also worked to ensure remedial and | 21 | | summer school were focused on mathematics and reading, 2 skills |
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| 1 | | vital to becoming a productive part of the workforce; and
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins has been a champion for juvenile | 3 | | justice system restructuring and is responsible for raising the | 4 | | age that an alleged delinquent minor can be put in a detention | 5 | | facility from 10 to 13; believing that young people deserve to | 6 | | have a second chance, Senator Collins introduced legislation to | 7 | | make certain that many of these youth are able to seek | 8 | | secondary education, enter the workforce, and become | 9 | | productive, tax-paying citizens by automatically expunging | 10 | | juvenile records at the age of 18; and | 11 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins has been recognized as a public | 12 | | safety advocate for her work to improve funding for the Law | 13 | | Enforcement Agencies Data System (LEADS), which gives police | 14 | | officers electronic access to missing and endangered person | 15 | | reports; and
| 16 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins has been a chief sponsor of | 17 | | adoption reform, working to place children in family | 18 | | environments whenever possible and by making efforts to allow | 19 | | godparents and second cousins to adopt children who are in the | 20 | | custody of the Department of Children and Family Services; and
| 21 | | WHEREAS, Senator Collins received such awards as the | 22 | | Chicago Area Project Clifford R. Shaw Legislator of the Year |
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| 1 | | Award and the State Interagency Committee on Employees with | 2 | | Disabilities Legislator for the Year Award for her outstanding | 3 | | public service; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Senate thank Senator Annazette | 5 | | Collins and extend to her our best wishes for her future | 6 | | endeavors; therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL | 8 | | ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we thank Senator | 9 | | Annazette Collins for her years of service to the people of | 10 | | Illinois and honor her with this resolution; and be it further
| 11 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 12 | | presented to Senator Annazette Collins as a symbol of our | 13 | | gratitude.
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