Full Text of HJR0076 96th General Assembly
HJ0076 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois maintains a vital interest | 3 |
| in and obligation to promote job creation in Illinois, as well | 4 |
| as attraction of businesses providing jobs to the State work | 5 |
| force, thereby benefiting Illinois communities, and the well | 6 |
| being of the State economy; and
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois, over many years, has made | 8 |
| substantial investments promoting technological research at | 9 |
| such notable institutions as Argonne National Labs, Illinois | 10 |
| Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Southern | 11 |
| Illinois University, the University of Chicago, and the | 12 |
| University of Illinois, and development of facilities serving | 13 |
| technology startups in Carbondale, Champaign-Urbana, Chicago, | 14 |
| Lake County, Peoria, Springfield, and elsewhere; and
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois over the last decade has | 16 |
| invested funds that directly assist small, high technology | 17 |
| companies, through programs such as the Illinois Technology | 18 |
| Enterprise Centers and the Illinois Entrepreneurship Center | 19 |
| programs; and
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| WHEREAS, The State of Illinois is facing and is expected to | 21 |
| continue encountering fiscal challenges on account of global | 22 |
| economic conditions that cause unemployment within the State, |
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| thereby both reducing tax revenues and limiting the State's | 2 |
| ability to promote job creation and business attraction; and
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| WHEREAS, Certain not-for-profit organizations, including | 4 |
| the iBIO Institute and its sole member, the Illinois | 5 |
| Biotechnology Industry Organization (iBIO), have evidenced | 6 |
| through successful programs and private-sector fundraising a | 7 |
| willingness to and capability of lessening the State's economic | 8 |
| development burdens; and
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| WHEREAS, More particularly, the iBIO Institute in 2007 | 10 |
| raised funds primarily from private sector sources and launched | 11 |
| PROPEL as a bundle of programs designed to assist in the | 12 |
| creation, retention, and attraction of technology companies | 13 |
| that have been determined by the National Academies of Science | 14 |
| to be critically important engines of job growth; and
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| WHEREAS, PROPEL has lessened the burdens of State | 16 |
| government by providing assistance to 49 job-creating | 17 |
| technology firms, creating and retaining more than 185 jobs and | 18 |
| acquiring in the process new capital investment here of $10 | 19 |
| million; and
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| WHEREAS, The iBIO Institute's sole member, iBIO, has | 21 |
| successfully executed an Ambassadors Program, which | 22 |
| orchestrated the assistance, on a pro bono basis, of executives |
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| of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and information technology | 2 |
| firms to assist the State's business attraction efforts, a | 3 |
| program which has already assisted the attraction of 2 overseas | 4 |
| companies that are now establishing US Headquarters in | 5 |
| Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Separately, the iBIO Institute has raised private | 7 |
| sector funds to further lessen the burdens of government | 8 |
| through development and promotion of innovative education | 9 |
| programs which prepare students for careers in science-based | 10 |
| innovation, all the while working closely with State agencies | 11 |
| such as the Department of Commerce and Economic Development, | 12 |
| the Illinois Math and Science Academy, the Illinois Board of | 13 |
| Higher Education, and the Illinois State Board of Education, | 14 |
| among others; and
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| WHEREAS, The iBIO Institute and its sole member, iBIO, now | 16 |
| wish to consolidate their economic development activities, | 17 |
| including PROPEL, within the iBIO Institute, so as to more | 18 |
| effectively lessen the burdens of State government and more | 19 |
| easily attract private sector dollars, including foundation | 20 |
| and philanthropic funding, to this cause; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 22 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 23 |
| SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that the General Assembly expressly |
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| reaffirms the State's obligation for economic development, | 2 |
| including job creation in Illinois and the attraction of | 3 |
| job-creating businesses to this State; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the General Assembly proclaims that it views | 5 |
| the iBIO Institute and other not-for-profits wishing to lessen | 6 |
| the economic development burdens of State government as acting | 7 |
| on behalf of Illinois and that it shall be State policy to | 8 |
| encourage activities such as PROPEL and the Ambassadors Program | 9 |
| conducted by such organizations; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That all State agencies, including without | 11 |
| limitation the aforementioned State departments and | 12 |
| organizations, are directed to cooperate with the iBIO | 13 |
| Institute and other not-for-profits seeking to raise funds and | 14 |
| execute programs that promote job creation in and attract | 15 |
| businesses to Illinois; and be it further | 16 |
| RESOLVED, That copies of this Joint Resolution shall be | 17 |
| provided to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, President of the | 18 |
| Senate, Minority Leader of the Senate, Speaker of the House of | 19 |
| Representatives, Minority Leader of the House of | 20 |
| Representatives, Directors of all affected agencies, the | 21 |
| Chairpersons of appropriate General Assembly committees, | 22 |
| including to the committees on Agriculture & Conservation, | 23 |
| Bio-Technology, Finance, and Rules, and to the iBIO Institute.
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