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92_HR0497

 
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 1                          HOUSE RESOLUTION

 2        WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Public  Health  spent
 3    $5  million  in  Tobacco  Settlement Funds on a youth tobacco
 4    prevention pilot program in Winnebago County alone in  fiscal
 5    year 2001; and

 6        WHEREAS, The Illinois Department of Public Health intends
 7    to  limit  spending  of  the  increased  appropriation of $11
 8    million in Tobacco Settlement Funds to the  central  Illinois
 9    region for similar youth tobacco prevention pilot projects in
10    fiscal year 2002; and

11        WHEREAS,  Two-thirds of the State's population resides in
12    the northeastern region of Illinois; and

13        WHEREAS, Little or none of the youth  tobacco  prevention
14    program   appropriation   has   been   directed  towards  the
15    northeastern region of Illinois; and

16        WHEREAS, The Department of Public Health's  proposal  for
17    youth  tobacco prevention seriously lacks the depth and scope
18    needed to effectively  address  the  needs  of  all  Illinois
19    youth; and

20        WHEREAS,  The  State of Illinois economy is struggling to
21    grow; and

22        WHEREAS, Actual revenues in the first quarter  of  fiscal
23    year  2002  were  $416  million  less than estimated in July;
24    therefore, be it

25        RESOLVED,  BY  THE  HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES   OF   THE
26    NINETY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
27    we recommend to the Department of Public Health that Illinois
28    would  be  better served during this time of budgetary crisis
29    to set aside the $11 million appropriation to help compensate
30    for short falls the state will inevitably experience  in  the
 
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 1    near future; and be it further

 2        RESOLVED,  That  a  suitable  copy  of this resolution be
 3    presented to the Director of Public Health.

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